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Les Miserables

Les Miserables (1998) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson

Bille August directed this Rafael Yglesias adaptation of the 1862 classic by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) about the quest of Inspector Javert to capture escaped convict Jean Valjean, originally an honest man who was jailed for stealing a single loaf of bread to feed the family of his starving sister. This new interpretation of Hugo's epic begins with ...

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Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Loggia

Julia Ormond stars as Copenhagen resident Smilla Jasperson, a reclusive, half-Inuit scientist who befriends a neglected Inuit boy who lives in her building. Arriving home from work one day, Smilla is mortified to learn that the boy has died in a fall from the building's roof. Suspicious because she knows that her young friend was afraid of heights ...

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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits (1993) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas

Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America in 1926, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), ...

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Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror (1988) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Max von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Bjorn Granath, Axel Ströbye

Long but rewarding, the Danish-Swedish Pelle the Conqueror is based on the early passages of Martin Andersen Nexoe's four-volume novel. Pelle (Pelle Hvengaard) is the son of a 19th-century Swedish farmer (Max Von Sydow). Seeking escape from their poverty-stricken surroundings, father and son emigrate to Denmark. Upon arrival, however, they are ...

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A Song for Martin

A Song for Martin (2002) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson

After a number of big-budget international projects, writer and director Bille August scaled himself back with this intimate story about two people who find both love and tragedy late in life. Martin (Sven Wolter) is a well-known and highly respected classical composer and conductor in his early sixties. While rehearsing for a concert, Martin ...

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Convicted

Convicted (2004) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston, Tim Daly

Charlotte Cory, the main character in the thriller Convicted, has only days left until she is executed. Her lawyer discovers information that was kept out of her trial, and must race against time in order to save his client. Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (1996) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August

A group of messianic pilgrims abandon their native Sweden and emigrate to Palestine. This fact-based episodic Swedish drama looks at the events leading up to the trek and the immigrants' experiences after they arrive in the holy land. The story begins in Sweden and is introduced by the death of Big Ingmar, the leader of a small farming community. ...

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Twist and Shout

Twist and Shout (1986) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Adam Tønsberg, Lars Simonsen, Camilla Soeberg, Ulrikke Juul Bondo, Thomas Nielsen

This Danish film is set in 1963, at the height of Beatlemania. Played out against the standard pop-culture backdrop is the story of the friendship between Adam Tonsberg and Lars Simonson. His ego in tatters thanks to a domineering father, Simonsen yearns for the affections of snooty Ulrikke Juul Bondo, though it is "common knowledge" that she's ...

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Goodbye Bafana

Goodbye Bafana (2007) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Faith Ndukwana, Terry Pheto

Bille August's inspirational docudrama Goodbye Bafana begins in 1968, with South Africa buried neck-deep in the horrors of apartheid and Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) - then an underground leader of the African National Congress - imprisoned on Robben Island for sedition. As the story opens, the native African population of the country - 25,000 ...

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Busters Verden (1984) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Peter Schröder

Child actor Mads Bugge Andersen carries this children's film in his role as young Buster, put-upon by bullies at school and elsewhere, and forced to improve his lot through a vivid imagination and some ingenuity. Originally a television series in six episodes changed to a feature-length format, Buster's adventures are forcibly told in six ...

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