Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Oct 31, 2005Scandanavian Murder Mystery/SF Twist
Adapted from an acclaimed book, Julia Ormond stars as an Icelandic heroine in a detective story with an SF twist
Bavaria Film
Run Lola Run (1998)
Jul 30, 1999Alternate Timelines
Tom Tykwer's visually inventive variant on the alternate timelines theme with Franka Potente trying to replay events to save her boyfriend's life
Asterix and Obelix Vs. Cesar (1999)
Jul 8, 2025Comic-Book Character
The first of the live-action films based on the famous comic-books set during the Roman period, starring Gerard Depardieu who seems born to play the part of Obelix
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Apr 2, 2015Social Collapse
Michael Haneke has risen to great acclaim in recent years; this is one of his earlier works – a slow Tarkovsky-esque work that seems set in a future that is collapsing at the edges. Haneke is a fascinating talent but this is a bit too vague and well free of anything actually happening for me
Requiem (2006)
Sep 21, 2006Possible Demonic Possession/True Story
This should be mandatory viewing after watching The Exorcism of Emily Rose. While that film rewrote the tragedy of Anneliese Michel as a film about possession, this German-made production sets things straight and tells a story about a girl with mental health issues
Deliver Us From Evil (2009)
Dec 13, 2009Danish Backwoods Brutality Film
Danish film that is largely an uncredited remake of Straw Dogs (and a far better effort than the official remake a couple of years later). This has a dark, unrelenting bite that savagely indicts a racism at the heart of modern Denmark