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Together (2000)
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Popular Music (2004)
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
As It Is in Heaven (2004)
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The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Sleuth (1972)
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Straw Dogs (1971)
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Tiger (2019)
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French Kiss (1995)
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
Old in Sweden (2005)
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Involuntary (2008)
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My Life as a Dog (1985)
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Howards End (1992)
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Khadak (2006)
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Madicken of June Hill (1980)
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The Blue Stones of the Desert (1992)
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