Ola Rapace
Also Known As: Ola Rapace Norell, Pär Ola Norell, Ola Norell, اولا راپاس
Biography: Born Pär Ola Norell on 3 December, 1971 in Tyresö, Sweden, he is a Swedish actor, best known for his roles in European movies. He grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, raised by his father, who divorced his mother when Rapace was one year old. He studied philosophy at University of Montpellier in France. His first role was the Swedish comedy-drama Tillsammans (2000). He then went on to get roles in Swedish television series, such as Tusenbröder (2002) and Wallander (2005). In 2012 he became widely recognizable by playing a minor villain in Skyfall (2012). He was married to Noomi Rapace from 2001 to 2011, they have a son, Lev. In 2019 he married Sonja Jawo. He and Jawo live in Paris, France.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: December 03, 1971
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Gender: Male
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Together
Overview: Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Brothers: The Return
Overview: Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder for him to meet his family again. Meantime back in Sweden his family is struggling with difficulties which they don't know how to solve. The time is running out and things don't look good at all.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Skyfall
Overview: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Beyond
Overview: One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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All About My Bush
Overview: Allt om min buske är en sexkomedi i trädgårdsmiljö om oväntade kärleksförbindelser och avgrundsdjup svartsjuka. Det vackra och välbärgade paret Nils och Karin flyttar in med sin dotter Barbro i det exklusiva villaområdet. I huset intill med den botaniska trädgården bor systrarna Isabel och Lily. Systrarna sköter trädgården och livnär sig på att arrangera guidade turer genom den artrika floran. Mötet med systrarna blir omvälvande för Nils och Karin när deras ordnade tillvaro och noggrant formgivna livsstil ställs på ända. Någon vandaliserar plötsligt den prunkande trädgården och oanade naturkrafter frigörs när jakten på kärlek och trädgårdssabotörer tar sin början...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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Jag saknar dig
Overview: Tina and Cilla will soon turn 15 years old and is in the middle of teens search for an adult identity. They are identical twins but completely different. Tina cares mostly about makeup and falls in love with a new guy every week. Cilla is perceived as odd because she does not care at all about superficialities. She is a director of her own theater play to get money for starving children in third world countries. A young local rock musicians, Ailu, is making the music to her show. On her mother's birthday, Cilla die in an accident. Now it's as if half of her is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Death of a Loved One
Overview: Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation. Having been out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend Christer Wijk, but upon Christer's arrival, the dead body has disappeared. The contact with the outside world is broken when the island's only boat goes missing. They are trapped on the island - and someone among them is a killer...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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Syndare i sommarsol
Overview: In the mid-1920s, four young men and women have decided to spend their summer holiday studying together and have rented a wonderful house in the Swedish archipelago. Rationally, they realize that this cohabitation may lead to some of the members being attracted to one another. Thus, in order to avoid unnecessary passions, conflicts, jealousy, grief and enmity, the women sleep in a separate house on the other side of the creek. In spite of believing that they are prepared for anything, and even though they share the task of cooking, their feelings get carried away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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King Lily of the Valley
Overview: Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes without at trace. When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who finds her. She lies dead outside her home with a bouquet of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the bride are suspects, not least her best friend, whom Christer has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have something to hide. Question is: are their secrets connected to the murder?
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-08-07
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Wallander: Before the Frost
Overview: A fanatical sect is suspected to be behind some horrific violent crimes in Ystad. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner receives assistance from her daughter Linda, a newly-graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman. The first of 32 films with Krister Henriksson as the popular commissioner Kurt Wallander.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-01-13
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Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap
Overview: The pig Desmond and his friends are haunted by the terrible monster Träskpatraske. Granted, they are not sure he even exists, but who else could have snatched evil Wille's electric guitar, Sebastian Hare's boxing gloves and Bittan Cow's stock of makeup?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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I Am Yours
Overview: An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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Dangerous Dreams
Overview: Puck’s new boss turns out to be a control freak, who isolates everyone from the outside world. After a strange death, Puck calls on detective Wijk.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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No More Murders
Overview: Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow both Einar's sisters beautiful old wooden house as well as her highly competent housekeeper. But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to death by a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage and with the help of Pucks observations the mystery approaches its tragic solution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-09-04
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Wallander: Mastermind
Overview: Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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Roses, Kisses and Death
Overview: The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded by heavily fragrant roses in every color. There lives the beautiful Gabriella, who Christer loves, and an invitation to their engagement party is the reason for Puck and Einar to travel there. But the rose-scented idyll soon turn into a stifling background when Puck finds Gabriella's grandfather poisoned in his bed. Little by little we learn that the relations between the people living at the estate is everything but uncomplicated, and that there is a sexual frustration behind every well polished marriage. The question is to what extent beautiful Gabriella is involved in the intrigues and how much of a coincidence it is that her grandfather is killed just when Christer is in the house.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Tragedy in a Country Churchyard
Overview: A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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Wallander: The Secret
Overview: 11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Wallander: The Container Lorry
Overview: A semi-trailer found dumped and full of dead people leads Kurt Wallander and his team to a convent where the nuns have been assisting illegal refugees into Sweden via Poland.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-07-19
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Tommy
Overview: After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Frakturer
Overview: The plot is unknown at this time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
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Josef
Overview: an upcoming short film by Paul Lavau and Jean-Pierre Pancrazi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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Itsi Bitsi
Overview: 1962 is the year when an entire generation lives life as though it was their last day. Young activist Eik Skaløe has his entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, and she falls in love with him. But Iben is a child of the times, and freely accepts the order of the day: free love and sex. She renounces personal right of ownership and will not settle for one man when she can have several. In typically romantic fashion, he begins a struggle to win all of her love. As a poet, writer and singer he constantly confesses his love to her. But Eik must accept defeat, and in 1968 he travels without his beloved Itsi Bitsi to Nepal, the Land of Dreams in the East. A journey from which he will never return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Greetings from the North
Overview: Nadja, a single girl living the big city life finds herself stressed out over the wish of having a child of her own as she realizes the biological clock is ticking. She is prepared to do almost anything to fulfill her dreams but finds out that the abortion laws are about to change. To qualify as a mum, within the next 30 days she has to find herself a husband. She already discovered that chances finding a husband willing to do this on such short notice are slim to none in the big city. Maybe it is easier on the countryside?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-09-25
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Wallander: The Brothers
Overview: In the third Wallander film, starring Krister Henriksson, a bestial double murder is investigated in which the victims have been subjected to torture and where many point to the act of revenge. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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Wallander: The Village Idiot
Overview: In the second film with Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander, a man enters a bank and threatens to blow it up in the air unless his demands are met. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-08-03
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Wallander: The Overdose
Overview: Krister Henriksson plays the lead role as Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed Commissioner Kurt Wallander at the Ystad Police. After a girl's suicide, they come across a tangle on the track that affects several girls at the same school, a case that deeply affects Linda Wallander. Linda's closest colleague is Detective Stefan Lindman.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Wallander: The Joker
Overview: When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Wallander: The African
Overview: Kurt Wallander receives a murder case from the Polish police, it turns out that the victim was shot dead on board a train in Sweden. Most of his face is shot away and for Wallander personally the case gets an unexpected turn. His two closest police colleagues are the daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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Wallander: The Castle Ruins
Overview: Kurt Wallander and the team are stumped when they find an old man, Greger Stehn, dead due to poisoning. It appears that Stehn, who looked like a vagrant, was in fact very wealthy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-08-23
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Wallander: Blood Line
Overview: Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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Wallander: The Photographer
Overview: When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-05-10
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Wallander: The Trickster
Overview: While Kurt Wallander works on a murder case involving a charming yet evil horse dealer who plays on the vulnerability of lonely women, he finds himself romantically involved with a married woman.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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Long Story Short
Overview: The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebration, anniversary and birthday parties. The friends are all late thirties or early forties. They fought all with their own idea of what the perfect love really is, and must re-evaluate their perception in the course of history.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-07-05
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Rancid
Overview: Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-12-13
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Miséria
Overview: The suburban criminal Adam's ghetto dreams turn into a nightmare of serious criminality when he is introduced to the network leader Chicago. Will Adam manage to leave the gang alive?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Carole Matthieu
Overview: Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humiliated co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Ares
Overview: In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Odjuret
Overview: A man takes law into his own hands after the search for his daughter's murderer and rapist fails and instead the police go after him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-18
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Overview: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-20
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Number One
Overview: Tom is struggling hard to be the best player on his soccer team. With the help of a magical whistle, he learns that it feels a lot better to be part of the team, rather than being "number one".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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Dark Floors
Overview: A man haunted by insomnia seeks help from a spiritual guide advertising in midnight television.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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Divertimento
Overview: Jonas Olsen, a chess player haunted by a tragic past, is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, Divertimento.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Geister, die ich rief
Overview: Johanna believes to find happiness and security in her family live with husband and daughter. But facing her unfulfilled desire disturbs Johanna's serenity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-25
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All Hell Let Loose
Overview: Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Geared Up
Overview: In the search for reconciliation with his past, Sami ends up in a small town where he meets Kim. They both meet the local gangster The Old Man who runs a seemingly sophisticated methamphetamine empire together with his two sons Conny and Kenneth. At first, everything is peace and joy, but when drugs start circulating in the town without Gubben's permission, attention is drawn to the newcomer Sami, who realizes that he is in a dangerous situation. To stay alive, he must quickly make a plan.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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What Happened?
Overview: An absurd and star-studded exciting mix of feature film and animation that explores human behavior!
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-01-30
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