Alexander Skarsgård
Also Known As: 알렉산데르 스카르스고르드, الكسندر سكارسجارد, อเลกซานเดอร์ สกาส์กอร์ด, 亞歷山大·斯卡斯加德, Александер Скашгорд, Александер Скарсґард, الکساندر اسکاشگورد, אלכסנדר סקארסגארד
Biography: Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård (born August 25, 1976) is a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm, he began acting at age seven but quit at 13. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in the US film comedy Zoolander. In 2008, he played Marine Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill. Skarsgård's breakthrough came when he portrayed vampire Eric Northman in the television series True Blood (2008–2014). After appearing in films such as Melancholia (2011), Battleship (2012) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Skarsgård starred in the drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019) as an abusive husband, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. From 2019 to 2022, he appeared in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), and The Northman (2022) as well as playing Randall Flagg in the miniseries The Stand (2020–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Skarsgård, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
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Birthday: August 25, 1976
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Male
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The Last Drop
Overview: Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
Genres: Action Crime History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-13
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Wings of Glass
Overview: Nazli is 18, born in Iran, raised in Sweden. She lives with her father Abbas and her older sister Mahin. Nazli, who wants to blend in calls herself Sara. One day Abbas tell her how he sees her future. He is planning a party for their friends and relatives. He also plans to invite two Iranian men, whom he sees as potential husbands for his daughters. Nazli, who has a very good relationship with his father, is appalled. When she meets with her Swedish boyfriend Johan, the situation immediately gets very complicated.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-10-20
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Exit
Overview: There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is answered by someone who he thought had committed suicide years ago.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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Kill Your Darlings
Overview: A desperate young writer is lured on a wild ride through the desert by a mysterious woman in this darkly comic take on the all-American road trip. Along the way they cross paths with a hapless mobster, a 6 foot transvestite and a lovesick housewife, all on the way to their celebrity TV shrink in Las Vegas... Things quickly spiral out of control into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game... a writer's frantic search for inspiration becomes intertwined with a motley crew of quirky characters seeking love and adventure at any cost.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-12
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Zoolander
Overview: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Metropia
Overview: In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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Melancholia
Overview: Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth…
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Battleship
Overview: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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13
Overview: A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Straw Dogs
Overview: A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-16
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White Water Fury
Overview: Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet sisters Marie and Susanne, who recently moved up to northern Sweden from Stockholm. They decide to camp and party together that night. When they wake up in the morning after a wild night of dancing and alcohol, Susanne, the youngest girl, has disappeared without a trace...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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The Dog Trick
Overview: Simon dreams of finding his one true love. Until then, he spends most of his time watching sloppy tearjerkers on video. He also shies away from the shallow young women that he and his friends Micke and Mario meet at bars. But Micke suggests one thing that is a guaranteed babe-magnet: taking a dog out for walks. It's an instant success for Simon, he meets the delightful Mia who immediately takes a liking to him. But things are not always what they may look like.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Double Shift
Overview: Jonas has promised to take time off work to take care of his baby daughter so that his fiancé can go back to work. The problem is that his company, a taxi service, needs serious attention so Jonas tries to work nights and be a good father in the daytime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-05-18
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Trust Me
Overview: A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-08-20
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About Sara
Overview: Because of a mentally ill mother and abusive relationships, Sara's attempts at happiness turn increasingly selfish and desperate, until her image of a happy life shatters completely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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The East
Overview: An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-31
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Black Island Sisters
Overview: The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Åke and His World
Overview: Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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What Maisie Knew
Overview: In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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Disconnect
Overview: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-12
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The Diver
Overview: A thriller about deceit and the struggle for power within Eastern European mafia gangs living in exile in Sweden. Swedish fisherman Arne rescues a young Polish woman, Irena, after a mysterious incident at sea. Two people, both with a past, both determined never to fall in love again, are slowly drawn to each other. Irena has to learn to distinguish friend from foe. Arne must confront his nightmares to save the woman he loves.
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-01-05
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The Tiger
Overview: Set in snowy far east Russia in the late 90s, a group of men — referred to as the Tiger Team — work to protect endangered tigers from poachers and logging operations. The Team’s leader's sense of duty is tested when he’s charged with hunting down and exterminating a tiger that killed a poacher in self-defense.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Overview: Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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The Giver
Overview: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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The Dog That Smiled
Overview: Jojje, Roffe, Sivert, Lillen, Peggy and the dog King are a tight-knit group of friends. When it turns out that King is sick and soon to die, his friends decide to give him his best time.
Genres: Family TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-19
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Hundtricket
Overview: This is the short film that "Hundtricket - The Movie (2002)" is based on and follows the same premise about a shy man walking a dog in order to meet women.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Legend of Tarzan
Overview: Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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Eric LaRue
Overview: Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-04
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Lee
Overview: The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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The Pack
Overview: A group of documentarians brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work. The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Overview: Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script to shoot and to the screen at home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2022-11-20
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Hidden
Overview: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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War on Everyone
Overview: Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Pillion
Overview: A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-18
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Mute
Overview: A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Never Be Mine
Overview: Liv Swedin is a Swedish actress in Hollywood. It's her 30th birthday when she meets Christopher (a guy from Sweden as well) in her favourite coffee shop.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Kites Over Helsinki
Overview: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Score
Overview: During the Football Tournament Gothia Cup Micke and Tshepo meet. Six years later Tshepo has become a football coach while Micke entered a criminal career, specializing in insurance fraud.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Beyond the Pole
Overview: A documentary film crew follows the first carbon neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. Simultaneously Saving the Planet and getting into the Guinness Book of Records Brian and Mark hope to kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, they have never done anything like this before.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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D-Day
Overview: Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebrations.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Zoolander 2
Overview: Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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The Aftermath
Overview: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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Hold the Dark
Overview: In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-22
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Heartbeat
Overview: A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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The Hummingbird Project
Overview: A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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The Kill Team
Overview: When Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic Sergeant, he considers reporting them to higher-ups. However, the heavily-armed and increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear that he'll be the next target.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Long Shot
Overview: Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter — much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-02
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Happy End
Overview: Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Leende Guldbruna Ögon
Overview: Lennart Johansson grows up with one dream - to lead a Swedish dance band in the spirit of the Swedish legends "Vikingarna". He is a Swedish at heart, however he finds prejudice from all the bands he wants to be part of on his journey, all for one reason - he is black. After spending time and renting a kitchen from Roshan, a dedicated hip hop singer and creator, played brilliant by Fares Fares. A unique journey and an odds friendship starts. Lennart is dedicated to make it as a dance band singer, and starts his own band of misfits. An entertaining miniseries in 3 parts made by Swedish Television in collaboration with Nrk, Norway.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-02-26
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The Northman
Overview: Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-07
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Passing
Overview: In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-27
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Behind the Moomins
Overview: Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Idag Röd
Overview: Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Overview: In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-24
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Infinity Pool
Overview: While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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Ulysses 31
Overview: Movie adaptation from the 1981 anime TV series.
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Original Language: en
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Wicker
Overview: On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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The Moment
Overview: A rising pop sensation navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
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