 Casino Royale 2006  PG-13, 144 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankole, Tobias Menzies, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Milicevic, Claudio Santamaria, Sebastien Foucan
James Bond (Daniel Craig) gets his promotion to "00" status, and his first assignment is to spy on terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan), but when plans do not come together, Bond decides to set off on his own to track down the terrorist cell. Heading to the Bahamas, Bond runs into Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his girlfriend, Solange (Caterina Murino). Dimitrios deals with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) who is a banker for terrorist organizations. Now, Bond goes into action and arranges to play a high-stakes poker game against Le Chiffre believing that the $10 million buy-in at Montenegro's Casino Royale will bankrupt Le Chiffre if he loses and, in the process, destroy his terrorist organizations.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kjell Grede
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt, Laszlo Soos
Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.
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Hamsun 1996 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Max von Sydow, Ghita Norby, Jesper Christensen, Anette Hoff, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Eva von Hanno, Gard B. Eidsvold, Asa Soderling, Eindride Eidsvold, Edgar Selge
This is the story of Norway's 1920 Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow) who sympathized with–even welcomed–the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II.
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 The Interpreter 2005 PG-13, 128 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron, George Harris, Hugo Speer, Michael Wright, Clyde Kusatsu, Eric Keenleyside, Maz Jobrani, Harry O'Reilly, Yusuf Gatewood, Byron Utley
U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) reports that she overheard plans for an assassination and that she has become the killers' target. Silvia is put under the protection of U.S. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) who, in turn, becomes suspicious that Silvia is involved in the conspiracy, and she finds herself in the middle of the investigation.
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Quantum of Solace 2008 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, David Harbour, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman, Rory Kinnear, Tim Pigott-Smith, Joaquin Cosio, Jesus Ochoa, Fernando Guillen Cuervo
This story takes up where "Casino Royale" left off. James Bond's (Daniel Craig) girlfriend Vesper has died, and Bond and M (Judi Dench) question Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) and learn about the "Quantum" organization that had blackmailed Vesper. Now, Bond heads to Haiti and meets fellow traveler, agent Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who, after trying to kill Bond, leads him to the villain businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a prominent force within the Quantum organization. As the story unfolds, Bond learns that Greene is plotting to control the world's natural resources, and he sets out to stop Quantum in its tracks.
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Sofie 1992 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sophie
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, Ghita Norby, Jesper Christensen, Torben Zeller, Henning Moritzen, Stig Hoffmeyer, Kirsten Rolffes, Lotte Hermann, Anne Werner Thomsen
This family saga took place during the early 1900s. Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a young Jewess who lived in Sweden and fell in love with a Gentile artist (Jesper Christensen). Their romance was not approved of by her family, and Sofie bowed to their wishes and married her cousin. Religious intolerance is the theme for this film as Sofie raises her son in a world filled with prejudice.
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| 1. Casino Royale (2006)
2. Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
3. Hamsun (1996)
4. The Interpreter (2005)
5. Quantum of Solace (2008)
6. Sofie (1992)
aka: Sophie
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