4 Movies Starring Fares Fares

Jalla! Jalla!

Jalla! Jalla!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-12-22

Languages:

Swedish, Arabic

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

88 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (10359 Reviews)

Director:

Josef Fares

Fullplot:

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Roros best friend, Mèns, has his own problems: He has serious problems getting an erection...

Kopps

Kopps

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-02-07

Languages:

Swedish, English

Countries:

Sweden, Denmark

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (15360 Reviews)

Director:

Josef Fares

Genres:

ActionComedy

Cast:

Writer:

Josef Fares

Mikael Hèfstrèm

Vasa

Fullplot:

Police officer Benny is obsessed with American police cliches and livens up his own boring everyday life with dreams of duels with bad guys. But poor Benny and his colleagues doesn't have much to do in the small town of Hègbotrèsk. Most of their days are spent drinking coffee, eating sausage waffles and chasing down stray cows. Peace and quiet is the dream of every politician, but for the Swedish authorities, the lack of crooks is reason to close the local police station. When the cops investigate a suspected act of vandalism, they realise that they themselves may be able to raise the crime statistics high enough to stay in business.

Easy Money II: Hard to Kill

Easy Money II: Hard to Kill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-02-14

Languages:

Swedish, Spanish, English, Serbian, Arabic, Croatian

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (4853 Reviews)

Director:

Babak Najafi

Cast:

Writer:

Maria Karlsson (screenplay)

Peter Birro (collaborating writer)

Babak Najafi (collaborating writer)

Fredrik Wikstrèm (collaborating writer)

Jens Lapidus (novels)

Fullplot:

JW (Joel Kinnaman, Robocop, The Killing), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.

The Absent One

The Absent One

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-02

Languages:

Danish, French

Countries:

Denmark, Sweden, Georgia

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (5068 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jussi Adler-Olsen (novel)

Nikolaj Arcel

Rasmus Heisterberg

Fullplot:

Rugged and irritable Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and his colleague, the Syria-born Assad, run the cold-case division of the Copenhagen police. After a desperate appeal to Morck about the unsolved killing of his own teenage children, an ex-cop commits suicide. This leads the detective pair on a twisted mission to discover what really happened in the 1990s at one of the country's poshest boarding schools. Director Mikkel Norgaard reunites with lead stars Kaas and Fares to portray this taut fiction which again alternates deftly between the past and present.

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