12 Movies Starring Lena Olin

The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-05-20

Languages:

Swedish, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian, French, Finnish, English, Russian

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

88 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (2227 Reviews)

Director:

Tage Danielsson

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Hans Alfredson

Tage Danielsson

Fullplot:

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.

After the Rehearsal

After the Rehearsal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-04-09

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden, West Germany

Runtime:

70 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1337 Reviews)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-02-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

171 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (25133 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Kaufman

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Milan Kundera (novel)

Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay)

Philip Kaufman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.

Enemies: A Love Story

Enemies: A Love Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1599 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Mazursky

Cast:

Writer:

Isaac Bashevis Singer (novel)

Roger L. Simon (screenplay)

Paul Mazursky (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.

s/y Glèdjen

s/y Glèdjen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-08-21

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (150 Reviews)

Director:

Gèran du Rèes

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Inger Alfvèn (novel)

Inger Alfvèn (screenplay)

Gèran du Rèes

Fullplot:

A few friends builds a sailing boat together. They plan trips and during the completion of the boat marriages crumble, new relations blossom and the boat burns. They rebuild it and the families involved continue to rock on the stormy sea of emotion.

Havana

Havana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-12-12

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

144 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(5314 Reviews)

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Writer:

Judith Rascoe (story)

Judith Rascoe (screenplay)

David Rayfiel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, Roberta and her Cuban husband, the revolutionary Arturo, are arrested and tortured. Arturo is reported "shot while trying to escape," but Jack manages to get Roberta free again. He can't, however, keep her from continuing to support the revolution. Jack has to make a choice between the beautiful woman who keeps putting herself in harms way and the biggest poker game of his life; between the man he could be and the man he is.

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4847 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Daley (novel)

Sidney Lumet (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sean Casey is the newest member of the district attorneys office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the NYPD. Then his father is critically wounded in a stake-out, Sean is chosen to prosecute the case.

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-03-10

Languages:

English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish

Countries:

Spain, France, USA

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (129909 Reviews)

Director:

Roman Polanski

Cast:

Writer:

Arturo Pèrez-Reverte (novel)

John Brownjohn (screenplay)

Enrique Urbizu (screenplay)

Roman Polanski (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to flight to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, but he does not accept her offer. When Corso goes Bernie's bookstore, he finds his friend murdered in the same position of an engraving. Corso travels to Toledo, Spain, to meet the Ceniza twin brothers and learn more about The Nine Gates. During his journey in Europe, Corso is pursued by Liana and her bodyguard, who belong to the sect The Order of the Silver Serpents, and is protected by a mysterious Girl with supernatural powers. Meanwhile, the owners of the two other exemplars of The Nine Gates are murdered. Corso becomes obsessed with the book and discloses the truth about it.

Awake

Awake

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-30

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (60057 Reviews)

Director:

Joby Harold

Fullplot:

While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors

Darkness

Darkness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Spain

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (16024 Reviews)

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Jaume Balaguerè

Fernando de Felipe

Miguel Tejada-Flores (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

There's something in this house... Something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. In fact, its milieu is darkness. Only in it can it show itself and move. It even takes its name: DARKNESS. It's lived here since someone tried to call it, more than forty years ago. Because this house hides a secret, a terrible past, an inconceivably evil act... Seven children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed. And blood, lots of blood...

Awake

Awake

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-30

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

84 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (60022 Reviews)

Director:

Joby Harold

Fullplot:

While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors

The Hypnotist

The Hypnotist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-09-28

Languages:

Swedish

Countries:

Sweden

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (5343 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Paolo Vacirca (screenplay)

Paolo Vacirca (story)

Lasse Hallstrèm (story)

Alexander Ahndoril (novel)

Fullplot:

After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.

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