High Water

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Isabel Coixet

Cast

Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Susanne Bier

Cast

Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Lone Scherfig

Cast

Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Isabel Coixet

Cast

Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Sofia Coppola

Cast

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi