The Ballad of Hortensia

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara

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

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast

Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Runtime

1h 4m

Director

Tod Browning

Cast

Harry Earles, Edgar Allan Woolf, Olga Baclanova

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Sönke Wortmann

Cast

Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król