My Life As a Dog

Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the story of David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary […]

Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American […]

En liten bit av kakan skildrar en magisk, oförglömlig kväll på ett sätt som får ditt hjärta att bubbla och jubla tillsammans med två underbara personer. Den 70-åriga Mahin har bott ensam i Teheran sedan hennes man dog och hennes dotter reste till Europa. En eftermiddag tillsammans med väninnorna får henne att vilja bryta sina […]

From the director of The Babadook, Jennifer Kent, comes a blood-soaked, radical redress of history. Set in Colonial Tasmania during the brutal Black Wars, Clare (Aisling Franciosi) is indentured to Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), denied the right to rejoin her husband and child. When Hawkins commits an act of sexual violence upon her, she hires […]

A real-life international thriller, City of Ghosts exposes a new type of warfare: a battle over ideas, a fight for hearts and minds, a conflict over clicks and views. Captivating in its immediacy, it follows the journey of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently – a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland […]

A couple search for their missing son in this beguiling thriller from Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, The Return). Winner of Best Film at the 2017 London Film Festival. Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to […]

May December follows married couple Gracie and Joe Atherton-Yoo, played by Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, whose 23-year age gap sparked a notorious tabloid romance that gripped the nation two decades ago. Cut to modern day, and their marriage comes under renewed strain when Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry, played by Natalie Portman, comes to spend […]

En kultfilm kan ha varit en flopp. En kultfilm kan ha varit gjord före sin tid. En kultfilm är aldrig att förväxlas med en kalkonfilm. För kultfilmens storhet kom att dröja tills någon förstod sig på den. Studio S presenterar här ett snillrikt urval av svenska filmer som tidningarna på sin tid kallade ”spekulativa”, ”farliga” […]