Sveriges television
1) Stieg Larssons Luftslottet som sprängdes =: Stieg Larsson's The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Two seriously injured people arrive at the emergency ward of the Sahlgrensa hospital in Gothenburg. Lisbeth Salander has a bullet in her head and needs immediate surgery, while Alexander Zalachenko has been attacked with an axe. Lisbeth wants revenge--against the men who tried to kill her, and the government that nearly destroyed her life. First, she must escape from the ICU and exculpate herself of murder charges against her. Mikael Blomkvist, meanwhile,...
Series
Millennium volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
In this second film based on Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist's journalistic protégé and his activist girlfriend are delving into a sex-trafficking ring whose patrons who are highly placed in the political establishment. When the couple are brutally murdered, the gun found in their apartment has Lisbeth's fingerprints on it, and Lisbeth and Mikael embark on parallel manhunts. Mikael is simultaneously aided and obstructed by a shambling...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate--with...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
7) The square
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Albert Einstein, following the path he took to become the world's most renowned physicist, discusses the effects of his work on his personal life, and provides explanations and animations of his ideas and theories.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Cairo, 2011, just weeks before the revolution. Police Detective Noredin, working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station, is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the very power elite, close to the president's inner circle.
11) Melancholia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine's sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth threatening the very existence of humankind"--Container....
12) Borg vs. McEnroe
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Bjorn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end, run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnroe, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne. A story about the price of success.
