When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.

Queen of Hearts

2019

Danish

7.0

♡ 42

97%

older woman younger man relationship

unfaithful wife

woman director

May el-Toukhy Director

Trine Dyrholm as Anne

Elias Budde Christensen as Dreng i retten

Gustav Lindh as Gustav

Magnus Krepper as Peter

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

Emil and the Detectives

1964

English

6.1

♡ 2

83%

Peter Tewksbury Director

Walter Slezak as Baron

Bryan Russell as Emil Tischbein

Roger Mobley as Gustav

Brian Richardson as Professor

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, a young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. However, they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.

Cryptozoo

2021

English

6.4

♡ 18

71%

Dash Shaw Director

Louisa Krause as Amber

Peter Stormare as Gustav

Lake Bell as Lauren Gray

Alex Karpovsky as (voice)

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

Sami Blood

2016

Swedish

7.3

♡ 6

97%

Amanda Kernell Director

Malin Crépin as Elise

Andreas Kundler as Gustav

Hanna Alström as Lärarinnan

Anders Berg as Vetenskapsman 1

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Who Pulled the Plug?

1981

Swedish

5.8

♡ 3

Hans Iveberg Director

Georg Rydeberg as Gustav

Magnus Härenstam as Kronofogden

Lars Amble as Leif Andersson

Bertil Norström as Slussvakt

To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Bunyan and Babe

2017

English

4.8

♡ 3

Louis Ross Director

Mark Hamill as Grandpa

Jeremy Guskin as Gustav

John Goodman as Paul Bunyan

Kelsey Grammer as The Amazing Blackstone / Norm Blandsford

Travis and his sister, Whitney, visit their grandparents for the summer and fall through a magical portal which transports him to the world of American hero Paul Bunyan and his big, blue, talking ox, Babe.

The Promise

2024

Danish

4.6

♡ 2

Thriller

Fabian Wullenweber Director

Lærke Winther as Dorthe

Sylvester Juhasz as Eskild

Peter Gilsfort as Gustav

Paw Henriksen as Lars

Maja has made a promise to her deceased sister: she will take care of her 15-year-old nephew Mathias, who has fallen into bad company and been kidnapped. Now the kidnappers are threatening to kill Mathias, and the problem is that Maja is sitting in a car far away. As the situation escalates, she must overcome her inner fears in an attempt to save Mathias.

Bitch Hug

2012

Swedish

6.0

♡ 8

Andreas Öhman Director

Adam Lundgren as Gustav

Mathilda von Essen as Linn

Susanne Barklund as Mamma

Mats Qviström as Taxichaufför

Kristin counts down the days to her high school graduation, when she'll finally get to leave her small town and her manipulative sister behind, for the New York of her dreams. Everything is perfect, and the local paper has promised to publish Kristin's columns about the city that never sleeps. But Kristin misses her flight and, to escape total humiliation, instead ends up hiding out at the house of the peculiar young girl Andrea, far out on the countryside. In this house of Nowhere, Kristin brings Andrea along to the pulsating heart of New York on a big virtual adventure which she chronicles for everyone at home to follow. But then reality comes knocking.