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Stellan Skarsgard
John Stellan Skarsgård aka Stellan Skarsgard was born June 13th 1951 in Sweden.
He has been a actor since his teens when he did a TV series called Bombi Bitt och jag. He has been in many well know films like Hunt for Red October, Pirates of the Caribbean, Meloncholia, Mamma Mia and Thor.
He has 7 children, 1 of which is Alexander Skarsgard who plays Eric Northman in the HBO series True Blood.
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Skarsgard Sr. too busy to guest star with son in True Blood -
1 September 2011
-Hollywood veteran Stellan Skarsgard has been forced to turn down the opportunity to feature alongside his actor son Alexander on his hit TV show True Blood - because the Thor star is too busy.-Stellan, 60, admits he is a big fan of the popular vampire series and of Alexan
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Skarsgard not a fan of Da Vinci Code Dan -
15 May 2009
-Mamma Mia! star Stellan Skarsgard has sent producers of his new blockbuster Angels & Demons reeling after revealing he's not a fan of the author behind the Da Vinci Code books.-
-The Scandinavian star called Dan Brown a "bad writer" during a recent appearance on a Swedish
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David Fincher teaches an old new tricks! 3 January 2012
Stellan Skarsgard - filmography
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Thor
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
 
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from 35,656 members
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Thor - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Director Kenneth Branagh (HENRY V) and I AM LEGEND scribe Mark Protosevich bring Marvel Comics strongman Thor (played by STAR TREK'S Chris Hemsworth) to the big screen in this big-budget adventure that chronicles the mystical roots of the Asgardian god. Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Jaimie ..read more »
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from 13,264 members
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Melancholia
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... MELANCHOLIA is a psychological ..read more »
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from 8,561 members
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As If I Am Not There
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Natasa Petrovic, Feda Stukan, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Juanita Wilson
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Set during the Balkan war of the 1990s, As If I Am Not There is based on true events and tells the story of Samira (Natasha Petrovic), a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the other women ..read more »
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from 174 members
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
(2010)
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Bjorn Floberg, Aksel Hennie
Director: Hans Petter Moland
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Ulrik is reluctantly let out of prison after serving 12 years for murder. He has to cope with his gang, his ex, a few women -and a snitch. His son has a fiancé and her family don't approve of murder. They have a nursery, they have principles. Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man.
But how gentle can you ..read more »
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Metropia
(2009)
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier
Director: Tarik Saleh
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In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.
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Angels and Demons - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ron Howard
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ANGELS AND DEMONS re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel THE DA VINCI CODE. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel THE DA VINCI CODE, the movie transpires after the events of the ..read more »
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from 12,512 members
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Mamma Mia!
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
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Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world.
Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried and Dominic ..read more »
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from 57,921 members
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Mamma Mia! - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
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MAMMA MIA became a West End smash when it hit London back in late nineties. With a story framed around the music of the Swedish pop band Abba, crowds loved its raucous, dance party vibe. Now it comes to the silver screen, with some truly delightful performances from the likes of Meryl Streep and ..read more »
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from 4,684 members
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Angels and Demons
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ron Howard
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Tom Hanks and Ron Howard unite for their fourth pairing with this follow-up to THE DA VINCI CODE. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
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from 50,930 members
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WAZ
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair
Director: Tom Shankland
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In Waz bodies are turning up in the city streets - some horribly mutilated, others with an equation craved into their flesh. Detective Argo (Skarsgard) and his new partner (George) unearth the meaning of the equations, only to realise that each victim is being offered a grusome choice: kill your ..read more »
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from 7,305 members
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Guilty Hearts
(2006)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Julie Delpy, Andrea Di Stefano
Director: George Augusto, Savina Dellicour
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"Guilty Hearts" follows the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.
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Exorcist - The Beginning
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy
Director: Renny Harlin
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to escape the memories of the horrors he witnessed there. His faith in tatters, Merrin drifts through ..read more »
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from 13,816 members
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Helen Of Troy
(2003)
Starring: Sienna Guillory, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Marsden
Director: John Kent Harrison
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This television mini-series takes the action of Homer's ILIAD and presents it as it has never been seen before. Former model Sienna Guillory stars as Helen, the face that launched 1000 ships and the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. The trouble begins when Helen falls in love with Paris (Matthew ..read more »
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from 1,672 member
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No Good Deed
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Bob Rafelson
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While pursuing a runaway teenager, cop Jack (Samuel L. Jackson) stumbles across a gang of crooks trying to pull off a heist. When they are alerted to his presence, Jack is taken hostage, and left in the custody of Erin (Milla Jovovich), the gang leader's girlfriend. While they are left alone, Jack ..read more »
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from 4,212 members
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City Of Ghosts
(2002)
Starring: Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone
Director: Matt Dillon
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Actor Matt Dillon (OVER THE EDGE, THE OUTSIDERS) makes his directorial debut with CITY OF GHOSTS, an atmospheric thriller about an American man who finds himself in a very dangerous Cambodia. Dillon plays Jimmy Cremmins, a New York scam artist who has been working as a front man for a phony ..read more »
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from 2,381 members
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Taking Sides
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Moritz Bleibtreu
Director: Istvan Szabo
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Istvan Szabo (SUNSHINE) brings this intense and thought-provoking film to the screen with his signature vibrant photography, precise rendering of period details, and strong direction of powerful actors. Here, Harvey Keitel plays Major Steve Arnold, a gruff and rude American sent to Berlin just ..read more »
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from 338 members
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The Glass House
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Trevor Morgan
Director: Daniel Sackheim
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THE GLASS HOUSE, director Daniel Sackheim's sleek neo-noir thriller, is a modern Hansel and Gretel story with elements borrowed from HAMLET, set in California. As it opens, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) watches unflinchingly while her friends cover their eyes from the horrors of a slasher movie. She deals ..read more »
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from 1,045 member
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Dancer In The Dark
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Director: Lars Von Trier
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The final instalment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudo-realism and fabricated melodrama to a dangerously intense level. The story concerns Selma (Bjork), a Czech ..read more »
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from 9,374 members
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Passion Of Mind
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Demi Moore, William Fichtner, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Alain Berliner
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Reality and fantasy become intermingled for a woman who seems to be living two lives. Her life as a widowed mother of two daughters living in Provence, is contrasted against her life as a successful career woman in New York. The mystery and uncertainty unfolds...
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from 155 members
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Aberdeen
(2000)
Starring: Lena Headey, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Hans Petter Moland
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Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together - at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favour: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set ..read more »
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from 23 members
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Timecode
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Saffron Burrows
Director: Mike Figgis
Certificate:
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Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company
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from 1,931 member
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Deep Blue Sea
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Renny Harlin
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In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. ..read more »
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from 9,186 members
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Deep Blue Sea - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Renny Harlin
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Watch now: £2.49
In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. ..read more »
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from 541 members
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Ronin - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce
Director: John Frankenheimer
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David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in ..read more »
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from 3,131 members
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Ronin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce
Director: John Frankenheimer
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David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in ..read more »
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from 22,472 members
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Savior
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Peter Antonijevic
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Joshua joins the Foreign Legion to escape a crime he committed to avenge the death of his family. Finding himself in war-torn Bosnia he soon becomes hardened to the horrors of war and finds himself nurturing an infant...
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from 561 members
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Good Will Hunting
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
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from 23,146 members
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My Son The Fanatic
(1997)
Starring: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Udayan Prasad
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A bittersweet story about a Pakistani taxicab driver in London who learns the hard way that multiculturalism is a myth. Actor Om Puri, typically the villain in Indian cinema, is likeable as the innocent Parvez, who for the first time in his life raises questions about the life he has made for ..read more »
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from 72 members
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Insomnia
(1997)
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjorn Floberg
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
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Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard gives a compelling performance as Jonas Engstrom, an exiled Swedish city detective working in Norway who travels to the small coastal town of Tromso in order to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. When he makes a fatal mistake in the investigation, however, his ..read more »
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from 2,187 members
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Good Will Hunting - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Director: Gus Van Sant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
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from 610 members
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Breaking The Waves
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge
Director: Lars Von Trier
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With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. ..read more »
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from 6,972 members
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Wind
(1992)
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Matthew Modine, Stellan Skarsgard
Director: Carroll Ballard
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Wind is set in the world of competitive yacht racing, where a young sailor (Matthew Modine) is intent on winning the America's Cup, as well as regaining the affections of his ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Grey). As the film opens, Modine chooses to race the America's Cup instead of staying with Grey. She ..read more »
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from 329 members
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The Perfect Murder
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgard, Amjad Khan
Director: Zafar Hai
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Based on the award-winning novel by H.R.F. Keating, Merchant Ivory Productions presents THE PERFECT MURDER, a highly entertaining, exotic detective thriller. Inspector Ghote (NASEERRUDDIN SHAH, Monsoon Wedding) of the Bombay police has just been assigned his most perplexing case: a savage attack on ..read more »
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