We are preparing for you a selection of European films that will surprise you with its unusual style and atmosphere, different from the usual Hollywood cinema.
The European world is famous for its diversity of genres, deep stories and unconventional directorial decisions.
In today’s selection you will find both touching dramas and exciting thrillers, as well as bright and atmospheric multi-faceted films.
Short description
Zillion. Your Dreams Club (2022)
Captain (2017)
Mountain of Virginity (2014)
Photographer from Mauthausen (2018)
Rogue Island (2023)
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
The Great Beauty (2013)
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1. Zillion. Your Dreams Club (2022)
Original title: Zillion18+
Genre: drama, crime, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.3 (IMDb)
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Director: Robin Pront
Cast: Jonas Vermeulen, Matteo Simoni, Charlotte Timmers, Barbara Sarafyan
About what: Belgian-born Frank Verstraten was an ordinary IT guy from the suburbs who really wanted to party, but couldn’t get past security control. The anger of rejection is the best fuel for achievement, and within a few years he turned into the king of a club empire with one of the largest discos in the world, which was called “Zillion”.
There is an eternal celebration here: a body wriggles under the lights of a strobe light, a solution of powder in the atmosphere and champagne flows like a river, but personal problems suggest the success of the event.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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2. Captain (2017)
Original title: Der Hauptmann18+
Genre: thriller, drama, war, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.3 (IMDb)
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolf, Max Thomms
About what: In the last days of World War II, an exhausted and hungry 19-year-old private steals the captain’s uniform. To save his life, he has no choice but to change clothes and reincarnate as Captain Herold, who is unfamiliar to him.
Posing as an officer to the group, he gathers deserters and gathers all possible means to fight his way through devastated Nazi Germany.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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3. Mountain of Virginity (2014)
Original title: Fusi
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.3 (IMDb)
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Director: Dagur Kauri
Starring: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjaunsdouttir, Sigurjon Kjartansson
About what: The 43-year-old man is still living with his mutation. He seems to go there in hibernation, he leads a monotonous life. The appearance of active Alma and 8-year-old Hera interferes with his bachelor habits.
A realistic, humane and sad film about a man going through fate.
Where to see: Rutub
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4. Photographer from Mauthausen (2018)
Original title: El Fotografo de Mauthausen.
Genre: thriller, drama, military, biography, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.6 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.7 (IMDb)
Country: Spain
Director: Mar Targarona
Starring: Mario Casas, Richard van Weyden, Alain Hernandez, Adria Salazar
About what: the story of Spanish photographer and republican Francisco Boyx, who was exiled to France after the creation of Franco’s dictatorship.
At the beginning of World War II, 21-year-old Francisco was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp. They survived and brought out a series of photographs that exposed the brutal, criminal Nazis and were episodes of the Nuremberg trials.
Where to see: Rutub
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5. Rogue Island (2023)
Original title: Soudain seuls18+
Genre: thriller, drama, adventure
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.4 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.1 (IMDb)
Country: France, Iceland, Belgium
Director: Thomas Bidegen
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Gilles Lelouch.
About what: A married couple goes on a long-awaited trip, which quickly turns into a real test.
After a shipwreck, they ended up on a desert island near Antarctica, where they went on a small object survival tour. They need the portable forces of nature and wild animals for walking, food and shelter.
Where to see: Okko
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6. The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
Original title: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Genre: thriller, drama, adventure
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.5 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.9 (IMDb)
Country: UK
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Cast: Mark Rowley, Pekka Strang, Ingrid Garcia Johnson
About what: After the death of King Edward, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his companions set out on a journey across the fractured kingdom in the hope of finally learning England.
Where to see: Rutub
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7. Great Beauty (2013)
Original title: La grande bellezza18+
Genre: drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.7 (IMDb)
Country: Italy, France
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Tony Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso.
About what: Apathetic and disillusioned, 65-year-old Jep Gambardella, a writer and journalist with a glass of Gin and Tonic, watches this parade of powerful, but empty and lost people who make a depressing impression on him.
A dizzying picture of the loss of moral guidelines unfolds in the atmosphere of a magnificent and irrevocable Roman summer.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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