Mikael Håfström
1) Shanghai
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Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Secret Agent Paul Soames has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend, only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer Tanaka, Soames₂ investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster, Anthony...
2) Derailed
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Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got.
3) The rite
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Inspired by true events, this supernatural thriller follows a seminary student sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the controversial practice and even his own faith. Only when sent to apprentice with legendary Father Lucas, who has performed thousand of exorcisms, does his armor of skepticism begin to fall. Drawn into a troubling case that transcends even Father Lucas's skill, the young seminarian glimpses a phenomenon...
4) Escape plan
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Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
5) 1408
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Mike Enslin, a skeptic who writes about supernatural phenomena, receives an anonymous postcard suggesting he visit the Dolphin Hotel but warning him against entering room 1408, but he insists on being allowed to rent the room where he learns firsthand the truth of reports that 1408 is evil.
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine...
6) Evil
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Erik's life is full of violence and conflict. When he is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school as a last chance and is tormented by his classmates. Can he revolt against the harassment without breaking the rules?
7) Derailed
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When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.
8) Shanghai
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John Cusack stars as an American intelligence official who returns to Shanghai in late 1941 to investigate the death of his friend, which leads him to both love and a much larger conspiracy. Also starring Academy Award®-nominee Ken Watanabe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Li Gong, Yun-Fat Chow, and Hugh Bonneville.