This Week's Films and Series: DiCaprio Stars in Action Drama

Paul Thomas Anderson's new action drama with Leonardo DiCaprio comes to the cinema and in SVT spreads vampire horror on a Finland ferry. Here are this week's films and series.

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FILM (premiere 26/9 at the cinema if not otherwise stated).

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Acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is many things at once, a socially satirical action thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio as an overwintered left-wing activist. When his daughter (Chase Infiniti) is taken by migration agents, he must find his old friends to rescue her.

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Stellan Skarsgård has been praised for the role of the deposed director Gustav, whose strained relationship with his daughter Nora (Renate Reinsve) does not improve when he wants to make a big film about their family trauma. Joachim Trier directs the film with Elle Fanning in one of the supporting roles.

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New York thriller about a fixer (Riz Ahmed) whose analog methods help journalists get in touch with whistleblowers. But it becomes dangerous when his latest client (Lily James) is threatened.

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” (26/9, SVT Play).

Two vampires instill fear in a Finland ferry full of passengers who can neither escape nor alert – because contact with the mainland has been broken. 13-year-old Kolbjörn Skarsgård plays the lead role in the series based on Mats Strandberg's novel. Comes to SVT1 on September 29.

” (25/9, Sjuan/TV4 Play).

There is a lot of sex in unexpected constellations and dark secrets in the summer's big American cult success. Newcomer Sophie (Brittany Snow) is drawn into the housewife gang Hunting Wives and gets a close relationship with the charismatic Margo (Malin Åkerman).

” (30/9, Disney+).

Comedy series with Hollywood star Glen Powell as a failed sports guy whose career in American football ended in disaster. To take revenge, he changes his identity and starts over at college.

”Solsidan” (1/10, TV4 Play+).

When the season begins, Anna (Mia Skäringer) moves in with Alex (Felix Herngren) again, which is not entirely uncomplicated. The series is now released behind a paywall and comes to TV4 on October 15.

” (25/9, Netflix).

Like ”Succession” but about beer. When patriarch Benjamin Guinness dies in 1868, a struggle for inheritance ensues at the same time as nationalist winds are blowing up to a storm in Ireland. Steven Knight, the man behind ”Peaky Blinders”, is the creator of the miniseries.

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