Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves

Movie 8.0 · 1996 · 2h 33m · Drama
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Parental rating R
Audience

adult

Tags

healing, on the road, isolation, life, small town, longing, exile, nostalgia, realism, grief, loneliness, introspection, road trip, identity, town, haunted by the past, memory, loss of spouse, solitude, road, memories, refugee, family history, refugees, 1990s, 20th century, belgium, church, coercion, denmark, disabled, dying and death, faith, finland, france, germany, god, iceland, italy, netherlands, oil rig, paraplegic, parent child relationship, polyamory, prayer, priest, prostitute, society, switzerland, tradition, underdog, united kingdom, usa, year 1996, authority, sweden, 1970s, norway, audacious, scotland, scottish highlands, excommunication, oil platform

Country of origin

United States, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland

How it's rated

4.1 /5 (8.2/10)
Letterboxd
89,495 votes
7.8 /10
IMDb IMDb
75,170 votes
84 %
Rotten Tomatoes
64 votes

Mean rating 8.0/10·Aggregated from 165k voters across the web.

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