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    Breaking the Waves

    R1996 · Drama · 2h 39m

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  1. Breaking The Waves is a 1996 psychological romantic melodrama film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson in her feature film acting debut, and with Stellan Skarsgård, a frequent collaborator with von Trier.

  2. Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good.

  3. Currently you are able to watch "Breaking the Waves" streaming on Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel. It is also possible to buy "Breaking the Waves" on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV online.

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  4. In a small and religious coastal town, a simple, devoutly religious Scottish woman, Bess McNeill (Emily Watson), finds a partner in an oil rig worker from Norway, Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgard).

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  5. Nov 29, 1996 · The movie takes place in the 1970s, in a remote northern Scottish village. Bess (Emily Watson), a sweet-faced and trusting girl, is “not quite right in the head,” and her close-knit community is not pleased by her decision to marry Jan (Stellan Skarsgard), who works on one of the big oil rigs in the North Sea. But she loves Jan too much ...

  6. Watch Breaking the Waves and more new movie premieres on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village, gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband is paralyzed in an oil rig accident.

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  8. Nov 13, 1996 · Synopsis by Don Kaye. 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.

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