

Force Majeure
A film about disasters - both natural and man-made.
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
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6.8/10
1,284 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $4.1M
- Language
- French
- husband wife relationship
- dark comedy
- family relationships
- cowardliness
- family vacation
- coward
- avalanche
- running away
- near-death experience
- french alps
- philosophical
- psychodrama
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalRNew York City, New York24 Oct 2014
- Digital / OTTR30 Dec 2014
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1510 Apr 2015
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM16 Oct 2014
CanadaCA
- TheatricalToronto31 Oct 2014
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT126 Nov 2014
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical915 Aug 2014
BrazilBR
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival30 Oct 2014
- Theatrical5 Mar 2015
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+22 Jan 2015
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1511 Dec 2014
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival18 May 2014
- TheatricalU28 Jan 2015
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1220 Nov 2014
GreeceGR
- Theatrical15 Jan 2015
Frequently asked questions
Force Majeure was released on 15 August 2014.
Audience reviews
3- R8/10
Reno
7/30/2015
> Family defines unity, in whatever circumstances. A Swedish dark comedy film, about a family and their vacation on the French Alps. It is not my favourite flick, but liked it a lot because of the refreshing theme. A satisfiable storytelling with the beautiful visuals of white planet. It does not feel like a dark comedy, I had some good laughs, I mean the louder ones. I was surprised how cleverly the phases cha…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/24/2024
Tomas" (Johannes Kuhnke), wife "Ebba" (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and the kids "Vera" (Clara Wettergren) and "Harry" (Vincent Wettergren) travel to the French Alps for a skiing holiday. The first thing you might notice from the initial photography is just how precariously positioned their resort is, and just how seriously the local authorities take the risk of avalanches. It is one of those snowy phenomena that causes a sti…
- D6/10
druscilla_of_old
7/20/2026
Almost no scene in a movie is as important as its final scene since the final scene has the potential to make or break the entire movie, no matter how good or bad the rest of it is. Perhaps in no other movie is this fact as clear as in this one becase its final scene ruins the entire movie, which would have a been a masterpiece otherwise. This scene - dubbed the "bus scene" by many - flies in the face of most of the …
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