Smilla's Sense of Snow

A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 drama mystery movie directed by Bille August, starring Julia Ormond, Patrick Field, Agga Olsen. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.3/10 from 16,015 votes and runs 2h 1m.