Norwegian Cinema
A list of all the films I have seen that were in Norwegian, not necessarily from Norway tho. As always, recommendations are welcome.
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- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsStellan SkarsgårdSverre Anker OusdalMaria MathiesenIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
- DirectorPål ØieStarsBjørn FlobergKristoffer JonerEva Röse5 Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of team building. But strange things start happening--especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is someone else around?
- DirectorPål SletauneTony SpataroStarsKristoffer JonerCecilie A. MosliJulia SchachtJohn has just been left by his girlfriend Ingrid. That day he allows himself to be seduced into a mystical and scary world, where it is impossible to separate truth from the lies
- DirectorRoar UthaugStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalRolf Kristian LarsenTomas Alf Larsen5 young Norwegians head up to the mountains to snowboard. One breaks his leg and it's getting dark soon, so they spend the night in a big, abandoned hotel, closed 30 years ago. They are not alone.
- DirectorJens LienStarsTrond FausaPetronella BarkerPer SchaanningIn a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.
- DirectorPatrik SyversenStarsHenriette BruusgaardJørn Bjørn Fuller GeeLasse ValdalThe summer of 1974, four young people are all ambushed and left unconscious. They wake up deep in the woods with no one around but the sound of a hunting horn.
- DirectorMats StenbergStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalMarthe Snorresdotter RovikKim Arne HagenJannicke wakes up in the hospital. All of her friends are dead. As she walks through the dark corridors, she thinks she is left alone. But the nightmare isn't over yet.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsJeppe Beck LaursenCharlotte FrognerJenny SkavlanA ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsMarit Synnøve BergFrode WintherMorten LarsenThe movie portrays Norway's most spectacular robbery, where 11 men occupied central Stavanger for twenty minutes and escaped with 57 million kroner (appx $10 million). A police officer was shot and killed.
- DirectorMikkel Brænne SandemoseStarsIda Marie BakkerudJulie RustiKim FalckTakes place in the 80's where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
- DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsOtto JespersenRobert StoltenbergKnut NærumA group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsAksel HennieSynnøve Macody LundNikolaj Coster-WaldauAn accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsPål Sverre HagenAnders BaasmoGustaf SkarsgårdLegendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
- DirectorTommy WirkolaStarsStig Frode HenriksenTommy WirkolaLinda Øverlie NilsenWhen a likable hillbilly sees his fiance, friends and family ruthlessly gunned down at his engagement party, he becomes determined to get revenge - as soon as he wakes up from his coma.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsNicolai Cleve BrochAksel HennieAnders BaasmoKristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls into pieces. He feels like a loser. By coincidence some of Kristoffer's video diaries end up with the producer of the popular talk show "Karsten Tonight" in TV2. A few weeks later Kristoffer's life has become TV entertainment. People love the sequences from his commune at Tøyen: Kristoffer's half-twisted view of his surroundings, his crazy best friend Geir, not to mention the weird web designer Stig Inge, who hasn't set foot outside the Tøyen shopping center for two years. Kristoffer's future again looks bright, everyone likes him, but revealing your life on national television comes with a price tag. As Kristoffer's future in the TV business looks brighter and brighter, his friends start suffering. Geir's big secret is revealed, and Stig Inge's personal problems are much more serious than Kristoffer first thought. It will cost him a great deal to win his friends back. Kristoffer knows what he wants, but does he have enough guts to follow his heart?
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsAnders Danielsen LieHans Olav BrennerIngrid OlavaOne day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
- DirectorNils GaupStarsLene Elise BergumSvein Roger KarlsenMorten AbelEinar and Bjørn leave Lene on the island for a fishing trip, when her former lover, Gaute, appears drunk and falls asleep in her bed.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsJack FjeldstadHenny MoanAlf MallandDuring World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsAksel HennieAgnes KittelsenNicolai Cleve BrochThe true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
- DirectorArild FröhlichStarsNils Jørgen KaalstadJosefin LjungmanKyrre HellumOverweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
- DirectorAnders ØvergaardStarsJulie NordhuusNina Pernille MarlowMarthe VonheimIda belongs to the coolest gang in school and lives to go shopping with her best friend Karoline. She loves her life, until one day her mother tells her that they're moving. And not to New York or London, but to an abandoned farm in a tiny village in Northern Norway. Ida hates her parents for forcing her away from her friends, and after one week on the village, things are going from bad to worse. Now she hates not only parents, she hates her life, which is hardly getting better when her mother forces her to meet some of the "natives"--A bunch of losers who have never heard of makeup and who spend all their time on horses. Ida is determined to get back to her hometown somehow, but a dramatic encounter with a horse named Kehilan changes everything.
- DirectorEskil VogtStarsEllen Dorrit PetersenHenrik RafaelsenVera VitaliForsaken in a new Oslo apartment, a frail blind woman battles to come to terms with her condition, as she slowly retracts into an elaborate fantasy bubble. Are her stories fanning her suspicions, or is this what total blindness looks like?
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdBjørn FlobergJorunn KjellsbyUlrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregnant fiancée.
- DirectorPeder NorlundStarsJulia Pauline Boracco BraathenJørgen LanghelleLine VerndalA young girl becomes friends with a wolf and its little puppy. She decides to save them from three local shepherds.
- DirectorAnne SewitskyStarsAgnes KittelsenJoachim RafaelsenMaibritt SaerensFamily is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she isn't particularly attractive anymore. Whatever. That's life. But when the perfect couple moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir; they have also adopted a child - from Ethiopia. These new neighbors open a new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before - even if Kaja tries her very best.
- DirectorRoar UthaugStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpJonas Hoff OftebroAlthough anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
- DirectorUlrik Imtiaz RolfsenStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandA successful female politician hires private detective Varg Veum to find her missing daughter without attracting too much attention. During his investigation, Veum becomes aware of an international company and its dealings with corruption, black-market business, ad murder.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandThe film begins in Copenhagen, where Varg Veum finds Lisa, the 16-year-old runaway prostitute daughter of a wealthy businessman. He brings her back to his client and his family in Norway, where he is intercepted by neighbors who ask him to find their son Peter, Lisa's close friend. He is reluctant to help them, but when Lisa's 21-year-old drug-addict friend turns up dead in a Bergen hotel room, Veum wants to do everything possible to protect the girl from a dangerous drug dealer. But the police see her as the prime suspect in the murder and regard the private detective's investigation as interference.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandThere has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for her estranged husband Jonas's car brings Varg together with Wenche Andresen, he believes he may have found the one. But Jonas ends up dead, and Wenche is the cops' prime suspect. Varg can't believe this beautiful woman with her old-fashioned ideas on love and fidelity can possibly be guilty, and he sets out to crack the case and prove her innocence.
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsTrond Espen SeimPer KjerstadBjørn FlobergMurder and trouble hit Veum when he meets up with classmates in the rock-band Camp, when he resumes contact with a former flame Rebecca, now the wife of his buddy. A Varg Veum mystery by best-selling crime novelist Gunnar Staalesen.
- DirectorAlexander EikStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergSiv KlynderudRacial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally, and his wife is fatally wounded. The Party is about to hold a leadership election. One of the candidates, Marit Holm, comes to Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked. Varg is drawn into a web of conspiracy and betrayal at the heart of the political establishment, in which spin doctors and political players will do anything to achieve their ends.
- DirectorStefan FaldbakkenStarsLars Petter AaseThomas AlvebergPer Egil AskeVeum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has settled down to enjoy domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, then his bitter enemy "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl. Soon Veum is deeply entangled is a case where he must take a tough battle with his conscience; was he really innocent in the girl's death? The only answer is "The Knife", but his mind is set om only one thing: revenge.
- DirectorStephan ApelgrenStarsTrond Espen SeimLene NystrømBjørn FlobergThis is number 8 in the series of Varg Veum, written by Gunnar Staalesen. The plot spins around Veum's girlfriend's sister: she is a prostitute, and through her discovered shady actions, drug dealing, pimping, and other criminal activities.
- DirectorStephan ApelgrenStarsTrond Espen SeimLene NystrømBjørn FlobergVarg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-old Jan Egil. The kid refuses to talk to anyone except Veum, who has known him since childhood. He swears he didn't kill his foster parents. But there are a couple of social works at the welfare home for stray kids, where Egil landed when he was a year old; they are deeply touched by the drama as defenders of the young population of the social home, for it's been plagued by a new drug called GHB (Hydroxybutyric acid) which killed several kids, When Egil declares himself guilty of the murder, Hamre asks Veum to get his hands out of a solved case. But Veum discovers that Egil is been forced by the knowledge a disturbing reality concerning his foster father and this drug.
- DirectorAlexander EikStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergGeorge MendelPrivate detective Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Evans, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing armakon, a weapons storage facility, and to prove him innocent.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergLene NystrømVarg tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to prevent her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from? Was it an accident, or was she killed as a warning to other girls in the same circles? Together, Varg and Karin discover that the dead girl was deeply involved in operations in which young women were forcibly introduced in the country and at the asylum reception centres are cynically exploited. Important people at high government levels pressure the police department to hinder further investigation. What are they trying to hide? Time works against Varg, who must prove the identity of important people behind the ring before more young girls lose their lives.
- DirectorTrond Espen SeimStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergLene NystrømWhile investigating a case of sisters who have vanished, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to a police-investigated murder. Varg is obviously risking his pregnant wife's life if he wants to follow the case.
- DirectorRonnie SandahlStarsBianca KronlöfHenrik RafaelsenMona Kristiansen23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life is caught in deadlock - Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive loop of temporary jobs, financial trouble and hard partying. A broken arm incidentally leads to a position as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home. Dino is thrown into a reality very far from her own. During a few sultry summer weeks she ends up the centre of an odd love triangle, an unpredictable struggle for affection as well as dominance. "Underdog" is a tender and raw story of privilege and longing, yet at the same time a humorous and unmerciful observation of the shifted power balance between Sweden and Norway - an actuality where Swedes have become the Norwegians' servants.
- DirectorStig SvendsenStarsErik HivjuMaria BockMarius Lien21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party government ruling since WW2. Was this really an accident, and was it under Norwegian control?
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsJesper ChristensenAnders BaasmoKarl MarkovicsApril 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the king.
- DirectorRasmus A. SivertsenStarsEspen Bråten KristoffersenStig Henrik HoffWenche MyhreIn the woods there lives a mouse and his friends, and they are always scared of getting eaten by the fox or other predators who can't get food in a fair way. They have to make some laws so they all can live togheter in peace.
- DirectorRasmus A. SivertsenStarsKari Ann GrønsundTrond HøvikPer SkjølsvikA secret bet between Solan and Olvar O. Kleppvold, he loses the house and workshop of the genious inventor Reodor Felgen, and they both bring their allies in the fight to win.
- DirectorRasmus A. SivertsenStarsKari Ann GrønsundTrond HøvikTrond BrænneThe small town of Flåklypa is experiencing great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things does not go as planned.
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsEili HarboeKaya WilkinsHenrik RafaelsenA confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsTrond Espen SeimJan Gunnar RøiseEvy Kasseth Røsten"Hawaii, Oslo" is the story of a handful of people who cross one another's paths without necessarily knowing one another, during the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla are having their first child, whom they are told will not live long. Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer, tries to commit suicide. Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac, is waiting for the arrival of Åsa, with whom he has a 10-year deal to get married. Leon's brother Trygve fetches Leon from the institution to celebrate his birthday, but Tryge actually plans to use this leave from prison to run away. And the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, sees things no one else can see and just might be able to save everyone.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsAndrea BerntzenAleksander HolmenSolveig Koløen BirkelandA teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
- DirectorArild AndresenStarsKristoffer JonerMarlon MorenoKristoffer BechAfter his wife's death, offshore oil worker Kjetil is having a hard time relating to his adopted son Daniel. In an act of desperation, he brings Daniel along to Colombia to search for the boy's biological mother.
- DirectorErich HörtnaglStarsLars BomKristoffer JonerLaila GoodyAn unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
- DirectorIram HaqStarsMaria MozhdahAdil HussainEkavali KhannaThe story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdBruno GanzPål Sverre HagenAfter his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsPål Sverre HagenTrine DyrholmEllen Dorrit PetersenA man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.
- DirectorArild Østin OmmundsenStarsGeir Vegar HoelSilje SalomonsenAndreas CappelenA quirky romantic drama set in remote coastal Norway takes the viewer on a tumultuous ride through surfing aspirations, extreme weather and love.
- DirectorMaria SødahlStarsLine VerndalHenrik RafaelsenLena EndreSonia moves with her kids to Trinidad where her husband Jo is working in the oil business. The milieu change and the discovery of an the affair her husband has been having makes her lose grip and go into a limbo.
- DirectorPål ØieStarsThorbjørn HarrYlva FuglerudLisa CarlehedWhen a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
- DirectorJens JonssonStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalRolf LassgårdAlexander ScheerSonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdBjørn FlobergJon RanesA grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
- DirectorEspen SandbergStarsPål Sverre HagenChristian RubeckKatherine WaterstonThe life and adventures of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man to arrive on the South Pole.
- DirectorJohn Andreas AndersenStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpEdith Haagenrud-SandeIn 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsAksel HennieWes BentleyStephen LangA thriller set at the beginning of the 1980's Norwegian Oil Boom and centered on a diver whose obsession with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea leads to tragedy.
- DirectorYngvild Sve FlikkeStarsKristine Kujath ThorpArthur BerningNader KhademiAstronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the toilet. But she can't ignore it. Is it her or the baby?
- DirectorEskil VogtStarsRakel Lenora Petersen FløttumAlva Brynsmo RamstadSam AshrafDuring the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsAnne Marit JacobsenOtto JespersenNils Jørgen KaalstadWhen the Eide family is gathered to celebrate Christmas together for the first time in years, it doesn't take long for old secrets to surface.
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieHerbert NordrumThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
- DirectorAurora GosséStarsLiv Elvira Kippersund LarssonSturla HarbitzViljar Knutsen BjaadalA 12-year-old girl who falls in love with a famous dancer who moves to her town, and auditions for his crew - despite the fact that she cannot dance.
- DirectorThor HeyerdahlStarsThor HeyerdahlHerman WatzingerErik HesselbergA documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.