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Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
The dynamics between friends are challenged when Martin arrives at the Christmas party wearing a dress. The evening becomes an exploration of male roles, and where hidden desires comes forth. Selected at **LGBT Toronto Film Festival**.
22) The Last King
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, in the midst of a great civil war. A monarch is murdered. His soldiers escape with the infant heir to the throne. The warriors risk their life to shepherd him across snowy mountains to claim his rightful place on the throne.
23) The Crossing
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Tells the story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto's parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their...
24) Pioneer
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Set at the beginning of the Norwegian oil boom, authorities aim to bring the 500 meter deep oil ashore. Petter and his brother Knut, have the courage to take on mission, but a tragic accident occurs. Petter realizes that his life is at stake. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
25) The 12th Man
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nazis hunt for a lone surviving saboteur in this edge-of-your-seat WWII thriller based on a true-life story. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stars.
26) The quake
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Norwegian
Description
In 1904 an earthquake shook Oslo. Its epicenter was in the Oslo Rift which runs directly through the Norwegian capital. There are recorded quakes from the rift on a daily basis and geologists cannot be sure, but arguments indicate that people can expect major future earthquakes in this area.
27) The Wave
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Geologist Kristian Elkjord senses something wrong with the mountain that overlooks his scenic town. When a landslide sends tons of rock and earth crashing into the water, everyone has ten minutes to outrace the resulting tsunami to higher ground.
28) The Burning Sea
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Norwegian
Description
in 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia, rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage,...
29) Thelma
Publisher
[Passion River Films]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Norwegian
Description
A shy young student leaves her small town and religious family to study at a university in Oslo, but once on campus she experiences what appears to be a violent, unexpected seizure. Overwhelmed by the increasing intensity of the mystifying episodes and her powerful feelings for a beautiful classmate, she struggles to control her supernatural abilities.
30) Kon-Tiki
Language
Norwegian
Description
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching. This feature film is based on Heyerdahl's...
31) 1001 grams
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Norwegian
Description
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief, and not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.
33) Happy happy
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Family 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...
34) The tunnel
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Norwegian
Description
When 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.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Norwegian
Description
A Swedish efficiency researcher is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's kitchen habits. There is a rule that they must not speak to each other. This rule is ignored and the men become fast friends, passing afternoons sipping coffee and telling stories.
37) Ragnarok
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Convinced the Viking ship Oseberg contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology, an expedition group sets out to follow the ship's treasure map and discovers a secret more terrifying than they could possibly imagine.
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