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Scandinavian
see all genres ›Each of the distinct Northern European nations bracketed by the term "Scandinavia" have had long-running film industries prolific and innovative well beyond what one might expect from their geographic and population scales. Without them, there would be no Greta Garbo (nor Lars von Trier, for that matter).
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Adam's Apples
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding...Start your free trial to watch
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Ambush
AMBUSH takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia by the Finnish border. A young lieutenant is sent on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, leaving his beautiful fiancee behind. During his mission he receives the tragic news that she has been killed by the Russians. Now the war is personal and...Start your free trial to watch
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Anita
A young girl named Anita (Christina Lindberg) suffers from psychological problems and sexual promiscuity due to her troubled childhood and uncaring parents. She meets Erik (Stellan Skarsgard), a student at a local university, who tries to help her through her troubles by analyzing her past relationships. After revealing her...Start your free trial to watch
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Armadillo
The first documentary ever chosen to compete in the International Critics' Week at Cannes (where it won the Grand Prize), Janus Metz's ARMADILLO follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the...Start your free trial to watch
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As It Is in Heaven
Nominated for "Best Foreign Film" at the 2005 Academy Awards®, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN is the story of Daniel, a successful international conductor who returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't refuse, and nothing in the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bothersome Man
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Filmmaker Michal Leszcylowski was editor for Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, THE SACRIFICE. During the time they spent together, their relationship grew into an enduring friendship. DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY is an homage, a fluid and captivating documentary that presents the brooding as well as the more...Start your free trial to watch
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Edvard Munch
Famously described by Ingmar Bergman as a "work of genius," Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterpiece is more than just a bio-pic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Focusing initially on Munch's formative years in late 19th Century Kristiania (now Oslo), Watkins uses his trademark style to create a vivid picture of...Start your free trial to watch
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Erotikon
Labeled an "insolent romp" by the Village Voice and praised for its "risqué wit and cheerful amorality" in John Wakeman's "World Film Directors," EROTIKON is quite possibly the cinematic granddaddy of all sophisticated comedies and one of the finest achievements of Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. EROTIKON surely pushed the...Start your free trial to watch
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Evening Land
"In October 1975, I was invited by Stig Björkman, a Swedish filmmaker in charge of production for the Danish Film Institute, to begin research on a feature film which was to be funded chiefly by the Institute and two private producers, Steen Herdel and Ebbe Preisler. Together with Danish director/writer Poul Martinsen and...Start your free trial to watch
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Exposed
Lena (Christina Lindberg) is a young teen in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic party-goer Helge, Lena’s life turns upside-down when Helge takes some nude photographs of her. These photos can destroy her life and Lena must do anything to get them. Even...Start your free trial to watch
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Flickering Lights
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. It’s a brand new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose...Start your free trial to watch
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The Freethinker
Peter Watkins' innovative biopic THE FREETHINKER explores in rich detail the life of author August Strindberg and his troubled relationship with Siri von Essen, Strindberg's first wife. Assembled over a two-year period at the Nordens Folk High School near Stockholm as part of a class that the filmmaker taught in the early...Start your free trial to watch
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The Girls
Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of "Lysistrata," Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious (even tragic) after all....Start your free trial to watch
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Hunger
HUNGER, a Scandinavian co-production (filmed in Oslo, Norway, and featuring Swedish actor Per Oscarsson), is a portrait of poverty in the 1890s. Danish writer/director Henning Carlsen adapts Knut Hamsun celebrated novel-of-the-same-name, boiling the book down to its necessary core. Pontus, a writer, is at wits' end. He is...Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Dina
In Norway during the 1800s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes the dramatic death of her mother. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Her only friend is the stable boy, Tomas. Dina (Maria Bonnevie) grows up wild and unmanageable. In her teenage...Start your free trial to watch