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see all genres ›An old but still growing industry, Norway's film production has attracted ever more international attention in recent years via popular genre entertainments as well as caustically droll social commentaries and potent dramas.
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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...Watch Movie
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Until the Light Takes Us
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a...Watch Movie
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Sebastian
Sebastian is a typical teenager. He hangs out with this friends, goes to the movies, buys hip clothes and attends school. Typical, that is, until a chance stolen kiss changes everything. Sebastian is just figuring out what almost everyone else around him already knows, he is gay. The kiss is...Watch Movie
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Yes, We Love
Ten-year-old Birger hates marching with the boys' brigade. War hero Konrad refuses to listen to another sumptuous Constitution Day speech. Graduation queen Carina just cannot believe Morten isn't interested in her. And father-of-two Ola searches for his 'self' in a hunting lodge in arctic Svalbard.Watch Movie
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The Danish Poet
Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter? The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid...Watch Movie
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Aberdeen
Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together, at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favor: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild,...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Ballet Boys
BILLY ELLIOT meets FIRST POSITION in BALLET BOYS, a documentary that follows, over four years, the struggles, set-backs and accomplishments of three friends and hopeful future dance stars: Lukas, Syvert, and Torgeir. The boys sacrifice a normal high school experience (including parties and...Watch Movie
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Hamsun
In this epic story of love and treason, screen legend Max von Sydow (THE EXORCIST, MINORITY REPORT, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, THE SEVENTH SEAL) gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate. Hamsun is his country’s most beloved writer. But with the shadow...Watch Movie
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The Almost Man
Henrik is thirty-five, but he still parties with his high-school buddies like they were in they're twenties. His mother cares for him like he's still a child. And he's in a relationship that's based on goofing around. Now, his girlfriend Tone is pregnant and Henrik has taken a serious job, moved...Watch Movie
