Best Norwegian Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Norwegian Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating and serious. Plot: nordic, danger, survival, death, violence, deadly, snow, monster, murder and european. Genre: Drama, Thriller and Horror. Country: Norway, USA and Sweden.
Best Norwegian Movies
Best Norwegian Movies
TOP Movies: Cold Prey (2006), Headhunters (2011), Utoya - July 22 (2018), Ragnarok (2013), Trollhunter (2010), The 12th Man (2017), Troll (2022), Elling (2001), The Trip (2021), Frozen (2013), The Wave (2015), Escape (2012), Thale (2012), Spread Your Wings (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), 22 July (2018), Downsizing (2017), Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022), Reprise (2006), Dead Snow (2009).

List of Best Movies

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 6.2
 20K
Cold Prey (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eirik and his girlfriend, Jannicke, join newly coupled Mikael and Ingunn, along with single wisecracker Morten, on a snowboarding excursion to a remote mountainous region in Norway. When Morten breaks his leg, however, and requires medical ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: mountain, hotel, psychopath, group of friends, characters killed one by one, snow, trap, snowboarding, winter, isolation, danger, sole survivor ...
Time: year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: europe
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 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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Utoya - July 22 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from terrorist Anders Breivik while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: summer camp, terrorist attack, terrorism, massacre, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teenage protagonist, school shooting, group of friends, serial killer, nordic, terrorist ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: oslo norway
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 5.9
 9K
Ragnarok (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen discovers that the Oseberg ship hides a secret from the Viking Age. Along with his two children put Sigurd out on a quest to find the truth. The mystery leads them into "No Man's Land" between Norway and ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: norse mythology, ancient mystery, legends and myths, archaeology, adventurer, danger, coming of age, monster, escapades, riddles and clues, obsessive quest, viking ...
Time: 21st century
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
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 6.9
 79K
Trollhunter (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 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.
Style: dark fantasy, mockumentary, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: troll, giant monster, hunting, monster, forest, wilderness, cryptozoology, giant, supernatural, found footage, folk horror, fantasy world ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: europe
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 7.3
 29K
The 12th Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his 11 comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself fleeing from the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.
Style: uplifting, suspense, serious, costume drama, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, survival, coping, wilderness, winter, world war, ss, nature, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, scotland
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 5.8
 49K
Troll (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway. But how do you stop something you thought only existed ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, fairy tale ...
Plot: mountain, father daughter relationship, creature, good versus evil, heroes, troll, folklore, virus, nordic, mythical creature, child in peril, loss of father ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oslo norway
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 7.5
 16K
Elling (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men ...
Style: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot: mental illness, friendship, mental institution, odd couple, eccentricity, self discovery, social worker, poetry, mental health, misfit, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: bosnia, south pole, cambodia, oslo norway
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 6.9
 27K
The Trip (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, funny, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: attempted rape, assassination plot, dysfunctional family, boat, lake, life insurance, attic, man in underwear, dysfunctional couple, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, threat to kill ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.4
 660K
Frozen (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, romantic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: princess, sisters, disney princess, snow, magic, magical, happy ending, power of love, female protagonist, wizards and magicians, love and romance, snowman ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 1800s, 1840s, 19th century
Place: europe, scandinavia
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 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
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 6.1
 5K
Escape (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless killer thieves. The only one spared is 19 year ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, captive, viking, on the run, woman in danger, revenge, escapades, chases and races, gang, chase, danger ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: europe
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 5.5
 6K
Thale (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, creature, deadly creature, folklore, survival, folk horror, wrong place wrong time, danger, confined, gory, isolation, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
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Spread Your Wings (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy ...
Style: sincere, scenic, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: animal rescue, goose, wildlife, obsessive quest, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, bird, endangered species, migration, ecology ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 149 min.
Story: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six ...
Style: epic, exciting, saga, surprise ending, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, super powers, fight scenes, invasion, power, supernatural power, universe, tragedy, good versus evil, end of the world, alien, superhero team ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, scotland
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 6.8
 37K
22 July (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, dramatic, thrilling ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorist, terrorism, mass murder, tragedy, cruelty, trial, island, car bomb, massacre, criminal, brutality, hospital ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, eastern europe, europe
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 5.8
 122K
Downsizing (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style: semi serious, melancholic, existential, satirical, action thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: aeroplane, experiment, neighbor, ecology, shrinking, scientist, downsizing, amputee, divorce, environment, laboratory, cleaning lady ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place: new mexico, istanbul turkey
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Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story: April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Style: dramatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: winter, world war two, world war, military, war, cold weather, french soldier, battles, small town, hitler, defeat, young girl ...
Time: year 1940
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 7.3
 15K
Reprise (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Style: depressing, melancholic, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, depression, writers, self discovery, cathartic, suicide attempt, love triangle, ambition, rise and fall, follow your dream, health situation, nervous breakdown ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, paris france
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 6.3
 70K
Dead Snow (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where ...
Style: scary, dark comedy, splatter, humorous, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, nazi zombie, gory, snow, nazi, dark humor, supernatural, undead, world war two, living dead, fear, vacation ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000
Place: antarctic, europe
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: disaster, oil rig, catastrophe, north sea, submarine, ocean, oil industry, sea, natural disaster, rescue mission, trapped, trap ...
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 6.0
 6K
The Tunnel (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: tunnel, survival, danger, disaster, firefighter, rescue, life & death, catastrophe, youth, confined, car accident, hopes ...
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Chronicles 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.
Style: thought provoking, art house, funny, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: love, flirting, breakup, cancer, existential crisis, female protagonist, voice over narration, infidelity, male female relationship, drug trip, reindeer, feminist ...
Place: oslo norway
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 7.2
 15K
Insomnia (1997)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins ...
Style: neo noir, detective, tense, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: police investigation, insomnia, murder, police detective, serial killer, murder mystery, manipulation, police officer killed, dishonesty, loss of partner, police procedural, investigation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
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 5.2
 7K
Viking Wolf (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thale (17) has just moved with her parents to a small town after her mother has a new job in the local police. After a student is killed brutally at a party Thale attends, she becomes a key witness.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense
Plot: werewolf, small town, hunting, chase, creature, family relations, murder investigation, who done it, murderer, deadly creature, investigation, danger ...
Place: normandy
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 5.2
 12K
Cadaver (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, splatter ...
Plot: hotel, mother daughter relationship, theater, corpse, fight, girl, terror, apocalypse, husband wife relationship, oppression, starvation, manhunt ...
Time: 2020s
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style: tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, investigation, twists and turns, rape, journalist, sexual abuse, strong female lead, amateur detective, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1966, year 1964 ...
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, surreal, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: factory worker, life is a bitch, blindness, death sentence, immigrant, destiny, murder, tragedy, secret, hanging, tragic hero, dancing ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place: nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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