Best Norwegian Movies
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Best Norwegian Movies
TOP Movies: Utoya - July 22 (2018), Cold Prey (2006), Ragnarok (2013), Troll (2022), Frozen (2013), Headhunters (2011), Trollhunter (2010), The 12th Man (2017), Elling (2001), The Wave (2015), Thale (2012), Escape (2012), Spread Your Wings (2019), The Trip (2021), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), 22 July (2018), Downsizing (2017), Reprise (2006), Dead Snow (2009), Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022).
List of Best Movies
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, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
summer camp, terrorist attack, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, massacre, sister sister relationship, terrorism, terrorist bombing, group of friends, school shooting, nordic, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway
Is relevant?
21K
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, brutal, scary, creepy, perverse ...
Plot:
hotel, psychopath, group of friends, mountain, characters killed one by one, manic, snowboarding, sole survivor, female fighter, abandoned hotel, characters murdered one by one, photograph ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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:
captivating, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
norse mythology, legends and myths, ancient mystery, adventurer, archaeology, danger, coming of age, monster, riddles and clues, obsessive quest, escapades, imaginary ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
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, rough, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
investigation, rape, serial killer, hacker, sexual abuse, missing person, twists and turns, murder mystery, vengeance, murder investigation, journalist, strong female character ...
Time:
year 2011, 60s, 2010s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, london, eastern europe
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58K
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:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, fairy tale ...
Plot:
mountain, giant monster, creature, folklore, troll, mythical creature, mythological creature, paleontologist, mythology, kaiju, creature feature, good versus evil ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s
Place:
oslo norway
Is relevant?
707K
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, power of love, happy ending, female protagonist, love and romance, wizards and magicians, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 1800s, 1840s, 19th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, seattle
Is relevant?
111K
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:
clever, captivating, dark comedy, breathtaking, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, pre-teens
Plot:
twists and turns, art theft, art thief, surveillance, chase, mercenary, male nudity, infidelity, reputation, male star appears nude, thief, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2011, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, europe, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, 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, spooky, mockumentary, suspense, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
troll, giant monster, folk horror, legends and myths, monster, cryptozoology, giant, fantasy world, wilderness, supernatural, found footage, forest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe
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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:
costume drama, suspense, serious, dark, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, gestapo, nazi, resistance fighter, lone hero, ss, coping, survival, wilderness, winter, world war, nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1940, year 1988 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, scotland
Is relevant?
17K
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, neurotic ...
Plot:
mental illness, friendship, male virgin, mental health, christmas eve, odd couple, eccentricity, self discovery, social worker, poetry, love and romance, misfit ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
south pole, bosnia, oslo norway, cambodia, california ...
Is relevant?
46K
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, road movie, feel good, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, landslide, geologist, hotel, destiny, stupidity, flood, evacuation ...
Time:
80s, year 2015
Is relevant?
6K
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, suspenseful, rough, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, supernatural, creature, folklore, folk horror, legends and myths, wrong place wrong time, danger, confined, gory, isolation, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, 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, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, bandit, captive, wilderness, viking, escape, orphan, friendship between girls, sword and shield, ruthlessness, revenge, on the run ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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, teens, kids
Plot:
animal rescue, goose, wildlife, obsessive quest, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, bird, endangered species, migration, swamp ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
30K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA, Finland
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, funny, suspense, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lake, attempted rape, boat, life insurance, man in underwear, attic, dysfunctional family, assassination plot, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional couple, threat to kill ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
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:
saga, epic, surprise ending, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, fight scenes, super powers, supernatural power, invasion, superhero team, good versus evil, tragedy, final battle, alien superhero, super villain ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, scotland
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, 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, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, mass murder, tragedy, island, cruelty, trial, brutality, massacre, car bomb, hospital, criminal ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
137K
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:
satirical, semi serious, melancholic, existential, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shrinking, aeroplane, experiment, amputee, neighbor, divorce, environment, laboratory, new house, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place:
new mexico, istanbul turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity - which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe - with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their ...
Style:
fast paced, suspenseful, tense, cliffhanger, anamorphic ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mission impossible, spy, airplane, nuclear war, arctic, underwater, final showdown, infiltration, trick, secret agent, submarine ...
Time:
2020s, near future, year 1996
Place:
south africa, england, austria, tower bridge london, big ben london ...
Is relevant?
17K
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:
depression, friendship, writers, self discovery, nervous breakdown, hopes, nordic, cathartic, suicide attempt, love triangle, rise and fall, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
paris france, scandinavia, hawaii, oslo norway
Is relevant?
73K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 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:
horror comedy, dark comedy, splatter, creepy, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, nazi zombie, dark humor, gory, nazi, world war two, winter, vacation, cannibalism, living dead, fear, brutality ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
antarctic, europe
Is relevant?
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, captivating, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
world war, winter, world war two, military, french soldier, cold weather, bombing, young girl, small town, hitler, defeat, battles ...
Time:
year 1940
Is relevant?
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, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, tunnel, danger, disaster, rescue, life & death, catastrophe, hopes, car accident, confined, youth, christmas ...
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5K
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the morning of April 5, 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger. The robbery itself is the main character of the story, and it is illuminated from several angles in the course of the film, from the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, mindfuck, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police officer killed, robbery, confined, incompetent police, master criminal, thief, money, heist, nordic, hunting, ghetto, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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, funny, art house, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
breakup, male female relationship, cancer, infidelity, female protagonist, millennial, voice over narration, drug trip, yoga, love, existential crisis, pregnancy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oslo norway, europe
Is relevant?
17K
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:
suspense, tense, neo noir, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
police investigation, police detective, murder mystery, insomnia, murder, serial killer, male nudity, manipulation, small town, sleeping, police officer killed, loss of partner ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
werewolf, small town, family relations, chase, creature, hunting, murder investigation, who done it, uncover truth, evidence, investigation, evil ...
Place:
europe, normandy
Is relevant?
13K
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, apocalyptic, scary, spooky ...
Plot:
hotel, mother daughter relationship, fight, theater, corpse, terror, apocalypse, husband wife relationship, oppression, starvation, poverty, desperation ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
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:
futuristic, feel good, entertaining, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teen drama, preschool
Plot:
time travel, ufo, flying saucer, benign alien, space and aliens, nasa, outer space, space travel, robot, alien, alien abduction, childhood ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1978, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
florida, miami, miami beach, tokyo, japan ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, buddies, dark humor, life turned upside down, disorder, friends, betrayal, dishonesty, gory, disintegration, change of luck, lottery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
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