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The Telegraphist
Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
Lullaby
The homeless boy Falken is living from day to day in Oslo, earning money as a boy prostitute. One night he sends a text message to the four most important women in his life.
Bloody Angels
A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.
Rød snø
November, 1942, during the war. Anne Eriksen, a young Norwegian woman living in Gothenburg, is on her way to visit good friends in Dalsland – a visit that will have unexpected consequences. The destination of her journey is Linds Pensionat in Nössemark. She is welcomed by Ruth Lind, her son Evert, and the guests at the guesthouse. Peace and idyll reign in the remote guesthouse. But its proximity to occupied Norway makes the tranquility fragile...
The Art of Negative Thinking
The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.
Gåten Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun through his years as a wandering peddler and starving poet, and are with him in his life's highs and lows.
Max Manus: Man of War
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Marerittet
«Marerittet» is a Norwegian-Swedish drama-thriller series. Nils (Tomas von Brömssen) and Eva Lind (Kjersti Holmen) are a married couple whose mountain trek in Northern Norway goes awry. After Nils injures his foot, they descend into a remote fishing village in Lofoten. Though the setting appears idyllic, its inhabitants are cold and hostile. As tensions escalate, unsettling events reveal that sinister forces may be at play beneath the surface. It was filmed in Vestvågøya in the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Summer of 1989.
Love Me Tomorrow
Three years have passed since Elling moved to town together with Kjell Bjarne, his roommate from the institution at Brøynes. Elling now lives on his own in the apartment. Kjell Bjarne has moved up one floor, to Reidun and her little daughter Mojo. Elling feels like an outsider, and he isolates himself more and more. He observes humankind with astonishment, and wonders at how everyone else seems to be adjusting so well. Finally, Kjell Bjarne takes care of the situation. Elling protests, but he is still pretty happy as he is transformed into a new man, clean, fully rested and well dressed. Deep inside, he also knows what's lacking, and one evening he finally finds the woman he knows is able to fill the void in his life. He's willing to do anything to win her trust and conquer her love. But when he is invited home to his new girlfriend for dinner, a few objections appear to Elling, and the story doesn't end quite the way he had thought it would.
People in the Sun
Two couples decide to spend their Midsummer holiday together and make it an evening to remember — a traditional summer comedy, except for the fact that it's the end of the world.
A Somewhat Gentle Man
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
An immortal man
The series follows the first years of Henrik Ibsen, the father of the modern drama. From he is 14 years old, until he moves to Christiania as a 22 year old.
Sophie's World
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?