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Films from the country "norvege", sorted by rating
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The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975)
, 1h28Directed by Ivo Caprino
Origin Norvege
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Harald Heide-Steen jr., Wenche Foss, Henki Kolstad, Leif Juster
In the village of Flåklypa, Lom, Gudbrandsdalen (En. Pinchcliffe), the inventor Reodor Felgen (En. Theodore Rimspoke) lives with his animal friends Ludvig (En. Lambert) (a nervous, pessimistic and melancholic hedgehog) and Solan (En. Sonny Duckworth) (a cheerful and optimistic magpie). Reodor works as a bicycle repairman, though he spends most of his time inventing weird Rube Goldberg-like contraptions. One day, the trio discover that one of Reodor's former assistants, Rudolf Blodstrupmoen (En. Rudolph Gore-Slimey), has stolen his design for a race car engine and has become a world champion Formula One driver. Solan secures funding from Arab oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan (En. Abdul Ben Bonanza), who happens to be vacationing in Flåklypa, and to enter the race, the trio builds a gigantic racing car: Il Tempo Gigante—a fabulous construction with two extremely big engines (weighing 2.8 tons alone and making the seismometer in Bergen show 7.8 Richter when started the first time), a body made out of copper, a spinning radar (that turns out to be useful when Blodstrupmoen starts engaging in smoke warfare during the race) and its own blood bank. Reodor ends up winning despite Blodstrupmoen's attempts at sabotage.
Kon-Tiki (1950)
, 1h17Origin Norvege
Genres Documentary, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology
Actors Sol Lesser
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Joachim Trier
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about suicide
Actors Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crépin, Tone Mostraum
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On 30 August, he is given a day's leave to attend a job interview in the city center. After visiting his friend Thomas, he proceeds to his appointment. In the interview, he admits to being a drug addict and storms out. He then wanders the streets of Oslo for the rest of the day and night, meeting, and sometimes confronting, people from his past. The film ends the next day, 31 August. Anders, who has bought some drugs on his day away from the rehab clinic, retreats to a room and injects.
Troubled Water (2008)
, 1h55Directed by Erik Poppe
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Pål Sverre Hagen, Anneke von der Lippe, Pål Sverre Hagen, Trine Dyrholm, Trond Espen Seim, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
As a teenager, Jan Thomas Hansen (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) and a friend run off with young boy Isak in a stroller left outside a cafe by the mother. The boy runs away, slips, and falls on a rock, suffering an apparently fatal head injury. Pressured by his friend, Jan Thomas, afraid of the consequences, carries the boy into a nearby river with a strong current, where he sets him adrift. Jan Thomas testifies that the boy was killed by the fall, but he is convicted of murder. While in jail, he plays the organ for church services.
The Optimists (2013)
Origin Norvege
Genres Documentary
Les Optimistes sont âgées de 66 à 98 ans et se préparent à jouer un match de volley. Alors qu'elles n'en ont pas joué un depuis près de trente ans, elles s'apprêtent à affronter leurs homologues masculins suédois. Préparatifs, entraînements, vie quotidienne sont racontés, montrant le dynamisme de séniors hors du commun.
Headhunters (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Morten Tyldum
Origin Norvege
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie, Baard Owe
Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), Norway's most successful headhunter, supports his lavish lifestyle by stealing paintings from his clients. His partner Ove (Eivind Sander) works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims' homes. Roger's wife, Diana (Synnøve Macody Lund), an art gallery owner, introduces him to Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), an executive who wants to work for Pathfinder, a GPS technologies company, for which Roger is recruiting. Roger becomes jealous of Diana's attraction to Clas. Diana tells Roger that Clas owns a rare Rubens painting. Roger takes Clas to lunch to discuss the job at Pathfinder and after playing squash later, he notices scars on Clas's back. Clas mentions he received them during his [military] service, where he was a member of a special forces unit that specialized in tracking people, a fact which gives Roger pause for thought. Despite his misgivings, Roger meets with Ove to work out details on stealing the painting. Roger manages to steal it from Clas' home but he discovers Diana's cellphone beside Clas' bed. Later, after a seemingly successful meeting with Pathfinder, a still distraught Roger flippantly informs Clas that the company may be looking for someone else to fill the position.
King of Devil's Island (2010)
, 1h55Directed by Marius Holst
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Films about children, Prison films, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Trond Nilssen, Kristoffer Joner, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
At the Bastøy prison for youths, the newest arrival, Erling "C19," soon becomes friends with Olav ("C1"). Under the rule of Håkon, Erling comes to terms with the harsh winter, the mistreatment by the staff, and the hated Housefather Bråthen. Later, Olav sees Bråthen molesting "C5", Ivar, a timid, shy boy in the laundry room. When he raises this with the Governor, the boys are severely punished and C5 is reassigned to duties far away from Bråthen. However, after hearing that Bråthen expects him to be back in the laundry room tomorrow Ivar drowns himself in the freezing Norwegian waters, while the rest of the boys are chopping wood. Bråthen is apparently fired, to the overwhelming delight of the other boys. Olav is paroled and is planning to leave, but on the way to the departing boat, walks past Bråthen, who had been sent away on a shopping trip until Olav, the only witness to Ivar's rape, had left Bastøy. Olav and Erling attack Bråthen and as punishment they are locked in the freezing solitary confinement. They are freed by Bjern, one of the few Bastøy boys who has remained on the island as a caretaker. Olav again pursues Bråthen, and the attack inspires a mass uprising. The boys ransack the prison, and drive away the staff. Bråthen is repeatedly hung and released and then beaten. The barn he is in is set ablaze, but Erling drags him to safety. The navy is brought in and violently puts down the uprising. Olav and Erling manage to escape across a frozen fjord back to the mainland, but Erling falls through a gap in the ice close to shore and quickly freezes to death.
Elling (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Petter Næss
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Jørgen Langhelle
The movie deals with the main character, Elling, a man with generalized anxiety in his 40s, and his struggle to function normally in society. He suffers from anxiety, dizziness, and neurotic tendencies, preventing him from living on his own. Elling has lived with his mother for his entire life, and when his mother dies, the authorities take him from the apartment where he has always lived and send him to an institution. His roommate is the simpleminded, sex-obsessed Kjell Bjarne. The Norwegian government pays for the two to move into an apartment in Oslo, where every day is a challenge as they must prove they can get out into the real world and lead relatively normal lives. With the help of social worker Frank and a few new friends, they learn to break free from their respective conditions.
The Danish Poet (2006)
, 15minutesDirected by Torill Kove
Origin Norvege
Genres Animation, Romance
Actors Liv Ullmann
The film follows Kaspar Jørgensen, a Danish poet in the 1940s who is seeking inspiration. At the suggestion of his psychiatrist, Dr. Mørk, he travels to Norway to meet the famous author Sigrid Undset. However, after arriving in Norway, he meets Ingeborg, a farmer's daughter, and they fall in love. He proposes to her, but discovers that she is already engaged, at her father's wish. She promises not to cut her hair until they are reunited, and Kaspar returns to Denmark.
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
, 3h33Directed by John M. Jacobsen, Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, Espen Sandberg
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Agnes Kittelsen, Ken Duken, Petter Næss, Christian Rubeck
After fighting the Soviets as a volunteer during the Winter War in Finland, Max Manus returns to Norway, finding it occupied by the Nazis. He joins with the Norwegian resistance movement in their fight against the Germans but is arrested. He manages to escape to Scotland where he receives British Commando training before being sent back to Norway to carry out sabotage missions against the occupying forces. Returning to Norway with his friend Gregers Gram, his first mission is an attack on German supply ships. He is spectacularly successful, and soon he becomes a special target for the local Gestapo chief Siegfried Fehmer. Manus, however, avoids capture, and with Gram and Gunnar Sønsteby he forms the so-called "Oslo Gang".
The 12th Man (2017)
Directed by Harald Zwart
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, War
Actors Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Douze combattants de la résistance formés à Londres embarquent à bord d'un bateau de pêche transportant six à sept tonnes de TNT et traversent la mer du Nord pour saboter les installations militaires allemandes. Mais les Allemands, informés de leur arrivée, détruisent le bateau et les capturent sauf Jan Baalsrud. Ce 12ème homme a réussi à s'échapper en se cachant et en nageant sur l'île la plus proche. Il reçoit l'aide des habitants qui risquent leur vie pour l'aider. Il réussit à se rendre de Rebbenesøya à la Suède, en passant par Lyngenhalvøya et Manndalen.
Reprise (2006)
, 1h45Directed by Joachim Trier
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Viktoria Winge, Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman Høiner, Rebekka Karijord, Christian Rubeck, Henrik Mestad
Two 23-year-olds, Erik and Phillip, dream of becoming successful writers. They idolize the reclusive writer Sten Egil Dahl (a character modelled on Tor Ulven). When they both try to get a manuscript published, Erik's is rejected. Phillip's, on the other hand, is accepted and he becomes a star of the Norwegian literary scene overnight. Phillip meets Kari, with whom he falls in love after inviting her on a trip to Paris. Six months later, Erik and his friends pick up Phillip at a psychiatric hospital to bring him home after a long treatment for his psychosis that was triggered by his obsessive love for Kari. Erik still hasn't given up his dream, but Phillip isn't able to write anymore, although his friend encourages him to make a new effort. Instead Phillip tries to get his ruined relationship with Kari to start from the beginning again by going to Paris again and imitating their first trip, but Philip realises he doesn't love Kari anymore and they go their separate ways.
Kitchen Stories (2004)
, 1h35Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel, Trond Brænne
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
The Chasers (1959)
, 1h34Directed by Erik Formo Løchen
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Rolf Søder, Tor Stokke
Deux amis rencontrent une jeune fille. L'un devient son mari, l'autre son ami. Cependant un jour les trois partent à la chasse dans les montagnes de Norvège. L'un d'entre eux va mourir. Les commentaires intérieurs des personnages intercalés avec les dialogues créent une atmosphère prenante malgré le petit nombre d'actions. Plus qu'une banale affaire de trio amoureux, il s'agit d'un film à suspense dont la fin ne doit pas être révélée.