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1) Twin
Language
Norwegian
Description
After the accidental death of his upstanding twin, a ne'er-do-well surfer bum assumes his brother's identity.
2) Pioneer
Language
Norwegian
Description
Set at the beginning of the Norwegian oil boom, authorities aim to bring the 500 meter deep oil ashore. Petter and his brother Knut, have the courage to take on mission, but a tragic accident occurs. Petter realizes that his life is at stake. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
3) Twin: S1
Language
Norwegian
Description
After the accidental death of his upstanding twin, a ne'er-do-well surfer bum assumes his brother's identity.
4) The tunnel
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
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.
5) The 12th Man
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nazis hunt for a lone surviving saboteur in this edge-of-your-seat WWII thriller based on a true-life story. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stars.
6) The Wave
Language
Norwegian
Description
Geologist Kristian Elkjord senses something wrong with the mountain that overlooks his scenic town. When a landslide sends tons of rock and earth crashing into the water, everyone has ten minutes to outrace the resulting tsunami to higher ground.
Language
Norwegian
Description
in 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia, rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage,...
8) Headhunters
Author
Language
Norwegian
Description
Roger is a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. He lives a life of luxury well beyond his means and subsidizes his expensive lifestyle by stealing highly prized art. When his beautiful wife, an art gallery owner, introduces him to a former mercenary in possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all in order to obtain it, and in doing so, he discovers something that makes him a hunted man himself.
Language
Norwegian
Description
"After fifty years of prosperous offshore drilling along the Norwegian coastline, environmental consequences begin to manifest. A massive crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers and rescuers rush in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage, but what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe the world has never seen"--Container.
10) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Language
Norwegian
Description
Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Language
Norwegian
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
12) Thelma
Language
Norwegian
Description
A shy young student leaves her small town and religious family to study at a university in Oslo, but once on campus she experiences what appears to be a violent, unexpected seizure. Overwhelmed by the increasing intensity of the mystifying episodes and her powerful feelings for a beautiful classmate, she struggles to control her supernatural abilities.
14) The spy
Language
Norwegian
Appears on list
Description
Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process...
Language
Norwegian
Description
A group of medical students take a sex-and-booze-fueled ski vacation to a remote cabin in the Norwegian Alps, where they uncover a dark secret from WWII. This discovery results in the resurrection of a battalion of uncontrollable, unstoppable and extremely undead Nazis. What follows is a blitzkrieg of bloodshed, body parts and action-packed zombie carnage.
Language
Norwegian
Description
A woman's sister disappears without a trace. Three months later the woman, Julie, potentially receives the first clue, but it comes at a terrible price. A multiple award winner at film festivals around the world, a tension-filled thriller certain to keep you guessing. This is the first film in the forthcoming "Charming Men" trilogy, each dealing with the disappearance of someone and the effect it has on those left behind.
17) Mammon
Language
Norwegian
Description
Mammon - a new testament term referring to greed - is a tense Norwegian thriller that pits brother against brother in the worlds of politics, media and high finance. Peter Veras is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story...
Language
Norwegian
Description
"In Season 2, when a notorious serial killer and his mysterious accomplice escape the police, Detective William Wisting races to stop the killers before more lives are lost. In Season 3, FBI agent Maggie Griffin returns to assist Wisting with the investigation of the brutal murder of an asylum seeker"--Container.
Author
Language
Norwegian
Description
Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
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