Movies: Helge Jordal

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 wind u...

After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen....

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn ...

Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways......

Little Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms and decices he is the right guy for his mother, an amateur ro...

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....

Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs....

Three old friends meet at a school reunion, and after trading the current details of their lives, the women come to realize how much they are dominated by their respective husbands’ needs and demands. Aching for a taste of freedom, the three decide t...

A man is found dead under mysterious circumstances by a group of children playing in the deep forest, although the grotesque sight evokes as much curiosity as disgust....

Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a comp...

In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable pare...

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in the...

You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go....

To very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case. But could there be a connection?...

Captain Sabertooth's menacing ship, the Dark Lady, is the only one Tiny, the world's youngest priate has ever known. He dreams that one of these days Captain Sabertooth will come to see that Tiny is a real pirate and a brave one too! But Captain Sabe...

A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. They set off in a used sailboat, whose previous owner had a fatal accident in the Bay of Biscay....

Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned. But when the father falls down with it, and dies, only an angel keeps Kalle on his feet....

Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a se...

After a somewhat involuntary "vacation" in one of the capitals more drafty establishment Ali has had enough, and has a plan that can not go wrong, he will become law-abiding....

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