Take the Tour: "Scandinavian films"
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Denmark - 2020
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- Four highschool teachers decide to embark on an experiment where they each sustain a certain level of alcohol intoxication during their everyday life, believing that all ...
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Sweden - 1957
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- Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the ...
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Sweden - 2008
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- Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
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Denmark - 2003
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- A beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the ...
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Norway - 2001
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- This Norwegian comedy concerns two men being released from a state home. Until the death of his mother, Elling rarely left the apartment where they lived; Kjell has lived ...
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Sweden - 2012
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- Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, American Sixto Rodriguez. SEARCHING FOR SUGAR ...
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Denmark - 2015
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- The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.
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Sweden - 1957
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- It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to ...
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Denmark - 2010
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- In a nation at war in Africa, Anton, a Danish doctor, is working on a humanitarian mission in a refugee camp. His wife is left alone for long periods in Denmark with ...
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Finland - 1996
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- Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare ...
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Denmark - 2000
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- The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma ...
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Sweden - 2013
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- Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people ...
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Sweden - 1982
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- The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents ...
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Finland - 2011
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- Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport ...
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Sweden - 2013
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- An adaptation of the graphic novel written by Lukas Moodysson's wife, Coco. "We Are the Best!" revolves around three girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk ...
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Finland - 2002
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- The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy. 'The Man Without a Past' delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in 'Drifting ...
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Denmark - 1999
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- Kresten has moved from his parents farm on a small Danish island to Copenhagen in order to pursue his working career. When his father dies he has to move back to the ...
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Sweden - 1921
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- It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole ...
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Denmark - 1998
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- The Idiots is about a group of young people who share one interest: idiocy. With a large house as their base, they spend all their spare time together exploring the ...
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Denmark - 1998
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- At a countryside manor an annual feast is being prepared. It is to be an all out effort to celebrate the head of the family. Helge Klingenfelt, owner of the manor and ...
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Denmark - 1955
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- In a conservative, super-pious Danish town, the widower Morten Borgen -- the father of three boys -- cuts against the grain of the community with his constant heretical ...
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Sweden - 2018
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- Biopic about the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
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Norway - 1950
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- Documentary
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- A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahls.
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Sweden - 1972
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- Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the ...
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Norway - 1912
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- Documentary
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- Footage from the 1910-1912 South Pole expedition led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928). Through this expedition, Amundsen won the honour of conquering ...
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Iceland - 1984
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- Ireland: Vikings pillage the land, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of ...
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Sweden - 1967
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- Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She ...
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Sweden - 2017
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- Christian, manager of a contemporary art museum, is responsible for an exhibition called 'The Square', which promotes human and altruistic values.
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Iceland - 2015
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- Ari, 16, has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. Here he has to navigate a ...
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Sweden - 2014
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- A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside ...
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Sweden - 2018
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- After a customs officer develops a strange attraction to the suspect she's investigating, the case's revelations soon call into question her entire existence.
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Iceland - 2015
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- In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the ...
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Faroe Islands - 2015
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- Two young women are preparing for a party. All is set, and the only thing remaining is a choice of hairstyle. Faced with each other in the mirror, tension is running high ...
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Sweden - 1922
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- A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate ...
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Norway - 2015
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- Even though awaited, no-one is really ready when the mountain pass of Åkneset above the scenic narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger falls out and creates a 85 meter high ...
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Norway - 2012
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- The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, to prove that South Americans in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ...
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Norway - 2015
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- An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house - forcing him to ...
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Finland - 2017
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- A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived from Finland.
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Norway - 2016
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- In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two ...
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Iceland - 2016
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- 'Heartstone' is set in the beautiful but yet harsh nature of Iceland and portrays the journey of friendship and love between two young friends. As one tries to win the ...
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Iceland - 2015
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- How much does Fúsi weigh? Twenty-four stone? More? No one can say, not even Fúsi (Gunnar Jónsson) himself. Because ultimately the 43-year-old is sleepwalking through ...
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Denmark - 1914
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- Not long before marine officer van Hauen goes off to war and heavy-heartedly leaves his family, he coincidentally discovers that his wife has a secret liaison with the ...
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Finland - 1989
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- The odd comedies of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki may be an acquired taste, but it is one which more and more people are getting. The story concerns the exploits of an ...
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Iceland - 2017
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- A man is accused of adultery by his fiancée and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into ...
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Sweden - 1966
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- A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.
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