Erik Hivju
Also Known As: Eirik Hivju
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Little Ida
Overview: Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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Frida - Straight from the Heart
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1991-08-22
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Grand Hotel
Overview: A pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy are forced to spend a week together at a high-end hotel. The only thing these two have in common is that they are both difficult to like. The hotel serves as their shared escape from the outside world and the problems it presents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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1996: Pust på meg!
Overview: On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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Isle of Darkness
Overview: Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the closed-net community of the island. Slowly but surely, she discovers that the idyllic island hides many dark secrets.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-12-26
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Little Grey Fergie and His New Friend Clunky
Overview: Little Grey Fergie has settled in on his life on the farm, but sometimes he feels lonely as the only machine. One day a random event brings the metal scarecrow to life and gives Fergie a new friend.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Frozen Memories
Overview: A retired farmer, battling dementia and the loss of his wife, receives help from his son to realize that life on the farm is no longer what it used to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Hans Nielsen Hauge
Overview: At the age of 25, Hauge had an experience of God that changed both him and the whole of Norway. Through preaching, writing and publishing their own books, business start-ups, by hiring both the mentally and physically ill, and exalting the women as both preachers and business leaders. Hauge stood in the breeze for a Norway that did not fall into good soil with the State, which in turn brought life to the Convict Poster to prevent Hauge from spreading the message of equality for all. The price was high, but Hauge and his successors left indelible traces in modern Norway.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2023-03-29
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Number 24
Overview: On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2024-10-30
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Landslagspausen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Karachi
Overview: Sara Philips is pressured into smuggling 2 kg heroin into Norway. She meets up with the narcotics agent Ted Hansen and lets him use her in a scheme to catch the powerful people in the drug cartel. While hiding in Ted's safe house, Ted himself tries to catch the badguys. Fatigued and frustrated with an inefficient police department, untouchable criminals and Sara's sexual provocations, he's on the verge on giving up. However, suddenly Ted gets a clue. A clue leading him to Karachi.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1989-02-23
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Closed Ward
Overview: This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1972-03-08
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Operation Cobra
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Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen
Overview: Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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The King's Choice
Overview: On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Kings Bay
Overview: 21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party government ruling since WW2. Was this really an accident, and was it under Norwegian control?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Du kan da ikke bare gå
Overview: Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1985-10-21
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Flax
Overview: Two hit-men are waiting for their next victim. A fight is evolving - about friendship and a lottery-ticket.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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Blood of the Railroad Workers
Overview: A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong, independent man. The girls like him, but he has set his sights on the daughter of a wealthy landowner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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Oss
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Blessed Are Those Who Thirst
Overview: Adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools about Oslo on her Harley-Davidson. After a number of women vanish, police find blood but no bodies, and Wilhelmsen begins a search for the suspected serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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Night of the Wolf
Overview: During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechen terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage drama is transmitted live worldwide. Meanwhile, behind the scene, the police negotiator and a special police unit are working to try to rescue the hostages.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Journey to the Christmas Star
Overview: 13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a broken heart, leaving the shattered King all on his own. From that day on, the King cursed the Christmas Star, thereby causing darkness and grief to descend upon the land. However, an old sage has revealed that Goldhair is still alive, and will return only if the King finds the way back to the Christmas Star. Ever since, the King has been searching for the Christmas Star every Christmas, but all in vain.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Hamsun
Overview: Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Dagny
Overview: Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-01-26
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Farewell Illusions
Overview: A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1985-03-12
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Them and Us
Overview: Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and have to spend the night in jail. The next morning they are sent home - Geir to his alcoholic mother, Lasse to his disillusioned and abusive father.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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The Spy
Overview: Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
Overview: When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, the kingdom - and perhaps the entire world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Mysteriet Holst
Overview: June 27th, 1945. The norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst travels to Stockholm. According to witnesses, he's going to "sort something out", and someone will be pale by the results. A day later he is found dead on a stairwell, shot in the head with his own gun. Despite mysterious circumstances, the police quickly concludes with suicide, and the case is dismissed. Case files are classified, and friends and family who ask questions are threatened.In this film, the investigation is resumed 68 years later. Through secret documents and old witness reports, Holst's last 24 hours alive are reconstructed, to find out what really happened.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Arme, syndige menneske
Overview: The alcoholic Oslo journalist Erik Mogensen goes to Copenhagen to make a story about youth and drugs. Inevitably this goes wrong for Erik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Krypskyttere
Overview: A conflict between the Norwegian military and the civilian population during the cold war. A disagreement arises about the right to a military shooting field.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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Peer Gynt
Overview: The classic tale by Henrik Ibsen; a complete opposite of a hero, is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more or less the same result trying to impress this is from NRKs "Fjernsynsteateret"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-12-28
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