Henrik Mestad
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Henrik Mestad is a Norwegian actor who is known from stage, film and TV. Mestad has been employed by the National Theater since 1991. He is known from television series such as Occupied and Norsemen, as well as films such as Svarte pantere and Børning.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
Birthday: June 22, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Varg Veum - Yours Until Death
Overview: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-03-12
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Overview: After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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Gone with the Woman
Overview: A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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The Art of Negative Thinking
Overview: The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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United
Overview: Kåre is a youth coach with aspirations to become the greatest football player ever like his idol, Bryan Robson. However, his dreams are starting to take a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Anna.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-08-22
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Sons
Overview: Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in Lars, and he embarks on a crusade to stop the abuser. But it soon spins out of control, and Lars' actions end up endangering those he set out to protect.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Most People Live in China
Overview: A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Jackpot
Overview: Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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The Orheim Company
Overview: A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Sick of Myself
Overview: Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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The 7 Deadly Sins
Overview: Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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Svarte pantere
Overview: After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least trouble from: other (more moderate) animal liberation groups. At the instigation of these more moderate groups, the only rich boy in the group is arrested, and he becomes subject to a smear campaign which has him bedding all the women in the group - a particularly damaging libel, because one of the girls is underage. This is the first film to be directed by Thomas Robsahm, the Norwegian son of the great Italian actor, Ugo Tognazzi (now deceased)
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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Glass Dolls
Overview: A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Burnout
Overview: For all who remember Cannonball Run. Here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North Cape. The only rule is getting there first!
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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The Greatest Thing
Overview: Film based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten"
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Reprise
Overview: Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Orps: The Movie
Overview: A fiendish conductor takes over a school band. She eliminates five musicians who then form their own ensemble. With the help of their former conductor, the new band enters The Norwegian Championship against their old band.
Genres: Music Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2009-03-06
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Fråtseri
Overview: Six people meet in a room in order to discuss pornography, rape and Mother's Day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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The Lion Woman
Overview: Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he hides her away from the world in their apartment. However, Eva’s nanny fights for her right to be treated like everyone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Jeppe on the Hill
Overview: A television broadcast of the National Theatre's performance Jeppe på Bjerget with Bjarte Hjelmeland's critically acclaimed and award-winning interpretation of Jeppe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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Burning 2
Overview: After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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Ballen i øyet
Overview: While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-10-02
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Going West
Overview: An unemployed music teacher takes his estranged transsexual father on a road trip to the west coast of Norway, in order to honor his late mother's excellent quilting skills.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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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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Asphalt Burning
Overview: The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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The Radio Pirates
Overview: Karl Jonathan and his father leave the city for the father's childhood home but soon realize that the entire village of "Skjelleruten" has been transformed into a safe society, where children are protected from behaving like children. Karl Jonathan and his new friend, Sisseline, start an uprising against the model village with the aid of a closed-down pirate radio, but the model citizens refuse to give in without a fight!
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Wildwitch
Overview: 12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a very special Wild Witch and that her blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bravita Bloodyoung.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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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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Narvik
Overview: April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Genres: War Drama History Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2022-12-25
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Angry Man
Overview: A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2009-04-21
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Clue: The Maltese Mystery
Overview: The same day that Cecilia and Une meet Leo for the first time, a corpse appears on the beach in Skutebukta. Who is he and what does he have to do with Cecilia’s mother’s death the year before?
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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2002 (Year of the Horse)
Overview: Teenagers Noah and Ingrid declare their love for each other in her upstairs bedroom. Downstairs her parents are splitting up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2021-06-10
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Cows
Overview: The hyped French philosopher Malentende visits Sweden to present a groundbreaking hypothesis. Professors are ecstatic as they gather during the break to dissect the meaning of his words. Intellectual reasoning takes unexpected leaps in this wildly humorous film about the perils of blindly following authority.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-01-26
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