Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "norwegian"

1. The Snowman (2017)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.

Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson

Votes: 72,062 | Gross: $6.70M

2. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 469,090 | Gross: $13.78M

3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

PG-13 | 142 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Albus Dumbledore knows that Gellert Grindelwald is moving to take control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he asks Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team on a dangerous mission.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler

Votes: 171,856 | Gross: $95.85M

4. Downsizing (2017)

R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.

Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig

Votes: 125,460 | Gross: $24.45M

5. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

An average aquarium cleaner house-sits for a gigolo, only to be forced to become one himself.

Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis

Votes: 80,217 | Gross: $65.54M

6. Annika (2021– )

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Witty, enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed heads up the Marine Homicide Unit, tasked with solving murders in and around the Scottish waters.

Stars: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Silvie Furneaux

Votes: 9,453

7. The Thing (I) (2011)

R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen

Votes: 146,025 | Gross: $16.93M

8. The Witches (1990)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson

Votes: 54,846 | Gross: $10.36M

9. Troll (2022)

TV-14 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Deep in the Dovre mountain, something gigantic wakes up after a thousand years in captivity. The creature destroys everything in its path and quickly approaches Oslo.

Director: Roar Uthaug | Stars: Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Gard B. Eidsvold

Votes: 49,482

10. The Innocents (2021)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.

Director: Eskil Vogt | Stars: Rakel Lenora Petersen Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim

Votes: 25,128

11. Metalocalypse (2006–2013)

TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Comedy, Music

The epic and over-the-top adventures of Dethklok, the world's most successful death metal band.

Stars: Brendon Small, Tommy Blacha, Mark Hamill, Victor Brandt

Votes: 18,239

12. Troll Hunter (2010)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum, Glenn Erland Tosterud

Votes: 79,737 | Gross: $0.25M

13. The 12th Man (2017)

Unrated | 135 min | Drama, History, Thriller

They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

Votes: 29,352

14. Kon-Tiki (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1947, with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.

Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson

Votes: 52,116 | Gross: $1.52M

15. Dead Snow (2009)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Geir Vegar Hoel

Votes: 70,159 | Gross: $0.04M

16. Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.

Director: Bradley Parker | Stars: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips

Votes: 68,709 | Gross: $18.12M

17. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,270 | Gross: $0.27M

18. Raising Cain (1992)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware of what - or who - is really going on inside his head.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen

Votes: 17,506 | Gross: $21.37M

19. I Remember Mama (1948)

Approved | 134 min | Drama, Family

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn

Votes: 6,074

20. Mortal (2020)

R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Fantasy adventure origin story about a young man discovering he has god-like powers based on ancient Norse mythology.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Nat Wolff, Priyanka Bose, Iben Akerlie, Arthur Hakalahti

Votes: 10,610

21. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)

Approved | 131 min | Action, Drama, History

Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave

Votes: 8,117

22. Hell Below Zero (1954)

Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The captain of an Antarctic whaling ship falls overboard in mysterious circumstances and his daughter, aided by a sympathetic American, decides to investigate the accident.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker

Votes: 556

23. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly

Votes: 23,657 | Gross: $20.34M

24. Betrayed (2020)

126 min | Drama, History, War

The Braude family's experiences when Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany and Jews were arrested and deported.

Director: Eirik Svensson | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Pia Halvorsen, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Carl Martin Eggesbø

Votes: 2,440

25. Wild Men (2021)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, Martin has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.

Director: Thomas Daneskov | Stars: Rasmus Bjerg, Zaki Youssef, Bjørn Sundquist, Sofie Gråbøl

Votes: 2,634

26. Home for Christmas (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When the constant comments on her single status and society's expectations of the perfect family Christmas finally get to 30-year-old Johanne, she starts a 24-day hunt for a partner to bring home for Christmas.

Stars: Dennis Storhøi, Ida Elise Broch, Oddgeir Thune, Hege Schøyen

Votes: 16,889

27. The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb (2015)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, War

The story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.

Stars: Marc Ben Puch, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Andreas Döhler, Anna Friel

Votes: 7,810

28. Virus (1980)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba

Votes: 3,062

29. Sweet Land (2005)

PG | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski

Votes: 4,159 | Gross: $1.71M

30. Elling (2001)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, sensitive would-be poet Elling is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and ... See full summary »

Director: Petter Næss | Stars: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen, Jørgen Langhelle

Votes: 15,901 | Gross: $0.31M

31. The Farm (VII)

Thriller

America's most prolific female serial killer's calculated lifestyle derails, resulting in a series of horrific discoveries that remain a mystery to this day. Based on a true story.

Director: Tom Logan | Stars: Traci Lords, James Reynolds, Frankie Wolf, Avo Shirazee

32. Bloodride (2020)

TV-MA | 172 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In this deliciously macabre horror anthology series, doomed passengers tell their stories aboard a spectral bus headed toward an unknown destination.

Stars: Ine Marie Wilmann, Dagny Backer Johnsen, Nader Khademi, Ellen Bendu

Votes: 4,424

33. Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen? (1981)

99 min | Comedy

To get an order for 1,000 yachts from a middle-east sheik, two boat companies have to race 'Göta kanal', a canal through Sweden, east to west. There are no rules in this game and the winner gets the order.

Director: Hans Iveberg | Stars: Janne Carlsson, Kim Anderzon, Stig Ossian Ericson, Yvonne Lombard

Votes: 4,415

34. Goodbye First Love (2011)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan's 8-year absence from exploring the world.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton

Votes: 5,743 | Gross: $0.06M

35. My Christmas Family Tree (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

When Vanessa receives the results from her Family Tree DNA test, she discovers a family she didn't know existed and travels to their home for Christmas.

Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Andrew W. Walker, James Tupper, Kendall Cross

Votes: 2,513

36. Acolytes (2008)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Three teenagers blackmail a serial killer.

Director: Jon Hewitt | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory, Hanna Mangan Lawrence

Votes: 2,494

37. Personal Velocity (2002)

R | 86 min | Drama, Romance

Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, John Ventimiglia

Votes: 3,948 | Gross: $0.77M

38. Vikes (2017)

86 min | Comedy, Romance

High-schooler Thorvald, influenced by Ida, a girl he likes, campaigns to change his school's mascot, the Viking, to something less offensive to the Scandinavian community. It's a love story.

Director: Tenney Fairchild | Stars: Aidan Alexander, Sydney Sweeney, Carter Hastings, Noah Munck

Votes: 186

39. North of the Sun (2012)

46 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport

Two young men decide to spend an archive circle Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of Norway. Their home is built from salvaged material washed up onshore. They surf every day with much time for self reflection.

Directors: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge | Stars: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge

Votes: 1,042

40. Munch (2023)

104 min | Biography, Drama

Rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.

Director: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken | Stars: Alfred Ekker Strande, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Per Frisch, Gjertrud L. Jynge

Votes: 972

41. Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995 TV Movie)

91 min | Biography, Drama

The true story of a decorated officer's legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena

Votes: 1,200

42. Villmark (2003)

Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

5 Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of team building. But strange things start happening--especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is someone else around?

Director: Pål Øie | Stars: Bjørn Floberg, Kristoffer Joner, Eva Röse, Sampda Sharma

Votes: 5,817

43. a-ha: Take on Me (1985 Music Video)

4 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Official music video for "Take on Me" by A-Ha.

Director: Steve Barron | Stars: a-ha, Bunty Bailey, Alfie Curtis, Magne Furuholmen

Votes: 2,258

44. Dangerous When Wet (1953)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack

Directors: Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 1,152

45. Mama (1949–1957)

30 min | Comedy, Family, Drama

This well-received series was a comedy-drama about an immigrant family living in 1910s San Francisco.

Stars: Peggy Wood, Judson Laire, Dick Van Patten, Rosemary Rice

Votes: 189

46. Import-eksport (2005)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Jan loves Jasmin, but she has been promised to a Pakistani man who will shortly arrive in Norway to marry her. Under cover of writing a thesis on immigrant stores, Jan gets a job at the ... See full summary »

Director: Khalid Hussain | Stars: Asia Begum, Knut Erik Grorud, Niklas Gundersen, Iram Haq

Votes: 384

47. Magnus (2016)

78 min | Documentary

Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.

Director: Benjamin Ree | Stars: Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand

Votes: 2,660 | Gross: $0.01M

48. Paper Clips (2004)

G | 82 min | Documentary, War

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab | Stars: Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Tom Bosley, Casey Condra

Votes: 1,787 | Gross: $1.10M

49. Skin Deep (1979)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

A group of young people want to have some fun in Aeolian islands. After they rescue two naked strangers, they decide to bare them all just like the two strangers do. The story is about the lifestyle of nudism, friendship and love.

Director: Marcello Aliprandi | Stars: Olga Karlatos, Juan Carlos Naya, Maurizio Interlandi, Taida Urruzola

Votes: 289

50. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.

Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger

Votes: 1,500 | Gross: $0.25M