Scandinavian
see all genres ›Each of the distinct Northern European nations bracketed by the term "Scandinavia" have had long-running film industries prolific and innovative well beyond what one might expect from their geographic and population scales. Without them, there would be no Greta Garbo (nor Lars von Trier, for that matter).
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Sebastian
Sebastian is a typical teenager. He hangs out with this friends, goes to the movies, buys hip clothes and attends school. Typical, that is, until a chance stolen kiss changes everything. Sebastian is just figuring out what almost everyone else around him already knows, he is gay. The kiss is...Watch Movie
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Edvard Munch
Famously described by Ingmar Bergman as a "work of genius," Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterpiece is more than just a bio-pic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter. Focusing initially on Munch's formative years in late 19th Century Kristiania (now Oslo), Watkins uses his trademark...Watch Movie
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Concrete Night
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable fourteen-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best...Watch Movie
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
An invaluable introduction to a largely unknown creative talent (outside of Poland), KOMEDA: A SOUNDTRACK FOR LIFE introduces viewers to Krzysztof Komeda, a Polish jazz musician best-known for his score for Roman Polanski’s ROSEMARY'S BABY. Komeda, who died prematurely in 1969...Watch Movie
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Until the Light Takes Us
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a...Watch Movie
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Friends Forever
Kristian is a shy 16-year-old starting at a new school. Like all boys his age he is uncertain of his new environment. He is drawn to Henrick an androgynous, charismatic and independent student, a warm friendship slowly develops. On the other side of the school's spectrum is Patrick, a bully and...Watch Movie
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish...Watch Movie
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside...Watch Movie
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Let My People Go!
A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch's LET MY PEOPLE GO! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in...Watch Movie
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In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original...Watch Movie
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Quit Staring at My Plate
Marijana's life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana takes his place as head of the clan....Watch Movie
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Sami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.Watch Movie
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Aberdeen
Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together, at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favor: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild,...Watch Movie
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The Inheritance
Ulrich Thomsen (of the festival hit CELEBRATION) stars in this absorbing, Dogma-like look at family loyalties, personal responsibility and class distinctions, made under the mantle of Zentropa Entertainments, Lars von Trier's production company. Thomsen is Christoffer, a Dane living abroad in...Watch Movie
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
Here she comes, right from the pages of the best selling book! The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to...Watch Movie
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The Mind Snatchers
Private James Reese (Christopher Walken), a misfit G.I. stationed in Western Europe, has landed in the stockade more than once thanks to his violent temper and even his girlfriend asks him to seek psychiatric help. Unexpectedly, Reese is driven to a secluded country mansion, a...Watch Movie
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Hunger
HUNGER, a Scandinavian co-production (filmed in Oslo, Norway, and featuring Swedish actor Per Oscarsson), is a portrait of poverty in the 1890s. Danish writer/director Henning Carlsen adapts Knut Hamsun celebrated novel-of-the-same-name, boiling the book down to its necessary core. Pontus, a...Watch Movie
