My Skinny Sister (2015), Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019), The Seagull's Laughter (2001), Winter Light (1963), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), The Virgin Spring (1960), Shadows in Paradise (1986), Miss Julie (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nordic Cinema movies.
Storyline: An adolescent girl discovers her older sister is hiding an eating disorder.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, family, sisters, adolescence, sweden, female director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a tragic event, Juha develops an unexpected but powerful connection with a dominatrix named Mona. His dangerous addiction to suffocation will lead them both down a wild, freaky path toward emotional enlightenment.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, drama, independent film, psychological thriller, grief, self-discovery, emotional trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1950s Iceland, a sassy widow named Freyja (Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir) arrives home from America with a newer, slimmer look and a mental list of grievances. Not one to stay single long, Freyja moves in with her aunt, uncle and shrewd young cousin, Agga (Ugla Egilsdóttir), and quickly begins looking for a new husband. She manages to charm a number of local bachelors, including Björn (Heino Ferch), but when men start turning up dead, Agga suspects Freyja of murder.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, female coming-of-age, dark comedy, family, social satire, small-town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him. This is the second in Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with man's relationship with God.
Plot Keywords: religion, crisis of faith, loneliness, pastor, black and white, existentialism, church ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband ('Max von Sydow'). They are joined by Karin's father ('Gunnar Björnstrand'), who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin's grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the family members are changing in light of this fact.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, family relationships, mental illness, crisis of faith, isolation, father-daughter relationship, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, mystery, thriller, historical, medieval, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. There are few words, no smiles, and no laughter. Violence and the threat of violence seem close at hand. Ilona, a supermarket clerk who frequently loses her job, bandages Nikander's hand one evening; later he gets her out of a jam, and they begin an on-again off-again relationship. "Why do I keep losing?," Nikander asks his co-worker, Melartin, a man Nikander met in jail and helped get a job. Can he break his losing streak?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: black and white film, working class, love story, loneliness, black comedy, social outcasts, unemployment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling each other their memories and of their dreams. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, tragedy, class conflict, sweden, adaptation, stage play ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stig, a visiting soloist to a small Swedish orchestra, marries fellow musician Martha, but the inner torment and sense of failure in Stig leads to an extra-marital affair and a tragic ending.—Edward Terence Ferrari <e.t.ferrari@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: romance, marriage, musician, dream, failure, hope, pain ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor/outdoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy, road movie, black comedy, swedish film, 1960s, social satire, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sick of it All, a black and white noir style comedy which speaks to the child in all of us. The dark comedy is at once a memorable adult fable about one's lost youth, while in essence paying respect to the wisdom contained within the mind of a child. At its core, Sick of it All, is a magical and surprising tale about the strangeness and troubles that face adulthood.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, social satire, urban life, midlife crisis, family dynamics ...
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