20th Century Flicks, Bristol

ALL THAT MATTERS IS PAST (2012)

Certification18 Our Rating

Two brothers in their 40s are found dead in the forest. By their side lies a woman, very weak, but still alive. "All that matters is past" is the story of how Janne meets William after many years of separation. She leaves her family to live with him in a cabin by the river. They recreate the feeling of love and lust that they had as children, being sweethearts playing in th find out more...

COLD PREY (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

Five friends are on their way to a snowboarding holiday in the Jotunheimen mountains when a terrible accident forces them to find shelter in an old abandoned hotel. Though formulaic this creepy Scandinavian slasher is enlivened by good performances and some incredible scenery. find out more...

COOL AND CRAZY (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

Many will enjoy this stunning documentary about a small fishing town on the northern tip of Norway, simply because it's funny and focuses on people who might almost come out of a David Lynch movie, the mostly very elderly male voice choir of the quiet and tiny Norwegian fishing community of Bervel�g. The scenes of the old boys braving blizzards as they stand singing outdoors, ice gathering on their eyebrows, verge on the surreal, while some of the interview material - particularly the confession find out more...

DEAD SNOW (2008)

Certification18 Our Rating

Eight medical students head out to an isolated cabin in the middle of the snow bound mountains. Once there, the hapless group discover a hideous, relentless evil lurks in their remote holiday spot dead Nazi zombies... let the carnage begin. find out more...

DEAD SNOW 2 (2014)

Certification18 Our Rating

Having crashed his car after fleeing the ski lodge where his friends were all brutally murdered by a battalion of Nazi zombies, Martin wakes up in hospital attempting to convince the police that he is not the one who k find out more...

EDVARD MUNCH (1974)

CertificationPG Our Rating

A fasinating and absorbing look at the life of the great Norwegian painter. Using Munch's diaries as a basis for the story, the film uses an effective combination of drama and semi-doctumentary styles. A thought provoking and powerful portrait of the man. find out more...

HAPPY HAPPY (2011)

Certification15 Our Rating

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HEADHUNTERS (2012)

Certification12 Our Rating

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IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

When snowplow driver, Nils receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose, he is disbelieving of the official report and soon uncovers evidence of his son s murder an innocent victim of local crime boss, The Count . Armed with heavy machinery, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge that inadvertently ignites a full-blown underworld gang war, with the body count spiraling ever higher and higher. A hugely entertaining, darkly comic thriller from the reliably idiosyncratic Norwegians

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INSOMNIA (NORWEGIAN ORIGINAL) (1997)

Certification15 Our Rating

Two criminal investigators arrive in a town in the north of Norway to help the local police solve the murder of a young girl. A second murder sets the investigators off on an intense race where the stakes are as high for them as for their quarry. This is the original Norwegian film that Christopher Nolan remade with Al Pacino. find out more...

KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND (2010)

Certification12 Our Rating

Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the island Bastoy, located in the Oslo fjord live a group of delinquent, young boys aged 11 to 18. The boys daily, sadistic regime is run by the guards and the principal who bestow both mental and physical abuse on them. Instead of the boys being straightened out with education they end up being used as cheap, manual labor. The boys attempt to survive by adapting to their inhumane conditions. One day a n find out more...

KITCHEN STORIES (2003)

CertificationPG Our Rating

It's the early 1950's and members of the Swedish Home Research Unit are dispatched to far flung corners of the Norwegian hinterland to observe the behavioural patterns of single men in their kitchens. Poor unfortunate Nilsson is one such watcher, perched on a ludicrously outsized baby chair observing the initially absent domestic routines of his hostile host, Isak. It is only the intense proximity of the two men that slowly thaws a relationship originally based on fear, suspicion and animosity, find out more...

MAX MANUS (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A high octane action - and not far from historically accurate - pic glorifying the role of Norwegian Resistance fighter Max Manus in his battle against the evil Nazi empire. We follow our likeable hero from the 1940 winter war against the Soviets in Finland through to the 1945 defeat of the Bosch. We observe his guilt at his own survival while his mates are killed in the struggle and, we learn of his own high risk manoeuvres - the mining of two German ships being a classic set piece. find out more...

O'HORTEN (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A 67-year-old train driver is about to retire, though it is with fear that he views both the empty life that lies before him and the prospect of old age. However, through a number of mini-adventures Odd comes to realise that there is more to life than he had previously perceived. find out more...

OSLO AUGUST 31 (2011)

Certification12 Our Rating

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QUARANTINE (2008)

Certification18 Our Rating

Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire crew. But when an apparently routine call takes them to a rundown apartment block the easy going banter is soon lost. Police officers have already arrived at the scene in response to reports of screaming from one of the flats, what they discover is an initially unknown infection that is not only killing the residents but sending them into a murderous psychosis before they die. As if t find out more...

REPRISE (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Phillip and Erik are best friends, they share a love of punk, girls and having a good time, and they also have literary aspirations, but their shared endeavour to become published and renown authors has unexpected consequences. find out more...

THALE (2012)

Certification15 Our Rating

Estranged friends Leo (a crime-scene cleaner) and hired-hand Elvis are cleaning up a particularly messy casualty deep in the Norwegian woods. When Elvis accidentally finds a secret passage that leads to a subterranean living space, he also encounters Thale, a beautiful young woman who sings, but does not speak. Though they are intrigued and concerned for her, they are ill-p find out more...

THE 12TH MAN (2017)

Certification15 Our Rating

True World War II story about Jan Baalsruds, one of the 12 saboteurs sent in 1943 from England to the Nazi occupied Northern Norway. After their boat is sunk by the Germans, Jan goes on the run towards the neutral Sweden. However, the brutal weather conditions turn out to possibly be an even greater foe than the Nazi patrols. find out more...

THE BOTHERSOME MAN (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

Andrea steps off a bus into a strange city, with no memory of how he got there. It all seems familiar; people are polite, go to work, have dinner parties, go out and have sex, but no one seems to connect or enjoy themselves. It isn't long before Andreas marries attractive interior designer Anne Britt and as the pair settle into a comfortable, if emotionally vacant, routine, the newly arrived citizen starts to question why everyone and everything seems so superficial; an observation that has not find out more...