Wenche Foss
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1917-12-05
Locus Natus:
Et ut:
Don't Look Back
The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector...
release : 2000.01.10popularis : 2.981
Rygg i rand, to i spann
To very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their...
release : 1993.01.09popularis : 1.259
John Gabriel Borkman
Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
release : 1978.01.10popularis : 1.302
The Master and His Servants
The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955...
release : 1959.03.02popularis : 1.402
Gurin with the Foxtail
A gnome named Gurin wakes up with a foxtail as punishment for his practical jokes.
release : 1998.08.07popularis : 5.672
Tørres Snørtevold
The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in...
release : 1940.12.26popularis : 3.898
Act Naturally
A television-team makes a surprise visit to an olympic athlete's grandmother. They want to capture her reaction just as her grandson crosses the...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 3.633
Bør Børson Jr.
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
release : 1974.02.05popularis : 3.466
Bør Børson Jr.
Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
release : 1974.02.05popularis : 3.466
Music for Weddings and Funerals
Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As...
release : 2002.08.22popularis : 1.579
Farewell Illusions
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.
release : 1985.03.12popularis : 3.18
Jeg drepte!
A friend of the surgeon Bøhmer has to have his appendix removed, but during the anesthesia he reveals he loves the doctor's wife, which makes...
release : 1942.08.17popularis : 0.595
Portrettet
The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition...
release : 1954.12.26popularis : 0.857
Trollfossen
General director Strøm will create a large Norwegian industrial company to tame waterfalls and put them in pipes. But also his wife Sylvia,...
release : 1948.03.29popularis : 0.619
Lykke og krone
Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.
release : 1962.04.23popularis : 0.68
Støv på hjernen
The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands...
release : 1959.08.17popularis : 1.544
Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...
release : 1970.11.04popularis : 2.054
The Disappearance of a Young Wife
The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much...
release : 1953.08.26popularis : 4.234
En herre med bart
The title of this film "En herre med bart" translates as "A Gentleman with a mustache." It is the the story of a married couple, a hardworking lawyer...
release : 1942.11.14popularis : 1.68
About Tilla
One autumn day, Ivar goes to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to visit Maria who is the mother of a little girl named Tilla. Ivar is a child psychologist...
release : 1963.01.02popularis : 1.27
Tonny
Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release....
release : 1962.01.22popularis : 2.677
Scenes from a Marriage
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even...
release : 1974.09.15popularis : 10.73
Blackmail for Beginners
In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
release : 2011.09.30popularis : 2.137
The bridal bouquet
Siv Blom is a young impulsive girl with a special ability to come up in extraordinary situations. She also sleepwalks and one day strolling she...
release : 1953.12.26popularis : 1.652
The Beginning of a Story
A story about one summer from the life of 7 years old Marin.
release : 1988.09.08popularis : 1.569
Gjør det lettere
Wenche Foss hosts a series of commercials and infomercials. The twentieth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 1.813
Krane's Confectionery
A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life
release : 1951.11.07popularis : 2.181
The Wild Duck
The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has...
release : 1963.04.09popularis : 1.278
Ballen i øyet
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...
release : 2000.10.02popularis : 0.61
Cocktailparty
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and...
release : 1967.09.05popularis : 2.184
Fru Biksby og oberstens skinnkåpe
A high comedy about a dental family with an office on the best western edge, where the lady of the house is mixed up in a delicate intrigue in her...
release : 1974.11.03popularis : 3.028
Open Future
A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
release : 1983.12.26popularis : 2.351
Victoria L.
The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl,...
release : 1982.03.19popularis : 3.286
Rikard Nordraak
A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.
release : 1945.12.26popularis : 0.844
Life and Death
When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional...
release : 1980.09.26popularis : 0.656
Julia Julia
Julia washes train coupes for a living. When she meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the Minister of Justice, she falls in love and gets...
release : 1981.08.11popularis : 2.948
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig....
release : 1975.08.28popularis : 5.804
The Dangerous Game
Known architect Jean Blomis married with two kids, living in a modern condo, though being very outgoing, his wife isn't. After learning about...
release : 1942.01.02popularis : 0.566
I Am Dina
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to...
release : 2002.03.08popularis : 5.712
På stigende kurs
Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
release : 1987.08.20popularis : 2.079
Det kunne vært deg
Maisen is newly married to the architect Harald, but on the way home he loses the key to their flat. They have to ask their neighbor for help, a man...
release : 1952.11.13popularis : 1.06
Operasjon V for vanvidd
Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers.
release : 1970.03.30popularis : 0.564
Episode
Tensions arise when a mother falls for her son's friend.
release : 1963.10.03popularis : 0.914
Aske
A middle-aged couple, Daniel and Cecilie, lives in a large house. They have a son, but he has left them, and they do not even know if he is alive....
release : 1973.03.26popularis : 1.617