Nordisk Film

Heaven Ship (1918)

Heaven Ship (1918)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 30, 2014Expedition to Mars
The first serious film about spaceflight, a silent epic from Denmark about astronauts arriving on Mars and encountering a hippie Utopia. Worth watching for the quaint amusement of what it imagined would be
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Next Door (2005)

Next Door (2005)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 21, 2014Strange Apartment Neighbours/Reality Blurring
Brilliantly twisted Norwegian film in the vein of Roman Polanski's Repulsion and The Tenant about a man whose dealings with two girls living in the apartment next door starts blurring and shifting into some genuinely surreal and out there, not to mention perverse, territory
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 28, 2010Swedish Serial Killer Thriller
Strong and dramatically absorbing Swedish thriller featuring one of the most original and provocative heroines on screen in some time. A word of mouth hit that later underwent a lesser English-language remake
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When Animals Dream (2014)

When Animals Dream (2014)
Rating: ★★★
May 22, 2016Werewolf Film
Beautifully low key Danish werewolf film (even if the term is never mentioned throughout) that takes place in a tiny seaside village as a girl tries to understand her transformations, the film is quiet and often takes place in silences rather than dialogue, its horror understated with striking effect
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The Visit: An Alien Encounter (2015)

The Visit: An Alien Encounter (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 2, 2015First Encounter Between Human and Alien Speculative Documentary
Absolutely fascinating documentary that speculates what the likely reactions would be if aliens were to arrive on Earth where we get input from various scientists and UN spokespeople. The answers are compelling and completely different from anything that you usually get in SF cinema
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