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Essential Nordic Cinema

Persona (1966)
Ingmar Bergman · 108 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Ordet (1955)
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 67 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Ingmar Bergman · 38 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Ingmar Bergman · 35 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Ingmar Bergman · 31 critic votes
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When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Gertrud (1964)
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 27 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier · 19 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Criterion Channel
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Ingmar Bergman · 18 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
The Act of Killing (2012)
Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn · 18 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Fawesome
In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Lars von Trier · 14 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
EDVARD MUNCH (1974)
Peter Watkins · 11 critic votes
Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, while enduring serious illness himself, almost dying. At university, Munch discovers his talent as a painter. As he immerses himself in the art world, he becomes part of a cultural revolution led by the likes of nihilist Hans Jæger.
Winter Light (1963)
Ingmar Bergman · 10 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Roy Andersson · 10 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.
The Celebration (1998)
Thomas Vinterberg · 8 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.
Dogville (2003)
Lars von Trier · 8 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Victor Sjöström · 7 critic votes
Free on JustWatch TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
Day of Wrath (1943)
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 7 critic votes
Free on Darkroom, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
Ingmar Bergman · 7 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
The Silence (1963)
Ingmar Bergman · 6 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Shame (1968)
Ingmar Bergman · 6 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Ingmar Bergman · 5 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Victor Sjöström · 4 critic votes
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Aki Kaurismäki · 4 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
The Idiots (1998)
Lars von Trier · 4 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Lars von Trier · 4 critic votes
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Roy Andersson · 4 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Fandango at Home Free · Streaming on Kanopy, Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Force Majeure (2014)
Ruben Östlund · 4 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home Free · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Philo
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Roy Andersson · 3 critic votes
The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
Eight Deadly Shots (1972)
Mikko Niskanen · 3 critic votes
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Ingmar Bergman · 3 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
You, the Living (2007)
Roy Andersson · 3 critic votes
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
A Man There Was (1917)
Victor Sjöström · 2 critic votes
Free on JustWatch TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
Mauritz Stiller · 2 critic votes
Free on JustWatch TV
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
Häxan (1922)
Benjamin Christensen · 2 critic votes
Free on JustWatch TV, Darkroom, Bloodstream · Streaming on GuideDoc, Kanopy, Criterion Channel
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Summer with Monika (1953)
Ingmar Bergman · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Ingmar Bergman · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel, TCM
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
The Emigrants (1971)
Jan Troell · 2 critic votes
Free on YouTube Free
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Aki Kaurismäki · 2 critic votes
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Aki Kaurismäki · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
Le Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Criterion Channel
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
The Square (2017)
Ruben Östlund · 2 critic votes
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A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Erotikon (1920)
Mauritz Stiller · 1 critic vote
Free on JustWatch TV · Streaming on Fawesome
Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
The Parson's Widow (1920)
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1 critic vote
A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
Två människor (1945)
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1 critic vote
Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarising the work of an old professor. Later, he is blamed for the professor's murder.
Bad Film (1950)
Felix Forsman · 1 critic vote
Presentation of films that failed in various ways. At the beginning, there is no image other than an audio track, later an overexposed, underexposed, or otherwise failed image.
Summer Interlude (1951)
Ingmar Bergman · 1 critic vote
Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
The White Reindeer (1952)
Erik Blomberg · 1 critic vote
Free on Darkroom, Bloodstream · Streaming on Shudder, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Ingmar Bergman · 1 critic vote
Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
The Great Adventure (1953)
Arne Sucksdorff · 1 critic vote
Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Metrograph
Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter. Told through an adult’s memories, it reflects on childhood, nature, and the fragile balance between wilderness and civilization. The film won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Ingmar Bergman · 1 critic vote
Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Buffalo Bill in 27 Forms (1958)
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd · 1 critic vote
Derives from the pattern that appears when two celluloid sheets painted with different patterns are moved over one and other. (Filmform)
Barnvagnen (1963)
Bo Widerberg · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
Loving Couples (1964)
Mai Zetterling · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Here's Your Life (1966)
Jan Troell · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Night Games (1966)
Mai Zetterling · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Ådalen 31 (1969)
Bo Widerberg · 1 critic vote
Free on Mometu · Streaming on Criterion Channel
A film about the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen.
The Count (1971)
Peter von Bagh · 1 critic vote
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.
The Man on the Roof (1976)
Bo Widerberg · 1 critic vote
When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Aki Kaurismäki · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Atlantic Rhapsody (1989)
Katrin Ottarsdóttir · 1 critic vote
Presents a day in the life of a few inhabitants of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands: A father and his daughter are having breakfast when the fire-brigade drive by. A woman and her child are looking at the fire and meet a married couple. The couple say hello to a man who is going out with his boat... and so on.
Europa (1991)
Lars von Trier · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Aki Kaurismäki · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
The Kingdom (1994)
Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.
How to Invent Reality (1996)
Jon Bang Carlsen · 1 critic vote
Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. " Staged documentary " he calls his method.
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Ingmar Bergman · 1 critic vote
In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.
HUSET PA KAMPEN (1998)
Pjotr Sapegin · 1 critic vote
A man buys a house on a hill. A rat was there first, and proves to be unusually difficult to remove; it seems to think all the man's attempts to kill it are actually gifts. It loves the taste of the poison, thinks the trap is a sculpture, and so forth.
Show Me Love (1998)
Lukas Moodysson · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Fandor Amazon Channel, BFI Player Amazon Channel, ARROW
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
Seven Songs from the Tundra (1999)
Markku Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Klassiki
An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how their way of life was disrupted by the advent of Soviet power.
Lilya 4-ever (2002)
Lukas Moodysson · 1 critic vote
Free on Cineverse · Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, BFI Player Amazon Channel
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
Saraband (2003)
Ingmar Bergman · 1 critic vote
Reuniting the characters of Johan and Marianne three decades after "Scenes from a Marriage," "Saraband" follows Marianne’s visit to her reclusive ex-husband, where she finds him locked in a destructive conflict with his troubled son Henrik and Henrik’s musically gifted daughter Karin. Told as an intimate chamber drama, the film explores love, resentment, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of family bonds.
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)
Pirjo Honkasalo · 1 critic vote
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Container (2006)
Lukas Moodysson · 1 critic vote
Streaming on ARROW
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."
Let the Right One In (2008)
Tomas Alfredson · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
Antichrist (2009)
Lars von Trier · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, Kanopy
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Little Snow Animal (2009)
Miia Tervo · 1 critic vote
Teenage girl looks for love but doesn't know where to find it.
With Every Heartbeat (2011)
Alexandra-Therese Keining · 1 critic vote
Free on Xumo Play
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
Socialism (2014)
Peter von Bagh · 1 critic vote
Socialism, the 20th century's greatest dream and source of some of its darkest nightmares. Divided into eighteen chapters which all begin with quotes from left-wing thinkers and writers, Socialism embarks on a chronological journey through 20th century film and social history, starting with images from Louis Lumière's Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), followed among others by Chaplin's comedy Work (1915), Roberto Rosselini's Rome, Open City (1945) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).
The Look of Silence (2014)
Joshua Oppenheimer · 1 critic vote
Free on Plex, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Amazon MX Player · Streaming on Fandor, Kanopy, Hoopla
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.
U – July 22 (2018)
Erik Poppe · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Viaplay Amazon Channel
A teenage girl fights for survival and to locate her young sister during the 2011 terrorist attack at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
Aniara (2019)
Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Another Round (2020)
Thomas Vinterberg · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Plex · Streaming on Netflix, Sundance Now, Kanopy
Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
Compartment No. 6 (2021)
Juho Kuosmanen · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Klassiki
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Joachim Trier · 1 critic vote
Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Ruben Östlund · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Netflix, Kanopy, Netflix Standard with Ads
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Aki Kaurismäki · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Crossing (2024)
Levan Akin · 1 critic vote
Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
Sentimental Value (2025)
Joachim Trier · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Hulu, Kanopy
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
The Love That Remains (2025)
Hlynur Pálmason · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Criterion Channel
Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

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