Best Norwegian science fiction movies

Everywhen (2013)

A boy must fight his way from an alternate reality, back to his own, to save his suicidal 5-year old brother; when 3 billion people are reported missing.

Dypt Vann (0)

Dypt Vann is a short film about a young woman who enters a completely new form of therapy.

Sweetwater (1988)

Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes, looking for a better life on the outskirts of Sweetwater.

2023 (2009)

The year is 2023. Norway is slowly recovering after a period of war and terror. Sven is slowly recovering from the loss of his girlfriend Eva. But as the society slowly moves on, Sven cannot cope with the future. He dissociates himself from the world, and he has changed his behavior. He is regarded as a threat by the authorities, and they insert a parasite in his brain. The parasite will delete his memories of Eva.

In Chambers (2008)

A portrayal of how reality is experienced for those who are in coma, and further how the system works in this seemingly macabre and hostile place.

Sniffer (2006)

A man wakes on the ceiling of his bedroom and breaks a lamp to alert his wife to his predicament. She puts on her heavy boots, unstraps herself out of her bed and uses a hook on a pole to drag him back down. The next day he goes to his job where he works as a deodorant tester, sniffing the armpits of exercising test subjects. On this day though, he faces an event that will change his life forever.

Matches (2020)

Voyager (2017)

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

Space Patrol (2000)

The crew on board Space Explorer 2 receives a distress signal, which, with a certainty of 9%, originates from a mysterious planet in galaxy x38. They decide to go investigate.

Areal 618: De forviste (1970)

Norwegian short sci-fi based on the novel "The Visitor" by author Ray Bradbury. The story takes place on Mars, which is used as a quarantine for people with deadly illnesses. One day, the planet is visited by a young woman who has the ability to perform thought transference and telepathy. The exiles on the planet are thrilled with his ability and a violent fight breaks out over who will get to spend the most time with their visitor and enjoy the illusionary paradises she can transmit.

Med rett til å drepe (1971)

Norwegian Sci-Fi short based on William Tenn's short story "Time in Advance". In the far future a law is passed enabling citizens to serve out sentences for crimes they intend to commit, serving the full term, but with a 50% pre-criminal discount. Post-criminals and pre-criminals alike are sent to carry out hard-labour on hellishly perilous, far-flung Convict Planets. Few return. Those pre-criminals who are not killed, drop out before their terms are up, with nothing but scars and nightmares to show for their troubles. Two pre-criminals however manage against all the odds to serve out two full terms for murder, and return to Earth as minor celebrities, with the right to kill one person each.

Kodémus (1971)

Kodémus lives in a perfectly synchronized society, controlled by the master computer Moxon-50, when his 'Little Brother' -a device that arranges everyone's daily activities- goes awry.

Aniara (1986)

Musical production of the space epic Aniara.

Svart hav (1980)

In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income.

Havet stiger (1990)

Set in the future when much of Central Europe has suffered ecological destruction and only small groups of survivors remain, a lost Norwegian reporter stumbles upon one such group and is quickly drawn into a drama involving a beautiful Christian missionary who's being held prisoner.

Nattmagasinet (1970)

The movie begins with a disenchanted poet who, having had his fill of the world, decides to hide out in a large department store. There are many floors, dusty nooks and crannies, and forgotten storerooms where he can secret himself. He believes he has found the peace and serenity he seeks--away from humankind--in order to write his poetry. To his initial horror, he finds he is not alone. There are Others who have also sought refuge in the dark places of the department store. He quickly finds himself at the mercy of this clandestine social underclass, for none may leave and risk exposing those who have spent years in the store. What quickly evolves is a chilling tale involving the poet and a young woman who had lost her way in the store while a mere child, and who has since spent her entire life as the downtrodden handmaid to the evil matriarch who rules her clan with an iron fist.