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The Green Knight
Why this pick
Like The Northman, it turns an ancient legend into a tactile, ominous world of ritual, fate and masculine self-mythology, with patient pacing and ravishing, earthbound imagery.
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MOVIE2022 2h 17m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Valhalla Rising
Why this pick
Its brutal Viking-age journey shares The Northman’s primordial landscapes, sparse dialogue and hallucinatory sense of violence as spiritual destiny.
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The Last Duel
Why this pick
Another severe medieval revenge drama, driven by honour, inherited power and physical brutality; its shifting viewpoints add moral tension without softening the period’s harshness.
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The Witch
Why this pick
Eggers’s earlier folk-horror nightmare has the same meticulous historical texture, archaic language, ritual dread and steadily intensifying atmosphere, on a more intimate scale.
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Ran
Why this pick
Its vast, colour-saturated historical spectacle and fatal family conflict echo The Northman’s operatic bloodline tragedy, where vengeance and ambition consume an entire world.
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01 / THE STORY
Conquer your fate.
Set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century, a Nordic prince set outs on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered. Based on the Danish folk tale of Prince Amleth.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Alexander Skarsgård
Amleth
Nicole Kidman
Queen Gudrún
Anya Taylor-Joy
Olga
Ethan Hawke
King Aurvandil
Willem Dafoe
Heimir the Fool
Björk
The Seeress
Claes Bang
Fjölnir
Gustav Lindh
Thorir