The Wave
Why this pick
Its Norwegian setting, wintry realism and escalating disaster stakes echo The Tunnel’s grounded approach to ordinary people trapped by a rapidly worsening emergency.
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Why this pick
Its Norwegian setting, wintry realism and escalating disaster stakes echo The Tunnel’s grounded approach to ordinary people trapped by a rapidly worsening emergency.
Why this pick
A tense Scandinavian survival thriller built around a large-scale industrial catastrophe, balancing spectacular danger with desperate rescue efforts and intimate personal stakes.
Why this pick
This sober Norwegian disaster film sustains the same anxious sense that familiar urban spaces can become lethal, with urgency driven by warnings, separation and rescue.
Why this pick
It trades the tunnel fire for an emergency call centre, but delivers similarly relentless real-time pressure, constrained space and a mounting race to save lives.
Why this pick
For the bleaker, more brutal side of The Tunnel, this sealed-in survival thriller examines fear, dwindling resources and fraying solidarity under prolonged confinement.
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01 / THE STORY
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself. A Norwegian movie.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Stein
Elise

Ivar

Ingrid

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