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The Quake
Why this pick
A direct Norwegian companion to The Wave, again grounding large-scale disaster in intimate family stakes and tense, practical-feeling survival.
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MOVIE2015 1h 46m NOR
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It shares The Wave’s Scandinavian realism, escalating emergency, and focus on ordinary people making difficult choices under relentlessly constrained conditions.
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The Burning Sea
Why this pick
Another Norwegian disaster thriller with a sober, human-scale approach: procedural tension, hazardous environments, and personal relationships tested by catastrophe.
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The Impossible
Why this pick
Its tsunami disaster is filtered through one family’s fractured survival, delivering the same escalating dread and emotionally immediate, physically visceral urgency.
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Force Majeure
Why this pick
A more psychological Scandinavian disaster story, using an avalanche threat and stark mountain setting to expose a family’s fault lines with chilly precision.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A geologist and his family live near a scenic mountain pass in Norway. When it collapses, an 85-meter tidal wave descends upon them, threatening their existence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kristoffer Joner
Kristian
Jonas Hoff Oftebro
Sondre
Laila Goody
Margot Valldal
Thomas Bo Larsen
Phillip
Mette Agnete Horn
Maria
Ane Dahl Torp
Idun
Fridtjov Såheim
Arvid Øvrebø