Movies: Lalla Carlsen

Main character Esther feels like she doesn't fit into the 'elite' and takes the big showdown with those who always have....

Based on a true story this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and chased by the germans, the flight quick...

A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife"....

Yugoslav Partizans, captured by Nazis, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population help some Partizans survive or flee to neutral Sweden....

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands and kids....

Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make numerous stops along his route to help out with the smallest of problems. The old man is so caring he ...

Based on the novel by Alexander Kielland....

The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much he did not know both about her past and about their relationship....

Using the money she won in the lottery, kitchen maid Lalla checks in to an expensive hotel, pretending to be a consule....

Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?...

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Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, bu...

Siv Blom is a young impulsive girl with a special ability to come up in extraordinary situations. She also sleepwalks and one day strolling she sleepwalks unsuspecting into the bedroom to the sublime painter 'Picasso'. The art painter comes to admire...

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Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend ...

A slice of life in 'Solbråten' where citizens are concerned with everyday many chores. In particular, men busy. They struggle with a resident's association, volunteers and home protection so they hardly have time to eat before they sleep dinner. They...

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A man falls in love with his young French language teacher. It becomes a complicated love story when his class mate Karin also begins to fancy her....

A love story about Rasmus, whom after failing as a painter has retreated himself from civilization as a lighthouse keeper's assistant on a remote island. One day he discovers a boat with an unconscious young woman in it. Having revived her, he discov...