Movies: Anja Breien

  • 1994
    Second Sight

    Second Sight (1994)

    Second Sight

    4.21994HD

    Maren, a young girl, is the sole survivor of the Black Death in her Norwegian village. Using instincts, folklore, luck, and the clairvoyant powers granted her by being born with a "Victory Cap," Maren survives on her own, waiting for other people to ...

    Second Sight
  • 1984
    Paper Bird

    Paper Bird (1984)

    Paper Bird

    01984HD

    The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder?...

    Paper Bird
  • 1990
    Smykketyven

    Smykketyven (1990)

    Smykketyven

    21990HD

    Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is drawn into dramatic events beyond his control, and suddenly finds himself at a crossroads in his life....

    Smykketyven
  • 1971
    Rape

    Rape (1971)

    Rape

    6.51971HD

    It's winter in a suburb. A housewife is brutally raped. A young woman becomes a victim of attempted rape. The Police tighten noose on Anders, a young road worker who was seen on the site in both cases. The two women think they recognize him in the li...

    Rape
  • 1996
    Wives III

    Wives III (1996)

    Wives III

    4.51996HD

    This mellow comedy is the third entry in filmmaker Anja Breien's "Wives" series and stars the same three actresses who appeared in the first two. This episodic film begins with flashbacks to the 1975 film Wives and scenes from 1985's Wives: Ten Years...

    Wives III
  • 1975
    Wives

    Wives (1975)

    Wives

    5.71975HD

    Following a drunken school reunion, Mie, Kaja and Heidrun, three school friends now in their 30s, realize how they're dominated by their husbands’ needs and demands. Aching for a taste of freedom, the trio go off on a spree....

    Wives
  • 1977
    Games of Love and Loneliness

    Games of Love and Loneliness (1977)

    Games of Love and Loneliness

    3.51977HD

    Arvid falls in love with Lydia but puts the budding romance on hold to pursue a career and material wealth. Lydia is willing to wait for Arvid, until her father dies, leaving her finances in a dire state....

    Games of Love and Loneliness
  • 1981
    The Witch Hunt

    The Witch Hunt (1981)

    The Witch Hunt

    5.51981HD

    Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter, eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villa...

    The Witch Hunt
  • 1985
    Wives - Ten Years After

    Wives - Ten Years After (1985)

    Wives - Ten Years After

    4.41985HD

    Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwilling to call it a night after the party is over. Husbands and children must celebrate Christm...

    Wives - Ten Years After
  • 1979
    Next of Kin

    Next of Kin (1979)

    Next of Kin

    4.41979HD

    Gathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to be joint run by all the heirs....

    Next of Kin
  • 1969
    Oslofilm: Ansikter

    Oslofilm: Ansikter (1969)

    Oslofilm: Ansikter

    01969HD

    A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Munch Museum in Oslo and based on the faces of Munch's pictures....

    Oslofilm: Ansikter
  • 2004
    Untitled

    Untitled (2004)

    Untitled

    4.52004HD

    A man covers his head with several headscarfs, one by one... ....

    Untitled
  • 2005
    Untitled

    Untitled (2005)

    Untitled

    52005HD

    A poetic film about a cruel theme, told in a way that doesn't make the spectators close their eyes....

    Untitled
  • 1970
    Dager fra 1000 år

    Dager fra 1000 år (1970)

    Dager fra 1000 år

    4.51970HD

    An episode film initiated by Erik Borge, the fresh director of Norwegian Film, giving fresh film makers a chance of being seen by a big audience. Anja Breien, Egil Kolstø and Espen Thorstensons got the chance with very diverse films.An episode film i...

    Dager fra 1000 år
  • 1960
    Det store varpet

    Det store varpet (1960)

    Det store varpet

    01960HD

    Brothers Ola and Jon waiting for his father's new boat to go out fishing for herring. The father has invested a lot of money in the boat and is hoping for the big catch, but Ola is heartbroken and goes on a drinking binge....

    Det store varpet
  • 2019
    Crimes of the future

    Crimes of the future (2019)

    Crimes of the future

    12019HD

    Through conversations with an array of Norwegian writers, filmmakers, psychiatrists, artists and more, Izquierdo investigates the impact of both the film and novel Sult by Knut Hamsun on generations of Norwegian culture and artistic practice, while e...

    Crimes of the future
  • 2017
    The Art of the Impossible

    The Art of the Impossible (2017)

    The Art of the Impossible

    02017HD

    Director/actor Eugenio Barba returns to Oslo, where he started Odin Teatret, to Opole, where Jerzy Grotowsky's " theatre of the poor" developed a new physical play style, to avoid communism's censorship. And to Holstebro, where Odin Teatrets presence...

    The Art of the Impossible
  • 1961
    Et øye på hver finger

    Et øye på hver finger (1961)

    Et øye på hver finger

    01961HD

    A surveillance radar is to be placed at the Norwegian coastline. Three soldiers volunteer to guard it, but only so that they can have a party afterwards....

    Et øye på hver finger
  • 1967
    Vokse opp

    Vokse opp (1967)

    Vokse opp

    01967HD

    The film is based on a legend that goes back to 1349, when the black plague reached Norway after ravaging in Europe. Legend of a little girl, the sole survivor plague in the isolated mountain village Justedalen. The girl closely linked to nature and ...

    Vokse opp
  • 2009
    Jezidi

    Jezidi (2009)

    Jezidi

    52009HD

    Gaining unprecedented access to the heart of the Yezidi community, this revealing documentary unveils the ways of a Kurdish religious minority that has traditionally been surrounded by mystery. The elusive portrait of a world that seems to exist and ...

    Jezidi