Benjamin Helstad Movies

King of Devil's Island

75/100

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

The Cave - Bis zum letzten Atemzug

42/100

A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.

Auf der Jagd nach dem Nierenstein

55/100

A little kid shrinks himself so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.

The Angel

68/100

As the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later...

Hoggeren

69/100

A man can't live the life in the city, and moves to a remote farm. He has become a logger, loving the physical work, though he doesn't know what to do with it all. What did happen turning him into a logger? Soon he is chased by his past.

Going West

67/100

An unemployed music teacher takes his estranged transsexual father on a road trip to the west coast of Norway, in order to honor his late mother's excellent quilting skills.

Afterparty

58/100

A big city trip is the start of the end if a great friendship. At dawn the next day, nothing is like it was the day before. Even the best of friendships may grow, or fall, apart. How to know when to fight, or when to let a friend go?

De fredløse

Set in the 1920s, two drifters are being chased by the police after a failed train robbery.

Permafrost

63/100

Synnøve seemingly has it all: a good job, a nice flat and a boyfriend on his way up. But she's stuck, and unhappy, and one night she decides to go back to her roots in the North.