Screenplay: Bjørn Olaf Johannessen

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Mirush

2007 · Movie · 100 min. · Norway

Direction Marius Holst

Cast Nazif Muarremi · Enrico Lo Verso · Anna Bache-Wiig · Ramadan Huseini

Plot Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is...

5.9

26 votes

5.9

26 votes

Pyromaniac

2016 · Movie · 98 min. · Norway

Direction Erik Skjoldbjaerg

Cast Trond Nilssen · Per Frisch · Liv Bernhoft Osa · Henrik Rafaelsen

Plot A ruthless pyromaniac is on the loose in a southern village of Norway. They don't know he's no stranger, but one of them. We follow him. The son of the...

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

Everything Will Be Fine

2015 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast James Franco · Rachel McAdams · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Marie-Josée Croze

Plot While driving aimlessly after a quarrel with his girlfriend, a writer accidentally runs over and kills a child. The accident and its aftermath deeply traumatizes him. He struggles to make...

4.8

949 votes

4.8

949 votes

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Cathedrals of Culture: Centre Georges Pompidou

2014 · Documentary · 165 min. · Germany

Direction Karim Aïnouz · Michael Glawogger · Michael Madsen · Margreth Olin

Cast Jonas Salk · Louis Khan · Clodagh O'Shea · Thomas D. Albright

Plot Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.

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Struggle for Life (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 45 min. · Norway

Direction Marit Moum Aune · Bård Breien · Atle Knudsen · Arild Andresen

Cast Bartek Kaminski · Ola G. Furuseth · Tone Beate Mostraum · Trine Wiggen

Plot Young polish academic Tomasz travels to Norway to find his unknown father. Once in Norway he meet an strange blend of Norwegian middle class and all their made up "problems"....

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Nowhere Man

2008 · Movie · 95 min. · Belgium

Direction Patrice Toye

Cast Sara de Roo · Els Olaerts · Frank Vercruyssen

Plot A drama about a fortysomething man who entertains fantasies of a different life. Staging his apparent death, he moves to an island but pines for his former existence, and wonders...

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The Disappearing Illusionist

2015 · Movie · 91 min. · Norway

Direction Bobbie Peers

Cast August Diehl · Sara Hjort Ditlevsen · Alexandra Rapaport · Jorgen Langhelle

Plot The German illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in Grong in a rural part of Norway on an ice cold winters day, and gets involved in a case of searching after a...

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