This Nordic Heist Thriller Is Based on a Real-Life Robbery That Shook a Whole Country — It'll Shake You Too

For the most part, heist movies are pure adrenaline and catharsis. But Nokasis a whole other beast, prioritizing awkward silence and clerical errors over cool slow-motion scenes and well laid-out plans. Based on the real-life 2004 bank robbery in Stavanger, Norway,director Erik Skjoldbjærgdoesn’t glamorize crime, he simply stands back and watches events unravel as they happened, sans high-speed chases and tense music cues. The end result is slow, unshakable realism.