Nuummioq
Nov 01, 2009 | IMDB 4.7
95 min Watch NowDrama, Romance
A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
Drama, Romance
A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nanook of the North
Map of the Human Heart
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Snow Walker
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Never Cry Wolf
The White Dawn
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Kalak
The Necessities of Life
The Experiment
A Polar Year
Against the Ice
Qivitoq
The Grizzlies
Eskimo
The Savage Innocents
Endless Night
Inuk
The Good Traitor
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nanook of the North
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1922
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.Map of the Human Heart
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1993
In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.Smilla's Sense of Snow
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1997
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.The Snow Walker
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2003
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2002
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.Never Cry Wolf
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1983
A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he must survive in the wilderness for six months on his own. In the course of these events, he learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the wolf species.The White Dawn
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1974
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
IMDB 5.4 | Mar , 2006
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.Kalak
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2024
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.The Necessities of Life
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 2008
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his familyThe Experiment
IMDB 4.2 | Sep , 2010
THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...A Polar Year
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2018
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.Against the Ice
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2022
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.Qivitoq
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 1956
A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq.The Grizzlies
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2019
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.Eskimo
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1933
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.The Savage Innocents
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1960
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.Endless Night
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2015
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole.Inuk
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2012
Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.The Good Traitor
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2020
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.