The Wave

The Wave (Bølgen, 2015) is a Norwegian disaster thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Roar Uthaug centers the story on geologist Kristian Eikjord, who monitors a volatile mountain ridge above the narrow Geiranger fjord. He's days away from moving his family to a new job when the sensors start screaming.

The mountainside gives way without warning. A wall of water over 230 feet high races toward the resort town below — and Kristian is trapped on the wrong side of it. His wife and children are down there. Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp carry the film's emotional weight through 104 minutes of controlled dread and chaotic survival.

The Wave was Norway's first large-scale disaster film, produced on an unprecedented budget for Norwegian cinema and backed by real seismological research — the Åkneset rockslide is an actual documented threat. Stream The Wave (2015) online on iFILM.