Terra Nova

Set in 2013, global prisons are overflowing after the death penalty is abolished. Authorities launch a brutal “solution”: a first test group of convicts is shipped to an uninhabited Arctic outpost and abandoned with only numbered keys to unlock their chains. Once the guards withdraw to safety, the experiment collapses into violent faction warfare and survival at any cost.

Norway is not just a look-alike here: principal Arctic sequences were shot on Svalbard (Spitsbergen), Norway, using the archipelago’s stark polar terrain to sell the film’s isolation and cold, hostile setting.

Director: Aleksandr Melnik

Released: 2008

Norway locations: Svalbard (Spitsbergen)