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1	[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/border_swedish.png]]
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3	''Border'' (Swedish: Gräns) is a 2018 Swedish fantasy film directed by Ali Abbasi based on a short story by Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist.
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5	Tina is a woman who works for the Swedish Customs, and her supernatural sense of smell allows her to detect suspicious people such as smugglers and pedophiles. She also looks quite weird (this film was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 91st Academy Awards) and is conscious that most people think she is ugly. One day she meets a man named Vore who looks similarly strange.
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7	[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be mistaken for]] the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie [[Film/Border1997 of the same name]].
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10	!!Tropes include:
11	* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Trolls in this film pass as humans, if quite ugly (by human standards). Tina even has a job and a (human) boyfriend. Dogs dislike her, but wild animals are very friendly to her. And there is the way trolls reproduce.
12	* BittersweetEnding: Vore, Tina's newer boyfriend commits suicide by jumping a bridge on a cruise ship, but Tina's life goes on and she receives a troll baby in a box from a community of trolls in Finland.
13	* BizarreAlienSexes: Trolls have reversed sexual roles and organs, a fact that spectacularly comes to light when Tina and Vore make love.
14	* DoorstepBaby: [[spoiler:The film ends with Tina finding a large box on her doorstep. In the box is a baby troll, and a postcard from Finland, where Vore says there is a community of trolls]].
15	* DrivenToSuicide: Vore, while being pursued by the police becomes fed up with humans being evil that he jumps into the ocean on a boat while handcuffed. Tina mourns for him afterward.
16	* FanDisservice: The love scene between Tina and Vore.
17	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played with. Vore suggests that since some humans are pedophiles, they are therefore all monsters. Also [[spoiler:humans have committed genocide against trolls]].
18	* TheNoseKnows: Tina can smell guilt and shame. She openly uses this in front of her colleagues.
19	* ObliviousAdoption: Tina is shocked to find out that her father isn't her real one.

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