Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, English
Director
Thomas Vinterberg
Writer
Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
Plot
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent li...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Biography • Country: USA • Language: English, Danish
Director
Sean Penn
Writer
Sean Penn, Jon Krakauer
Cast
Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener
Plot
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Category: TV • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
na
Writer
Erik Balling, Paul Hammerich, Lise Nørgaard
Cast
Jørgen Buckhøj, Buster Larsen, Ghita Nørby
Plot
A man comes to Korsbæk, Denmark, in 1929, opens a women's clothing store in competition with an established one - bringing him up against the conservative establishment including the bank manager. We follow the families until afte...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish, French
Director
Gabriel Axel
Writer
Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel
Cast
Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel
Plot
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Animation • Country: Denmark, France • Language: Spanish, Danish
Director
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Writer
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Amin Nawabi
Cast
Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari
Plot
A man look back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has keep hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Denmark, Germany • Language: German, Danish
Director
Martin Zandvliet
Writer
Martin Zandvliet
Cast
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Plot
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, Arabic
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg
Plot
Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Biography • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Nikolaj Arcel
Writer
Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen, Ida Jessen
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg
Plot
The story of Danish soldier and explorer Ludvig Kahlen, who explored and cultivated Denmark's wild Jutland, which now comprises the vast majority of the country, in the mid-18th century.
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Susanne Bier
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen, Susanne Bier, Per Nielsen
Cast
Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard
Plot
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Crime • Country: USA, Canada • Language: English, Danish
Director
Andrew Dominik
Writer
Andrew Dominik, Ron Hansen
Cast
Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
Plot
Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark, Poland • Language: Danish
Director
Magnus von Horn
Writer
Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek Knudsen
Cast
Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri
Plot
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast
Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen
Plot
A gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and reno...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Denmark, Norway • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Henning Carlsen
Writer
Henning Carlsen, Knut Hamsun, Peter Seeberg
Cast
Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
Plot
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is de...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Johannes V. Jensen
Cast
Joseph Koch
Plot
A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km awa...
A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
Category: Movie • Genre: Thriller • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Ole Bornedal
Writer
Ole Bornedal
Cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia
Plot
A law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a su...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Denmark, Switzerland • Language: Danish, English
Director
Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Writer
Sophie Destin, Asger Leth, Jørgen Leth
Cast
Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez
Plot
Filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Line Kruse
Plot
Two Danish friends are tired of their employer and open their own butcher shop. An electrician accidentally dies in the freezer and he's sold as marinated chicken and business picks up. What happens when they run out of "chicken"?
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark, Germany • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Mikkel Nørgaard
Writer
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Nikolaj Arcel
Cast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Per Scheel Krüger, Troels Lyby
Plot
Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark, Germany • Language: Danish, French
Director
Mikkel Nørgaard
Writer
Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg, Jussi Adler-Olsen
Cast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk
Plot
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Sweden • Language: Swedish, Danish
Director
Bo Widerberg
Writer
Bo Widerberg, Johan Lindström Saxon
Cast
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Plot
The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: None, Danish
Director
Urban Gad
Writer
Urban Gad
Cast
Asta Nielsen, Robert Dinesen, Poul Reumert
Plot
At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a ci...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, Italian
Director
Lone Scherfig
Writer
Maeve Binchy, Lone Scherfig
Cast
Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk
Plot
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Danish
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Georges Simenon, Jean Renoir
Cast
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Plot
Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
Category: TV • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
na
Writer
Dorte Warnøe Høgh, Søren Sveistrup, David Sandreuter
Cast
Danica Curcic, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Iben Dorner
Plot
A figurine made of chestnuts is found at the scene of a grisly murder; from this creepy clue, two detectives hunt for a killer linked to a politician's missing child.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, War • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish
Director
Janus Metz
Writer
Kasper Torsting
Cast
na
Plot
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Jørgen Leth
Writer
Ole John, Jørgen Leth
Cast
Majken Algren Nielsen, Claus Nissen, Jørgen Leth
Plot
An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Writer
Martin Andersen Nexø, Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Cast
Tove Maës, Karen Poulsen, Rasmus Ottesen
Plot
Ditte grows up with her grandparents. When the mother moves with Lars Peter, Ditte is taken home to take care of her siblings. She comes to work at Bakkegården, but is thrown out as she awaits children.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish
Director
Jesper W. Nielsen
Writer
Søren Sveistrup
Cast
Harald Kaiser Hermann, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Lars Mikkelsen
Plot
At the orphanage Gudbjerg violence and humiliation play a part of everyday life. Based on real stories from orphanages where lots of boys were victims of violent and sexual abuse and medical neglect.
Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Thorbjørn Christoffersen, Stefan Fjeldmark
Writer
Anders Matthesen, Mette Heeno, Karsten Kiilerich
Cast
Anders Matthesen, Kim Mattheson, Bill Bailey
Plot
Terkel is an average teenager whose life takes a turn for the worse when a girl who had a crush on him kills herself and an unknown maniac starts stalking him.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Lars von Trier
Writer
Euripides, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Lars von Trier
Cast
Udo Kier, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen
Plot
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the throne. In exchange, Medea and the boys ...
Egon Olsen and his 2 friends are hired to stage the theft of a Ming vase. He's double-crossed by the baron and wants revenge by swapping the Ming vase with a cheap copy during a big party at the castle. Will they succeed?
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Norway, Sweden • Language: Norwegian, Danish
Director
Roar Uthaug
Writer
Martin Sundland, John KÃ¥re Raake, Roar Uthaug
Cast
Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro
Plot
Although anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish, Swedish
Director
Christoffer Boe
Writer
Christoffer Boe, Mogens Rukov
Cast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson
Plot
A young man who thought himself already in love with a nice girl is drawn into a literary drama when he is captured by a deep and stimulating love affair.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark, Iceland • Language: Danish, Icelandic
Director
Hlynur Pálmason
Writer
Hlynur Pálmason
Cast
Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Vic Carmen Sonne
Plot
At the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.
Category: Movie • Genre: Romance, Comedy • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish
Director
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Cast
Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt
Plot
Kresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark, France • Language: Danish, Arabic
Director
Tobias Lindholm
Writer
Tobias Lindholm
Cast
Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling
Plot
During contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan a Danish commander makes a decision which saves many of his men's lives but inadvertently takes the lives of some Afghani civilians. Now he is facing criminal charges.
3 Danish elves/nisser in Alaska fly to Jutland to get a key at an old nisse cave near a potato farm. Landing, the biplane propeller breaks and a new is needed. They speak half Danish half English. A stranger comes.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Bille August
Writer
Bjarne Reuter, Bille August
Cast
Adam Tønsberg, Peter Reichhardt, Morten Hoff
Plot
In the early '60s, 3 Danish classmates join a "den"/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later esc...
Egon Olsen's criminal trio always gets into unlucky, comical situations when executing Egon's genius plans. After release from prison, he already has a new plan: steal a valuable German item from a secured museum in Copenhagen.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Denmark, UK • Language: English, Danish
Director
Kristian Levring
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen, Kristian Levring
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Plot
In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: France, USA • Language: English, Danish
Director
Tommy Lee Jones
Writer
Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A. Oliver
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer
Plot
Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Ib Koch-Olsen
Plot
Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy. The camera goes through the rooms of the museum that houses his work, st...
Category: TV • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish
Director
na
Writer
Christian Torpe
Cast
Mille Dinesen, Lise Baastrup, Nikolaj Groth
Plot
Schoolteacher Rita is a very outspoken, rebellious woman who is competent in the classroom but needs her own advisor when it comes to her personal life.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish, Serbian
Director
Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast
Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Rikke Louise Andersson
Plot
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish
Director
Per Fly
Writer
Kim Leona, Per Fly
Cast
Jesper Christensen, Marius Sonne Janischefska, Stine Holm Joensen
Plot
Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to...
Anders W. Berthelsen, Søren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel
Plot
Election for the Danish parliament is up and the main opposition party has a chance at winning and its leader at becoming the next prime minister. The leader is hospitalized and the scheming begins.
At the end of WWII, a German general hid a fortune in a bunker on the west coast of Jutland. The Olsen gang and company venture all the way from Copenhagen to find the treasure. They're not alone.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: Denmark • Language: Danish, German
Director
Erik Balling
Writer
Erik Balling, Henning Bahs
Cast
Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald, Poul Bundgaard
Plot
His friends are there when Olsen is released from prison. He's resocialized. The trio work at a toy factory, then cleaning at Denmark's central bank. When a US gang robs the bank, the trio must clear their names.
