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- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBodil JørgensenJens AlbinusAnne Louise HassingThe group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsChristina BengtssonMogens EckertStig HoffmeyerA man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him.
- DirectorChristian Braad ThomsenStarsJon Bang CarlsenIrm HermannKai HolmA young politician returns home with his German wife to the village community of his childhood.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsMille LehfeldtPeter GantzlerTrine DyrholmA group of Danes over 30 in different relationships, meet at 8 different kinds of parties.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika WedderkoppA 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 little lie.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsGustav Fischer KjærulffSebastian BullMads Broe AndersenTwo brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring 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.
- DirectorJanus MetzDanish 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 actors.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsJesper ChristensenMarius Sonne JanischefskaStine Holm JoensenKaj 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 him.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- DirectorLaurits Munch-PetersenStarsPernille AndersenViktor AndersenThure LindhardtAnna takes her 7-years old son Robert to the beach to finish his swimming course, the DOLPHIN, but something is terribly wrong and Anna needs to face reality.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn 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.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsOle ErnstKaren-Lise MynsterAnna VallgårdaKnud is a pig farmer, and he lives with his wife, Katrine, and their two young children. But life gets tough when the problems start to pile up at the pig farm and in their private life.
- CreatorOle BornedalStarsPilou AsbækSarah-Sofie BoussninaBent MejdingWhen Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækTuva NovotnySøren MallingDuring 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.
- DirectorRasmus HeisterbergStarsKristoffer BechSusana Hermansen ValenzuelaNana Kirstine Bruhn-RasmussenFour students buy an apartment together in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and move in together. We follow their 20s, their ups and downs and the loneliness they discover after they split.
- DirectorJannik HastrupFlemming Quist MøllerStarsBo JakobsenJesper KleinPeter BelliWhile Benny's father is busy working and his mother occupied with friends Benny discover a wonderful world in his own bathtub.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsMads MikkelsenSidse Babett KnudsenRolf LassgårdA manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
- DirectorAnnette K. OlesenStarsJørgen KiilMaria RichHenrik PripWhen a man's wife dies in an accident, his children return home to deal with the tragedy together.
- DirectorLotte SvendsenStarsSofie StougaardHenrik LykkegaardMichelle Bjørn-AndersenLars Erik is "king" among his fisher colleagues until a crises challenges his status, and even his status in love.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 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 delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsThomas Bo LarsenUlrich ThomsenMia Maria BackThe bank robbers Karsten and Peter are on the run in Sweden. With them is one of their teenage daughter.
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenViilbjørk Malling AggerGhita NørbyA father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsRosalinde MynsterPilou AsbækJens Jørn SpottagThe daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten'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 and they're a family of 4.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsBodil KjerPoul ReichhardtKarin NellemoseA good natured soldier with a killer right hand, falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past.
- DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren PedersenFictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsBuster LarsenElse Benedikte MadsenHenning JensenThe Baron, and his people decide to imagine a social experiment. They carry Jeppe, who is the most inept peasant of all, and who is senseless of drinking, up into the Baron's bed to see what will happen. Jeppe awakens and wonders if he has come in heaven, or whether he is still alive. He quickly changes character from being oppressed and hounded with by all and sundry to become oppressor himself. He is then, when the Barons "experiment" is done, thrown back into the "real life" and onto a dung heap. A fake tribunal is made by the Baron for (a fictitious) court and Jeppe is hung, (again fakely for sport) Jeppe thinks he's dead and is again met by his wife who starts beating him and yelling and pulls him back into reality!
- StarsMichael WikkeSteen RasmussenDorte HøjstedTwo hosts (Sonny & Sonny) present various segments, including the adventure/romantic series "Tannhäuser" (a spoof on Star Wars featuring the mechanic Reinhardt and his son Kurt struggling against the evil Tannhaüser Corporation), music videos, studio guests, and the animated "Godnathistorier" narrated by Thomas Winding.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsLise FjeldstadHans StormoenClaus NissenHe is showing up like a shadow to seamen, and death and shipwreck follow in his tracks. He is their anxiety. Now he is targeting the proud Ariel, and the captain realizes is days are counted.
- DirectorBjarne Henning-JensenStarsTove MaësKaren PoulsenRasmus OttesenDitte 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.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsOtto BrandenburgPaprika SteenLisbet DahlThe story of a friendship between a stout little man and a big, proud cow who are able to talk to each other. Together they confront an evil, ugly witch who is determined to get ride of them because they have moved into a house on the edge of her woods. The witch hates neighbors, and through magic, evil planning she turns Prop and Berta's friends, the Teeny Burpers, into dangerous hoodlums who terrorize the nearby town. Prop and Berta manage to overcome the witch and turn her into a good person, breaking the spell that binds their friends, and restoring peace to the little town.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsPoul ReichhardtHelle VirknerBirgitte FederspielEntering a house to borrow the phone, a crime writer finds a murdered man and is knocked out. The police calls it suicide. A boy helps him investigate.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsSigrid Horne-RasmussenCarl HegerFrode Arne PedersenEarly Danish kitchen sink drama by Academy Award winner Gabriel Axel with an entertaining mix of working class daily life, children rivalry, crime and romance.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsAdam TønsbergLars SimonsenCamilla SøebergDenmark, 1963: Teenagers Bjørn and Erik are into girls and being in a band helps Bjørn meet Anna. Erik likes Kirsten but she likes Bjørn. Having a mentally ill mom at home also ruins Erik's chances. Anna's pregnancy changes everything.
- DirectorSvend MethlingStarsKarin NellemoseGunnar LauringSigfred JohansenNellemose shines in Kjeld Abell's comedy, meticulously diagnosing weaknesses of gender roles and class cultures of the day.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHenrik MalbergEmil Hass ChristensenPreben Lerdorff RyeFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsJulian WestMaurice SchutzRena MandelA drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
- DirectorAstrid Henning-JensenBjarne Henning-JensenStarsHenry NielsenTove MaësSigrid Horne-RasmussenSlum kids set things straight by banding together to solve a crime.
- DirectorAugust BlomStarsOlaf FønssCarl LauritzenEbba ThomsenA comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsStine StengadeLars MikkelsenSven WollterKira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsBent MejdingAnders W. BerthelsenJens Jørn SpottagA boy, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., challenges a repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
- DirectorIsabella EklöfStarsVic Carmen SonneLai YdeThijs RömerA love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
- DirectorLone ScherfigStarsAnders W. BerthelsenAnn Eleonora JørgensenAnette StøvelbækSeveral 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.
- DirectorAnders RefnStarsOle ErnstSofie GråbølMarika LagercrantzThis picture reveals late-19th-century Denmark in the way the literature of that period (the so-called critical realism) does. An aristocratic family bears the brunt of the tyranny of its head, Nils Uldahl-Ege. He betrays his once much-beloved wife, giving way to his primitive lust. From that moment on, his multiple adulteries make the lives of his whole family increasingly intolerable. One daughter, Clara, writes a secret diary devoted to her unrequited love--her cousin Isidor--in which she reflects upon her life and her girlish desires and sufferings.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsSigne Egholm OlsenClaus Riis ØstergaardThure LindhardtThe intense, realistic and unflinching tale of Maria, Allan and Steso, who are struggling for survival in urban life, about drugs.
- DirectorOle RoosStarsJørgen RygSigrid Horne-RasmussenLone LindorffJørgen Ryg as the early retired Arntsen is at the very center of Sven Holm's play. Even though he is vulnerable and suffering from some mental illness issues, Arntsen is trying to cope and to keep up his dignity and spirit in his very own way. Only his old friend the laundress (Horne-Rasmussen) and his newly found love Mette (Lindorff) seem to understand him.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsMads MikkelsenStine StengadeBorivoj NavrátilChristoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father evolves into the story of a break-up. In the wake of the events that follow, secrets gradually emerge which threaten to destroy their marriage.
- DirectorUlaa SalimStarsZaki YoussefMohammed Ismail MohammedRasmus BjergDenmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.
- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarsMahdi FleifelAn intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.
- CreatorRasmus BotoftMartin BuchStarsRasmus BotoftMartin BuchBodil JørgensenA satire series about different characters found all around Denmark.
- DirectorMorten HenriksenStarsErik MørkJørn GottliebSofie GråbølDenmark in the last years of serfdom. A widowed mother's son is blamed for arson. The lord of the manor agrees to free the boy on one condition. The widow must mow a rye field in a single day. A day's work to three men, or three days' work to one man.
- DirectorFranz ErnstStarsPernille KløvedalMargit IversenSteen KaaløLone flees from a girls' home in Jutland, and goes to Copenhagen after a showdown. Here we follow her through various environments until she disappears into the city's throng.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsHolger ThaarupRune VeberMichelle Bjørn-AndersenA young boy finds ways to cope with his brother's sudden death in an accident.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsOle BusckKjeld JacobsenAstrid VillaumeA young boy grows up during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II.
- DirectorSøren MelsonStarsUlrik NeumannWilly RathnovGrethe MogensenIn his musical comedy about the everyday man "Larsen" from 1935, Kjeld Abell formulates his first ironic-satirical warning against the petty bourgeoisie and its uncommitted neatness. Melody, rhythm and jazz represent in contrast a more open, compassionate life experience that can transform the unimaginative habitual life.
- DirectorOle PalsboStarsMogens WiethKarin NellemoseAlbert LutherDepiction of the social democratic activist and politician Peter Sabroe, who in the time around the turn of the century went to fight for the oppressed, oppressed and abused existences.
- DirectorMikkel Munch-FalsStarsBodil JørgensenSebastian JessenHenrik PripFollows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man with a psychological disability. Four people yearning for love, four people, each hoping for a better tomorrow.
- DirectorMorten GieseStarsLuke McQuillanMads MikkelsenMalene SchwartzA young boy is struggling with a alcoholic dad, but enjoys himself by scuba diving.
- DirectorPernille GrummeStarsPeter LarsenHailed in the media as one of the most provocative and thoughtful monologues ever presented, Peter Larsen explains the infamous 'Tamil case' in his own distinguished way. Using his clever wit and several technical devices he unwraps the details of the case - the case which became one of the biggest political scandals in Danish history, involving the resignation of the Prime Minister Poul Schlüter and the entire Danish government in January 1993. The center figure of the 'Tamil case', the Minister of Justice Erik Ninn Hansen, was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours.
- DirectorJohan Stahl WinthereikStarsTristan DerryThomas Bo LarsenKristoffer Johan Fogh HolmkjærAgainst his will Sune is camping in the Swedish woods with his father. What was meant to be a trip for bonding, ends up tearing father and son further apart until they meet a robber and have to work together to get out of the forest alive.Thomas Bo L. - se omtale på anden liste
- DirectorJesper W. NielsenStarsThomas Bo LarsenAl AgamiHenrik Noël OlesenWilly leaves prison with BIG PLANS. He wants to revitalize his old rock band so he contacts the other 3. A prostitute next door joins them as singer. He keeps disappointing his son by not showing up when agreed.Thomas Bo L. kommer ud fra fængsel og forsøger at genoptage liv med band, på afstand af ex og i et spinkelt forhold med datter? ret sjov
- DirectorJesper W. NielsenStarsPaprika SteenTroels LybyOle ErnstA bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsMads MikkelsenNikolaj Lie KaasAndrea Heick GadebergMarkus 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.
- DirectorGeorge SchnéevoigtStarsElse SkouboeElith PioAase ZieglerThe "Tango Bar" is the fashion of the moment. The city's party-goers have chosen the small, cozy, intimate local venue for the night's wee hours. Gaby Grant is an ideal hostess who knows how to get guests to forget the day's sorrows and troubles - and knows how to get them to pay.
- DirectorNiels GråbølStarsHenning JensenJakob CedergrenPaw HenriksenOn Simon's 29th birthday his mentally ill father, who has been absent from his and his older brother Jens' lives for many years, turns up uninvited - declaring that he wants to give him a Triumph sports car. A start of a special day.En fin lille hverdagshistorie om en maniodepressiv far, som forener sig med sine sønner på den enes fødselsdag - for at give denne - en fin gammel bil. Lidt karikeret/maneret (som søster til dir. Sofie Gråbøl) skildring af (Henning jensen), skør men også fint levende relation mellem de involverede - herunder også moren. sympatisk og humoristisk beskrevet - Båret også af Jakob Cedergrens vilje til at møde og forstå sin far...
- DirectorKasper Rune LarsenStarsJacob SkyggebjergSarah Juel WernerMorten LundgaardCille is pregnant and Tobias has discovered that his vocation in life is to become an actor; One that can entertain and bring joy to people around him. But the optimism of the young couple is challenged by an outside world that constantly seems to keep them from living their common dreams.
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsBent AndersenKai Schøning AndersenMogens AndersenDystopian presentation of a Denmark in imminent risk of sinking into police violence and a military coup.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsPaprika SteenLars BrygmannJoachim FjelstrupThe year is 1963. A women's liberation movement the size of today's #MeToo movement has been underway for a while, and it's rolling across the Western world like an avalanche. In a luxury flat in central Copenhagen we meet one of the period's biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, accompanied by her husband, the sadistic editor in chief Victor Andreasen. Her talent is indisputable, only her husband's destructive envy surpasses it. And whilst she uses her talent and authorship to give a voice to the suppressed women of the time, providing them with courage to leave behind husbands and the patriarchal structures of society, Andreassen's only talent is to sell sexist tabloids to the people. Tove looks straight through her husband's inferiority complex, and yet she puts up with his humiliating behavior and his violence. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated admissions to the psychiatric ward - the only place in which she truly finds peace to write. On this very day they're expecting a lunch guest, like hyenas awaiting their prey. Their power struggle needs an audience, a weak play mate they can throw around as they see fit. Who is more suited than the young, promising author Klaus R., a man who celebrates the modern woman's rebellion and the new opportunities afforded to her? Klaus R. believes they'll be talking about literature in an era that belongs to women - what he doesn't know is that a blood bath awaits him. Or does he?