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Top 500 films from Denmark (out of 850 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever | 2,018 | Karsten Andersen | Music | 8.6 | 11 | English | The ruthless gangsters of New York and the rough cowboys of the dusty prairie; the magic of cinema and the rich sound of a symphony orchestra. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks, performs masterful pieces by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, accompanied by Sonny Bono, Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota. |
| The Hunt | 2,012 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 8.1 | 4,617 | Danish | 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 little lie. |
| Day of Wrath | 1,943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama, History | 8 | 246 | Danish | In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her. |
| 1:1 | 2,006 | Annette K. Olesen | Drama | 8 | 27 | Danish | In a Copenhagen suburb the 19-year-old Per is found unconscious after having been badly beaten up. He is taken to hospital in a coma. The police have no clues, but the air is thick with suspicion. His mother struggles to maintain her faith in his survival. His younger sister, Mie, begins to pick up rumors. Her boyfriend, Shadi, suspects that his elder brother is behind the assault but he cannot tell anyone. Many well-meaning people find themselves at sea in a fable about emotions leading us astray. |
| Dancer in the Dark | 2,000 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Crime | 7.9 | 1,943 | English | Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings. |
| Ordet | 1,955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 7.9 | 402 | Danish | The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test. |
| Dogville | 2,003 | Lars von Trier | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 2,624 | English | A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price. |
| The Shadow in My Eye | 2,021 | Ole Bornedal | War, Drama, History | 7.8 | 538 | Danish | On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children. |
| The Look of Silence | 2,014 | Joshua Oppenheimer | History, Documentary | 7.8 | 302 | English | An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated. |
| The Kingdom | 1,994 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.8 | 253 | Danish | At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate. |
| Little Girl | 2,020 | Sébastien Lifshitz | Documentary | 7.8 | 116 | French | 7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. |
| Tinke the Wolfgirl | 2,002 | Morten Køhlert | Family, Drama | 7.8 | 15 | Danish | While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died within the past year, has managed to survive by her own devices in the wild and has hence become quite feral. Larus convinces Tinke to come to his home so that his parents can take care of her |
| The Celebration | 1,998 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 7.7 | 1,223 | Danish | The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial. |
| The Act of Killing | 2,012 | Joshua Oppenheimer | Documentary, History | 7.7 | 741 | Danish | In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators. |
| The Promised Land | 2,023 | Nikolaj Arcel | Action, Drama, History | 7.7 | 539 | Danish | Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...? |
| Flee | 2,021 | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Documentary, Animation | 7.7 | 383 | Danish | Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years. |
| Mr. Nobody Against Putin | 2,025 | David Borenstein | Documentary, History | 7.7 | 32 | Danish | As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school. |
| Rose | 2,022 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama, Comedy | 7.7 | 32 | Danish | Over the course of a week, sisters Inger and Ellen find their relationship challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. Inger reveals her struggles with schizophrenia to the group, receiving both pity and discrimination. On arrival, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers. |
| Second Victims | 2,025 | Zinnini Elkington | Drama | 7.7 | 12 | Danish | During a hectic shift in the neurological department, skilled doctor Alexandra takes on extra responsibility. But a misjudgment ends in tragedy. |
| B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday | 2,024 | Søren Green | Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Danish | A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness. |
| Pound for Pound | 2,017 | Mikkel Serup | Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Danish | Biography about boxer Joergen 'Gamle' Hansen. |
| Another Round | 2,020 | Thomas Vinterberg | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 3,667 | Danish | Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives. |
| Lilya 4-ever | 2,002 | Lukas Moodysson | Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 641 | Swedish | In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything. |
| The Girl with the Needle | 2,024 | Magnus von Horn | Drama, History | 7.6 | 329 | Danish | Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything. |
| Night Will Fall | 2,014 | André Singer | Documentary | 7.6 | 85 | English | When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey". |
| For My Brother | 2,014 | Brian Bang | Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 39 | Danish | The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close relati... |
| The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear | 2,002 | Jannik Hastrup | Adventure, Animation, Family | 7.6 | 26 | Danish | When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is. |
| Facing the Truth | 2,002 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 7.6 | 18 | Danish | A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man – who is none other than the director's father – a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness. |
| The Distant Barking of Dogs | 2,017 | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Documentary, War | 7.6 | 15 | English | Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother's death, because they have nowhere to go. They are just waiting for the war to end. |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2,009 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 7.5 | 3,158 | Swedish | Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece |
| Breaking the Waves | 1,996 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,089 | Danish | In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another. |
| Adam's Apples | 2,005 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 766 | Danish | A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest. |
| Dreambuilders | 2,020 | Kim Hagen Jensen | Animation, Adventure, Family | 7.5 | 176 | Danish | Minna, a young girl, misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people’s dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson. When her stepsister can no longer wake up, Minna has to enter the dream world to save her. |
| Crossing | 2,024 | Levan Akin | Drama | 7.5 | 88 | KA | Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city. |
| The Day Will Come | 2,016 | Jesper W. Nielsen | Drama | 7.5 | 81 | Danish | Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events. |
| Special Unit - The First Murder | 2,025 | Christoffer Boe | Crime, Drama, History | 7.5 | 23 | Danish | Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes. Soon, Otto finds himself not only battling powerful enemies but also confronting his own dark side in his quest to solve the case. |
| Uncle | 2,019 | René Frelle Petersen | Drama | 7.5 | 21 | Danish | Kris and her partially disabled uncle run a derelict farm together. Their quirky yet loving relationship, is built upon daily routine, and it becomes challenged when Kris finds a romantic interest and asks herself some life-changing questions. |
| The Olsen Gang | 1,969 | Knut Bohwim | Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 20 | Norwegian | Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen. |
| Bergman Island | 2,006 | Marie Nyreröd | Documentary | 7.5 | 17 | English | The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal and artistic life; a journey through more than sixty years devoted to film, plays and television programs. (An abridged version of Ingmar Bergman Complete, 2004; a collection of three thematic documentaries: Bergman and Film; Bergman and Theater; and Bergman and Fårö Island.) |
| Anders Matthesen: Tal for dig selv | 2,004 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.5 | 15 | Danish | Tal for dig selv (Speak for Yourself) is Anders Matthesen's third one-man show. The show is divided into two sets. In the first set, Det gode sæt (The Good Set), Anders Matthesen addresses all topics from a positive outlook on life, while in the second set, Det onde sæt (The Bad Set), he takes a negative attitude. |
| A Storm Foretold: Det amerikanske oprør | 2,023 | Christoffer Guldbrandsen | Documentary | 7.5 | 13 | English | With a colossal cigar dangling from the corner of his mouth, a libation in hand, and an unmistakable disdain for his political adversaries, Roger Stone emerges as the quintessential ally to Donald Trump. Revered as a right-wing powerbroker, Stone's influential journey traces back to the era of President Nixon, a legacy inked onto his own back. In a film marked by unparalleled access, Christoffer Guldbrandsen captures the tumultuous final months of the Trump administration, centering on the heart of power and climaxing with the unprecedented storming of Congress. Guldbrandsen finds himself amidst the chaos as Trump supporters converge on Washington, witnessing firsthand Roger Stone's strategic retreat from his hotel suite as the 'Stop the Steal' campaign spirals into a riot. A Storm Foretold – Roger Stone and Die unfolds the narrative of a once-established political party metamorphosing into an anti-democratic movement, where impassioned rhetoric evolves into tangible violence. |
| Paradise and Back | 1,964 | Gabriel Axel | Drama | 7.5 | 13 | Danish | Tonnemann lives in one of the wooden sheds at the far end of Islands Brygge, close to Copenhagen's landfill site. But in 1928, he wants to leave this environment behind – to go where the air is fresh and life may offer both security and meaning. He is already on his way with his packed suitcase to sign on to a long-distance boat when a lovely girl gets in his way with her little red sports car. |
| Checkered Ninja | 2,018 | Anders Matthesen | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.4 | 257 | Danish | A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker. |
| You Are Not Alone | 1,978 | Ernst Johansen | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 79 | Danish | Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more. |
| The Olsen Gang Sees Red | 1,976 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.4 | 57 | Danish | Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture. |
| The Kingmaker | 2,019 | Lauren Greenfield | Documentary | 7.4 | 28 | English | Documentary centering on the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines whose behind-the-scenes influence of her husband Ferdinand's presidency rocketed her to the global political stage. |
| Good Copy Bad Copy | 2,007 | Andreas Johnsen | Documentary | 7.4 | 13 | English | Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances. |
| Into the Ice | 2,022 | Lars Ostenfeld | Documentary | 7.4 | 11 | Danish | In the Greenland ice sheet we can see our future. The film travels with three pioneering glaciologist on their expeditions INTO the inland ice of Greenland. Top-notch science meets breathtaking visuals when one of them descends into a 200 meter deep moulin hole to find out about the bottom of the ice sheet. What they find may sound the alarm for our planet's climate and is a clear call to act now. |
| The Guilty | 2,018 | Gustav Möller | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 7.3 | 1,803 | Danish | Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her. |
| Riders of Justice | 2,020 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 1,019 | Danish | Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible. |
| The Ugly Stepsister | 2,025 | Emilie Blichfeldt | Horror, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama | 7.3 | 928 | Norwegian | In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye. |
| Testament of Youth | 2,015 | James Kent | History, Drama, War | 7.3 | 783 | English | Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times. |
| Holy Spider | 2,022 | Ali Abbasi | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Horror | 7.3 | 493 | Persian | A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners. |
| Europa | 1,991 | Lars von Trier | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 349 | German | Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him. |
| In China They Eat Dogs | 1,999 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Action, Comedy, Crime | 7.3 | 286 | Danish | Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works. |
| What Will People Say | 2,017 | Iram Haq | Drama | 7.3 | 213 | Norwegian | Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture. |
| Long Way North | 2,015 | Rémi Chayé | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family | 7.3 | 175 | French | In 1892 Saint Petersburg, when her explorer grandfather's failure to return from his latest expedition brings dishonour to her aristocratic family, a resilient teenager runs away to follow in his trail in search of his famed ship. |
| Pelle the Conqueror | 1,987 | Bille August | Drama | 7.3 | 156 | Danish | In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America. |
| Sami Blood | 2,016 | Amanda Kernell | Drama | 7.3 | 145 | Swedish | Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture. |
| Everlasting Moments | 2,008 | Jan Troell | Drama, History | 7.3 | 78 | Swedish | In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life. |
| Hunger | 1,966 | Henning Carlsen | Drama | 7.3 | 51 | Danish | 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 he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride. |
| Beyond the Barricade | 1,920 | Holger-Madsen | Drama | 7.3 | 47 | Danish | Family man Poul Berg is tempted by a questionable investement offer and indebts himself to a point where suicide seems like the only way out. His widow struggles to maintain even a simple standard of living for herself and their three children, who are fatally marked by their fathers deed. (stumfilm.dk) |
| Helium | 2,014 | Anders Walter | Drama, Family | 7.3 | 42 | Danish | A young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about Helium, a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor, Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life. |
| Niko: Beyond the Northern Lights | 2,024 | Kari Juusonen | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 | 40 | Finnish | Niko the reindeer joins his father in Santa's Flying Forces, but when Santa's sleigh is stolen by an acquaintance, Niko must find it in time for Christmas. |
| A Funny Man | 2,011 | Martin Zandvliet | Drama | 7.3 | 32 | Danish | Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise to fame. He struggles between his own desire to gain critical respect and servicing the audience¿s needs. Costing his kindred friendship to on-stage partner Kjeld Petersen (Lars Ranthe) Dirch takes on Steinbeck's classic »Of Mice and Men«, only for the audience to break out in laughter at his first line. Dirch's Lennie becomes a running joke, and so has, Dirch believes, his own life. |
| Crumb at a Gallop | 1,992 | Sven Methling | Family, Comedy | 7.3 | 19 | Danish | Everything is normal with the Krumborg family – but when you know them, nothing can surprise you anymore. The two robbers Boris and Ivan want to ki... |
| And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine | 2,023 | Axel Danielson | Documentary | 7.3 | 18 | Swedish | From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead. |
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | 2,004 | Pirjo Honkasalo | Documentary | 7.3 | 13 | Finnish | A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp. |
| Canned Dreams | 2,012 | Katja Gauriloff | Documentary | 7.3 | 11 | Finnish | Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands? The film not only traces the various stages of the production process, but gives a voice to the people who work as part of it. |
| Melancholia | 2,011 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Science Fiction | 7.2 | 3,743 | English | Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. |
| The Purity of Vengeance | 2,018 | Christoffer Boe | Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 7.2 | 538 | Danish | Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties. |
| Pusher II | 2,004 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.2 | 504 | Danish | Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done. |
| Babette's Feast | 1,987 | Gabriel Axel | Drama, History, Comedy | 7.2 | 433 | Danish | A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark. |
| Pusher III | 2,005 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 411 | Danish | Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan. |
| TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard | 2,013 | Simon Klose | Documentary, Crime | 7.2 | 347 | Swedish | TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level. |
| Virgin Mountain | 2,015 | Dagur Kári | Drama | 7.2 | 252 | IS | Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world. |
| Heartstone | 2,016 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Romance, Drama | 7.2 | 173 | IS | A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood. |
| The Last Client | 2,022 | Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 171 | Danish | Renowned psychologist Susanne (Signe Egholm Olsen) is caught in a living nightmare when her new client (Anton Hjejle) turns out to be a wanted serial killer. |
| Gertrud | 1,964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 170 | Danish | Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality. |
| Into Eternity: A Film for the Future | 2,010 | Michael Madsen | Documentary | 7.2 | 84 | English | Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous. |
| The Olsen Gang on the Track | 1,975 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 52 | Danish | Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan. |
| The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang | 1,974 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 52 | Danish | The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan. |
| Calamity | 2,020 | Rémi Chayé | Comedy, Animation, Family, Adventure, Western | 7.2 | 46 | French | 1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the dangers in a gigantic and wild world where everything is possible. |
| Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country | 2,008 | Anders Østergaard | Documentary | 7.2 | 42 | English | Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. |
| We Shall Overcome | 2,006 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 7.2 | 41 | Danish | A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark. |
| The Idealist | 2,015 | Christina Rosendahl | Thriller | 7.2 | 35 | Danish | A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War. |
| The Red Chapel | 2,010 | Mads Brügger | Comedy, Documentary | 7.2 | 29 | Danish | Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act. |
| Hamsun | 1,996 | Jan Troell | Drama | 7.2 | 25 | Swedish | Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself. |
| Way Home | 2,024 | Charlotte Sieling | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 20 | Danish | How far are you willing to go to save the people you love? This is the question Christian is forced to answer when he is smuggled into Syria in a desperate search for his son Adam. It's a deadly and soul-searching journey into a brutal, war-torn country. Gradually, Christian realises that he must be willing to sacrifice everything he believes in to be reunited with his son. |
| Born in Syria | 2,016 | Hernán Zin | Documentary | 7.2 | 19 | Spanish | This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of torment and integrate into a foreign land. |
| Jerusalem | 1,996 | Bille August | Drama | 7.2 | 14 | Swedish | Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine. |
| Baronessen fra benzintanken | 1,960 | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy | 7.2 | 14 | Danish | The film begins with Baron von Rosensteen's funeral. As Rosensteen has no heirs, the old Rosensteen Castle is to be inherited by the Rabenfeldt family. Supreme Court Attorney Berg visits the widow baroness about a document found among the papers of her son, the deceased baron. It turns out that the baron had a child out of wedlock with a non-noble woman. The widow baroness and the Supreme Court attorney decide to find the child, as this would mean that an heir to the castle had been found. The child turns out to be a girl named Anne Tofte, who works at a gas station with her uncle Lars Tofte and his colleague Hans Høy. They persuade Anne to live with the baroness for a while, which she is not very keen on. The widow tries to teach Anne to be a fine lady, rather than the tomboyish workshop mechanic her uncle had raised her to be. |
| A Lucky Man | 2,022 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Drama | 7.2 | 13 | Danish | A LUCKY MAN is a tribute to the popular Danish musician Flemming "Bamse" Duun Jørgensen, who has provided us with classics like “Vimmer Street”, “Why Does Louise Go Dancing” and “In A Boat That’s Itty-Bitty”. Behind the warm smile and the overalls is a powerful and moving story about a man’s lifelong pursuit of recognition and love. Flemming “Teddy” Jørgensen is the only child of 12 siblings to be given up for adoption. Flemming’s adoptive father wishes for Flemming to take over the family’s factory, but to the father’s dismay, Flemming chooses music and becomes the frontman of Teddy’s Friends. A fractured background that leaves deep marks in Flemming’s life. A LUCKY MAN is a warm and compassionate film that tells Teddy’s life story with his biggest hits as the soundscape. |
| Under the Stars in the Sky | 2,025 | Kasper Gaardsøe | Drama | 7.2 | 10 | Danish | The undisputed king of Danish Eurovision, Tommy Seebach, is suddenly left out in the cold. Struggling to compose one last song he finds inspiration in his family, but is torn by ambition as the song offers him a final shot at greatness. |
| One-Hand Clapping | 2,001 | Gert Fredholm | Drama, Comedy | 7.2 | 10 | Danish | Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the woman who claims to be the mother of his unknown daughter, turning his life and that of his companion upside down in the process. |
| The House That Jack Built | 2,018 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Horror, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 | 2,983 | English | Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years. |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | 2,009 | Daniel Alfredson | Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 7.1 | 1,456 | Swedish | After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past. |
| The Keeper of Lost Causes | 2,013 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | 7.1 | 809 | Danish | Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago. |
| Show Me Love | 1,998 | Lukas Moodysson | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.1 | 575 | Swedish | Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin. |
| After the Wedding | 2,006 | Susanne Bier | Drama | 7.1 | 472 | Danish | A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret. |
| In a Better World | 2,010 | Susanne Bier | Drama | 7.1 | 444 | Danish | 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. |
| The Green Butchers | 2,003 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Comedy | 7.1 | 325 | Danish | Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident. |
| You, the Living | 2,007 | Roy Andersson | Drama, Comedy, Music | 7.1 | 257 | Swedish | In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music. |
| Flickering Lights | 2,000 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Action, Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 239 | Danish | Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life. |
| As It Is in Heaven | 2,004 | Kay Pollak | Romance, Drama, Comedy, Music | 7.1 | 184 | Swedish | A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher. |
| Submarino | 2,010 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 7.1 | 170 | Danish | As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again. |
| Armadillo | 2,010 | Janus Metz | Documentary, War | 7.1 | 130 | Danish | 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 actors. |
| Open Hearts | 2,002 | Susanne Bier | Drama, Romance | 7.1 | 121 | Danish | Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her. |
| The Mole: Undercover in North Korea | 2,020 | Mads Brügger | Documentary | 7.1 | 113 | English | A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea. |
| Panda Bear in Africa | 2,024 | Karsten Kiilerich | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.1 | 76 | Dutch | A young adventurous panda travels from China to Africa to rescue his best friend, Jielong the Dragon, who has been kidnapped. On his journey, he discovers a strange amazing new world of mountains, deserts and jungles. |
| Held for Ransom | 2,019 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 7.1 | 76 | Danish | HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release. |
| The Last Viking | 2,025 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 70 | Danish | After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are. |
| The Backwater Gospel | 2,011 | Bo Mathorne | Western, Horror, Animation | 7.1 | 38 | English | Backwater is doomed by the regular visits of the undertaker and its dwellers blame a tramp. |
| Angels of the Universe | 2,000 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Drama | 7.1 | 32 | IS | The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band. |
| Zappa | 1,983 | Bille August | Drama | 7.1 | 31 | Danish | Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. All three seem friends at first, but gradually Steen starts pushing Mulle away while pulling the impressionable Bjørn with him towards more and more violence. |
| The Yes Men Are Revolting | 2,014 | Laura Nix | Documentary | 7.1 | 30 | English | Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, government officials and a complacent media in a series of outrageous stunts designed to draw awareness to the issue of climate change. |
| Out of the Darkness | 2,022 | Anders Refn | Drama, War | 7.1 | 22 | Danish | This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish Resistance movements fight. This movie takes place after 1943 where the official politic of 'corporation' comes to an end, and the Danish Resistance movement is gaining traction. The movie follows the Skov family from 1943 to the end of WWII. The growing opposition to the occupation and the increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family. |
| Let the River Flow | 2,023 | Ole Giæver | Drama | 7.1 | 18 | SE | During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with the derogatory jokes. When her cousin Mikkhal takes her to a camp by the Alta River, where people are demonstrating against the building of a dam, Ester learns how the fight for the river is also a revolt against the years of brutal racism and discrimination against her people. After a major confrontation with the police, Mikkhal and some other Sámi decide to go to Oslo to hunger strike in front of the Parliament. Knowing what is at stake, Ester realises it is time to make a stand… |
| Before It Ends | 2,023 | Anders Walter | Drama, History, War | 7.1 | 17 | Danish | When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans? |
| Ghosts of Cité Soleil | 2,006 | Asger Leth | Documentary | 7.1 | 17 | English | In the slum of Cité Soleil, President Aristide's most loyal supporters were ruling as kings. The five major gang leaders were controlling heavily armed young men; the Chiméres. The Secret army of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a film about Billy and Haitian 2pac. Two brothers. Gang Leaders of the Chiméres. |
| Offscreen | 2,006 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance, Horror | 7.1 | 16 | Danish | Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro – a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his selfmonitoring is so hair-raisingly private that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction. |
| Minor Mishaps | 2,002 | Annette K. Olesen | Drama | 7.1 | 13 | Danish | Minor Mishaps is the story of a family's reaction to the untimely death of their matriarch, examining the effect of the tragedy on John, her husband, who is himself ill, his daughters, Marianne and Eva, and their friends and family. When a man's wife dies in an accident, his children return home to deal with the tragedy together. The film throws a spotlight on each of their lives as they confront the changed dynamic in the family and their own lives, with some surprises, revelations and false accusations occurring along the way. |
| Benny's Bathtub | 1,971 | Jannik Hastrup | Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 13 | Danish | A boy explores the hidden depths of his bathtub in a grey world dominated by boring adults. |
| Anders Matthesen: Hva' snakker du om? | 2,001 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.1 | 12 | Danish | Anders "Anden" Matthesen's critically acclaimed stand-up show from 2000-2001. About a show that shares its name with Børneradio's popular satire CD (which was made by the same man) ...but which is nevertheless something completely different! About a one-man show with four men on stage? About two hours of varied comedy, ranging from classic stand-up to music, sketches, and a host of guests. |
| Reconstructing Utøya | 2,018 | Carl Javér | Documentary | 7.1 | 11 | Norwegian | This documentary picks up after the horror has ended. Almost 500 teens are in grief as 69 of their friends have fallen. They've been shot dead. How could this island ever become a safe place again? Here, we see how Utøya was first the safest place on Earth to the most terrible and how it was restored and stands as a beacon of hope for the survivors and the Norwegian people. |
| 1989 | 2,014 | Erzsébet Rácz | Documentary, History | 7.1 | 11 | English | Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the events that took place in Hungary as a prelude to the dramatic changes in November 1989. The director recreates the events and leads the audiences deep into the politicians’ secret meeting rooms by using a mix of interviews, archive material and reconstructed scenes and dialogues. |
| Triangle of Sadness | 2,022 | Ruben Östlund | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 2,744 | English | A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy. |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | 2,009 | Daniel Alfredson | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 7 | 1,767 | Swedish | Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation. |
| Pusher | 1,996 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 7 | 831 | Danish | A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord. |
| The Absent One | 2,014 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Thriller | 7 | 679 | Danish | Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong. |
| A Conspiracy of Faith | 2,016 | Hans Petter Moland | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7 | 601 | Danish | Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs. |
| Rams | 2,015 | Grímur Hákonarson | Drama | 7 | 296 | IS | In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. |
| Together | 2,000 | Lukas Moodysson | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7 | 263 | Swedish | Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives. |
| We Are the Best! | 2,013 | Lukas Moodysson | Drama, Music | 7 | 202 | Swedish | Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead. |
| Becoming Astrid | 2,018 | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Drama, History | 7 | 173 | Swedish | When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from society's norms and follow her heart. |
| The Best Intentions | 1,992 | Bille August | Drama, Romance | 7 | 72 | Swedish | In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress. |
| The Olsen Gang | 1,968 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7 | 57 | Danish | The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang. |
| A Summer Tale | 2,000 | Ulf Malmros | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7 | 55 | Swedish | The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him d... |
| The Olsen Gang Outta Sight | 1,977 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7 | 46 | Danish | Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates of Yvonne's cousin Georg from America. He is not just some old-fashioned strongbox thief that can't remember like Egon, but a young hip IT criminal, that thinks that everyone else is inferior. However, Egon doesn't take lightly to the Georg's patronizing so he sabotages Georg's computer and ruins his cup. This time Egon's ambitions reaches a new high, when he and his gang break in to the World Bank, and they get away with it. Of course, thanks to Yvonne, they aren't rich very long. |
| Election Night | 1,998 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Comedy | 7 | 43 | Danish | On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. |
| The Bench | 2,000 | Per Fly | Drama | 7 | 33 | Danish | Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own. |
| In the Presence of a Clown | 1,998 | Ingmar Bergman | Drama, TV Movie | 7 | 29 | Swedish | In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty. |
| Kill | 2,011 | Christoffer Boe | N/A | 7 | 28 | English | |
| 300 Miles to Heaven | 1,989 | Maciej Dejczer | Drama | 7 | 21 | Polish | Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark. |
| The Saga of Biorn | 2,011 | Benjamin Kousholt | Animation, Comedy | 7 | 20 | Danish | An old Viking is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy. |
| Concerning Violence | 2,014 | Göran Olsson | Documentary | 7 | 19 | Swedish | Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. |
| Across the Waters | 2,016 | Nicolo Donato | Drama, History, War | 7 | 15 | Danish | Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943. |
| Bølle Bob | 1,998 | Victor Marcussen | Family | 7 | 11 | Danish | In a quirky small town, mischievous bully Bølle-Bob clashes with overly polite Lise-Mette while the fearsome Børsterne enforce their own brutal order. Ambitious photo-model hopeful Sally vies for the attention of newspaper chief Iversen, all under the exasperated eye of scatterbrained teacher Fru Basse and the ever-scheming Mr. Blom with his grand plans for a tourist parking paradise. |
| Listen | 2,014 | Hamy Ramezan | Drama | 7 | 10 | Danish | A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance. |
| Force Majeure | 2,014 | Ruben Östlund | Drama | 6.9 | 1,193 | Swedish | While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out. |
| Kon-Tiki | 2,012 | Joachim Rønning | Adventure, History | 6.9 | 809 | Norwegian | The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. |
| The House of the Spirits | 1,993 | Bille August | Romance, Drama | 6.9 | 724 | English | A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America. |
| The Innocents | 2,021 | Eskil Vogt | Horror, Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 | 690 | Norwegian | Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen. |
| In Order of Disappearance | 2,014 | Hans Petter Moland | Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 660 | Norwegian | Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.” |
| Manderlay | 2,005 | Lars von Trier | Drama | 6.9 | 388 | Danish | In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay. |
| Queen of Hearts | 2,019 | May el-Toukhy | Drama | 6.9 | 362 | Danish | Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world. |
| Nightwatch | 1,994 | Ole Bornedal | Horror, Thriller | 6.9 | 309 | Danish | Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case. |
| The King's Choice | 2,016 | Erik Poppe | War, Action, Drama | 6.9 | 169 | Norwegian | On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway. |
| To Chiara | 2,021 | Jonas Carpignano | Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 | 109 | Italian | The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself. |
| Noi the Albino | 2,003 | Dagur Kári | Drama | 6.9 | 104 | IS | 17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control. |
| Just Another Love Story | 2,007 | Ole Bornedal | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.9 | 85 | Danish | Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits her in the hospital and is greeted by her family, who assumes he must be the Sebastian she told them about, the new fiance she met in Vietnam. |
| Mifune | 1,999 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 70 | Danish | Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl. |
| Master of the House | 1,925 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 6.9 | 63 | Danish | When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude. |
| The Olsen Gang Runs Amok | 1,973 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 54 | Danish | When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster. |
| The Olsen Gang in Jutland | 1,971 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 53 | Danish | The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland. |
| The Olsen Gang Goes to War | 1,978 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 51 | Danish | Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future. |
| Unrest | 2,017 | Jennifer Brea | Documentary | 6.9 | 49 | English | When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot. |
| The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence | 1,981 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 45 | Danish | As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid. |
| The Little Alien | 2,022 | Amalie Næsby Fick | Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.9 | 39 | Danish | It's the summer holiday, and Little Allan is home alone. But his older neighbor Helge will take care of him. Helge is fascinated by space, and it doesn't take long before Little Allan is pulled into Helge's plan to get in contact with aliens. |
| Maybe Baby 2 | 2,024 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Comedy | 6.9 | 32 | Danish | When two couples learn that the fertility clinic didn't swap their eggs after all, they resolve to move in together and raise their kids collectively. |
| Volcano | 2,011 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.9 | 31 | IS | Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past. |
| Eagles of the Republic | 2,025 | Tarik Saleh | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 | 29 | Arabic | Egypt's most adored actor, George Fahmy is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts the role and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like a moth drawn to the flame he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the film. |
| LEGO House - Home of the Brick | 2,018 | Anders Falck | Documentary | 6.9 | 29 | English | In Billund, Denmark, a nearly 130,000–square-foot house inspired by the iconic LEGO bricks is constructed, capturing the awe of kids of all ages. |
| A House Made of Splinters | 2,023 | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Documentary | 6.9 | 24 | English | A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy. |
| The Last Schnitzel | 2,017 | İsmet Kurtuluş | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.9 | 19 | Turkish | The world is ending, but the president of The Grand Turkish Republic won’t let that happen until he has a chicken schnitzel. Gleefully silly science fiction satire with political bite. |
| Anders Matthesen - Anden på coke? | 2,006 | Nikolaj Cederholm | Comedy | 6.9 | 18 | Danish | The latest stand-up from Denmark's biggest comedian. "Anden paa coke?" toured the country in 2006 and was seen live by over 100,000 people. Anden takes the stand-up comedy genre to a level never before seen in Denmark. There are backdrops, there is scenography, there is multimedia, but at its core, it is still just stand-up comedy at its very best! |
| Pretty Young Thing | 2,022 | Tilde Harkamp | Drama, Comedy | 6.9 | 16 | Danish | It’s a new school year and at Rosenholm High School there are many initiation rituals that the new first-year students must go through, which are of great importance for their future life in high school, not least for their personal life. Best friends and freshmen Frida and Selma quickly become friends with another first-year student Nadja. When Frida catches feelings for Nadja’s older boyfriend Emil and is invited to the ritual party for first-year students but Selma is not, their friendship starts to fall apart. |
| Harry and the Butler | 1,961 | Bent Christensen | Family, Comedy | 6.9 | 16 | Danish | A gentle comedy offering the promise of easy social consensus. Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). He decides to engage a butler to take good care of him for a time. This is a man of distinguished upper class service, but a generous nature which happily integrates with Harry's small but colourful world of drinking buddies and crackpot neighbourhood kids. |
| Merkel | 2,022 | Eva Weber | Documentary | 6.9 | 12 | German | Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the “Free World”, told for the first time for an international audience. |
| Solar Walk | 2,018 | Réka Bucsi | Animation | 6.9 | 12 | English | This award-winning animated mind-bender is a by turns whimsical, mysterious, and psychotropic vision of deep-space discovery. |
| Anders Matthesen: ...vender tilbage | 2,009 | Unknown | Comedy | 6.9 | 12 | Danish | ”Anders Matthesen vender tilbage” til det klassiske stand-up comedy set-up: Nærværet, improvisationen, den platte joke - side om side med noget der måske endda kunne minde om en dyb tanke? Historier fra komikerens eget liv, opdigtet vrøvl, personlige meninger, eller påtagede provokationer. Præcis hvem komikeren er, og hvad han mener, er ikke vigtigt ... Det er den fælles oplevelse og de tanker der bliver sat i gang der tæller og vigtigst af alt: Grinet! Det er så befriende at få lov at grine i længere tid af gangen. Og Anders Matthesen ved kun én ting der er bedre end selv at grine: At se dig grine! |
| Katja's Adventure | 1,999 | Lars Hesselholdt | Adventure, Family | 6.9 | 12 | Danish | Danish Katja looks for a lost falcon while on vacation in Italy. |
| The Weight of Elephants | 2,013 | Daniel Borgman | Drama | 6.9 | 11 | English | Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more different. Neither his chronically depressed uncle nor his overworked grandmother understand the ten-year-old’s games. His mother abandoned him when he was very young and he is bullied at school. Just as news arrives that three children are missing, a new family moves in next door. Adrian develops a close relationship to their tomboyish, ten-year-old daughter Nicole and believes he is getting close to solving the mys- tery of the missing children. New Zealand forms the backdrop for this universal story for adults and those who have never wanted to grow up. It is a story about friendship and loneliness, emotions which Adrian already feels so poignantly as a child. The Danish first-time director’s expressive visual language dramatically merges water and air, reality and a hint of fantasy. |
| Emma's Shadow | 1,988 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Comedy | 6.9 | 11 | Danish | Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in... |
| Home Sweet Home | 2,025 | René Frelle Petersen | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Danish | Sofie begins her new work as a carer making home visits to old people. She is quickly confronted with the harsh realities of this challenging job. A precise, authentic representation of a profession that remains largely invisible to the public eye. |
| The Square | 2,017 | Ruben Östlund | Drama | 6.8 | 1,696 | Swedish | A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit. |
| Thelma | 2,017 | Joachim Trier | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 | 1,114 | Norwegian | A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities. |
| Asterix in Britain | 1,986 | Pino Van Lamsweerde | Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 6.8 | 711 | French | One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink. |
| Against the Ice | 2,022 | Peter Flinth | Drama, Adventure, History | 6.8 | 598 | English | In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland. |
| A Hijacking | 2,012 | Tobias Lindholm | Thriller, Drama | 6.8 | 289 | Danish | Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence. |
| A Beautiful Life | 2,023 | Mehdi Avaz | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.8 | 261 | Danish | When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love. |
| R | 2,010 | Tobias Lindholm | Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 236 | Danish | The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates. |
| Godland | 2,022 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 6.8 | 193 | Danish | In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality. |
| A Fortunate Man | 2,018 | Bille August | Drama | 6.8 | 170 | Danish | A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin. |
| Play | 2,011 | Ruben Östlund | Drama, Crime | 6.8 | 135 | English | In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence. |
| Hacker | 2,019 | Poul Berg | Action, Family | 6.8 | 131 | Danish | 13-year-old Benjamin discovers that his mother didn’t die in an accident as he was led to believe. The trail leads to high-ranking officials in the Danish Secret Service. "Trust no one!", he is told. |
| Brothers | 2,004 | Susanne Bier | Drama, War | 6.8 | 111 | Danish | A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family. |
| Tótem | 2,023 | Lila Avilés | Drama | 6.8 | 86 | Spanish | In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same. |
| Reconstruction | 2,003 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 77 | Danish | Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return. |
| Teddy Bear | 2,012 | Mads Matthiesen | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 65 | Danish | After failing to find love in Denmark, a painfully shy bodybuilder sets off for Thailand to escape from his overbearing mother and search for a bride. |
| The Man Who Saved the World | 2,014 | Peter Anthony | Documentary, History, War | 6.8 | 55 | Danish | The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. |
| King's Game | 2,004 | Nikolaj Arcel | Thriller, Drama | 6.8 | 49 | Danish | Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car accident. A flurry of lies and media speculation surrounds the incident. Gradually, Ulrik unearths a ruthless conspiracy involving the incumbent prime minister. |
| Valhalla | 1,986 | Peter Madsen | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 6.8 | 49 | Danish | Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology. |
| Hawaii, Oslo | 2,004 | Erik Poppe | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 48 | Norwegian | Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon at the institution to celebrate his birthday, but who himself has plans to use his leave from prison to run away. And most of all we meet the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone - except himself? |
| The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders | 1,979 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.8 | 48 | Danish | Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank. |
| Dark Horse | 2,005 | Dagur Kári | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 40 | Danish | A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark. |
| They Caught the Ferry | 1,948 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 6.8 | 40 | Danish | 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 away. |
| Dennis | 2,007 | Mads Matthiesen | Drama | 6.8 | 38 | Danish | When Dennis, an introvert bodybuilder, invites a local girl out on a date his mother is hurt and disappointed. Despite the pressure she puts on him to cancel the date, Dennis ventures into a night that he will never forget. |
| Beyond Beyond | 2,014 | Esben Toft Jacobsen | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.8 | 31 | Swedish | Beyond Beyond is a story about wanting the impossible. A story about a little rabbit boy not old enough to understand the rules of life, who takes up the fight against the most powerful force. While doing so, he learns more and more about life. |
| The Sun King | 2,005 | Tomas Villum Jensen | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 29 | Danish | While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look. |
| The Art of Crying | 2,007 | Peter Schønau Fog | Drama | 6.8 | 28 | Danish | Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival family threatens his father's livelihood, Allan starts committing atrocious acts. |
| Dogville Confessions | 2,004 | Sami Saif | Documentary | 6.8 | 26 | English | A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe. |
| InnSæi | 2,016 | Kristín Ólafsdóttir | Documentary | 6.8 | 24 | English | A story of soul searching, science, nature and creativity, InnSæi takes us on a global journey to uncover the art of connecting within today's world of distraction and stress. |
| Allegro | 2,005 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 24 | Danish | Famous pianist Zetterström returns home to his native Denmark, to give a concert, just to find out that the choices he has made in his life have affected his love life greatly. |
| LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling | 2,023 | Ken Cunningham | Animation, Comedy, TV Movie | 6.8 | 23 | English | After finding his journal, Chaos Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm recalls the mishaps and mayhem from 30 years ago about the island amusement park fil... |
| Stolen Spring | 1,993 | Peter Schrøder | Drama | 6.8 | 20 | Danish | At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer. |
| Knight of Fortune | 2,024 | Lasse Lyskjær Noer | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 18 | Danish | The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief. |
| Word of God | 2,017 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 18 | Danish | It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. Here, the family's patriarch psychologist and self-appointed God, Uffe, rules the roost in his dressing gown and underwear. Changes threaten the peace when Uffe decides to write his memoirs. |
| Land Of Glass | 2,018 | Marie Dalsgaard Rønn | Family, Fantasy | 6.8 | 13 | Danish | Jas lives together with his father, who is a truck driver and spends lot of time away from home. One day, Jas finds a girl and an old lady hiding in the barn. They call themselves Neia and Alva and have strange clothes and hair. They say they live in the woods but cannot return. Soon, couple of secret service agents show up and start asking a lot of questions. Soon they figure out that they're poachers looking for healing gem of the elves. Jas, together with his best friend Isaac, decides to help their new friends against the poachers. |
| Democrats | 2,014 | Camilla Nielsson | Documentary | 6.8 | 13 | SN | An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe's dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option. |
| Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields | 2,011 | Kerthy Fix | Documentary, Music | 6.8 | 11 | English | Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop's most beloved and influential artists. |
| Through a Glass, Darkly | 2,008 | Jesper W. Nielsen | Drama | 6.8 | 11 | Norwegian | A moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept death and understands how wonderful life really is. The script is based on the novel by Jostein Gaarder. |
| War of the Birds | 1,990 | Jannik Hastrup | Family, Animation | 6.8 | 11 | Danish | Fagin is the bad bird of an otherwise idyllic forest. He assaults the nest of two wrens and destroys all their eggs except one that, when hatched, is adopted by an owl (patterned on W. C. Fields). A counter-offensive against Fagin is launched with help enlisted from a seagull named Armstrong, two nice mice and a sparrow. There is romance, too, and a jazzy score goes with this animated ornithology extravaganza. |
| Anders | 2,013 | Cemille Matthesen | Comedy | 6.8 | 10 | Danish | Anders Matthesen (Danish stand-up) performs his new show "Anders" |
| Gambler | 2,006 | Phie Ambo | Documentary | 6.8 | 10 | Danish | A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher." |
| Six Kids and Their Uncle | 1,966 | Annelise Reenberg | Family, Comedy | 6.8 | 10 | Danish | Erik Lund is a child psychologist and defend a doctoral thesis on the subject. His knowledge is at the very theoretical level, and he will be seriously trouble when he for a time has to babysit his sister's six children ranging in age from baby to teenager. Fortunately, the neighbor cute daughter, Lisbeth has a more practical take on things. |
| Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | 2,013 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 | 3,085 | English | The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care. |
| Speak No Evil | 2,022 | Christian Tafdrup | Horror, Thriller, Drama | 6.7 | 1,060 | Danish | A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness. |
| Border | 2,018 | Ali Abbasi | Fantasy, Drama, Crime | 6.7 | 905 | Swedish | When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind. |
| Cairo Conspiracy | 2,022 | Tarik Saleh | Thriller | 6.7 | 272 | French | A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite. |
| Bleeder | 1,999 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drama, Crime | 6.7 | 201 | Danish | Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist. |
| LEGO DC Batman: Family Matters | 2,019 | Matt Peters | Animation, Family, Action, Comedy | 6.7 | 161 | English | Suspicion is on high after Batman, Batgirl, Robin and other DC superheroes receive mysterious invitations. However, family values must remain strong when Batman and his team encounter the villainous Red Hood, who is obsessed with destroying the Bat-family and all of Gotham City. |
| Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II | 2,002 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 | 118 | Danish | The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison ce... |
| April 9th | 2,015 | Roni Ezra | Drama, War, History | 6.7 | 108 | Danish | In the early morning of April 9, 1940, the Danish army is alerted: the Germans have crossed the border. |
| Strings | 2,004 | Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 | 81 | English | The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his own designs on the throne. |
| The Olsen Gang's Big Score | 1,972 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.7 | 57 | Danish | After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money. |
| Take the Trash | 2,008 | Rasmus Heide | Comedy | 6.7 | 45 | Danish | Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life. |
| Ossos | 1,997 | Pedro Costa | Drama | 6.7 | 45 | Portuguese | After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live. |
| Maybe Baby | 2,023 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Comedy | 6.7 | 38 | Danish | When two pregnant women learn that the fertility clinic mistakenly swapped their eggs, they must navigate the error — and their disdain for each other. |
| Chinaman | 2,005 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 37 | Danish | Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity. |
| Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness | 1,998 | Morten Arnfred | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 | 33 | Swedish | A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases. |
| Nest | 2,022 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 6.7 | 30 | IS | A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy. |
| Little Wing | 2,016 | Selma Vilhunen | Drama | 6.7 | 23 | Finnish | Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world. |
| The Mysterious X | 1,914 | Benjamin Christensen | Mystery, Drama | 6.7 | 23 | Danish | Not long before marine officer van Hauen goes off to war and heavy-heartedly leaves his family, he coincidentally discovers that his wife has a secret liaison with the dubious Count Spinelli. What the van Hauens do not yet know, is that the sleazy Spinelli has a hidden agenda. (stumfilm.dk) |
| Sorrow and Joy | 2,013 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.7 | 21 | Danish | Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, experience the biggest sorrow and misfortune one can ever imagine. Nevertheless, in all the hopelessness they must try to reach for mutual and mature love in order to continue life after death. |
| Martha | 1,967 | Erik Balling | Comedy, Family | 6.7 | 16 | Danish | The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next. |
| Charley's Aunt | 1,959 | Poul Bang | Comedy, Family | 6.7 | 16 | Danish | Charles and Peter have passed their law degree and are looking forward to wooing a few girls in the country. For that, they need a chaperone and persuade their fellow student Ditlev to play Charles's aunt from Brazil. Ditlev has a talent for acting and takes the role very seriously, but when Charles's real aunt turns up, things get complicated. |
| Long Story Short | 2,015 | May el-Toukhy | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 15 | Danish | The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebration, anniversary and birthday parties. The friends are all late thirties or early forties. They fought all with their own idea of what the perfect love really is, and must re-evaluate their perception in the course of history. |
| Ernst & the Light | 1,996 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Comedy | 6.7 | 15 | English | The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice. |
| Boys | 1,977 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.7 | 14 | Danish | A boy, as seen through three ages and episodes of his life: as a small boy having a boy cousin as his house guest, as a high-school boy in abject love, and as a young stud trying to bed down a nurse. |
| Carl Th. Dreyer | 1,966 | Jørgen Roos | Documentary | 6.7 | 12 | Danish | A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in his feature films and about the important things in film making: the script and the casting. He tells about his theories about setting and acting. |
| Bølle Bob og smukke Sally | 2,005 | Rune Bendixen | Family, Music | 6.7 | 11 | Danish | Bully Bob is in love, but it is very difficult to say it. At the same time beautiful Sally interested in making their presence felt. When a sudden, a television crew to town she gets her chance. |
| Olsen Gang Junior | 2,001 | Peter Flinth | Family, Comedy | 6.7 | 11 | Danish | In 1958, a young Egon Olsen tries to escape from the orphanage by being adopted by a rich couple - but his new "parents" are rocket scientists who want to shoot him into space. |
| Stranger | 2,025 | Mads Hedegaard | Drama, Thriller | 6.7 | 10 | Danish | When 19-year-old Aathi and her family, as the first farmers ever, arrive in what is now known as Denmark, her family is killed by a local tribe of hunter-gatherers. To survive, Aathi and her brother are forced to live with the tribe. |
| Something Better to Come | 2,014 | Hanna Polak | Documentary | 6.7 | 10 | English | Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It’s a hard place run by the Russian mafia. And it's where Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people. Life is tough in the Svalka, but it’s also a place where beauty and humanity can arise from the most unlikely conditions. It is from this place that Yula dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak followed Yula for 14 years, bringing us along on Yula's journey to achieve this dream. |
| At Night | 2,007 | Christian E. Christiansen | Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Danish | Christmas and New Year. Three girls between 18 and 20, are hospitalized with cancer. All three of them have serious problems, not just in terms of health, but also in terms of their relationships with their nearest and dearest. The girls find a haven in each other's company, where they are free from the fear of death and loneliness, and a substantial part of the film describes their sense of humour, unrestrained candidness and uncompromising zest for life. |
| Images of Liberation | 1,982 | Lars von Trier | War, Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Danish | A German officer visits his Danish mistress after the occupation of Denmark has ended. |
| Antichrist | 2,009 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 | 2,775 | English | A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. |
| Amanda Knox | 2,016 | Rod Blackhurst | Documentary, Crime | 6.6 | 583 | Danish | This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy. |
| Help! I'm a Fish | 2,000 | Michael Hegner | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Drama | 6.6 | 445 | Danish | Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish. |
| The Nile Hilton Incident | 2,017 | Tarik Saleh | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 6.6 | 382 | English | Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution. |
| The Boss of It All | 2,006 | Lars von Trier | Comedy | 6.6 | 310 | Danish | The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to play the part. |
| The Right of Youth | 1,911 | August Blom | Drama | 6.6 | 235 | Danish | Court huntsman, Søtoft, is courting his daughter Else’s lady-in-waiting, Miss Engelke. That’s why it’s a bit of a punch in the stomach when, late one evening, he discovers his son Ove in close contact with her. Chamberlain von Plessen, who had been gossiping to Søtoft and is himself spying on the young couple, is going to set fire to the room they’re in. The hurt Søtoft wants to leave the young couple to their cruel fate – that is until he discovers that it’s not Engelke, but his daughter Else, who is trapped in the flames with her brother. (Stumfilm.dk) |
| A War | 2,015 | Tobias Lindholm | Drama, War | 6.6 | 231 | Danish | Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime. |
| Copenhagen | 2,014 | Mark Raso | Adventure, Romance, Drama | 6.6 | 211 | English | After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself in Copenhagen, the place of his father’s birth. He befriends the youthful Effy, who works in William’s hotel as part of an internship program, and they set off to find William’s last living relative. Effy’s mix of youthful exuberance and wisdom challenges William unlike any woman ever has. As the attraction builds, he must come to grips with destabilizing elements of his family’s sordid past. |
| A Second Chance | 2,014 | Susanne Bier | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 159 | Danish | Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong. |
| Terkel in Trouble | 2,004 | Stefan Fjeldmark | Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 | 133 | Danish | 6th-grader Terkel begins experiencing a streak of bad luck after sitting on a black spider. His teacher dies and is replaced by the strange Justin. At home, Terkel's Uncle Stewart erupts in sporadic fits of rage, and at school Terkel is bullied by two boys after they learn that fat Doris likes him. On a school camping trip, Terkel begins receiving death threats and must figure out who wants to kill him. |
| Summer of '92 | 2,015 | Kasper Barfoed | Drama, Comedy | 6.6 | 116 | Danish | The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship. |
| With a Right to Kill | 2,003 | Morten Henriksen | Documentary | 6.6 | 98 | Danish | This documentary looks at the Danish resistance movement's execution of 400 informers during the Nazi occupation and the ensuing cover-up. |
| Sons | 2,024 | Gustav Möller | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 90 | Danish | Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and most violent in the prison. Here begins an unsettling psychological thriller, where Eva’s sense of justice puts both her morality and future at stake. |
| Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case | 2,020 | Emma Sullivan | Documentary, Crime | 6.6 | 64 | English | In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in, Madsen brutally murdered Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine. An unprecedented revelation of a killer and the journey his young helpers take as they reckon with their own complicity and prepare to testify. |
| Our Time | 2,018 | Carlos Reygadas | Drama | 6.6 | 63 | Spanish | A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy. |
| The Ambassador | 2,011 | Mads Brügger | Documentary, History | 6.6 | 62 | English | Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa. |
| Checkered Ninja 2 | 2,021 | Anders Matthesen | Animation, Comedy, Action, Family | 6.6 | 59 | Danish | After Phillip Eppermint manages to evade a prison sentence in Thailand, Checkered Ninja comes alive and seeks out Alex. Together, with Alex and his entire family, they now have to go to Thailand to bust Eppermint. |
| The Olsen Gang in a Fix | 1,969 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.6 | 52 | Danish | A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent. |
| Freddy Frogface | 2,011 | Pete Dodd | Comedy, Animation, Family | 6.6 | 51 | Danish | Based on a classic Danish children's book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard. Being small doesn't make life easy for little ten-year-old Victor and his friends... |
| A Perfectly Normal Family | 2,020 | Malou Reymann | Drama | 6.6 | 48 | Danish | Emma has a perfectly normal family until one day it turns out her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas becomes Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to hold on to what they had while accepting that everything has changed. |
| Accused | 2,005 | Jacob Thuesen | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 47 | Danish | On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life is exposed. |
| Silent Heart | 2,014 | Bille August | Drama | 6.6 | 45 | Danish | Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface. |
| The Olsen Gang Long Gone | 1,981 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.6 | 44 | Danish | Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion. |
| Black Balls | 2,009 | Anders Matthesen | Comedy | 6.6 | 31 | Danish | Alex Klein is a bankrupt real estate executive whose life is on a collision course. Not only do the market and his career look like a Trabant from before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but he has a wife who is thriving in success; a family whose habits are driving him insane; clients with bad taste and too much money. Not to mention 14-year-old baristas who think they know the difference between highland coffee beans, picked by virgins at midnight and the coffee from the local supermarket. So there's a lot getting on his nerves, so much so, that one day, when things become real serious, he can only weather the storm in his own repelling way. |
| The Kiss | 2,022 | Bille August | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 29 | Danish | A romantic drama set in Denmark in 1913, the story follows Anton, a noble and conscientious young man whose top priority is to complete his training as a cavalry officer. During a training session, he orders his platoon to help Baron von Løvenskjold and finds himself invited to a ball at the castle, where he meets the baron’s beautiful daughter Edith who has been in an accident and ended up in a wheelchair. |
| Costa Brava, Lebanon | 2,022 | Mounia Akl | Drama | 6.6 | 28 | Arabic | Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land. |
| Awakening | 2,008 | Christian Tafdrup | Drama | 6.6 | 22 | Danish | Carsten is dating Melissa, who introduces him to her parents. On a camping trip with Melissa's family, Carsten finds that he shares a secret with Melissa's father. |
| Twist and Shout | 1,984 | Bille August | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 22 | Danish | Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while his strict father rules his life. He desires Kirsten, but she's unattainable. Pregnancy, a horrific abortion, an engagement party, and a revelation about the rectitude of Erik's father lead to a climax: Bjorn and Erik must stand up to controlling adults. |
| Honey | 2,025 | Natasha Arthy | Family, Comedy | 6.6 | 16 | Danish | Honey (13) is shy and lies about herself and her chaotic family, and generally finds it difficult to show who she is in her new class. She loves to play music – and is really good – just no one knows. Honey just wants a place in Liam's band Full Smash, so when she finds out that her dead, music-loving grandfather Marcel might not be dead at all, she decides to find him. Maybe he's just what she needs so she can finally learn to stand up for herself. |
| Bananas!* | 2,009 | Fredrik Gertten | Documentary | 6.6 | 15 | English | Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? |
| Unruly | 2,023 | Malou Reymann | Drama | 6.6 | 14 | Danish | The year is 1933, and society has certain expectations of how young women should behave. 17-year-old Maren is wild and unruly and is in turn sent to the women's institution at Sprogø to become more compliant. The stay at Sprogø has the opposite effect on Maren, and she ignites a spark in Sørine, who after six years at the institution has become accustomed to the norms of the time and the expectations of the institution. Slowly the two begin to form an unbreakable bond, which will affect the rest of their lives. |
| This Life 2: Those Left Behind | 2,022 | Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | Drama, War | 6.6 | 14 | Danish | A poignant drama about a Danish family's unbearable loss and total disintegration, but above all about the faith and hope that miraculously gives them the superhuman strength not to give up. |
| The Venus Effect | 2,021 | Anna Emma Haudal | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 14 | Danish | A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business when, against all expectation, she falls in love with a spirited and somewhat older rainbow girl, Andrea. Andrea claims to be suffering from stress. But in reality, she is heartbroken and has sought refuge at her uncle’s apple plantation. Liv’s encounter with Andrea becomes the catalyst for a divorce, the loss of a friendship and an identity crisis that ultimately shatters their love. But in a rebellion against her parents, Liv realises that love is mutable and that a family may assume many forms. |
| Resistance | 2,015 | Michael Graziano | Documentary, History | 6.6 | 14 | English | Are the medicines and every day products we use putting us at risk RESISTANCE sheds light on the global crisis of antibiotic resistance and uncovers how our extensive use of bacteria-killing antibiotics has created a new kind of disease, resistant to the medicines created to destroy it. |
| Memories of a Marriage | 1,989 | Kaspar Rostrup | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | Danish | Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together unmarried, her mother's hunger strike when they won't baptize their son. Regitze is passionate and forthright; she speaks her mind. He remembers her inviting a derelict for Christmas dinner, and the man shows up with five bashful friends. He recalls her taking on their son's teacher when the man slaps the lad. He remembers her love of dancing and his fear that his social clumsiness might end their relationship. Now, in twilight, he has other things to face. |
| On My Mind | 2,021 | Martin Strange-Hansen | Drama | 6.6 | 12 | Danish | Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke. |
| We Are the Champions | 2,005 | Martin Hagbjer | Comedy | 6.6 | 11 | Danish | Divorced father without custody Torben, a former pro soccer player, concentrates on his talented son David's juniors poorly performing team. When the coach suddenly accepts another position, Torben gets his change 'for the time being'. He becomes a substitute father for several of the boys. He's opposed by many parents, but finds love again with one player's single mother. Yet the greatest reward comes from David, in a twisted way. |
| Key House Mirror | 2,015 | Michael Noer | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 10 | Danish | Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is because of her husband Max's illness: a series of strokes has reduced him to a vegetable. The fact that Lily isn’t exactly the way she used to be becomes slowly clear in the Danish drama Key House Mirror - the title refers to a memory test. It’s not easy for Lily to leave her old habits behind her and fit in with the rules of the home. Her life blossoms when she meets an 80-year-old Swedish neighbour, a charming man who gives her the attention she has long missed. Lily’s daughter, however, is not so happy with the budding romance. |
| The Idiots | 1,998 | Lars von Trier | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 636 | Danish | A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves. |
| Men & Chicken | 2,015 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 245 | Danish | Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives. |
| Red Road | 2,006 | Andrea Arnold | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 211 | English | Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him. |
| LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red | 2,023 | Ken Cunningham | Animation, Action, Family | 6.5 | 150 | English | The Avengers gather to celebrate their latest victory, but their celebration is quickly interrupted by the mysterious disappearance of Black Widow's father, Red Guardian. As the Avengers investigate, they discover that Red Guardian isn't the only one missing when they meet a dangerous new foe quite unlike anything they've ever encountered before. |
| Klown | 2,010 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Comedy | 6.5 | 132 | Danish | Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all? |
| Involuntary | 2,008 | Ruben Östlund | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 110 | Swedish | In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored. |
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | 2,002 | Lone Scherfig | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 100 | Danish | The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well. |
| Margrete: Queen of the North | 2,021 | Charlotte Sieling | History, Drama | 6.5 | 90 | Danish | 1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union. |
| Medea | 1,989 | Lars von Trier | Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 79 | Danish | Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. |
| The Shamer's Daughter 2: The Serpent Gift | 2,020 | Ask Hasselbalch | Adventure, Fantasy | 6.5 | 72 | Danish | The Shamer's Daughter, Dina, with the magical power of compelling people to admit their most secret shame, must save her family with her newly found father. But he is a Blackmaster, with the power to make people see and believe things that aren't true, so Dina must deal with having inherited this horrible power, while forging a relationship with a father she fears and mistrusts. |
| Lost in the Night | 2,023 | Amat Escalante | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 6.5 | 67 | Spanish | A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past. |
| The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear | 2,017 | Amalie Næsby Fick | Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 65 | Danish | Life in Solby is nice and peaceful until one day Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle by the harbour. The bottle is from the missing mayor of Solby with a message that he is on a mysterious island and has made a great discovery. Now they must embark on a perilous journey to help save the mayor and bring him home, and in the process they uncover something that will bring great pleasure to the city of Solby – a giant pear. |
| The One and Only | 1,999 | Susanne Bier | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 54 | Danish | When kitchen fitter Niller comes to install Sus's new suite, their immediate attraction to one another proves a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships. |
| The Perfect Human | 1,968 | Jørgen Leth | Drama | 6.5 | 52 | Danish | 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. |
| Mango | 2,025 | Mehdi Avaz | Romance, Drama | 6.5 | 51 | Danish | An ambitious hotelier and her reluctant daughter take a trip to Málaga, where they find what they've been craving in a farmer's idyllic mango orchard. |
| The Man from Majorca | 1,984 | Bo Widerberg | Thriller, Crime | 6.5 | 46 | Swedish | On 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Vice cops Johansson and Jarnebring, the first to the scene of the crime, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as they think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose certainty, alibis arise, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why? |
| Videocracy | 2,009 | Erik Gandini | Documentary | 6.5 | 45 | Italian | In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality. Fed on a diet of semi-naked dancing girls, inane competitions and rickety reality shows built around the most ridiculous of premises, is it any wonder that Italians are becoming a nation of fame-hungry wannabes? |
| Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance | 2,001 | Kjell Sundvall | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 | 32 | Swedish | Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge. |
| Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey | 2,011 | Alexander Eik | Crime | 6.5 | 31 | Norwegian | Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility. |
| The Charmer | 2,018 | Milad Alami | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 27 | Danish | A young Iranian man is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time runs out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him. The film deals with themes of race, class, and the struggle for a better life. |
| In the Middle of the Night | 1,984 | Erik Balling | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 26 | Danish | Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor. |
| Tree of Knowledge | 1,981 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.5 | 24 | Danish | As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands. |
| Rosita | 2,015 | Frederikke Aspöck | Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 23 | Danish | Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future. |
| Busters verden | 1,984 | Bille August | Family | 6.5 | 21 | Danish | The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv ("A Day in the Life of Hector Hansen") and Kom der lys i neonrøret, gutter? ("Was There Light in the Neon Tube, Boys?") – in addition to Busters Verden. |
| Viking Blood | 2,021 | Uri Schwarz | Action | 6.5 | 16 | English | When a viking mercenary finds himself in the middle of a battle between the old gods and the new, he decides that neither side deserves to win. And so begins an epic battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of a nation. |
| The Boy Who Walked Backwards | 1,995 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 6.5 | 16 | Danish | Nine-year old Andreas struggles to cope with the death of his beloved older brother, Mikkel, who is killed in a motorbike accident. Andreas' family moves shortly afterward to begin life anew, yet neither a new school nor the friends he makes can ease his enormous pain. |
| The Ox | 1,991 | Sven Nykvist | Drama | 6.5 | 16 | Swedish | In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events. |
| Framing Mom | 2,016 | Sara Johnsen | Drama | 6.5 | 15 | Norwegian | In the middle of her wedding reception, the doubtful bride Unn Tove finds a newborn baby girl abandoned in the hotel restroom. She turns her over to Child Services. 16 years later, a young and energetic girl shows up at her door step. It's Rosemari, the baby from the wedding. Together, they start investigating the circumstances leading to Rosemari's birth. They unravel a story about a young couple's unrestrained love, an eccentric ex-boxer with a taste for erotics, and a mother covering up her life's biggest secret. "Framing Mom" is a touching and funny story about how sex, lies and biology created a beautiful flower, Rosemari. |
| The Love That Remains | 2,025 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 14 | IS | Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. |
| Oh Happy Day | 2,004 | Hella Joof | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 14 | Danish | Hannah (Lotte Andersen) is a housewife in a village Zealand, where she is married to the sad Carsten (Mikael Birkkjær). She sings in the mammal church choir along with his outspoken sister (Ditte Gråbøl). A choirmaster in transit - the black Jackson - get fired up during the chorus, as soon singing and joy - and Hannah is experiencing new feelings. |
| The Way to Mandalay | 2,018 | Ole Bornedal | Drama | 6.5 | 13 | Danish | The Way to Mandalay tells the story of one of Denmark's greatest and most beloved musicians. The film takes us on a journey from Mogenson's childhood to manhood and throughout his career which spanned more than twenty years, first with great success in a popular vocal group and later as a successful solo artist. There is a long period that John Mogensen can never be satisfied and he is confused by what are the things he truely loves and is willing to do everything for. Is it the music, the stage, the fame or his family? |
| DRIB | 2,017 | Kristoffer Borgli | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Norwegian | The true story of how director Kristoffer Borgli's friend Amir, a stand-up comedian and performance artist, almost ended up as the international face of a well-known energy drink, represented here under the pseudonym DRIB. |
| The Veterinarian's Adopted Children | 1,968 | Carl Ottosen | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | Winnie's mother is going to Bangkok to settle an inheritance matter and is looking for a good boarding house for her child. She calls Dr. Linager, who tells her that he has a boarding house for "expensive children," but the price is no object to Winnie's mother. When Winnie shows up, the good Dr. Linager is a little surprised. He is a veterinarian and thought he was going to be looking after a Siamese cat, but everyone in the house naturally welcomes the charming little Winnie. |
| Still Dust on the Brain | 1,962 | Poul Bang | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | Det Støver Stadig (It's Still Dusting) is the second film in the popular "Dust series" (Støv På Hjernen, Støv For Alle Pengene). Once again, Arvid Müller and Aage Stentoft wrote the festive script, which introduced new customs and traditions to the Danish housing market. The small community in the "sleepy town" is easily recognizable, but major changes have taken place since last time, because the residents of Solvænget have—with municipal support—bought the property they live in, and (something completely new at the time) the wives have had to take jobs to make ends meet! Mrs. Rigmor Hansen is absolutely brilliant as the manager of a Quick laundry. Her "truths" about the new everyday life in Denmark are crystal clear—and eternally young. The property's first general meeting with the guys in the stairwell – and the presentation of the first annual accounts – are golden scenes from the golden age of Danish family films. |
| The Girl and the Playboy | 1,965 | Ebbe Langberg | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | A millionaire gets amnesia after a hit to the head and now he has to rediscover his past and decide what kind of man he wants to be in the future. |
| Father of Four and the Wolf Cubs | 1,958 | Alice O'Fredericks | Family | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | Tiny Per gets its biggest wish: He becomes a scout. Sister also gets hers biggest wish: She's getting married. So now Mie take over the household and it's not going to go quietly. |
| People Get Eaten | 2,015 | Erik Clausen | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Danish | Herluf lives a complacent life with his wife Inger-Lise. Their daily routines are only interrupted by their daughter's marriages, the third now about to take place. But Herluf's problems are more serious than an indecisive daughter, his wife is cheating on him and he's started forgetting things at work. And one day Herluf doesn't return home. |
| Max Embarrassment | 2,008 | Lotte Svendsen | Comedy, Family | 6.5 | 11 | Danish | Max is hitting puberty, and classmate Ofelia has touched his heart. He now plans to spend Christmas break with her or, at the very least, New Year's Eve. Watching her little boy grow up, his mother Agnete doesn't know what leg to stand on. |
| Walter and Carlo - Up on Daddy's Hat | 1,985 | Per Holst | Comedy | 6.5 | 11 | Danish | Walter's a handsome airline steward who catches the eye of Inge, winner of Malaga's Miss Moonlight contest. Carlo is a motor-mouthed goof who has a "heel bar" (a combination shoe shop and tavern); his companion, Elly, is shooting a video of him. Inge discovers she's an unwitting smuggler, bringing diamonds into Denmark in the heel of a sandal she's won at the beauty contest. |
| Mirush | 2,007 | Marius Holst | Drama, Crime | 6.5 | 10 | Norwegian | Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son. |
| Devil's Island | 1,996 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | IS | Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't. |
| Styrmand Karlsen | 1,958 | Annelise Reenberg | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | Danish | First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son Robert and a whole bunch of eager sailors. On board develops the drama out every minute, culminating in the film's climax, when a fire breaks out on board |
| Don Olsen kommer til byen | 1,964 | Anker Sørensen | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | Danish | Bank director L.W. Jacobsen resides in a small provincial town. He is not particularly interested in his wife, Elsebeth, but rather in teacher and city council member Miss Mortensen. Thorsen, the town's manufacturer, is a member of the same city council group as Jacobsen. Then Don Olsen comes to town. Olsen is not interested in the upper class, but rather in people. By chance, Thorsen and Olsen meet and soon become drinking buddies. Thorsen drags the milkman's horse home to his apartment in the middle of the night. The scandal is a reality. Thorsen wants to flee, but with Olsen's help, he instead woos the townspeople and Miss Mortensen under the motto "Make good times better." |
| Darkland: The Return | 2,023 | Fenar Ahmad | Thriller, Action | 6.4 | 587 | Danish | Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out? |
| Easy Money | 2,010 | Daniel Espinosa | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 6.4 | 254 | Swedish | When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge. |
| The Commune | 2,016 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 6.4 | 211 | Danish | A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits. |
| All Things Fair | 1,995 | Bo Widerberg | Drama, Romance, War | 6.4 | 162 | Swedish | In 1943 Malmö, 15-year-old Stig is attracted to his teacher Viola, 22 years his senior, who, drawn to his youth and innocence, believes the lad is a God-sent relief from her miserable marriage to a drunken, unfaithful lout. |
| Italian for Beginners | 2,000 | Lone Scherfig | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 149 | Danish | 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. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement. |
| Strong Island | 2,017 | Yance Ford | Documentary | 6.4 | 95 | English | Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change. |
| The Good Heart | 2,009 | Dagur Kári | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 93 | English | Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing. |
| A Copenhagen Love Story | 2,025 | Ditte Hansen | Romance, Drama | 6.4 | 79 | Danish | After author Mia finds love with single father Emil, their happiness is put to the test as they undergo fertility treatments to have kids of their own. |
| Out Stealing Horses | 2,019 | Hans Petter Moland | Drama | 6.4 | 72 | Norwegian | November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance. |
| Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury | 2,014 | Ask Hasselbalch | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 | 72 | Danish | The film ' Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury ' is a sequel to the Danish superhero film Antboy, based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen. The story is again on the ordinary Danish boy Pelle, who secretly fights crime as a superhero Antboy. In the first film, he made short work of the super villain flea , now tucked away on the local insane clinic. |
| Northwest | 2,013 | Michael Noer | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.4 | 68 | Danish | Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them. |
| Memories of My Melancholy Whores | 2,011 | Henning Carlsen | Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 58 | Spanish | To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love. |
| Beyond | 2,010 | Pernilla August | Drama | 6.4 | 58 | Swedish | One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on. |
| O'Horten | 2,007 | Bent Hamer | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 51 | Norwegian | Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life? |
| Speed Walking | 2,014 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 6.4 | 44 | Danish | In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion. |
| Charter | 2,020 | Amanda Kernell | Drama | 6.4 | 41 | Swedish | After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands. |
| Pervert Park | 2,014 | Frida Barkfors | Crime, Documentary | 6.4 | 38 | English | Florida Justice Transitions is home to 120 convicted sex offenders. Like in many other U.S. states, sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1000 feet of places frequented by children. Because of this, many sex offenders live under bridges or in woods – or in Palace Mobile Home Park – known as Pervert Park. The crimes committed by the residents range from simple misdemeanors to horrendous acts unbearable to contemplate. |
| Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty | 2,008 | Erik Richter Strand | Crime, Thriller | 6.4 | 38 | Norwegian | After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner. |
| A Trip to Mars | 1,918 | Holger-Madsen | Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.4 | 33 | Danish | The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator and, along with the young scientist Dr. Krafft, the driving force behind the construction of a space-ship. Despite oppostion from the mocking Professor Dubius, Planetaros gathers a crew of fearless men and takes off. During the long voyage, the crew becomes restless; a mutiny is narrowly avoided. Finally, they reach Mars and discover that the planet is inhabited by people who have reached a higher stage of development, free of diseases, sorrow, violence, sexual urges, and the fear of death. Avanti falls in love with Marya, daughter of the Prince of Wisdom, the head of the Martians. Marya shares his feelings and decides to return with him in order to bring the wisdom of the Martians to the backward Earthlings. (stumfilm.dk) |
| That Time of Year | 2,018 | Paprika Steen | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 32 | Danish | From Danish director and actor Paprika Steen comes a caustic comedy about the deep-rooted grievances that can rip families apart -- and the ties that bind them together. |
| Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall | 2,010 | Stefan Faldbakken | Crime | 6.4 | 29 | Norwegian | Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl. |
| Wallander: Mastermind | 2,005 | Peter Flinth | Thriller, Crime | 6.4 | 29 | Swedish | Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make. |
| Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past | 2,012 | Birger Larsen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 27 | Danish | Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface, enacted as real killings. |
| The Good Cop | 2,004 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Action, Comedy | 6.4 | 26 | Danish | A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends. |
| Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick | 2,008 | Peder Pedersen | Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Action, Family, Science Fiction, War | 6.4 | 22 | English | Four shorts based on all four Indiana Jones movies with a little Lego twist and inside jokes. |
| Walk with Me | 2,016 | Lisa Ohlin | Drama, War | 6.4 | 21 | Danish | Deployed on mission in Helmand, Afghanistan, 25-year old Thomas steps on a landmine and loses both his legs. At the local rehabilitation center, he meets Sofie, an ascending ballerina from the Royal Danish Ballet, who is helping a relative to regain strength after a long term sickness. Thomas desperately wants back in the field and gets impatient as progress does not emerge as fast as he wants to. When Sofie offers to help him with a more intense rehabilitation plan, he accepts. Despite their differences, they develop a special bond and a mutual affection. |
| Out of a Forest | 2,010 | Tobias Gundorff Boesen | Animation, Horror | 6.4 | 19 | English | A family of rabbits are having a birthday party under a big tree, unaware that a mischievous wolf is approaching. |
| The Man Who Thought Life | 1,969 | Jens Ravn | Horror, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 18 | Danish | The mysterious Mr. Steinmetz has acquired the ability to create things and beings by will alone. Only, after a while his creations invariably disappear. He therefore approaches a famous brain surgeon, Max Holst, who he hopes can help him with this problem. When Max refuses, Steinmetz brings his doppelgänger into being to replace him. |
| The Pact | 2,021 | Bille August | Drama | 6.4 | 17 | Danish | Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. One day, she meets a talented 30-year-old poet whom she promises literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally, even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life. |
| Pettson & Findus: The Santa Machine | 2,005 | Jørgen Lerdam | Animation, Family | 6.4 | 17 | Swedish | The old man PETTSON and his cat FINDUS live on a small farm way out in the countryside in Sweden. Christmas is approaching, and Pettson has given F... |
| The Boys from St. Petri | 1,991 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Action, Drama, War | 6.4 | 17 | Danish | A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark. |
| The LEGO® Story | 2,012 | Kim Pagel | Animation, History, Drama, Family | 6.4 | 16 | English | As toy maker LEGO heads into its 80th year, Lego present this newly launched animated short film, which looks at the history of the iconic brand. A nicely produced look back at the brand LEGO. |
| Dust on the Brain | 1,961 | Poul Bang | Family, Comedy | 6.4 | 16 | Danish | The story centers around the busybody housewives of a modern Danish working class neighborhood of the 1960's. A remake of the Norwegian comedy film from 1959. |
| Persona Non Grata | 2,021 | Lisa Jespersen | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 15 | Danish | The film is a comedy drama about a young woman, Laura, who has distanced herself from her family in the country to settle in Copenhagen as an author and live the artistic bohemian life she has always dreamed of. When she, with much reluctance, goes back home for her brother’s wedding, she realises that he is about to marry her childhood enemy, Catrine. At the same time, Laura finds out that Catrine has in fact taken over her place in the family – and what if Laura wants it back … A film about how we, no matter how hard we try, cannot escape from our past, nor from our roots. |
| Sunday's Children | 1,992 | Daniel Bergman | Drama | 6.4 | 14 | Swedish | Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip. |
| Guilt | 2,014 | Heidrik á Heygum | Horror, Drama | 6.4 | 11 | FO | A nurse is taking care of an elderly dying woman on a small island near the Torshavn. An old repressed memory of the island resurfaces to haunt the nurse and, as the elderly lady's health deteriorates, so does the sanity of the nurse. |
| Father of Four: Home Field Advantage | 2,008 | Claus Bjerre | Comedy, Family | 6.4 | 11 | Danish | When somebody swipes Father's wallet, which contains the office pool's winning sports lottery ticket, Uncle Anders and Per set out to catch the thief. |
| Battle | 2,018 | Katarina Launing | Drama, Romance, Music | 6.3 | 657 | Norwegian | Amalie is the girl who has everything, good looks, money, a boyfriend and a big talent of dancing. One day, her world falls apart and she moves from everything she knows. Then enter Mikael. He is dancing in the streets and Amalie joins him in dancing on the streets, dancing Battles. |
| The Party | 2,017 | Sally Potter | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 590 | English | Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray. |
| Arn: The Knight Templar | 2,007 | Peter Flinth | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 301 | Swedish | Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love. |
| Enforcement | 2,020 | Frederik Louis Hviid | Action, Crime | 6.3 | 228 | Danish | The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out. |
| Next Door | 2,005 | Pål Sletaune | Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 | 226 | Norwegian | After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies. |
| The Element of Crime | 1,984 | Lars von Trier | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 220 | Danish | Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn. |
| Return to Sender | 2,004 | Bille August | Drama | 6.3 | 170 | English | While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client |
| Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End | 2,008 | Peter Flinth | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 6.3 | 119 | Swedish | Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik. |
| The Night Visitor | 1,971 | László Benedek | Thriller, Mystery, Horror | 6.3 | 50 | English | An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others. |
| Reykjavik-Rotterdam | 2,008 | Óskar Jónasson | Action, Thriller | 6.3 | 49 | IS | A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur. |
| The Abyss | 1,910 | Urban Gad | Drama | 6.3 | 48 | Danish | Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing circus rider Rudolf. But circus life with Rudolf quickly turns out to be anything but happy, and Magda comes to a tragic end. |
| The Great Bear | 2,011 | Esben Toft Jacobsen | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.3 | 46 | Danish | Jonathan, 11, usually spends his vacations alone with his grandfather who lives on the edge of a vast forest populated by mythical animals. This year his kid sister Sophie joins him. But it's not cool to be stuck with a little sister, so he does what he can to avoid her. He succeeds entirely too well: Sophie is kidnapped by a giant, 1000-year-old bear. Now, Jonathan has to venture into the heart of the forest to confront the strange beings that dwell there and rescue his sister. |
| Hugo, the Jungle Creature | 1,993 | Flemming Quist Møller | Animation, Family | 6.3 | 44 | Danish | This film introduces us to Hugo, a one-of-a-kind animal who lives in a jungle. Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes on his friends, Zig and Zag the monkeys. His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be co-star in a Hollywood-style film. In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox. |
| Varg Veum - Fallen Angels | 2,008 | Morten Tyldum | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 39 | Norwegian | Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his bette... |
| A Horrible Woman | 2,017 | Christian Tafdrup | Drama | 6.3 | 37 | Danish | When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces. |
| 3 Things | 2,017 | Jens Dahl | Thriller, Drama | 6.3 | 37 | Danish | Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbery he and his partners have been jailed for. |
| Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy | 1,997 | Pelle Seth | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 | 37 | Swedish | A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case.... |
| Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy | 2,012 | Erik Richter Strand | Crime, Action, Mystery | 6.3 | 27 | Norwegian | Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from? |
| Oldboys | 2,009 | Nikolaj Steen | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 27 | Danish | Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their way to a match in Sweden, he encounters a young habitual offender and together they set off in hot pursuit of Vagn's buddies. A Nordic road movie taking in a whole series of comic, serious and, above all, well-written scenarios. |
| While We Live | 2,017 | Mehdi Avaz | Drama | 6.3 | 24 | Danish | Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident. |
| Circus Maximus | 2,023 | Andrew Dosunmu | Music | 6.3 | 23 | English | Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA". A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world in a kaleidoscopic exploration of human experience and the power of soundscapes. |
| Less Than Human | 2,017 | Steffen Bang Lindholm | Animation, Horror, Comedy | 6.3 | 23 | English | In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society. Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps to prove to the world that rehabilitation is out the question. |
| Day and Night | 2,004 | Simon Staho | Drama | 6.3 | 21 | Swedish | Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget. |
| Man Divided | 2,017 | Max Kestner | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 20 | Danish | Year 2095. The world is ravaged by ecological disaster. Oceans have risen and all natural freshwater is gone. Fang Rung has undergone molecular fission in order to send his other half, code name Gordon Thomas, back in time to the year 2017. Gordon goes in search of scientist Mona Lindkvist whose ground-breaking research was lost before it could save the world. When Fang Rung loses contact with Gordon he sees no alternative but to travel back to 2017 himself trying to locate his other half before the world's balances are irreparably damaged. It's a race against time for Fang Rung to save himself and the world. |
| The Hideaway | 1,991 | Niels Gråbøl | Drama | 6.3 | 19 | Danish | 12-year-old Martin finds the going tough. Manhood is approaching, but so far mostly as aches and pain. His mother's men friends are definitely nothing like the father he does not have. So some kind of male bonding is inevitable when he meets Funder, a juvenile droput on the run from the police. There is also girl-friend Rikke to consider. Who needs Martin the most? Coming of age isn't so easy. |
| King Lear | 1,970 | Peter Brook | Drama | 6.3 | 19 | English | King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error. |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1,983 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Danish | When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays, he starts feeling increasingly rejected and jealous, as his adolescent daughter starts looking for real beaus. |
| The Crumbs | 1,991 | Sven Methling | Comedy, Family | 6.3 | 13 | Danish | The tween, Mads, finds it hard to fit in. Having feelings for a girl in class and a clumsy farther who is a teacher at his school doesn't help. By an unforeseen chance of events, Mads becomes somewhat of a hero, but will he win the girl? |
| Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? | 1,978 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 13 | Danish | Coming of age, summer camp and first love... Shy 15-year-old Claus is in 8th grade and is going on a school camp in Sweden. His classmate Lene, who is braver and more outgoing than Claus, is also going on the trip. During the trip, Claus gets the opportunity to get to know Lene better and gets his first taste of what adult life has to offer. |
| Super Charlie | 2,024 | Jon Holmberg | Animation, Family, Action, Comedy | 6.3 | 12 | Swedish | Wille has always dreamed of becoming a superhero and fight crime alongside his father. This dream is shattered when Wille's brother, Charlie, is born. Charlie gets all the attention, and on top of that – he has superpowers. When a supervillain and an evil scientist enact a plan to overthrow the city, Wille and Charlie must put their differences aside and work together as a team. Can an infant and his envious brother save the city? |
| How to Get Rid of the Others | 2,007 | Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 11 | Danish | A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's "New Copenhagen Criteria", a new policy aiming at securing the nation's survival. Citizens who fail to meet the criteria – those who have received more from society than what they have contributed – are eliminated. |
| Foreign Fields | 2,000 | Aage Rais-Nordentoft | Drama, War | 6.3 | 11 | Danish | Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier. |
| Doctor Glas | 1,968 | Mai Zetterling | Drama | 6.3 | 11 | Danish | Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. |
| Monty and the Street Party | 2,019 | Mikael Wulff | Animation, Comedy | 6.3 | 10 | Danish | 'The Street Party' is an animated comedy for the whole family. The story is about the 10 year old kid, Mugge, who's parents are about to get a divorce. To recreate the balance and harmony that the adults are about to smash, the always optimistic and indomitable Mugge decides to put together the best street party ever - and in that way bring his mom and dad together again. |
| Almost Human | 2,019 | Jeppe Rønde | Documentary | 6.3 | 10 | English | The filmmaker Jeppe Rønde has invited 10 of the world's foremost researchers - and a robot! - to rethink our relationship with technology and its dilemmas from the outside. Philosophers, anthropologists, archaeologists and programmers show us through their thought experiments that our relationship with technology is just as much about our relationship with ourselves. |
| The Tarantella from 'Napoli' | 1,903 | Peter Elfelt | Documentary | 6.3 | 10 | Danish | This Danish film shows us a young woman doing a dance, which translates to tarantula. According to the brief bio over at the Europa Film Treasures site, this dance was "influenced" by the delirium caused by the bite of a tarantula. |
| For freedom and justice | 1,949 | Svend Methling | History, Drama | 6.2 | 161 | Danish | A picture of the life of the Danish people from the late 1820s to the introduction of the free constitution in 1849. A fictional character, Rasmus Nielsen, travels around the country, first as a traveling teacher, later in other positions, and through his experiences we are introduced to the conditions of various population groups. The central figure in the portrayal of historical figures is the politician Orla Lehmann. |
| Darkland | 2,017 | Fenar Ahmad | Thriller, Action, Drama | 6.2 | 139 | Danish | Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice. |
| Terribly Happy | 2,008 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 114 | Danish | Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town. |
| River of Blood | 2,024 | Howard J. Ford | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 94 | English | Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals. |
| Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever | 2,023 | Ole Bornedal | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 6.2 | 89 | Danish | Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events. |
| Popular Music | 2,004 | Reza Bagher | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 63 | Swedish | Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila. |
| The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever | 1,984 | Mikael Ekman | Comedy, Crime | 6.2 | 59 | Swedish | Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg? |
| Worlds Apart | 2,008 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 6.2 | 46 | Danish | 17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love. |
| Stockholm Bloodbath | 2,024 | Mikael Håfström | Action, History, Drama, Adventure, War | 6.2 | 45 | English | In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath. |
| Petra | 2,018 | Jaime Rosales | Drama | 6.2 | 39 | Spanish | Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man. On her path to uncovering the truth, Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path to hope and redemption. |
| The County | 2,019 | Grímur Hákonarson | Drama | 6.2 | 35 | IS | A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community. |
| Kingmaker | 2,024 | Mikkel Serup | Thriller, Drama | 6.2 | 32 | Danish | Ulrik Torp, once a fearless investigative journalist who is now tackling unemployment and a midlife crisis. He finds himself in the middle of a new political conspiracy. |
| Before the Frost | 2,019 | Michael Noer | Drama | 6.2 | 30 | Danish | A struggling farmer in 19th-century Denmark must go against his morals and make a deal with a wealthy neighbour in order to secure his family’s survival over a harsh winter. |
| LFO | 2,013 | Antonio Tublén | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.2 | 30 | Swedish | LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake. |
| Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball | 2,002 | Daniel Lind Lagerlöf | Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery | 6.2 | 29 | Swedish | Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.. |
| The Man Who Quit Smoking | 1,972 | Tage Danielsson | Comedy | 6.2 | 29 | Swedish | The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again. |
| Rubber Tarzan | 1,981 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 26 | Danish | Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole. |
| Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death | 2,011 | Stephan Apelgren | Crime, Mystery | 6.2 | 24 | Norwegian | Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses. |
| Truly Human | 2,001 | Åke Sandgren | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 23 | Danish | P. is a little girl's imaginary friend who lives inside the wall of her room. But one day he magically materialises and so must learn to live in the world like everyone else - a world where he is met with suspicion and hate but also with wonder and love. |
| Count Axel | 2,001 | Søren Fauli | Comedy | 6.2 | 20 | Danish | Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements of contemporary humour and satire. |
| When in Rome | 2,024 | Niclas Bendixen | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 19 | Danish | Gerda and Kristoffer are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in Rome, where Gerda used to study art when she was young. But the trip doesn't go quite as planned, when the couple run into Gerda's charismatic art teacher and former flame, Johannes. Kristoffer ends up on the sideline, while Gerda chases her youth through the streets and alleys of Rome, to confront the ghosts of the past. |
| Old, New, Borrowed and Blue | 2,003 | Natasha Arthy | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 17 | Danish | Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day! |
| Miracle | 2,000 | Natasha Arthy | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music | 6.2 | 17 | Danish | What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy in your class who doesn't yet sport pubes ...? For Dennis P. there's only one way out - pray. In this musical adventure the miracle comes in the shape of an angel clone looking suspiciously like Dennis P.'s late father. The angel issues Dennis P. with a license to perform medium grade miracles, but there's a string attached - Dennis P. must stop using swearwords. Dennis P. throws himself into readjusting his existence. But one miracle leads to another, and the 'adjustments' lead to grotesque consequences. |
| Relax Freddy | 1,966 | Erik Balling | Comedy | 6.2 | 17 | Danish | A Chinese diplomat is kidnapped from a conference in Genève and the world peace is at risk. The trail leads to a hiding place in Denmark and the Danish secret service brings in their best agent, agent Smith, who has been in a psychiatric hospital since his last assignment. To accompany Smith they once again turn to novelty and party tricks salesman Frede Hansen, because they need an unrecognizable man to infiltrate the crime syndicate behind the kidnapping. |
| Blind Justice | 1,916 | Benjamin Christensen | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Horror | 6.2 | 17 | Danish | On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage. When he breaks into a local manor to get some milk for his child, he is surprised by a young woman, Eva. Out of pity, she decides to help the stranger, but unfortunately some of the manor's other occupants wake up and call the police. Fourteen years later, Henry is released from prison. Convinced that Eva betrayed him, he sets out to take revenge and find his son. |
| The Land of Short Sentences | 2,023 | Hella Joof | Comedy | 6.2 | 15 | Danish | Marie's life gets turned upside down when the love of her life, Rasmus, takes on a teaching job at a local school in West Jutland, Denmark. Rather unwillingly, Marie joins Rasmus in moving their roots from Copenhagen to the windy town, Velling. While Rasmus is an immediate match to the local ways, it becomes a culture chock for Marie, who time and time again proves herself a misfit to the locals. However, as she gradually learns to listen more and talk less, she realizes that she might need Velling as much as Velling needs her – and her advice column for the local newspaper. |
| A Family | 2,011 | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Drama | 6.2 | 15 | Danish | Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family. |
| Ditte, Child of Man | 1,946 | Bjarne Henning-Jensen | Drama | 6.2 | 14 | Danish | Ditte is born out of wedlock and lives as a young girl with her old beloved grandmother. As an illegitimate child she is teased in school and more than anything in the world she wants a father. When steady - utterly reliable - herring dealer Lars Petter shows up and tells her that he is marrying Ditte's mother, the little girl is very happy. Now Ditte must take care of three new sisters and brothers but gets nothing but complaints from her ungrateful, selfish mother. But the little girl finds consolation and support in both her sisters and brothers and Lars Petter. |
| All I Want for Christmas | 2,018 | Christian Dyekjær | Family, Adventure | 6.2 | 13 | Danish | To be the first girl accepted into Santa school, twelve-year-old Lucia must find a cure for a mystery illness caused by the devilish Krampus. |
| Revenge of the Necromancer | 2,018 | Sohail A. Hassan | Horror, Comedy | 6.2 | 13 | Danish | Jimmy is an outsider at his school. He is interested in the occult. He doesn't socialize much, but instead he tries to get in touch with his dead mother through ancient rituals, but without success. But one day a new boy starts at the school and he quickly befriends Jimmy. Suddenly the spirits awaken and become a real threat, so Jimmy and Amir have to join forces with the schools two most popular girls to fight the evil. |
| My Sister's Kids in Africa | 2,013 | Martin Miehe-Renard | Comedy, Family, Adventure | 6.2 | 13 | Danish | This time our already familiar family moves to Africa in order to save endangered wildlife. |
| Pain of Love | 1,992 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Danish | A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind. |
| The White Viking | 1,991 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Drama, Adventure | 6.2 | 13 | IS | Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism. |
| One-Two-Three Now! | 2,016 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Danish | Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time. |
| Dust for all the Money | 1,963 | Poul Bang | Family, Comedy | 6.2 | 12 | Danish | A group of residents in the Copenhagen suburb of Solvænget decide to buy a farm in order to become self-sufficient in vegetables and other goodies. Unfortunately, farm life turns out to be much more strenuous and difficult than the small group of city dwellers had imagined. |
| Father of Four: And Uncle Sofus | 1,957 | Alice O'Fredericks | Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 11 | Danish | At home in the small family is nothing new. Tiny Per is the school's mischief maker, Sister has heartaches, Mie and Ole has to be in the school play, etc. But suddenly something happens. Good old Uncle Anders has a twin brother in the United States. He called Sofus, and now he comes home to celebrate 70th birthday. He was a troublemaker when he left and now he has become even worse |
| Valhalla Rising | 2,009 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Adventure, Drama, Action, Fantasy | 6.1 | 1,297 | English | Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self. |
| Asterix and the Vikings | 2,006 | Jesper Møller | Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure | 6.1 | 744 | French | Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix. |
| Aniara | 2,019 | Pella Kågerman | Science Fiction, Drama | 6.1 | 418 | Swedish | A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe. |
| Ronal the Barbarian | 2,011 | Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.1 | 313 | Danish | Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world. |
| 101 Reykjavik | 2,000 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 125 | IS | A 30-year-old slacker who lives with his mother finds his life turned upside down when his mother's flamenco-dancing friend moves in. |
| Zoo | 2,018 | Antonio Tublén | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance | 6.1 | 124 | English | A couple trying to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse. |
| A White, White Day | 2,019 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 6.1 | 120 | IS | In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love. |
| Mammoth | 2,009 | Lukas Moodysson | Drama, Romance | 6.1 | 119 | English | When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone. |
| Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction | 2,023 | Bille August | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 118 | Danish | When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal — and unexpected romance. |
| Wild Men | 2,022 | Thomas Daneskov | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.1 | 97 | Danish | Armed only with a bow and an ensemble of animal skins, Martin sets off into the forest in a misguided attempt to overcome his midlife crisis. A chance meeting with a fugitive named Musa leads to a twisted trip through the fjords with police, drug runners, and Martin's family not far behind. As an unlikely friendship develops and wildly original set-pieces unfold, Martin's quest for manhood leads to deep and hilariously uncomfortable realizations about the presumed masculine ideal. |
| Beware of the Jönsson Gang | 1,981 | Jonas Cornell | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 | 65 | Swedish | A botched burglary leads to the arrest of the Jönsson gang’s leader, Sickan. After serving ten months in prison, he is released and unexpectedly recruited by the enigmatic banker Wall-Enberg Jr. to steal the legendary Bedford Diamonds in Switzerland. Though Sickan successfully carries out the heist, he is betrayed and nearly captured. Returning to Sweden and reuniting with his old accomplices, he sets out to take calculated revenge on the man who double-crossed him. |
| Z.P.G. | 1,972 | Michael Campus | Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.1 | 54 | English | In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules. |
| Murk | 2,005 | Jannik Johansen | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 51 | Danish | The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night. |
| Into the Darkness | 2,020 | Anders Refn | Drama, War, History | 6.1 | 44 | Danish | Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to continue production at the factory, but to protect his family and employees he reluctantly begins to produce for the German market. It brings him into a controversial collaboration with the occupying power and causes painful breaks in the family. |
| Up and Away | 2,018 | Karsten Kiilerich | Animation, Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 44 | Danish | Hodja is a dreamer. He wants to experience the world, but his father insists he stays home and takes over the family's tailor shop. Fortunately, Hodja meets the old rug merchant El Faza, who gives him a flying carpet. In exchange he has to bring the old man's little granddaughter, Diamond, back to Pjort. El Faza can’t travel to the Sultan city himself, as the mighty ruler has imposed a death sentence on El Faza, on the grounds that he has stolen the Sultan's carpet. However, city life isn't quite what Hodja expected, and he only survives because of Emerald, a poor but street smart girl, who teaches him how to manage in the big world. But when Hodja loses his carpet to the power-hungry sultan, his luck seems to run out. Will he complete his mission, find El Faza's granddaughter and return safely back to Pjort? |
| Leaves from Satan's Book | 1,920 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama, History, Fantasy, Horror | 6.1 | 43 | Danish | The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918. |
| Sex, Drugs & Taxation | 2,013 | Christoffer Boe | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 36 | Danish | Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity. |
| As in Heaven | 2,021 | Tea Lindeburg | Drama | 6.1 | 34 | Danish | One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house. |
| Sons of Denmark | 2,019 | Ulaa Salim | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 34 | Danish | Denmark, in the near future. One year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen, political radicalization has intensified and ethnic tensions are increasing. As next year's parliamentary elections approach, in which nationalist leader Martin Nordahl hopes for a landslide victory, Zakaria becomes involved in a radical organization, where he befriends Ali. |
| Varg Veum - Yours Until Death | 2,008 | Erik Richter Strand | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 6.1 | 33 | Norwegian | Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead. |
| Falkenberg Farewell | 2,006 | Jesper Ganslandt | Drama | 6.1 | 33 | Swedish | The last summer the five boys are together in Falkenberg. They are now grown up to be young men, on their way out into the world. At least most of them. |
| This Life | 2,012 | Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | Drama, War | 6.1 | 25 | Danish | The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live. |
| Marie Kroyer | 2,012 | Bille August | Drama | 6.1 | 24 | Danish | Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and Marie’s life is crumbling as her dreams of a beloved wife, good mother and successful artist are unfulfilled. After hospitalizing her mentally ill husband Marie leaves for vacation, and in search for peace and comfort she finds herself falling in love with the young composer Hugo Alfven. Once again, internationally acclaimed Bille August exhibits the weaknesses of human beings in comparison to the ruthless nature. The grandeur scenery of deserted Scandinavian oceans speaks in volumes for the protagonists living in silence despite their lives being full of pains. |
| The End of the World | 1,916 | August Blom | Science Fiction, Action, Drama | 6.1 | 22 | Danish | Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father's will, she elopes with the unscrupulous Stoll. News of a meteor approaching the earth causes panic and Stoll exploits the situation to make a killing on the stock market; Collaborating with the press to quell the news of the meteor eases public tensions and guarantees him a fortune. He plans to survive in a secret underground tunnel, with Dina and his wealthy pals in tow. But things don't go as planned. |
| The Cartel | 2,014 | Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 20 | Danish | The successful entrepreneur Lars Halbo returns to Denmark when he inherits the family firm, but when he refuses to cooperate in illegal cartel pricing, his little company comes under heavy pressure. |
| LEGO Frozen: Operation Puffins | 2,025 | Alexandru Nagy | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.1 | 18 | English | After the events of Frozen, Anna and Elsa want to start fresh in Arendelle, and make the castle feel a bit more comfortable. While they struggle to break free of the bounds of tradition, the Duke of Weselton has other plans for their beloved home alongside a flock of menacing puffins. |
| My Sister's Kids Home Alone | 2,012 | Martin Miehe-Renard | Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 17 | Danish | This time, the children's parents have gone on vacation to New York, and it is up to Uncle Erik to take responsibility for his nephews and nieces, or at least try to. Everything seems to be going well, until Jan and Michael take a little drive in their father's new sports car. The mechanic's bill comes to $30,000, so the children persuade their uncle to open a hotel in their own house. The hotel quickly fills up, but not all of the guests are easy to please. And the strict Mrs. Flinth is definitely not happy with the children's successful hotel business! |
| Little Man | 2,006 | Esben Tønnesen | Comedy | 6.1 | 17 | Danish | Young Matthias was in school assignment to write an essay on any subject. The boy decides to go with the responsibility to implement it - he wants to make a guide to communicating with girls. But where to get the information he needs? Can the attitude of boys and girls be defined by rules? So Matthias decides to conduct his own research. |
| Better Times | 2,023 | Milad Avaz | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 15 | Danish | After their mother's death, Oskar leans on brother Karl. But Karl's bakery faces court due to their father's debt. United, can they save it? |
| Nothing's All Bad | 2,010 | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 15 | Danish | Follows 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. |
| Lars Ole, 5c. | 1,973 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.1 | 12 | Danish | An upper grade school class with its inter-relations, scheming and sniffing around for the scent of adult pleasures, all caught in near-cinema verité style. |
| Qivitoq | 1,956 | Erik Balling | Adventure, Drama | 6.1 | 12 | Danish | A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq. |
| Frode and All the Other Rascals | 2,008 | Niels Christian Meyer | Family, Comedy, Adventure | 6.1 | 11 | Danish | Three friends are sent out on a quest to get money for a summer fair. |
| Until We Fall | 2,019 | Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm | Drama | 6.1 | 10 | Danish | Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it all would have been if the ocean had taken the trouble to throw up a little-swollen child’s corpse onto the beach. Or if a local with alcohol in his blood and blood on his hands had ploughed him down at full speed. An indescribable pain. No more living, no more happiness, but at least no unanswered questions. Unfortunately, that is not how it is for Adam and Louise. |
| Vi er allesammen tossede | 1,959 | Sven Methling | Comedy | 6.1 | 10 | Danish | After a gruesome meeting with the tax authorities Alex Alexander takes a drive in the countryside to calm down. While driving, he accidentally runs into an elephant from a circus. When he is stopped by the police and tells them about the elephant they think he is crazy. He is committed to an asylum by the very authorities his taxes are funding. The doctor tries to convince him that the elephants were not really there, but he gets more help from manic fellow patient Knudsen who makes him realize that everybody in the world is crazy in some way. |
| It's Nifty in the Navy | 1,965 | Finn Henriksen | Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 10 | Danish | The three young fishermen, Svend, Knud, and Valdemar, have bought a new cutter, but haven't paid it off yet. It is a real fishing film, but it is not JUST a fishing film. They have been granted deferments from the military several times, but suddenly the bell rings and they are called up as sailors in the Royal Danish Navy. |
| Love Is All You Need | 2,012 | Susanne Bier | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6 | 293 | Danish | Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges. |
| Boundless | 2,024 | Ole Christian Madsen | Thriller, Crime | 6 | 82 | Danish | In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree. |
| Cutterhead | 2,019 | Rasmus Kloster Bro | Thriller | 6 | 77 | Danish | Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea. |
| The Jönsson Gang Turns Up Again | 1,986 | Mikael Ekman | Crime, Comedy | 6 | 63 | Swedish | As always, Sickan has come up with a new plan. This time he wants to rob the IKEA furniture store. During their nightly break-in Sickan discovers that the store is used as a secret smuggling central for sending American computers to the Soviet Union. The computers are picked up by Soviet submarines sneaking into the Swedish archipelago. Naturally, it is their arch enemy Wall-Enberg who is behind all of this. |
| Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble | 2,012 | Kari Juusonen | Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy | 6 | 62 | Finnish | Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother. |
| Headhunter | 2,009 | Rumle Hammerich | Thriller | 6 | 57 | Danish | Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships. |
| LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty | 2,010 | Peder Pedersen | Family, Animation, Science Fiction, Comedy | 6 | 40 | English | Darth Vader hires Boba Fett to track down Jar Jar Binks, who has caused a lot of trouble for Vader. This leads Binks and Fett on a game of cat-and-mouse like never seen before. |
| The Slingshot | 1,993 | Åke Sandgren | Drama | 6 | 38 | Swedish | Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water. |
| Stealing Rembrandt | 2,003 | Jannik Johansen | Action, Comedy | 6 | 36 | Danish | Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway? |
| All for One | 2,011 | Rasmus Heide | Comedy | 6 | 34 | Danish | Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! When all four find themselves in a fix, they're forced to return to their former tricks against a common foe, Mr Niemeyer. Martin is not as successful, however, either at his job or marriage, and thinks he deserves a better life. Now he sees an opportunity to save his career by "playing" with his old friends on a mission that is so crazy that even the two foolish brothers can do some good. |
| The Kautokeino Rebellion | 2,008 | Nils Gaup | Drama, History | 6 | 34 | Norwegian | Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village. |
| The New Tenants | 2,009 | Joachim Back | Comedy, Crime | 6 | 30 | English | A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic. |
| Truth About Men | 2,010 | Nikolaj Arcel | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 24 | Danish | Mads moves into a house with his lovely girlfriend Marie when a sudden pang of doubt strikes him. Is this the meaning of life? Has he lived out all his dreams? He drops everything, moves away from his girlfriend and throws himself into a desperate quest to live out his greatest dreams; a quest to find the meaning of life and the one and only. |
| Together 99 | 2,023 | Lukas Moodysson | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 22 | Swedish | A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends. |
| The Boy with the Golden Pants | 2,014 | Ella Lemhagen | Fantasy, Adventure, Family | 6 | 22 | Swedish | When Mats stumbles upon a pair of pants containing an unlimited amount of money, everything changes. Now he can buy everything he ever wanted, not knowing that powerful forces are tracking him down. |
| Eternal | 2,024 | Ulaa Salim | Science Fiction, Drama, Romance | 6 | 21 | Danish | Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he chooses career over love. Years later, during his mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back. |
| X&Y | 2,018 | Anna Odell | Drama | 6 | 21 | Swedish | An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female. |
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