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Danish-Language Films
Top 500 Danish-language films from a catalog of 581, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| The Hunt | 2,012 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 8.1 | 4,617 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Ordet | 1,955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 7.9 | 402 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Land of Mine | 2,015 | Martin Zandvliet | War, Drama, History | 7.8 | 1,446 | Danish | Germany | In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant. |
| The Shadow in My Eye | 2,021 | Ole Bornedal | War, Drama, History | 7.8 | 538 | Danish | Denmark | 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 Kingdom | 1,994 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.8 | 253 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Tinke the Wolfgirl | 2,002 | Morten Køhlert | Family, Drama | 7.8 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Kingdom II | 1,998 | Lars von Trier | Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 47 | Danish | Belgium | The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her. |
| Mother at War | 2,020 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Drama, War | 7.7 | 44 | Danish | Belgium | 1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves. |
| Mr. Nobody Against Putin | 2,025 | David Borenstein | Documentary, History | 7.7 | 32 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | Biography about boxer Joergen 'Gamle' Hansen. |
| Another Round | 2,020 | Thomas Vinterberg | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 3,667 | Danish | Denmark | Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives. |
| The Girl with the Needle | 2,024 | Magnus von Horn | Drama, History | 7.6 | 329 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| For My Brother | 2,014 | Brian Bang | Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 39 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Breaking the Waves | 1,996 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 1,089 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Day Will Come | 2,016 | Jesper W. Nielsen | Drama | 7.5 | 81 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Anders Matthesen: Tal for dig selv | 2,004 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.5 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Paradise and Back | 1,964 | Gabriel Axel | Drama | 7.5 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| A Royal Affair | 2,012 | Nikolaj Arcel | Drama, History, Romance | 7.4 | 928 | Danish | Czech Republic | A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever. |
| Checkered Ninja | 2,018 | Anders Matthesen | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.4 | 257 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Into the Ice | 2,022 | Lars Ostenfeld | Documentary | 7.4 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| In China They Eat Dogs | 1,999 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Action, Comedy, Crime | 7.3 | 286 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Pelle the Conqueror | 1,987 | Bille August | Drama | 7.3 | 156 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Hunger | 1,966 | Henning Carlsen | Drama | 7.3 | 51 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| A Funny Man | 2,011 | Martin Zandvliet | Drama | 7.3 | 32 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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... |
| The Purity of Vengeance | 2,018 | Christoffer Boe | Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 7.2 | 538 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Last Client | 2,022 | Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 171 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Olsen Gang on the Track | 1,975 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 52 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| We Shall Overcome | 2,006 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 7.2 | 41 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Way Home | 2,024 | Charlotte Sieling | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Baronessen fra benzintanken | 1,960 | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy | 7.2 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 Keeper of Lost Causes | 2,013 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | 7.1 | 809 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| After the Wedding | 2,006 | Susanne Bier | Drama | 7.1 | 472 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Flickering Lights | 2,000 | Anders Thomas Jensen | Action, Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 239 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Submarino | 2,010 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 7.1 | 170 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Held for Ransom | 2,019 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 7.1 | 76 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Zappa | 1,983 | Bille August | Drama | 7.1 | 31 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Out of the Darkness | 2,022 | Anders Refn | Drama, War | 7.1 | 22 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Before It Ends | 2,023 | Anders Walter | Drama, History, War | 7.1 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | 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? |
| Offscreen | 2,006 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance, Horror | 7.1 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Pusher | 1,996 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 7 | 831 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| Last Men in Aleppo | 2,017 | Steen Johannessen | Documentary | 7 | 69 | Danish | Syrian Arab Republic | A searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives. Incorporating moments of both heart-pounding suspense and improbable beauty, the documentary draws us into the lives of three of its founders — Khaled, Subhi, and Mahmoud — as they grapple with the chaos around them and struggle with an ever-present dilemma: do they flee or stay and fight for their country? |
| The Olsen Gang | 1,968 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7 | 57 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| The Olsen Gang Outta Sight | 1,977 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 7 | 46 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Saga of Biorn | 2,011 | Benjamin Kousholt | Animation, Comedy | 7 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Across the Waters | 2,016 | Nicolo Donato | Drama, History, War | 7 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Manderlay | 2,005 | Lars von Trier | Drama | 6.9 | 388 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 Five Obstructions | 2,003 | Jørgen Leth | Documentary | 6.9 | 168 | Danish | Belgium | In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations. |
| Just Another Love Story | 2,007 | Ole Bornedal | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.9 | 85 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Brotherhood | 2,009 | Nicolo Donato | Drama | 6.9 | 63 | Danish | Sweden | Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered. |
| Master of the House | 1,925 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 6.9 | 63 | Danish | Denmark | When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude. |
| Antboy 3 | 2,016 | Ask Hasselbalch | Action, Adventure, Family | 6.9 | 59 | Danish | Unknown | Antboy is challenged by the release of archenemy Loppen from prison, the new super villain, Alicia Dufort, and competition from an all new vigilante; the Hero Without a Name. |
| The Olsen Gang Runs Amok | 1,973 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 54 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence | 1,981 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 | 45 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Anders Matthesen - Anden på coke? | 2,006 | Nikolaj Cederholm | Comedy | 6.9 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Anders Matthesen: ...vender tilbage | 2,009 | Unknown | Comedy | 6.9 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | ”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 | Denmark | Danish Katja looks for a lost falcon while on vacation in Italy. |
| Emma's Shadow | 1,988 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Comedy | 6.9 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| A Hijacking | 2,012 | Tobias Lindholm | Thriller, Drama | 6.8 | 289 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Flame & Citron | 2,008 | Ole Christian Madsen | Drama, History, War | 6.8 | 243 | Danish | Czech Republic | Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine. |
| R | 2,010 | Tobias Lindholm | Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 236 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Hacker | 2,019 | Poul Berg | Action, Family | 6.8 | 131 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Reconstruction | 2,003 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 77 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology. |
| The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders | 1,979 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.8 | 48 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Sun King | 2,005 | Tomas Villum Jensen | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 29 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Allegro | 2,005 | Christoffer Boe | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 24 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle | 1,994 | Toshiyuki Hiruma | Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.8 | 20 | Danish | Japan | Leo is the lion king of the jungle, but unfortunately he doesn't know well what a king's job is. He believes it is his right to do as he pleases, even if it means disrupting the peace of others or being plain rude to them, as a king, Leo thinks everyone should look out for his well-being and comfort. One day, Leo meets a lion cub named Tooey whose mother has been recently taken away and who comes to Leo for help, being as selfish as he is, Leo turns the young lion away. However, after several different adventures, Leo learns what his place as a king is and how he must behave and treat the creatures who have almost lost all faith in him. Leo rallies the jungle animals to the rescue, and in the epilogue, the narrator Michael Donovan says that Leo asked Tooey's mother to be his queen, and the cub himself grew into a strong young lion, now called Leo II and one day he would be the Jungle King. |
| Stolen Spring | 1,993 | Peter Schrøder | Drama | 6.8 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| War of the Birds | 1,990 | Jannik Hastrup | Family, Animation | 6.8 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | Anders Matthesen (Danish stand-up) performs his new show "Anders" |
| Gambler | 2,006 | Phie Ambo | Documentary | 6.8 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Speak No Evil | 2,022 | Christian Tafdrup | Horror, Thriller, Drama | 6.7 | 1,060 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Bleeder | 1,999 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drama, Crime | 6.7 | 201 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II | 2,002 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 | 118 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | In the early morning of April 9, 1940, the Danish army is alerted: the Germans have crossed the border. |
| The Olsen Gang's Big Score | 1,972 | Erik Balling | Family, Comedy, Crime | 6.7 | 57 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Maybe Baby | 2,023 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Comedy | 6.7 | 38 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Mysterious X | 1,914 | Benjamin Christensen | Mystery, Drama | 6.7 | 23 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Boys | 1,977 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.7 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| At Night | 2,007 | Christian E. Christiansen | Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | A German officer visits his Danish mistress after the occupation of Denmark has ended. |
| Amanda Knox | 2,016 | Rod Blackhurst | Documentary, Crime | 6.6 | 583 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 Boss of It All | 2,006 | Lars von Trier | Comedy | 6.6 | 310 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| A Second Chance | 2,014 | Susanne Bier | Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 159 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship. |
| With a Right to Kill | 2,003 | Morten Henriksen | Documentary | 6.6 | 98 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Checkered Ninja 2 | 2,021 | Anders Matthesen | Animation, Comedy, Action, Family | 6.6 | 59 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Awakening | 2,008 | Christian Tafdrup | Drama | 6.6 | 22 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Unruly | 2,023 | Malou Reymann | Drama | 6.6 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Memories of a Marriage | 1,989 | Kaspar Rostrup | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 Salvation | 2,014 | Kristian Levring | Drama, Western | 6.5 | 918 | Danish | Belgium | In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone. |
| The Idiots | 1,998 | Lars von Trier | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 636 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Klown | 2,010 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Comedy | 6.5 | 132 | Danish | Denmark | 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? |
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | 2,002 | Lone Scherfig | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 100 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear | 2,017 | Amalie Næsby Fick | Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 65 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 Charmer | 2,018 | Milad Alami | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Boy Who Walked Backwards | 1,995 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 6.5 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Oh Happy Day | 2,004 | Hella Joof | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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? |
| Heavy Load | 2,019 | Magnus Millang | Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | Unknown | The two estranged brothers Emil and Magnus travel to Spain to bring home the body of their drunken and now dead father. What Emil doesn’t know is that Magnus has only agreed to go because of their father’s valuable Rolex watch which can save his bleeding finances. But when it turns out the transportation of the body will cost more than 10,000 Euro, Magnus convinces his reluctant little brother to run away with the body hidden in a roof box on top of a way too small rental car. Soon the two brothers find themselves on a wild escape from the police, and their father’s last trip forces them to face their own problems. |
| The Veterinarian's Adopted Children | 1,968 | Carl Ottosen | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Styrmand Karlsen | 1,958 | Annelise Reenberg | Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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? |
| The Commune | 2,016 | Thomas Vinterberg | Drama | 6.4 | 211 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Italian for Beginners | 2,000 | Lone Scherfig | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 149 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| A Copenhagen Love Story | 2,025 | Ditte Hansen | Romance, Drama | 6.4 | 79 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury | 2,014 | Ask Hasselbalch | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 | 72 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Speed Walking | 2,014 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 6.4 | 44 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| The Inheritance | 2,003 | Per Fly | Drama | 6.4 | 41 | Danish | United Kingdom | A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish. |
| A Polar Year | 2,018 | Samuel Collardey | Drama, Adventure | 6.4 | 33 | Danish | France | A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life. |
| A Trip to Mars | 1,918 | Holger-Madsen | Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.4 | 33 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past | 2,012 | Birger Larsen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Walk with Me | 2,016 | Lisa Ohlin | Drama, War | 6.4 | 21 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| The Man Who Thought Life | 1,969 | Jens Ravn | Horror, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| The Boys from St. Petri | 1,991 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Action, Drama, War | 6.4 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark. |
| Dust on the Brain | 1,961 | Poul Bang | Family, Comedy | 6.4 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Wolf and Sheep | 2,016 | Shahrbanoo Sadat | Drama | 6.4 | 13 | Danish | Afghanistan | In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends. |
| Father of Four: Home Field Advantage | 2,008 | Claus Bjerre | Comedy, Family | 6.4 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Loving Adults | 2,022 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Thriller | 6.3 | 353 | Danish | Sweden | The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair — and they both take extreme measures to get what they want. |
| Enforcement | 2,020 | Frederik Louis Hviid | Action, Crime | 6.3 | 228 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| The Element of Crime | 1,984 | Lars von Trier | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 220 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| The Abyss | 1,910 | Urban Gad | Drama | 6.3 | 48 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| A Horrible Woman | 2,017 | Christian Tafdrup | Drama | 6.3 | 37 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Oldboys | 2,009 | Nikolaj Steen | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident. |
| Man Divided | 2,017 | Max Kestner | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1,983 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Everything Will Be Fine | 2,010 | Christoffer Boe | Thriller, Drama | 6.3 | 17 | Danish | France | A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind the photos, which leads him to discover a truth more disturbing than he imagined. |
| The Crumbs | 1,991 | Sven Methling | Comedy, Family | 6.3 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| How to Get Rid of the Others | 2,007 | Anders Rønnow Klarlund | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | '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. |
| The Tarantella from 'Napoli' | 1,903 | Peter Elfelt | Documentary | 6.3 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever | 2,023 | Ole Bornedal | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 6.2 | 89 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Worlds Apart | 2,008 | Niels Arden Oplev | Drama | 6.2 | 46 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Kingmaker | 2,024 | Mikkel Serup | Thriller, Drama | 6.2 | 32 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Rubber Tarzan | 1,981 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Truly Human | 2,001 | Åke Sandgren | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 23 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| One-Two-Three Now! | 2,016 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 |
| Ronal the Barbarian | 2,011 | Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.1 | 313 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction | 2,023 | Bille August | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 118 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Exit Plan | 2,019 | Jonas Alexander Arnby | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 94 | Danish | Belgium | Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life. |
| Murk | 2,005 | Jannik Johansen | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 51 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Superclasico | 2,011 | Ole Christian Madsen | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 40 | Danish | Argentina | Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of luxury with Argentina's top player Juan Diaz. Then one day Christian and their 16-year-old son Oscar get on a plane to Buenos Aires. Christian arrives under the pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers, but in truth, he wants to try to win Anna back. |
| Sex, Drugs & Taxation | 2,013 | Christoffer Boe | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 36 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | 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. |
| This Life | 2,012 | Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | Drama, War | 6.1 | 25 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| My Sister's Kids Home Alone | 2,012 | Martin Miehe-Renard | Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Headhunter | 2,009 | Rumle Hammerich | Thriller | 6 | 57 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Princess | 2,006 | Anders Morgenthaler | Thriller, Animation, Action, Drama | 6 | 51 | Danish | Germany | The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy. |
| Stealing Rembrandt | 2,003 | Jannik Johansen | Action, Comedy | 6 | 36 | Danish | Denmark | 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 | Denmark | 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. |
| Truth About Men | 2,010 | Nikolaj Arcel | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 24 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Eternal | 2,024 | Ulaa Salim | Science Fiction, Drama, Romance | 6 | 21 | Danish | Denmark | 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. |
| Fish Out of Water | 1,993 | Erik Clausen | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character |
| We Are Okay Now | 2,017 | Andy Deshaun | Drama | 6 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | A teenage boy is in love with his straight best friend, but a traumatic experience has changed the dynamics between them. |
| Leave Us Alone | 1,975 | Ernst Johansen | Drama | 6 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | A group of summer camp kids, left to their own devices when their teachers stage a strike, go on a rampage of stealing and looting. A stolen boat brings them to an uninhabited island. When their boat drifts away, the marooned kids must fend for themselves. |
| Father of Four: In the City | 1,956 | Alice O'Fredericks | Comedy, Family | 6 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Lilleper is starting school, and on the last day of summer vacation, his father invites the whole family to a party at Tivoli. But then everything goes wrong. Per doesn't like school. Søs falls out with Peter, Mie is accused of theft, and his father is fired from his job and talks about selling the house. Everyone is looking forward to a sad Christmas, but maybe Lilleper will still go to the "Christmas Ball in Nisseland." |
| Lotto | 2,006 | Peter Schrøder | Comedy | 6 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Jørgen manages the lotto club at the factory where he works. If you ask him, he would say he is a good person, even better than most. Then one day, he has to share a three million kroner jackpot with his friends, and his high morals are put to the test. |
| Me and Charly | 1,978 | Morten Arnfred | Drama | 6 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father. |
| Toscana | 2,022 | Mehdi Avaz | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 5.9 | 201 | Danish | Denmark | When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love. |
| A Taste of Hunger | 2,021 | Christoffer Boe | Romance, Drama | 5.9 | 65 | Danish | Denmark | Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they gambled everything to win. One day Carsten receives a letter saying that his wife loves somebody else. But who sent the letter and why? In their continuous passion and pursuit for the ultimate recognition, they forget that the meals of life are best enjoyed together. |
| Klown Forever | 2,015 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Comedy | 5.9 | 60 | Danish | Denmark | Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip. |
| ID:A | 2,011 | Christian E. Christiansen | Thriller, Horror | 5.9 | 59 | Danish | Denmark | A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia. |
| Shake It All About | 2,001 | Hella Joof | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 46 | Danish | Denmark | Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl. The girl is Caroline, married to Jørgens younger brother Tom. |
| Winter Brothers | 2,017 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 5.9 | 39 | Danish | Iceland | A brother odyssey set in a workers' environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers - their routines, habits and rituals - and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family. |
| Danny's Doomsday | 2,014 | Martin Barnewitz | Science Fiction, Family, Adventure | 5.9 | 33 | Danish | Denmark | Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighbourhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can't stand each other, but are now suddenly forced to barricade themselves in the basement together, to avoid getting eaten. From one day to another, without parents and without electricity, food, water and contact to other people, the brothers have to learn to live together in their vital protection bunker, while monsters move past the basement windows and heavy, sharp claws can be heard moving around upstairs on the wooden floors. |
| The President | 1,919 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 5.9 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | A judge sees his illegitimate daughter face trial for infanticide. He's certain that she will receive the death sentence. |
| Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier | 1,995 | Torben Skjødt Jensen | Documentary | 5.9 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook. Through interviews, historical writings, and rare archival footage, a portrait of Dreyer emerges: an austere perfectionist, yes, but also a passionate man possessing a genuine sense of humor. |
| Love at First Hiccough | 1,999 | Tomas Villum Jensen | Comedy | 5.9 | 25 | Danish | Denmark | Anja is a beautiful and very well proportioned high school senior... and still a virgin. She insists that she wants her first time to be with a guy, who knows what it's about. Her rich (and arrogant, pretentious and obnoxious) boyfriend Peter serves the purpose, and he's more than willing. In fact, he's pushing forward as much as he can, but Victor, a freshman who has a serious crush on Anja, has other plans. Her first time should definitely not be with this buffoon, and he's ready to take it VERY far! |
| The Boy Who Couldn't Swim | 2,011 | Anders Helde | Drama | 5.9 | 23 | Danish | Denmark | Two teen boys meet each other in Copenhagen and team up to find one of the boys' mother. Instead they end up finding themselves - and each other. |
| Gold Coast | 2,015 | Daniel Dencik | Romance, Drama, History | 5.9 | 21 | Danish | Ghana | Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan. |
| Miss Viborg | 2,022 | Marianne Blicher | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 19 | Danish | Denmark | In a small Danish town, we meet two generations of women. 61-year-old Solvej and the 17-year-old Kate. Their meeting kickstarts an unlikely friendship, as the wounds of the past are revealed and the seeds of hope are sown. |
| Superposition | 2,023 | Karoline Lyngbye | Thriller | 5.9 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | A couple and their young son leave their urban life in Copenhagen and move to an isolated forest in Sweden, hoping to reignite the spark in their relationship. |
| Out of Tune | 2,019 | Frederikke Aspöck | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | Celebrity financier and jet-setter Markus Føns has been taken into custody. Following a brutal assault by a gang of bikers in connection with some of his more shady dealings, Markus opts for voluntary solitary confinement among the prison's weakest inmates; the rapists and the pedophiles. This ward has a prison choir, of which the inmate Niels is the unofficial and self-proclaimed leader. Markus decides to join the choir and before long has his sight set on reaching the top of its hierarchy. This battle is not fought with muscle, but with cunning, tyranny and canonical Danish songs! |
| Beyond | 2,000 | Åke Sandgren | Adventure, Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 5.9 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun and discover that their every move is being watched and that some things should just be left alone. |
| The Biggest Heroes | 1,996 | Thomas Vinterberg | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daughter, whom he should present himself to. Her adoptive father is a mean bastard, and incestive undertones lies in the relationship between the two. The daughter escapes from her adoptive father, turns up at Peter's place, and Carsten, Peter, and the daughter escapes to Sweden. |
| Backstabbed | 1,996 | Martin Schmidt | Horror | 5.9 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Four high school friends meet up in an abandoned house to play 'Backstabbed', a game of murder with headphones and plastic weapons. Meanwhile, a serial killer is leaving a trail of blood on his way to the house, and soon the game of murder becomes much more than make-believe. |
| Out of Bounds | 2,011 | Frederikke Aspöck | Drama | 5.9 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit Stella's father Nathan who lives alone with his labrador. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to having a baby, but Oskar appears to have doubts. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan's provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable, and Stella is caught in between. |
| Atlantis | 1,913 | August Blom | Drama | 5.9 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | Overwhelmed by personal and professional problems, biologist Friedrich von Kammacher decides to travel abroad in order to regain the joy of living. During his adventurous journey he will meet two very different women, one of whom will be the key to his fate. |
| Slim Slam Slum | 2,002 | Jorge Ballarin | Comedy, Music | 5.9 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | The film is about Slim, Slam and Slum from the Danish cartoon series, three young boys at twenty-something who lives in an apartment in Nordvest in Denmark. They are the kind of guys which is using a lot time sitting on the toilet, playing Playstation and smoking pot. But suddenly they all quit their bad salary jobs, and start on fresh with something new. They get a big weird idea on gaining money, power and respect. First of all they start a popular web site that their conman partner Dahlgård which after a little time betrays them and sell the site. Then the three boys start Boomin Crew, a music group of hip hop. They all suddenly get in love with the three honeys, Dit, Dat and Dut, and their new goals are to try snap up with them. |
| Friends Forever | 1,987 | Stefan Henszelman | Drama | 5.9 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood. He makes friends with two very different boys in the new school: Henrik, an independent boy, and Patrick, the leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled when he finds Patrick is gay and having an affair with the captain of a soccer team. |
| The Shamer's Daughter | 2,015 | Kenneth Kainz | Fantasy, Adventure, Drama | 5.8 | 187 | Danish | Czech Republic | The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, it is up to Dina to uncover the truth, but soon she finds herself whirled into a dangerous power struggle with her own life at risk. |
| The Model | 2,016 | Mads Matthiesen | Drama | 5.8 | 127 | Danish | Denmark | When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her everyday life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris. At a photo shoot in her new hometown, she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. But their relationship soon turns into a dangerous obsession for Emma. |
| The Marco Effect | 2,021 | Martin Zandvliet | Thriller, Crime | 5.8 | 121 | Danish | Denmark | When a homeless Romani boy is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant's passport, police inspector Carl Mørck and Department Q are tasked with finding the connection. |
| The Quiet Ones | 2,024 | Frederik Louis Hviid | Action, Drama | 5.8 | 69 | Danish | Denmark | In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. |
| The Ringmaster | 2,018 | Søren Juul Petersen | Horror, Mystery | 5.8 | 63 | Danish | Denmark | Nationwide quietness. The streets are empty. Everyone’s glued to their screens at home, watching the final game. In the outskirts of Denmark, close to the German border, a small gas station needs to be open for service, even on this special night. Two young women have the shift. Ambitious Agnes is in the backroom putting finishing touches on her thesis, while free-spirited Belinda is on her phone, hoping to get the attention of her boyfriend. Unfortunately, the shift is not going to be as uneventful as they think, because no customers also means no witnesses, and the girls have been spotted to play a special part in a very different sort of game. |
| Prague | 2,006 | Ole Christian Madsen | Drama | 5.8 | 44 | Danish | Denmark | Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a break-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage. |
| The Olsen Gang's Last Trick | 1,998 | Tom Hedegaard | Family, Comedy, Crime | 5.8 | 41 | Danish | Denmark | Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as always, is planning the big heist, the Olsen Gang is once again on the move. |
| Journey to Saturn | 2,008 | Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction | 5.8 | 36 | Danish | Denmark | A Danish crew of misfits travel to Saturn in search for natural resources. However, the planet is colonized by a ruthless army of Aliens that turn their eye on Earth and invade Denmark. Thus, the crew change their mission to liberate Denmark. |
| Hugo the Movie Star | 1,996 | Flemming Quist Møller | Animation, Family | 5.8 | 31 | Danish | Denmark | Hugo, the one-of-a-kind jungle animal, is snatched away from his home for a second time in another attempt for him to become an animal actor. Meanwhile, he's reunited with Rita the kind, streetwise fox. Finding that life in front of and behind the camera isn't so bad, he grows more unaccustomed to wild life once he escapes and slowly weakens his relationship with Rita. |
| Webmaster | 1,998 | Thomas Borch Nielsen | Science Fiction, Thriller | 5.8 | 28 | Danish | Denmark | J.B. (Lars Bom) - an ultra-talented Webmaster of an illicit cyber-domain known for massive amounts of illegal money transfers is captured and is put under suspicion by the cyber-domain boss named Stoiss (Jørgen Kiil) when an intruder hacks into the system and steals the Stoiss’s money. Stoiss sticks a heart controller device on J.B. and gives him 35 hours to find who took his money or he dies. |
| The Hour of the Lynx | 2,013 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Thriller, Drama | 5.8 | 25 | Danish | Denmark | Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul. |
| Okay | 2,002 | Jesper W. Nielsen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | Nete is a tough woman of 37 who runs her job, husband, and teenage daughter with a firm and efficient hand. Her father suddenly becomes ill. Seriously ill. Nete forces a doctor to tell her how much time he has left. 3 weeks, hardly any longer. Nete's father becomes bitter and introvert, but Nete insists that he come to live with her and her family the few weeks he has left. "You should die with your family." Nete's father moves in and puts even more strain on Nete's family and everyday life. They all try to cope with the situation - he has only three weeks left, and you don't argue with a dying man. Three weeks pass by. A month. Nete's father does not die, his appetite comes back, the doctors begin to have doubts as to the prognosis, and Nete has a problem. |
| Wildside | 1,998 | Simon Staho | Drama | 5.8 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past. |
| Primates of the Caribbean | 2,012 | Jan Rahbek | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 19 | Danish | Denmark | Marco the Monkey works as a beach officer. But he spends most of his time trying to win the heart of the beautiful Lulu. He is just about to succeed, when Marco's rival, Carlo, builds a gigantic monkey-shaped casino right on Marco's beach. Lulu is fascinated by the charming Carlo. Jealously Marco starts an undercover investigation of Carlo's strange casino. Soon he discovers the truth. Carlo will take over the island and force Lulu to marry him! When Marco tries to arrest Carlo a problem rises. Literally from the ground. Because Carlo's Casino is a giant robot. |
| Satisfaction 1720 | 2,016 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Comedy | 5.8 | 17 | Danish | Czech Republic | Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride. |
| Strike First Freddy | 1,965 | Erik Balling | Comedy | 5.8 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons. |
| In the Blood | 2,016 | Rasmus Heisterberg | Drama | 5.8 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | It’s summer in Copenhagen, it’s a time of endless days and careless nights. Simon is a 23-year-old medical student. He and his friends party and drink and chase girls and wake up the next day to do the whole thing all over again. But it’s also a time of unrest and change among the boys. Dreams shatter, love hurts, and friendships dissolve. |
| Cecilie | 2,007 | Hans Fabian Wullenweber | Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 5.8 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | Cecilie sees and hears things no one else does; places suddenly change appearance, people aren´t really there. One night she experiences a rape, but no traces are to be found. Her husband Mads commits her to a psychiatric hospital. With the help of a psychiatrist, Per, she begins to see a frightening connection between her condition and a brutal murder that happened more than 30 years before. |
| The Public Voice | 1,988 | Lejf Marcussen | Animation | 5.8 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture. |
| Samson & Sally | 1,984 | Jannik Hastrup | Animation | 5.8 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick. |
| Love You for Now | 2,022 | Julie Rudbæk | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Anna and Thomas are missing something: love. They will follow their encounter through confusing crushes and lack of commitment, but can love survive when you don't want to compromise your own dreams for your partner? |
| Applause | 2,009 | Martin Zandvliet | Drama | 5.8 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life again. |
| Mona's World | 2,001 | Jonas Elmer | Comedy | 5.8 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Mona, a single girl in her thirties, leads a life filled with adventure and romance. In her dreams that is. But an ordinary visit to the bank is about to make her real life as exciting as her imagination, and moreover, during this encounter she is introduced to the man of her dreams in a way she never dreamt of. |
| Barbara | 1,997 | Nils Malmros | Romance, Drama | 5.8 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests. |
| Psychosia | 2,019 | Marie Grahtø Sørensen | Drama | 5.8 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | Viktoria is an odd and extremely self-disciplined researcher in the field of suicide. She is invited to a psychiatric ward to treat the suicidal patient Jenny. Through intimate night conversations, they form a tight bond. Viktoria slowly opens up to experience closeness with another person for the first time in her life, but the closer the two women get, the more it becomes clear that something is not as it seems. |
| Halalabad Blues | 2,002 | Helle Ryslinge | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | A warm-hearted and biting romance about the impossible love between a Danish woman and a Turkish man |
| Eye of the Eagle | 1,997 | Peter Flinth | Adventure, History, Drama, Family | 5.8 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | In 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's education. Alas the bishop is the brain of a conspiracy to seize the crown for himself, as most of the nobles are dissatisfied with the endless wars that bring them no profit. The prince and kitchen-boy Aske accidentally fall out of the castle and overhear the conspirators, but are seen and pursued by the men of the One-eyed Man, a feared mercenary who is in the conspiracy to take mortal revenge on the king for leaving him behind on a battlefield where he lost an eye which was eaten by an eagle, which he tamed and now shares his sight with. Written by KGF Vissers |
| Han, hun, Dirch og Dario | 1,962 | Annelise Reenberg | Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast sports car, a beautiful silver-gray Jaguar. During his drive, he runs out of gas. A young lady Laura Lublinski (Hanne Borchsenius), helps him and he takes an innocent flirtation with her. When Marianne learns this, she moves home and dump into an artist community with Jenny (Bodil Steen), Ovengaden of water 52 in Christianshavn. Here she takes the unrepentant Don Juan, Mario (Dario Campeotto) and the guitar-playing Eigil (Dirch compatible). |
| Antboy | 2,013 | Ask Hasselbalch | Comedy, Adventure, Family | 5.7 | 146 | Danish | Denmark | 12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge. The first Danish superhero-movie. Based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen. |
| Epidemic | 1,987 | Lars von Trier | Drama, Horror | 5.7 | 132 | Danish | Denmark | A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality. |
| Small Town Killers | 2,017 | Ole Bornedal | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.7 | 72 | Danish | Denmark | The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian contract killer to do a hit on their spouses. But they have badly underestimated their wives, and this becomes the start of an absurd journey where Ib and Edward to their own horror end at the top of a kill list. |
| Wildland | 2,020 | Jeanette Nordahl | Crime, Drama, Family | 5.7 | 59 | Danish | Denmark | Following a car accident, which kills her mother, 17-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. |
| Deliver Us from Evil | 2,009 | Ole Bornedal | Thriller | 5.7 | 40 | Danish | Denmark | In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price. |
| Fighter | 2,007 | Natasha Arthy | Action, Drama, Romance | 5.7 | 33 | Danish | Denmark | Aïcha, a high-school student, is a passionate kung fu fighter. Her Turkish parents expect her to get good grades so she can get into medical school, like her brother Ali. But school doesn´t inspire her. Defying her family, Aïcha starts secretly training at a professional, co-ed kung fu club. A boy, Emil, helps Aïcha train for the club championship and they fall in love. But the rules of life are not as simple as the rules of kung fu, and Aïcha is forced to decide who she is and what she wants. |
| Manslaughter | 2,005 | Per Fly | Drama, Crime | 5.7 | 31 | Danish | Denmark | A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman. |
| Birthday Girl | 2,024 | Michael Noer | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 | 28 | Danish | Denmark | On a cruise ship bound for the Caribbean, 42 year old Nanna has invited her daughter Cille and her best friend on a cruise to celebrate Cille's 18th birthday. The expectations are high, and they have big plans set for the three days aboard the cruise. But on the first evening, the dream vacation descends a nightmare, and Nanna realizes that in order to get justice, she must take matters into her own hands. |
| Pure Hearts | 2,006 | Kenneth Kainz | Drama | 5.7 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients their viewing rights are retracted. Kriss is deeply frustrated by this, until he realises that Linda, the young girl in the film, actually exists in the shape of the film's star, the actress Ulla Vilstrup. Setting fire to the hospital, Kriss and Willy escape into the night, determined to find her, because life is what you make of it. |
| Angels in Fast Motion | 2,005 | Ole Christian Madsen | Crime, Drama | 5.7 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | The unflinching tale of Maria, Allan and Steso, who are struggling for survival. Maria is a pusher frau, wandering restlessly among addicts, abusers and bikers in a relentless search for love. Allan has just returned from an ill-fated trip across the Pacific and must reclaim his life and stay clean, but ghosts from his past return to haunt him. Steso, the intellectual, god-forsaken and prophetic cynic, does his utmost to unite the two polar opposites that give meaning to his life: his girl and drugs. All three try desperately to make some sense of the madness, but how do you find meaning in the chaos that is life? And how do you find love if you can't recognize it? |
| In Your Hands | 2,004 | Annette K. Olesen | Drama | 5.7 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers. |
| Could We Maybe | 1,976 | Lasse Nielsen | Romance, Drama | 5.7 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | Kim, an ordinary 15-year-old given mostly to himself, is living with an unmarried mother in a small apartment. One day, he falls hostage in a bank robbery along with an unfamiliar girl falls, but after making friends with the leader of the robbers, Kim and his new friend run away from them. Settling for a while in an empty house, teenagers fall in love. |
| Final Hour | 1,995 | Martin Schmidt | Thriller, Horror | 5.7 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | Some students gets locked up in their school and is stalked by a killer. But as time goes by, it turns out that there is more to this than it seems. |
| Passer Babysitting Girls | 1,965 | Sven Methling | Comedy | 5.7 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | Caretaker Alf Thomsen's very effective "alarm clock" comes once again in operation, and has again succeeded in getting him up to speed, despite their incessant discussions back and forth. Everything is peaceful and idyllic. Sleeping city housing block, with the famous staircase is to embark on a new day |
| When Animals Dream | 2,014 | Jonas Alexander Arnby | Mystery, Drama, Horror | 5.6 | 121 | Danish | Denmark | Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening changes in her body that mark her as a dangerous threat. |
| The Substitute | 2,007 | Ole Bornedal | Thriller, Comedy, Horror | 5.6 | 67 | Danish | Denmark | 6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien? |
| Nocturne | 1,980 | Lars von Trier | Drama | 5.6 | 58 | Danish | Denmark | It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a plane ticket from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires at 6 that morning. She doesn't want to go. Her friend encourages her to make the trip. Later, she stands in a car park with her suitcase. Flying geese fill the screen. |
| Daisy Diamond | 2,007 | Simon Staho | Drama | 5.6 | 54 | Danish | Denmark | A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter. |
| The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar | 2,006 | Kasper Barfoed | Family, Adventure, Action | 5.6 | 44 | Danish | Denmark | Danish brilliant pre-teen student Nis uses his summer holiday to learn Latin so he can properly study the Knights Templar inheritance on Bjornholm island from sources. His friends Mathias, a dumb jock, and Kathrine, who only comes to spend time wear her dad, who really wanted a boy, prefer childish fun, but get dragged in his quest for a treasure. Mats's strength, Kathrine's connections and even Nis's bratty kid sister's blunt remarks contribute to find out about two brotherhoods, heirs of 12th century factions in the Templar order and deal with danger. |
| The Ambulance | 2,005 | Laurits Munch-Petersen | Thriller, Action, Drama | 5.6 | 34 | Danish | Denmark | Two brothers commit a robbery to pay their dying mother's medical bills and are forced to steal an ambulance during their getaway. But, unbeknownst to them, the ambulance has a dying heart patient and a hospital intern in the back. |
| Clash of Egos | 2,006 | Tomas Villum Jensen | Comedy | 5.6 | 33 | Danish | Denmark | Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with his two children. They celebrate the reunion by going to the movies to see a new film by the famous, critically acclaimed Danish director Claus Volter. But the film is not the masterpiece it is said to be on the poster; the children are crying and Tony cannot get the money back he spent on tickets and candy. Tony does not give up; he seeks out Claus Volter in order to get an explanation and a refund. It is however easier said than done to get money out of a world-renowned filmmaker. |
| The Good Traitor | 2,020 | Christina Rosendahl | Drama, History | 5.6 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country. |
| What No One Knows | 2,008 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 | 24 | Danish | Sweden | When Thomas´ sister dies in an accident, he discovers that her death may be connected to their deceased father´s work in military intelligence. As Thomas embarks on an investigation he soon finds himself and his family under surveillance by an unknown group of people. |
| You Disappear | 2,017 | Peter Schønau Fog | Drama | 5.6 | 23 | Danish | Denmark | Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges. |
| Fathers and Mothers | 2,022 | Paprika Steen | Comedy | 5.6 | 21 | Danish | Denmark | Follows Piv and Ulrik, who are trying to become part of the parent group in their daughter's new school class, going to great lengths to be admitted. |
| Someone Like Hodder | 2,003 | Henrik Ruben Genz | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.6 | 19 | Danish | Denmark | Hodder is nine years old. He lives on his own with his father, who works nights as a bill poster. One night a fairy appears to Hodder and asks him to save the world. |
| Cognitio | 2,018 | Rebecca Emcken | Drama | 5.6 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Reclusively withdrawn Tobias is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. Here, he meets the boy Emil, a boy with an entirely different view on life and the situation he and Tobias are in. The two boys develop a close friendship that puts the mind and boundaries of Tobias to the test. |
| Anna | 2,009 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 5.6 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Anna is a 12-year-old girl, living in a small fishing village. She is at a crossroad in her life. Her surroundings are changing - and so is she. |
| Red Meadows | 1,945 | Bodil Ipsen | War, Drama | 5.6 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | A suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison. |
| Thorvaldsen | 1,949 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Documentary | 5.6 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy. |
| Kira's Reason: A Love Story | 2,001 | Ole Christian Madsen | Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world? |
| The Great Day on the Beach | 1,991 | Stellan Olsson | Comedy, Family | 5.6 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | It is the adult Gustav Adolf, who tells the story of the momentous day when he as a little boy with his father and mother and the whole staircase, went to the beach to enjoy the pleasures of bathing. We are in 1930s working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. In a backyard apartment, we meet the little working-up of small Gustav Adolf (Benjamin Rothenborg Vibe) who has great respect for his father, Axel (Erik Clausen). Father has a very lively gab and is always ready to tell a story from her exciting life - often from the time he was on the big Argentine pampas. |
| 66 Scenes from America | 1,982 | Jørgen Leth | Documentary | 5.6 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. |
| Melody of a Murder | 1,944 | Bodil Ipsen | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.6 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | A woman is found strangled in her shop. Shortly after, another murder is committed. Perhaps the most terrifying is that the both girls' name is Sonja. The police is convinced it's the same killer and at each scene is heard a woman singing the same song. A song which is soon dubbed the 'murder melody.' |
| With Your Permission | 2,007 | Paprika Steen | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente is on the verge of a breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him into group therapy where an unlikely friendship emerges between Jan and the two mechanics Rudy and Alf. |
| This Charming Man | 2,002 | Martin Strange-Hansen | Comedy | 5.6 | 11 | Danish | Unknown | Lars applies for job training, but his papers are mixed with an immigrant and he's sent instead to Danish class. When he learns that the attractive teacher, Ida, will lose her job if the immigrant isn't in attendance, he decides to go through with the erroneous assignment posing as the other guy. The short film is a comedy of errors, but works in some poignant and scathing observations about xenophobia. |
| Mom Squad | 2,019 | Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Comedy | 5.6 | 10 | Danish | Unknown | New mother Line is living the high life in Hong Kong with husband Bjørn when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her with their Filipino nanny, so Line takes her baby son and heads back to her old hometown in southern Funen. |
| Me and the Mafia | 1,973 | Henning Ørnbak | Comedy, Family | 5.6 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Charming con artist Victor "Viffer" Hansen and his friend Richard Abelsteen pull off a million-dollar scam in Sweden. Disguised as Swedish diplomats representing the royal family, they swindle Italian businessman Vittorio Fercci out of 10 million Swedish kronor by arranging a marriage between the king and Vittorio's daughter Marcellina. |
| What We Become | 2,015 | Bo Mikkelsen | Horror, Thriller | 5.5 | 199 | Danish | Denmark | A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive. |
| Shelley | 2,016 | Ali Abbasi | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 5.5 | 133 | Danish | Denmark | Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but t... |
| Almost Perfect | 2,012 | Hella Joof | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 | 29 | Danish | Denmark | Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she realizes that the child may come to resemble the father and possibly get his less flattering characteristics. Anne feels compelled to find the sperm donor and ensure that he is as perfect as she imagines. |
| All for Two | 2,013 | Rasmus Heide | Comedy, Crime | 5.5 | 28 | Danish | Denmark | This sequel to the box office hit All for One finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are planning a heist involving the unlikely combination of unsalted butter, a strict diet and a helicopter. When their seemingly impossible heist succeeds, Nikolai asks to borrow some money to start over. The brothers reject him, but when all three of them are tricked by a fish-loving banking executive, they are forced to team up again. |
| Ivan the Incredible | 2,012 | Michael Hegner | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.5 | 28 | Danish | Denmark | Poor Ivan Olsen is plagued by problems bullied at school and constantly pursued by a gang whose greatest pleasure is filling his pants with water. And when Ivan gets home, his dad doesn't have much sympathy for him either because he is crazy about Tarzan and fails to appreciate Ivan's finer qualities. But one day Ivan gets the chance to live up all of his dad's expectations and give the bullies at school a lesson they will never forget. The big question is whether having superpowers makes life any easier? |
| At World's End | 2,009 | Tomas Villum Jensen | Adventure, Action, Comedy, Thriller | 5.5 | 28 | Danish | Denmark | An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life. |
| All Inclusive | 2,014 | Hella Joof | Comedy | 5.5 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family. |
| Catch That Girl | 2,002 | Hans Fabian Wullenweber | Action, Family, Adventure, Crime | 5.5 | 25 | Danish | Denmark | Ida's father suddenly gets a stroke and is rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with a deadly disease with no other opportunity than to travel to USA to attend a medical experimental operation. Unfortunately, the small family have to get the money themselves, as the state doesn't pay for that kind of experimental procedures. Ida has to get the money - and she got no other way than to steal them from the bank where her mother works...... developing the banks intense security. |
| D-Day | 2,000 | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | TV Movie, Crime, Drama | 5.5 | 25 | Danish | Denmark | Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebrations. |
| Klovn the Final | 2,020 | Mikkel Nørgaard | Comedy | 5.5 | 22 | Danish | Denmark | The third and final feature based on the acclaimed Danish TV series finds Frank turning 50 so Casper invites him to Iceland on a boys' trip. Naturally, the trip does not go quite as planned. |
| Dan Dream | 2,017 | Jesper Rofelt | History, Comedy | 5.5 | 22 | Danish | Denmark | A small group of eccentric pioneers join forces, in order to do the impossible and create world history in the early 1980s of Denmark |
| All for Four | 2,022 | Rasmus Heide | Comedy | 5.5 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | Two brothers Timo and Ralf are petty criminals. When Timo hears that his girlfriend does not see a future with him, he with Ralf and his friend Martin try to carry out a dangerous coup that may eventually win her eternal affections. |
| Albert | 2,015 | Karsten Kiilerich | Family, Animation | 5.5 | 20 | Danish | Denmark | The nice town of Kellyville is too small to accomodate the world's worst scoundrels, Albert and Egon, who decides to go out in the world. |
| Chop Chop | 2,001 | Niels Arden Oplev | Comedy | 5.5 | 20 | Danish | Sweden | Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that Dennis gets just that when he meets Rita at the local pub. She is on the run from her husband and she doesn't turn down the chance to hide away at Carl and Dennis's place. |
| Neon Heart | 2,018 | Laurits Flensted-Jensen | Drama | 5.5 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | A story about three people chasing life and each other. Laura is on her way to a porn film casting. Niklas is trying to take care of two men with Down’s Syndrome, and Frederik is out to gain respect as a hooligan. In glimpses and fragments of past and present, we follow the three characters on a journey full of taboos and desires. |
| The Sunfish | 2,014 | Søren Balle | Drama | 5.5 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | Kesse is a third generation fisherman, living in a small coastal town in Northern Jutland. Life trudges along without surprises, but all this is about to change. The fishing industry is hit by financial crisis and the small fishing boats are swiftly put out of competition by big corporations. In desperation, Kesse tries to find a way out of his hopeless plight and has to resort to dishonest means, on top of having to fire his best friend and lone employee. As if this wasn't enough, he gets an unwelcome guest on-board in the form of marine biologist Gerd from Copenhagen, sent to study the fishing. Søren Balle's debut feature is a funny and touching film about love, friendship and the difficult art of dealing with change. |
| Once Upon a Time | 1,922 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 5.5 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. The prince of Denmark comes seeking her hand and, aided by magic objects given to him by a mysterious spirit, seeks to win her love. |
| The Day We Died | 2,020 | Ole Christian Madsen | Drama, History | 5.5 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015. |
| Dogville: The Pilot | 2,003 | Lars von Trier | Drama | 5.5 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-minute pilot film starred Danish actors Sidse Babett Knudsen (as Grace) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (as Tom). |
| Temptations of a Great City | 1,911 | August Blom | Drama | 5.5 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | Mrs. Hellertz is distraught about her son Aage, who – in spite of a good pay and generous support from home – manages to spend every penny on debauchery in the night life. He indebts himself deeply and falls into the clutches of a malicious loan shark who is out for Mrs. Hellertz's fortune. To complicate things further, Aage starts a relationship with the loan shark's beautiful daughter. (Stumfilm.dk) |
| Karla & Jonas | 2,010 | Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Family, Comedy, Romance | 5.5 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives. |
| Echo | 2,007 | Anders Morgenthaler | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.5 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare. |
| The Red Mantle | 1,967 | Gabriel Axel | Drama | 5.5 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing of his father, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. During a peaceful interlude, he falls in love with Signe, the daughter of the king of the rival clan. However, Hildegisl, who desires Signe's hand in marriage, disovers the young lover's plans to wed and sets out to bring about the end of Hagbard. |
| Q's Barbershop | 2,019 | Emil Langballe | Documentary | 5.5 | 11 | Danish | Unknown | A colourful, upbeat tale from Vollsmose about the resourceful and funky hairdresser Qasim, who instils dignity, inspiration and hope in young people through something we can all relate to – a cool haircut! |
| Christian IV | 2,018 | Kasper 'Kalle' Skovsbøl | History, Drama | 5.5 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | The film depicts the last hours in the life of great Danish King Christian IV, told exclusively from a horse carriage. The focal point is Christian's tempestuous relationship to his second wife, Kirsten Munk, involving accusations of infidelity and attempted murder. |
| An Afternoon | 2,014 | Søren Green | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Mathias has decided that today is the day, that he'll let Frederik know he is in love with him. But when the time comes, is he ready to make the first move? |
| Jolly Roger - Jagten på den forsvundne fremtid! | 2,001 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Adventure, Family | 5.5 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | The future is stolen by Captain Bill the Black. It is up to the infamous pirate Jolly Roger and his great-great-great grandchild Lula to save it, helped by the two arch-angels Theobalt and Emil. |
| Big Time | 2,017 | Kaspar Astrup Schröder | Documentary | 5.5 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the Manhattan skyscraper W57 and Two World Trade Center. |
| Amazon Jack | 2,007 | Flemming Quist Møller | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.5 | 10 | Danish | Canada | Jungo is the rarest creature in the world, but also the most popular! Can his best buddies Rita the fox, Zik and Zak the monkeys, and an eager young puppy help him escape the clutches of a mad scientist intent on cloning him, a senseless psychologist who wants to analyze him, and a talk show hostess who wants Jungo to advertise her perfume? |
| Holiday | 2,018 | Isabella Eklöf | Drama, Crime | 5.4 | 139 | Danish | Denmark | Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself. |
| The Angel Maker | 2,023 | Julie R. Ølgaard | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror | 5.4 | 53 | Danish | Denmark | Laura is a detective on leave with postpartum depression. When a horrifying serial killer begins methodically murdering women in the most brutal ways, she decides it is time to return to the field. As the bodies pile up, it becomes increasingly clear that she too hides a dark secret that could derail the case and her career. |
| Island of Lost Souls | 2,007 | Nikolaj Arcel | Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Drama | 5.4 | 53 | Danish | Germany | 14-year-old Lulu moves to a small provincial town with her mother and younger brother. One night, her brother is struck by a beam of white light - actually the spirit of Herman Hartmann from the 19th-century. To her despair, Lulu realizes that Herman has possessed her brother, and the two of them are whirled into a fevered adventure. |
| Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms | 2,008 | Thomas Borch Nielsen | Family, Animation, Comedy | 5.4 | 44 | Danish | Denmark | It's not easy to be Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives at the bottom of the food chain. But one day, an old disco record turns his life upside down. Suddenly he sees before him his own destiny, the star of the world's greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms! Okay, he's got no arms, no rhythm and no band. But as Barry says: "We'll do it anyway!" |
| The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II | 2,007 | Giacomo Campeotto | Family, Adventure, Action | 5.4 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to rescue his father, who has been kidnapped, and find the lost treasure. But the fearful and dangerous Black Brotherhood lies in wait. |
| Eaten Horizons | 1,950 | Wilhelm Freddie | Horror, Fantasy | 5.4 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | A short experimental film by (Carl Th. Dreyer's cinematographer) Jørgen Roos and surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie. |
| Now | 2,003 | Simon Staho | Drama | 5.4 | 19 | Danish | Denmark | A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no idea what to do with each other. Sexually. Emotionally. The husband meets a man who knows what to do with his sexuality. Suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done. The two men have a secret love affair. But there is a problem: The woman. And she has something up her sleeve. Will she act? Yes, she will. What happens? Nobody knows. Until now. |
| Boy | 2,011 | Peter Gantzler | Romance, Drama | 5.4 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | 18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides. |
| Nothing | 2,022 | Trine Piil Christensen | Thriller, Drama | 5.4 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | Pierre Anthon and his classmates have just started 8th grade, when Pierre Anthon declares that life has no meaning, leaves school and moves up in a tree, refusing to come down. This sparks an existential crisis amongst his classmates. They decide to gather their most valuable belongings in a “heap of meaning” that will convince Pierre Anthon that he is wrong. A dangerous, disturbing, and controversial study of what really matters has begun. |
| Aching Hearts | 2,009 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 5.4 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | Set in the early 1960s, the story revolves around high school sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. |
| Aftermath | 2,004 | Paprika Steen | Drama | 5.4 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter. |
| Hold Me Tight | 2,010 | Kaspar Munk | Drama | 5.4 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | In the wake of a series of seemingly insignificant events, an ordinary school day for Sara, Mikkel, Louise and Hassan develops into a tragic turning point that changes everything forever. |
| The White Slave Trade | 1,910 | August Blom | Drama | 5.4 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | Anna, a beautiful girl from a poor background, is offered a well-paid position as a lady's companion in London. Anna's boyfriend, the sceptical Georg, suspects that the job offer is too good to be true, but Anna dismisses him and reports to the London address. The stately home in England turns out to be a whorehouse that imports women from Denmark. Anna manages to overpower her first client but is unable to escape. |
| Storstrøm Bridge | 1,950 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Documentary | 5.4 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge. |
| Hygge! | 2,023 | Dagur Kári | Drama, Comedy | 5.4 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, the secrets spill out and threaten to spoil the most important thing of all, the 'hygge'. |
| Food Club | 2,020 | Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves. |
| Jenny and the Soldier | 1,947 | Johan Jacobsen | Drama, Romance | 5.4 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | A good natured soldier with a killer right hand falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past. |
| Johnny Larsen | 1,979 | Morten Arnfred | Romance, Drama | 5.4 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | From a working class coming-of-age novel, Morten Arnfred fashioned his feature film to recapture the feel, the sting, the pain, but also the spirit of solidarity of the 1950s in the metropolitan city of Copenhagen: at the center, young Johnny, helpless, hapless, happy, unhappy, going through the motions of growing up. Bodil awards: Best Film and Best Actor (Allan Olsen). |
| Valhalla | 2,019 | Fenar Ahmad | Adventure, Fantasy | 5.3 | 135 | Danish | Denmark | The Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god's barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the gods the two children must fight to save Valhalla from the end of the world - Ragnarok. |
| The Candidate | 2,008 | Kasper Barfoed | Thriller | 5.3 | 40 | Danish | Denmark | Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier. |
| The Reunion | 2,011 | Niels Nørløv Hansen | Comedy | 5.3 | 38 | Danish | Denmark | 'The Renion' is a new Danish comedy starring Troels Lyby, Nicolaj Copernicus and Anders W. Berthelsen. The three highschool friends Niels (Nicolaj Copernicus), Andreas (Anders W. Berthelsen) and Thomas (Troels Lyby) are invited to their 25 years anniversary. While Niels and Andrew struggles with not feeling like participating, Thomas is of a different opinion. Having arranged an all-time weekend of drinks, ladies and blowing off steam! The big question is: Will they actually survive the Copenhagen nightlife ... and will they even get to the reunion?. 'The Reunion' is a Danish comedy about old friends, that realises, at some point they are going to grow up and have to behave as adults... AS IF! |
| Someone You Love | 2,014 | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Drama | 5.3 | 29 | Danish | Denmark | Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged daughter Julie suddenly turns up with his 11-year-old grandson, Noa. Soon, Thomas is forced to take care of the boy. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. But disaster strikes, forcing Thomas to realize he has to make a choice that will change his life forever. |
| My Avatar and Me | 2,010 | Mikkel Stolt | Documentary, Science Fiction | 5.3 | 23 | Danish | Unknown | is a creative documentary-fiction film and a film that might expand your sense of reality. It is the story about a man who enters the virtual world Second Life to pursue his personal dreams and ambitions. His journey into cyberspace becomes a magic learning experience, which gradually opens the gates to a much larger reality. |
| Venus | 2,016 | Lea Glob | Documentary | 5.3 | 22 | Danish | Denmark | During casting sessions, young women from Copenhagen talk candidly about their sexual experiences. Initially, the two female directors wanted to make a film as a way of better understanding their own sexual desires and frustrations. In response to a casting call, more than a hundred ordinary young women turned up and talked straight into the camera about their erotic fantasies. As shooting progressed, the filmmakers realized that these intimate casting sessions should in fact be the final film. |
| Timetrip: The Curse of the Viking Witch | 2,009 | Mogens Hagedorn | Adventure, Family | 5.3 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | Siblings Valdemar and Sille meetings scientist Benedict and his time machine. With one begins an exciting but perilous journey back into the history of Denmark. Benedict is in fact not an ordinary man. The Vikings threw sorceress Volva its spell on Benedict and made him immortal. When he can not travel back in time and do away with Volva, he needs Valdemar and Sille help. |
| Anja & Viktor | 2,001 | Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Comedy, Family, Romance | 5.3 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | Highschool sweethearts Anja and Viktor find themselves in a lesser state of love when Anja graduates and gets a job in the city. |
| Swinger | 2,016 | Mikkel Munch-Fals | Romance, Comedy | 5.3 | 15 | Danish | Denmark | Munch-Fals’ script follows Adam, who has so far been spoiled by life – a good job, a lovely wife, an expensive villa, an independent son – but still it isn’t good enough. Even the swinger weekend trips he has been taking with his wife have become a joyless routine, and his youthful optimism and appetite for life are distant memories. Then, one day, at another swingers’ club, he does what swingers don’t do – he falls in love. |
| Aarhus by Night | 1,989 | Nils Malmros | Drama | 5.3 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories. |
| Barndommens gade | 1,986 | Astrid Henning-Jensen | Drama | 5.3 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | In a small two-room apartment in a backyard in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, 14-year-old Ester lives with her father, mother, and older brother Carl. It is a typical working-class neighborhood of the time, and the apartment lacks any modern conveniences. Coal must be fetched from a dark basement where homeless people have sought shelter and lodging for the night. Ester is a dreamer. She wants to be a writer and secretly writes poetry. She often loses track of time and place when her thoughts wander. |
| Rosa Morena | 2,011 | Carlos Augusto de Oliveira | Drama | 5.3 | 11 | Danish | Brazil | Thomas, a Danish gay man, is unable to adopt in his home country. He visits a friend in Brazil to explore the possibility of bringing home a child. Eventually he meets Maria, a poor woman who is willing to give away the child she is carrying in exchange for money. As he waits for the child, Thomas takes care of Maria, and their relationship develops in a way he did not expect |
| No Time for Love | 2,009 | Theis Mølstrøm Christensen | Comedy, Romance | 5.3 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Circumstances force the unstructured yet charming Danish Bohemian novelist, Simon, to share his flat in Copenhagen with the very organized and beautiful Swedish lawyer, Malou. Simon dreams of children and a family. Malou is solely focused on her career. Despite being in opposition they warm up to each other. But even though opposites do attract - can they also manage to live together? Against all odds their meeting sets of a chain of events, which will ultimately change their lives forever. |
| All I Want for Christmas 2 | 2,020 | Christian Dyekjær | Family, Fantasy | 5.3 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Way up north in Greenland lives 12-year-old Lucia with her mother and her father, who is best known as Father Christmas. Lucia is the first girl ever in Santa class at the international Christmas School. On the day that the present machine is supposed to be started for this year’s present production, Lucia’s best friend, the reindeer herder Oscar, is accused of stealing King Winter’s magical crystal that fuels the present machine. Claudia, Lucia’s mother who has long been wary of the crude Oscar, tries to prevent Lucia from ruining her future career by defending the seemingly guilty boy. But Lucia is determined to fight injustice and escapes with Oscar to prove his innocence by finding the real thief. |
| The Saint Bernard Syndicate | 2,018 | Mads Brügger | Comedy | 5.3 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | The film is a comedy about Rasmus and Frederik, two Danish men in their 30s, who head out on a business venture. They know each other from a boarding school back in Denmark and none of them have really been successful in life so far. Now they meet, 15 years later, both keen to set up a dog breeding centre. The two partners have learned that so-called luxury dogs are extremely popular among the Chinese upper class and therefore expect this to be their way into fast and overwhelming wealth in China. A 200 plus lb St. Bernard dog by the name of Dollar travels with them to Chongqing. Here they meet up with the mysterious Mr. Liu who owns the largest bakery in Western China and who believes that dogs are as powerful as humans. Soon, the dog business evolves in unexpected ways, while the friendship between the two Danes grows stronger. |
| The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Mystery of the Snake Crown | 2,008 | Giacomo Campeotto | Family, Adventure, Action | 5.2 | 27 | Danish | Denmark | The snake crown is stolen (or taken back) from the Knight Templars by the earth worshippers of Crete; the three kids try to retrieve it on behalf of the Knight Templars. |
| You & Me Forever | 2,012 | Kaspar Munk | Drama | 5.2 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | When Laura and Christine meet Maria, their friendship takes an intense turn to vulnerability, love and sex. |
| A Soap | 2,006 | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Comedy, Drama | 5.2 | 26 | Danish | Denmark | 32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of a trans woman Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed and some white curtains bring the two of them together. |
| Giraffe | 2,020 | Anna Sofie Hartmann | Drama | 5.2 | 17 | Danish | Germany | A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again. |
| Fidibus | 2,006 | Hella Joof | Comedy | 5.2 | 17 | Danish | Denmark | Kalle, a nice middleclass kid, who because of a debt and old friendship ends up as a 'fidibus', a gofer, for the hash baron Paten. But only until Paten is anything but innocently jailed and asks Kalle to mind the store while he is gone. No one touches Paten's money, Paten's car or, least of all, Paten's girl, Saby, who is dumber than water. |
| The Exception | 2,019 | Jesper W. Nielsen | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 5.2 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide? |
| Perpetual | 2,015 | Peter Ahlén | Drama, Romance | 5.2 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | Sebastian explores his sexuality and seeks for sex/love online. He meets Jacob, older and more experienced, who takes him to a sex club. In the new and frightening surroundings Sebastian has his first sexual experience and in their subsequent meetings love sprouts, at least for Sebastian. Outside the darkness of intense togetherness, the reality penetrates. |
| The Man | 2,017 | Charlotte Sieling | Drama, Comedy | 5.2 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the day his unknown son Casper turns up and attracts all the attention. It turns out that Casper is the world-famous graffiti artist “The Ghost”. This is a provocation and a challenge to Simon, and the relationship between father and son is put to a serious test. However, against all odds he two slowly grow closer to each other, but the question is whether blood ties are enough? Because after all Simon has no plans of being a father, and Casper has other plans with his father than simply getting to know him… |
| A Castle Within a Castle | 1,954 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Documentary | 5.2 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | The castle of Krogen, built c. 1420, is inside the later castle of Kronborg. Reconstruction of Kronborg gave a chance to study early castles. Models of both are shown. |
| Life Hits | 2,006 | Christian E. Christiansen | Drama | 5.2 | 12 | Danish | Denmark | Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is turned upside down when Cecilie's boyfriend Shaid starts hitting on her, and Cecilie mistakenly believes the two of them are making out. |
| The Miracle in Valby | 1,989 | Åke Sandgren | Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5.2 | 12 | Danish | Sweden | 14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his fathe... |
| Otto the Rhino | 2,013 | Kenneth Kainz | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.2 | 11 | Danish | Denmark | Topper thinks summer vacation is boring. He misses his father who is sailing the seven seas. He can't figure out Sille who's cute. And his best friend, Viggo, always has to help out his punctilious dad, Mr Lion, in the café on the first floor of the red house where Topper lives on the top floor with his mother. One day, Topper finds a magic pencil and when he draws a rhino on the wall, the drawing comes to life! While Topper and Viggo try to keep the rhino, which they name Otto, well fed with black bread and raspberry soda before it devours all the furniture, Mr Lion pleads with the local authorities to come and remove the stomping pachyderm. |
| The Jut-Nuts I | 1,988 | Finn Henriksen | Family, Comedy | 5.2 | 10 | Danish | Denmark | Jacob and Finn establish their own private detective agency at a car-wrecking dump, then set out to ensnare clients. Once they have one, they proceed to make a hopeless mess out of everything for everybody. They remain, of course, blissfully unaware of their own ineptitude. |
| The Shooter | 2,013 | Annette K. Olesen | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.1 | 45 | Danish | Denmark | The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question. |
| Hush Little Baby | 2,009 | Hella Joof | Drama | 5.1 | 18 | Danish | Denmark | Four girls in rehab is on tour from their treatment centers and it becomes their life stories. The girls run off in a stolen Volvo and soon learns to know the freedom of good and evil. Both the fantastic feeling to be master of its own destiny, but also the heavy feeling of responsibility when you have to figure out what to do with his life. Before long, the girls learn that they can not continue |
| The Collector | 2,004 | Lasse Spang Olsen | Comedy, Action, Romance | 5.1 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing. |
| The Orchid Gardener | 1,977 | Lars von Trier | Drama | 5.1 | 16 | Danish | Denmark | A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting humanity's willingness to extend help to one another, he has been referred to as a wimp, subsequently resulting in a fear of weakness and being incapable. |
| A Matter of Trust | 2,022 | Annette K. Olesen | Drama | 5.1 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | The lives of five unrelated people — a husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter — are turned upside-down with irreversible consequences. |
| Fakiren fra Bilbao | 2,004 | Peter Flinth | Adventure, Family | 5.1 | 14 | Danish | Denmark | When two children move into an old house with their mother they find magical mystery involving a lively spirit and a precious diamond. |
| Happy Ending | 2,018 | Hella Joof | Comedy | 5.1 | 13 | Danish | Denmark | Helle has been waiting forever for her workaholic husband Peter to retire, so they can enjoy the autumn of their life together. She really wants to travel and explore the world with him – but when Peter comes home from his last day at work, life takes a surprisingly new turn, as he has a big surprise for her; he is pursuing a new career as a wine importer and has invested all their savings in an exclusive vineyard in Austria! Helle and Peter split up and they each set out on a blazing journey of discovery, filled with new opportunities, problems and dreams… But can you start over after 50 years of marriage? And can you live without each other after all? |
| Breeder | 2,020 | Jens Dahl | Horror, Thriller | 5 | 66 | Danish | Denmark | A renowned health supplement company, run by a ruthless businesswoman, is selecting and abducting young women as part of an experiment bio-hacking babies’ DNA to enable her clients to reverse the aging process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in a grim underground facility. Familiar faces start to appear, and she realises that she is not alone in this. Can she somehow find inner strength and escape from the nightmare? |
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