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- DirectorAnker SørensenStarsMalene SchwartzEmil Hass ChristensenEbbe LangbergThroughout her childhood, "The White Castle" has stood as something very special for Susanne. But Susanne has never seen the castle - she is completely blind.
- DirectorAnnelise HovmandStarsJens ØsterholmDirch PasserOve SprogøeDenmark, February 1658: The Swedish king invades Jutland via Germany and tries to get to the islands. The sea's been frozen to the islands so he can cross with his men. Some brave Danes try to bring a fortune to the king in Copenhagen.
- DirectorJon IversenAlice O'FredericksStarsJohannes MeyerPoul ReichhardtPia Ahnfelt-RønneThe old renowned Landboskole is spreading a new team of Agricultural Candidates after completing the Course.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksStarsPoul ReichhardtGrethe HolmerIb SchønbergLandlord Wilhelm Stone, who owns the beautiful old estate "Elleholm", has because of his weakness for games and beautiful young women, put his marriage in disarray, lost his family and all his friends.
- DirectorAsbjørn AndersenAnnelise ReenbergPoul BangStarsEllen GottschalchSvend MethlingJohannes MeyerThe estate Hjortholm is rescued from bankruptcy, as the pleasant doctor Christian Riis fetches the young engineer Erik Kongsted to the estate.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDaniel GélinGhita NørbySusse WoldThree Danish girls travel to Paris. After leaving their luggage and money at a hotel, they tour the city, but forget what the hotel is called and where it is located.
- DirectorAnker SørensenStarsMalene SchwartzPoul ReichhardtLone HertzDue to a game addiction, the family could loose their castle. A plan is conceived to save the castle; a game of poker with the castle going to the winner.
- DirectorIb MossinAlice O'FredericksStarsAstrid VillaumeKjeld JacobsenBertel LauringDora lives on her big farm in Denmark with her 3 no-good stepsons who want to buy the poor neighboring farm for it's huge, secret deposits of gravel. Unexpectedly, the owner's son returns after years at sea and helps his dad with the farm.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinLau LauritzenOn the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote in favor of setting course for England. The crew will undergo much hardship over the next five years ...
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHenrik MalbergEmil Hass ChristensenPreben Lerdorff RyeFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.
- DirectorJon IversenAlice O'FredericksStarsJohannes MeyerPoul ReichhardtTove MaësThe beautiful old manor house "Kærholm" is owned by Claus Munk and is located in one of the most beautiful parts of Denmark.
- DirectorJon IversenAlice O'FredericksStarsPoul ReichhardtTove MaësMaria GarlandDybegården is a large beautiful farm of 300 acres of land, woods, meadows and fields. It has been in the Sværke family for over 150 years.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksStarsPoul ReichhardtChristian ArhoffIb MossinA world wanderer, who pays for food and coffee with a song, returns to the farm in Denmark he first worked at and fell in love with the farmer's daughter. She's now a widow and mother and her evil brother-in-law is running the farm.
- DirectorIb MossinAlice O'FredericksStarsAsbjørn AndersenHolger Juul HansenInger StenderOn the large beautiful estate Næsbygård resides the widower and landlord Martin Kaas.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksStarsAsbjørn AndersenOle NeumannPoul ReichhardtMartin is a grandson and sole heir of Næsbygaard, where he lives with his grandfather.
- DirectorNicolai FuglsigStarsChris HemsworthMichael ShannonMichael Peña12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBodil JørgensenJens AlbinusAnne Louise HassingThe group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
- StarsCarsten KnudsenViggo SommerUffe Rørbæk Madsen3 Danish elves/nisser in Alaska fly to Jutland to get a key at an old nisse cave near a potato farm. Landing, the biplane propeller breaks and a new is needed. They speak half Danish half English. A stranger comes.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsColin FarrellNoomi RapaceDominic CooperIn New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is helped by a woman seeking retribution.
- StarsBenny PoulsenMerete VoldstedlundKaren WegenerThe life of Danish poet and pastor Kaj Munk, following him from student in 1917 until his sudden death by assassination under German occupation in 1944.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsTheo JamesBen KingsleyBelçim BilginA young program coordinator at the United Nations stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.
- DirectorGeorge SchnéevoigtStarsHenrik MalbergKarin NellemoseEyvind Johan-SvendsenThe parish priest in Vejlby is being sentenced and executed for the murder of his farmer, Niels Bruus. The chief of the army must acknowledge the evidence and judge him, even though he had actually been married to the daughter of the parish priest Mette.
- DirectorClaus ØrstedStarsKarl SteggerAnne-Lise GaboldPeter SteenAt the beginning of the 17th century, the tyrannical parish priest in Vejlby tries to pressure his daughter into a profitable marriage with a wealthy farmer.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsBuster LarsenElse Benedikte MadsenHenning JensenThe Baron, and his people decide to imagine a social experiment. They carry Jeppe, who is the most inept peasant of all, and who is senseless of drinking, up into the Baron's bed to see what will happen. Jeppe awakens and wonders if he has come in heaven, or whether he is still alive. He quickly changes character from being oppressed and hounded with by all and sundry to become oppressor himself. He is then, when the Barons "experiment" is done, thrown back into the "real life" and onto a dung heap. A fake tribunal is made by the Baron for (a fictitious) court and Jeppe is hung, (again fakely for sport) Jeppe thinks he's dead and is again met by his wife who starts beating him and yelling and pulls him back into reality!
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardThe Olsen gang is on vacation in Spain. They've run out of money so Egon Olsen has a plan. Leaving prison in Denmark, he joins the big time without his friends. Will they help Egon when he gets conned?
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardThere are top secret plans of turning Denmark into EEC/EU's "holiday park". The Olsen gang plans to steal and sell the plans at DEM10,000,000. After being double-crossed, will patriotism win?
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardMoney's needed for Kjeld's silver wedding and Egon Olsen has an ingenious plan - steal a red bag with DKK5000000 from the crooked VP of Denmark's largest insurance company. Will Egon survive it?
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardHis friends are there when Olsen is released from prison. He's resocialized. The trio work at a toy factory, then cleaning at Denmark's central bank. When a US gang robs the bank, the trio must clear their names.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardAfter his recent stay at Vridslose State Prison, Egon Olsen is back with a new plan. This includes breaking into the EU headquarters in Bruxelles, Belgium and even stealing a tank!
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardBenny, Keld and computer savvy Georg await old Egon Olsen at his release from prison. Egon has a new plan - theft of USD10,000,000 in Copenhagen. It involves the EEC's (before EU) butter mountain.
- DirectorIb MossinStarsKarl SteggerArthur JensenBodil UdsenHenrik used to spend summers on Svanegården as kid. He's back on his own airplane after working in Australia, to meet cute Lisbeth and just in time to help save his vacation "dad's" farm from an evil criminal.
- DirectorSven MethlingStarsSvend AsmussenUlrik NeumannHelge Kjærulff-SchmidtTwo musicians find an abandoned, haunted castle with a wine cellar. The bankrupt estate is given to the creditor, a sausage factory owner. When their cute daughter inspects the castle, she meets the handsome count, who lost the castle.
- DirectorAnnelise ReenbergStarsBirgit SadolinEbbe LangbergMorten Grunwald7 people renting rooms in the same house get 2 weeks notice. It's impossible to find accommodation, especially for singles. One goes to the Ministry of Housing to complain and ends up as the minister's secretary. Changes follow.
- DirectorIb MossinAlice O'FredericksStarsAsbjørn AndersenKaren BergOle WisborgThe landlord Martin Kaas has only one child, Louise, who 15 years earlier ran away with an Italian artist and then perished during a plane crash. Pastor Pripp brings the message to him and tells Martin he has a grandson.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksRobert SaaskinStarsPoul ReichhardtAstrid VillaumeWilliam RosenbergMartin returns home with a good amount of money in his pocket after he has worked on Greenland.
- DirectorSvend MethlingStarsNicolai NeiiendamCarlo WiethEva HerambThe elf people envelops everything in fogs - while King Christian IV with his clear sight and mind again brings everything to light. Movie adaptation of Heiberg's 1828 Danish national play.
- DirectorAnnelise ReenbergStarsMaria GarlandGhita NørbyDirch PasserA baron dies. His unknown offspring, 20-year-old Anne, a mechanic at the local gas station, is heiress to a a huge estate and title. Will she get along with the baron's mom and transform from tomboy to lady?
- DirectorJon IversenAlice O'FredericksStarsPoul ReichhardtAstrid VillaumeNina Pens RodeAnders returns to Denmark to visit his ill mom too late. Her lawyer tells him he's the illegitimate child of an estate owner. He goes there incognito and works on the big farm and falls for the maid and later for a gold digger.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsPoul ReichhardtJens ØsterholmBirgitte FederspielAfter the Swedish invasion of Denmark in 1657 described in Gøngehøvdingen (1961), Copenhagen is now besieged and they are starving there. Svend and Ib help a noble family escape and bring food and weapons to Copenhagen.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorBent ChristensenHenry GeddesSven MethlingStarsPoul ReichhardtCharlotte ErnstWilliam RosenbergEva lands in Nairobi with one goal: to find her missing father. Her arrival attracts attention from several quarters, but no one will tell her where he is. In her search, Eva becomes aware of the atrocities committed in the ivory trade - illegalities which turn out to be linked to her father's life in Kenya.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardOlsen has a plan: rob over DKK4,000,000 from an armored car with police escort using a hot-dog stand, some ducks etc. Can the gang hide the money safely?
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardAfter the Olsen Gang's money is stolen in Spain, Egon is arrested once more. Back in Denmark, they want to steal a railroad car full of gold bars to get their money back.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardNobody picks Egon Olsen up after 8 months in prison. Benny and Kjeld now work at a grocery store. Egon decides to steal the DKK6,000,000+ from a criminal's safe alone, before the cops raid the place.
- DirectorFenar AhmadStarsRoland MøllerSalóme GunnarsdóttirJacob LohmannViking 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.
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækTuva NovotnySøren MallingDuring contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan a Danish commander makes a decision which saves many of his men's lives but inadvertently takes the lives of some Afghani civilians. Now he is facing criminal charges.
- CreatorAsger LethStarsConnie NielsenCarsten BjørnlundSofie GråbølChristian moves to Tanzania with his do-good parents and tries to find his way in a community of ex-pats and Africans.
- DirectorFrank DunlopAnker SørensenEdvin TiemrothStarsTony BrittonDieter EpplerJohn WittigDuring the latter part of WW2, The Danish resistance is taking care of an English agent after getting hurt on his arrival by plane. The agent's goal is a sabotage action, but a traitor is among them.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardAt the end of WWII, a German general hid a fortune in a bunker on the west coast of Jutland. The Olsen gang and company venture all the way from Copenhagen to find the treasure. They're not alone.
- DirectorCarl OttosenStarsDirch PasserSisse ReingaardWilly RathnovTwo namesake men become friends. One inherits his uncle's estate and is hired when visiting incognito. He asks his namesake to pretend to be the heir. They both fall for a woman there.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardEgon Olsen and his 2 friends are hired to stage the theft of a Ming vase. He's double-crossed by the baron and wants revenge by swapping the Ming vase with a cheap copy during a big party at the castle. Will they succeed?
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardEgon Olsen's criminal trio always gets into unlucky, comical situations when executing Egon's genius plans. After release from prison, he already has a new plan: steal a valuable German item from a secured museum in Copenhagen.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauLars BrygmannAlbert Arthur AmiryanFilm about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksStarsMaria GarlandPoul ReichhardtLillian TillegreenNelly grew up in the small town of Fjordby with her foster mother, the gifted Mrs. Ingeborg. Over the years, Nelly has not had much contact with her biological mother. But suddenly she sends Nelly a dress to wear at Fjordby's 500th anniversary. The dress entails changes in the relationship between Nelly and Mrs. Ingeborg - and a faster beating heart at the young vet Kåre.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauSøren MallingPaprika SteenA Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner's murder by a mysterious man.
- DirectorSvend MethlingStarsEbbe RodeAngelo BruunRasmus OttesenRasmus Nielsen travels around Denmark in the 1820's and will experience Denmark's first steps to democracy.
- DirectorPoul BangGrete FrischeStarsAxel FrischeElith PioEllen Margrethe SteinCrime film with Axel Frische as the quietly analyzing and sharp detective assistant who, against all odds, unravels the threads of a Jutland murder case. A man is found dead in a plantation near Fjordnæs. Suicide? A couple of unsympathetic heirs stand ready to receive the money from a life insurance policy. but only if it is suicide.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsClara PontoppidanSvend MethlingPeter JerndorffA 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.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsMorten GrunwaldOve SprogøePoul BundgaardA sales agent of prank items, a real prankster, is returning to Denmark by ferry, when his bag is exchanged with a secret agent's bag. He ends up as a not so secret agent - bringing fun into the otherwise serious spy business.
- DirectorAnker SørensenStarsLaila AnderssonJørgen BuckhøjPoul ReichhardtGudrun is the lovely girl who embodies all the good things that one attributes to a young person - in a way an ordinary girl, but still one who is different. She is diligent, a girl who wants something, knows something, and wants to learn. She is, in short, a girl you can not help but fall in love with.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorFrederik Louis HviidAnders ØlholmStarsJacob LohmannSimon SearsTarek ZayatJens and Mike, two police officers on routine patrol, find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings when unrest spreads.
- DirectorLau LauritzenStarsLau LauritzenPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinJakob is a taxi driver in Copenhagen and experiences unique types of people and funny experiences here. At home, he lives in a happy marriage with Else. One day, however, her past begins to haunt them as her morbidly jealous ex-husband escapes from a psychiatric institution.
- DirectorAlice O'FredericksStarsPoul ReichhardtPeter MalbergIb Mossin22 years ago a man proposed to a farmer's daughter. She dies a year later after giving birth to 2 boys. After years of ups and downs on the farm, the boys fall in love with the same girl.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinPer BuckhøjThe memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German wartime prison.
- DirectorThomas DaneskovStarsRasmus BjergZaki YoussefBjørn SundquistIn a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, Martin has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
- DirectorFinn HenriksenStarsDirch PasserMalene SchwartzLily BrobergA bus driver driving a really old bus has to battle with a new accountant who wants to buy a newer model, different ticket system and new regulations. They decided to fire the stubborn bus driver, but this is something not everyone like.
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsMorten BurianSidsel Siem KochFedja van HuêtA 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.
- DirectorCharles TharnæsStarsKarin NellemoseEbbe RodeRasmus ChristiansenThese two young people are quite common. A closer look may discover how beautiful and true the ordinary can be. Their anonymous, everyday gray existence has its poetry, the one that is always in two young minds. A good fate with a sense of humor has placed them up under the roof just opposite each other in a backyard, while the summer sun watches approvingly.
- DirectorPaprika SteenStarsJacob LohmannKatrine Greis-RosenthalRasmus BjergA married couple who have to navigate hierarchy, rivalry and hidden agendas at their daughter's new school, including during a popular school camping trip.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsBodil IpsenHelen von MünchhofenJohn PriceA great actress discovers she has put on performances so much that she is no longer able to be sincere and real in her own personal life.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsInga ArvadErling SchroederTudlik JohansenComedy of two heirs fleeing a forced marriage who land up together on the same luxury cruise liner, headed for a fictitious holiday isle.
- DirectorCarl OttosenStarsMerete ArnstrømVivi BachMogens BrandtA crime boss wants the pub Trinidad in Nyhavn, Copenhagen, but Joakim doesn't want to sell and the pub's regulars are opposed, too. His niece inherits the pub if she'll run it. What about her fiance, the regulars, and the crime boss?
- DirectorMikkel NørgaardStarsNikolaj Lie KaasPer Scheel KrügerTroels LybyPolice inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.
- CreatorIna BruhnStarsNatalie MadueñoSimon SearsTobias SantelmannInvestigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauNikolaj Lie KaasUlrich ThomsenA conscientious police officer who investigates a violent case of domestic dispute in the squalid apartment of a drug addict has to make the most contemptible decision in his life. Just how far would a parent go to get a second chance?
- DirectorJon IversenStarsPoul ReumertKaty ValentinGill FrankCount Carl lives with his wife and daughter on a manor house in beautiful East Jutland. The family's life is made sour by the pupil Marius, whom Carl has taken in after a promise to his father, a local preacher - despite warnings from the old priest in the area. When Marius crosses the line again, Carl's temper runs wild. And Marius sees his cut to take advantage of that.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsPaprika SteenLars BrygmannJoachim FjelstrupThe year is 1963. A women's liberation movement the size of today's #MeToo movement has been underway for a while, and it's rolling across the Western world like an avalanche. In a luxury flat in central Copenhagen we meet one of the period's biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, accompanied by her husband, the sadistic editor in chief Victor Andreasen. Her talent is indisputable, only her husband's destructive envy surpasses it. And whilst she uses her talent and authorship to give a voice to the suppressed women of the time, providing them with courage to leave behind husbands and the patriarchal structures of society, Andreassen's only talent is to sell sexist tabloids to the people. Tove looks straight through her husband's inferiority complex, and yet she puts up with his humiliating behavior and his violence. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated admissions to the psychiatric ward - the only place in which she truly finds peace to write. On this very day they're expecting a lunch guest, like hyenas awaiting their prey. Their power struggle needs an audience, a weak play mate they can throw around as they see fit. Who is more suited than the young, promising author Klaus R., a man who celebrates the modern woman's rebellion and the new opportunities afforded to her? Klaus R. believes they'll be talking about literature in an era that belongs to women - what he doesn't know is that a blood bath awaits him. Or does he?
- DirectorFinn HenriksenStarsGhita NørbyMorten GrunwaldBodil UdsenWhen mom's business career takes off, dad has a lot to learn about domestics.
- CreatorA.J. KazinskiStarsMarie Bach HansenCarsten BjørnlundBodil JørgensenWhite Sands is a light crime series about an undercover expert and a homicide detective who are secretly sent to a Danish seaside town to solve the killing of a young German man while pretending to be a married couple.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsEyvind Johan-SvendsenGunnar LauringSonja WigertA man and a woman meet in a shelter during an air raid. They feel strongly drawn to each other, but are separated without knowing exchanging names. A year later the two meet randomly. He now learns that she is addicted to morphine.
- DirectorTomas Villum JensenStarsUlrich ThomsenNikolaj Lie KaasMille DinesenTony (Ulrich Thomsen) is angry and wants his money back after watching world-famous director, Claus Volter's (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) new film. Tony just got out of prison for violent behavior.