The Best Danish Films
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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!