Country: Denmark

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Henrik Malberg · Emil Hass Christensen · Preben Lerdorff Rye · Cay Kristiansen

Synopsis Ordet (The Word) (1955) is a profound drama set in rural Denmark, exploring themes of faith, family, and miracles. The story revolves around the Borgen family, whose members grapple with differing beliefs and personal struggles. Morten, the patriarch, is a...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Thorkild Roose · Lisbeth Movin · Sigrid Neiiendam · Preben Lerdorff Rye

Synopsis Denmark, 1623. An old woman curses the local clergyman and his family as she is burned at the stake in this sobering and ghastly study of religious fanaticism.

Direction Adam Price · Mikkel Nørgaard · Annette K. Olesen · Louise Friedberg

Cast Sidse Babett Knudsen · Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Pilou Asbæk · Mikael Birkkjær

Synopsis *Borgen* follows Birgitte Nyborg, a charismatic politician who unexpectedly becomes Denmark's first female Prime Minister. The series explores her personal and professional struggles as she navigates the cutthroat world of coalition politics, media scrutiny, and family life. Alongside her, ambitious...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

Cast Henning Moritzen · Ulrich Thomsen · Thomas Bo Larsen · Birthe Neumann

Synopsis At a countryside manor an annual feast is being prepared. It is to be an all out effort to celebrate the head of the family. Helge Klingenfelt, owner of the manor and family partriarch, is turning sixty. Everyone has been...

Direction Søren Sveistrup · Fabian Wullenweber · Natasha Arthy · Mikkel Serup

Cast Sofie Gråbøl · Nikolaj Lie Kaas · Morten Suurballe · Sigurd Holmen le Dous

Synopsis TV Series (2012). 10 Episodes. This final series of Forbrydelsen explores the global financial crisis as the ostensibly random murder of a sailor leads Sarah Lund through the financial community. Lund has ambitions for promotion and a new lifestyle, but...

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast Adi Rukun · M.Y. Basrun · Amir Hasan · Inong Kemat

Synopsis Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian Genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as de identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who...

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn

Synopsis The Act of Killing (2012) is a chilling documentary that explores the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 through the eyes of the perpetrators. Director Joshua Oppenheimer invites former executioners to reenact their crimes in the style of their favorite Hollywood...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Thomas Bo Larsen · Annika Wedderkopp · Alexandra Rapaport

Synopsis Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a passing remark. A random...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Nina Pens Rode · Bendt Rothe · Ebbe Rode · Baard Owe

Synopsis Adapted from Hjalmar Soderberg's 1919 play of the same title, GERTRUD tells the tale of a woman's search for idealized love and spiritual fulfillment, which takes her beyond the confines of a passionless marriage through a series of affairs that...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Björk · Catherine Deneuve · David Morse · Peter Stormare

Synopsis Dancer in the Dark (2000) follows Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a small American town. Struggling with a degenerative eye condition, she finds solace in her love for musicals and her vivid imagination. Selma saves every...

Cast Marina Abramovic · Ulay

Direction Søren Sveistrup · Kristoffer Nyholm · Fabian Wullenweber · Charlotte Sieling

Cast Sofie Gråbøl · Søren Malling · Lars Mikkelsen · Morten Suurballe

Synopsis TV Series (2007-2012). 3 Seasons. 40 Episodes. Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl) is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department, but everything changes when a 19-year-old girl is found raped and brutally murdered. Sarah...

Direction Benjamin Christensen

Cast Elisabeth Christensen · Astrid Holm · Karen Winther · Maren Pedersen

Synopsis A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons...

Direction Milad Alami · Iram Haq · Jeanette Nordahl

Cast Jakob Ulrik Lohmann · Karen-Lise Mynster · Peter Christoffersen · Arian Kashef

Synopsis When the Dust Settles is a multi-plot drama that portrays eight very different characters during the days before and after a terrorist attack shocks Copenhagen. The characters who start off as strangers are all fundamentally changed by the tragic incident,...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Emily Watson · Stellan Skarsgard · Katrin Cartlidge · Jean-Marc Barr

Synopsis In Breaking the Waves (1996), a devout young woman named Bess marries Jan, an offshore oil worker, in a remote Scottish community. When Jan is paralyzed in a tragic accident, Bess's unwavering love and faith are tested. Desperate to save...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Nicole Kidman · Paul Bettany · Lauren Bacall · Stellan Skarsgard

Synopsis Dogville (2003) follows Grace, a mysterious woman on the run, who seeks refuge in the isolated town of Dogville. The townsfolk, initially wary, agree to shelter her in exchange for her labor. As Grace integrates into the community, she earns...

Direction Bille August

Cast Max von Sydow · Pelle Hvenegaard · Astrid Villaume · Lars Simonsen

Synopsis At the end of the 19th century, a boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle who have moved to Denmark to find work after the...

Direction Adam Price · Per Fly · Louise Friedberg · Jesper W. Nielsen

Cast Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Sidse Babett Knudsen · Lars Mikkelsen · Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Synopsis 8 Episodes. Birgitte Nyborg, her staff and the media tasked with covering her, this time in her role as Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Direction Susanne Bier

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Sonja Richter · Nikolaj Lie Kaas · Paprika Steen

Synopsis A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

Direction Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Cast Daniel Karimyar · Fardin Mijdzadeh · Milad Eskandari · Belal Faiz

Synopsis An Afghan refugee agrees to tell a remarkable personal narrative of persecution and escape on the condition that his identity not be revealed. As a means of fulfilling that wish, his filmmaker friend uses striking animation to not only protect...