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- 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?
- DirectorAlexandra-Therese KeiningStarsTuva JagellEmrik ÖhlanderLouise NyvallNectar from a magic flower allows three girls to live as boys for a while.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveSimon SearsVic Carmen SonneA brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
- DirectorGustav MöllerStarsJakob CedergrenJessica DinnageOmar ShargawiA police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsEllen Dorrit PetersenCosmina StratanPeter ChristoffersenLouise and Kasper want to become parents but Louise is unable to have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear Louise's child, but things don't turn out as they planned.
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsAnders JuulAmanda CollinRasmus HammerichWhen 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.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsSigne Egholm OlsenClaus Riis ØstergaardThure LindhardtThe intense, realistic and unflinching tale of Maria, Allan and Steso, who are struggling for survival in urban life, about drugs.
- DirectorPernilla AugustStarsSverrir GudnasonKarin Franz KörlofLiv MjönesAn adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg's novel "The Serious Game" from 1912. The great Swedish love story.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceEwa FrölingA journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsAksel HennieSynnøve Macody LundNikolaj Coster-WaldauAn accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
- DirectorChristoffer BoeStarsPilou AsbækNicolas BroJesper ChristensenBased on true events, two notorious and provocative figures of modern Danish history, Spies and Glistrup, provide a radical view on liberty through money, sex and drugs.
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsMads MikkelsenLeif SylvesterAnne SørensenTonny 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.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsRosalinde MynsterPilou AsbækJens Jørn SpottagThe daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
- DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsJakob CedergrenLene Maria ChristensenKim BodniaA thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
- DirectorLasse Spang OlsenStarsAnders W. BerthelsenTuva NovotnyNicolas BroWhen Maria's father sends her a priceless painting he's stolen, she must decide whether to collect the reward or protect the father who walked out on her.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.
- 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.
- DirectorEmelie LindblomStarsAnki LidénLisette T. PaglerArman FanniWhen twelve-year-old Elvira goes to summer camp strange things start to happen in her room. Things that can not be explained - unless you believe in ghosts.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsPaprika SteenUlrich ThomsenJonas WandschneiderA group of sixth-graders is convinced their new substitute teacher is actually a menacing alien.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsAnders W. BerthelsenMaria BonnevieGhita NørbyThomas' sister is a journalist and wants to talk to him but "drowns" just before. In her apartment he finds papers about biochemical weapons and the Danish intelligence agency their dead dad was in. Thomas investigates.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsKim LarsenErik ClausenBirgitte RaabergBenny and Arnold and other squatters are evicted by cops from a building in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. They start a commune in an abandoned factory. Harmony breaks when politicians, capitalists and a violent gang get involved.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreAs computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceLena EndreLisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika WedderkoppA 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.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergLottie EjebrantJon SkolmenSwedes travel to the Canary Islands on a package trip.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenCecilia WaltonStig Helmer takes another vacation with his Norwegian friend Ole, this time a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig has never learned downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. The two men also manage to charm two women who are also vacationing. The other Swedish tourists are a diverse group that includes the choleric Mr. Jönsson and his family, and two men trying to sell kick-sleds.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenBirgitte SöndergaardThe landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive to an island in the archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich people, their champagne parties, their summer houses and the annual yacht race.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenMats BergmanI bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the competitor. Stig-Helmer has never played the game before, but his Norwegian friend Ole promises to help him.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsPierce BrosnanTrine DyrholmMolly Blixt EgelindA hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsBirgitte Hjort SørensenSøren Sætter-LassenSverrir GudnasonThe story of the marriage between the painters Marie and P.S. Krøyer.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsClaes BangElisabeth MossDominic WestA prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsMaj-Doris RimpiOlle SarriÁnne Biret SombyA reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
- 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.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsAndrea Bræin HovigTarjei Sandvik MoeAnneke von der LippeA newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
- DirectorFelix HerngrenStarsRobert GustafssonIwar WiklanderDavid WibergAfter living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
- DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsAndreas WilsonHenrik LundströmGustaf SkarsgårdA teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
- DirectorTrine Piil ChristensenStarsSidse Babett KnudsenNicolaj KopernikusNikolaj Lie KaasReleased after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.
- DirectorTomas Villum JensenStarsNikolaj Lie KaasBirthe NeumannThomas Bo LarsenSlow, shy Tommy attends group therapy for long-term unemployed. He gets a job and meets the owner of tanning salons, a rich, lonely widow twice his age. They date.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsDonald SutherlandMax von SydowJean YanneThis biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsBirthe NeumannSimon BennebjergNanna Skaarup VossThe intense friendship between Karen Blixen, the Danish author best known for her autobiographical novel "Out of Africa," and Thorkild Bjørnvig, a young and promising poet.
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenStarsAllan OlsenPatricia ArquetteNina van PallandtDrama about a young Dane (Allan Olsen) who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and admits to school. Later, however, there will be a violent showdown with the fanatic. But was this man, in fact, his father?
- DirectorAnders RefnStarsJens OkkingLotte HermannBodil KjerReleased from a mental institution, a cop returns to work where he's stored away in the fraud department. However, with the help of a tabloid reporter, he investigates an old horse race fraud case and people start dying around him.
- DirectorAnders RefnStarsMario DavidKarmen AtiasJean-Marc MontelA family of trapeze artists dream of accomplishing the Quad, the most difficult quadruple somersault, for which a $250,000 prize has been offered. Their dream of making the Quad gets sidetracked.
- DirectorCharlotte Sachs BostrupStarsAnders W. BerthelsenLene Maria ChristensenLeif SylvesterThe 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.
- DirectorÅke SandgrenStarsTrine DyrholmLars BrygmannKurt RavnA tough, cute film director is hired to make a documentary about a municipality and its domineering mayor/"king". Something's very wrong but she continues and gets intimate with the married mayor.
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAnders W. BerthelsenSøren PilmarkNastja ArcelElection for the Danish parliament is up and the main opposition party has a chance at winning and its leader at becoming the next prime minister. The leader is hospitalized and the scheming begins.
- DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsLotte TarpPeter SchrøderKim MagnussonA psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision of whether to leave her husband and child for an American with whom she has fallen in love.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsDick KaysøPauline RehneHenning MoritzenClaus Worm is an affluent architect who finds his private life crumbling, his business on a downward curve and his health failing. Worm also sees himself coerced into working for dirty money in a deal that may even involve murder. Is this all true or paranoia? It is writer-director Henning Carlsen's conceit that audiences be left to fully share the protagonist's deadly doubts.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauSofie GråbølKim BodniaA law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.
- DirectorHella JoofStarsLotte AndersenMalik YobaDitte GråbølA small Danish church choir gets a breath of fresh air when a convalescing, American gospel choir leader/ minister helps them form a worthy gospel choir.
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenStarsMette Munk PlumBirgit SadolinJohn Hahn-PetersenA young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the young woman and leads her to scary delusions and a mental breakdown.
- DirectorJon Bang CarlsenStarsStine BierlichReine BrynolfssonFlemming JørgensenAn ambitious school teacher in a small, windswept village decides to stage "Hamlet" as an amateur comedy.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsThomas EjeNaja Rosing OlsenRasmus LyberthA young Dane, Erik goes to Greenland to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, whom the natives called "Tukuma" (the one who is always busy). Erik has his own troubles from the past, but during his stay in Greenland he is changed forever, after getting in touch with mother nature for the first time in his life.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsOle ErnstKaren-Lise MynsterAnna AdairA fairytale reimagination of the Govenor General, and slaveowner, Peter von Scholten's life, in the Virgin Islands.
- DirectorClaus PlougStarsDick KaysøKaren-Lise MynsterPia ViethJacob Holme, a 38-year-old doctor, lives deeply-rooted in the world of normality with a medical practice, house, and marriage without excitement. He is drawn to a young schizophrenic girl and his wife leaves him.
- DirectorEdward FlemingStarsAllan OlsenSusse WoldSimone BendixDanish high school seniors Janus and Tore are BFFs. They meet the new girl in school, Helle, at a party and Tore falls in love and starts dating her. Helle's mom is also interested in Tore.
- DirectorJesper HømStarsNikolaj EgelundMartin ElleyEddie SkollerThe story takes place in the summer of 1945, when the war is finally over in Europe. For the seventeen-year-old Herbert and his mate at the school, Allan, it is the permanent retreat of the Munich Inn, where Leo Mathisens orchestra plays.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsFrits HelmuthMikael HelmuthGhita NørbyThe active Regitze and passive Karl Aage have a party with friends and family at their allotment garden. He reminisces his life with her from meeting her during WWII, having a son, the son graduating, etc. up to present day.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsErik ClausenHelle RyslingeLeif SylvesterThe early 1990's: 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.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenMagnus MillangFour high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.