Wayne - Top 25 best Danish movies
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- 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.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsSøren PilmarkUlrich ThomsenMads MikkelsenA gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and renovate it.
- 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.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 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 his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
- 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.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevAnders W. BerthelsenStarsEsben SmedSofie TorpAnders W. BerthelsenThe story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsAdam TønsbergLars SimonsenCamilla SøebergDenmark, 1963: Teenagers Bjørn and Erik are into girls and being in a band helps Bjørn meet Anna. Erik likes Kirsten but she likes Bjørn. Having a mentally ill mom at home also ruins Erik's chances. Anna's pregnancy changes everything.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsEva Gram SchjoldagerJan JohansenLine Arlien-SøborgWe follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.
- DirectorTobias LindholmMichael NoerStarsPilou AsbækDulfi Al-JabouriRoland MøllerThe 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.
- DirectorLasse Spang OlsenStarsKim BodniaDejan CukicNikolaj Lie KaasTwo brothers, one cold and ruthless, the other sensitive and reluctant, and their brutal misadventures.
- DirectorPeter MadsenJeffrey J. VarabStarsDick KaysøPreben KristensenLaura BroThrough Loki's treachery, two children in the Viking age find themselves spirited away into the world of Norse Mythology.
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsKim BodniaZlatko BuricLaura DrasbækA drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
- DirectorAnnelise ReenbergStarsLone HertzDirch PasserEbbe LangbergA convent girl school's music teacher has composed an operetta. He has to escort his best student to an arranged marriage, but they head for his theater premiere instead.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsUlrich ThomsenMads MikkelsenNicolas BroA neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsNikolaj Lie KaasLars RantheLars BrygmannA biography of the Danish actor and comedian, Dirch Passer.
- 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?
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsNikolaj Lie KaasMads MikkelsenLine KruseTwo Danish friends are tired of their employer and open their own butcher shop. An electrician accidentally dies in the freezer and he's sold as marinated chicken and business picks up. What happens when they run out of "chicken"?
- DirectorBille AugustStarsAdam TønsbergPeter ReichhardtMorten HoffIn the early '60s, 3 Danish classmates join a "den"/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.
- DirectorChristina RosendahlStarsPeter PlaugborgSøren MallingArly JoverA whistleblower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsLasse RimmerLene NystrømFanny Leander BornedalA father returns to his old hometown with his young family. Events force him to face the small town's xenophobia.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsMikael PersbrandtTrine DyrholmMarkus RygaardThe 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.
- 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.