Denmark

  • Petra Costa & Lea Glob – Olmo & the Seagull AKA Olmo e a Gaivota (2015)

    2011-2020DenmarkDocumentaryDramaLea GlobPetra Costa

    ‘Olmo and the Seagull’ is a poetic and existential dive into an actress’s mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new philosophy of life, identity and love. Underlying this hybrid film is mounting tension over what is real and what is enacted when one is performing one’s own life.Read More »

  • Tobias Lindholm – Krigen AKA A War (2015)

    Drama2011-2020DenmarkTobias LindholmWar

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    Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him – and his family back home.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Kundskabens træ AKA Tree of Knowledge (1981)

    1981-1990DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

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    A modified review by Roger Ebert

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    “The Tree of Knowledge” is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty, about the little joys and great heartbreaks of the crucial first years of adolescence. It is also one of this year’s best films on any subject – a creative act of memory about exactly what it was like to be 13 in 1953.

    The movie comes from Denmark, and yet it didn’t feel “foreign” to me. At first I was aware that I was watching a Danish picture, and then the universal insights of the story began to reach me so directly that I was just watching a movie about kids anywhere – it could have been made about an American suburb.Read More »

  • Mikkel Nørgaard – Klovn Forever AKA Klown Forever (2015)

    2011-2020ComedyDenmarkMikkel Nørgaard

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    Frank and Casper’s friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.Read More »

  • Annelise Meineche – Sangen om den røde rubin AKA The Song of the Red Ruby (1970)

    1961-1970Annelise MeinecheComedyDenmarkErotica

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    A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. To earn money for his tuition, he takes a job as headmaster of a small girls’ school. There his weakness for beautiful women is put to the test when he is pursued by a bevy of sexy coeds. The film is based on a novel by Agnar Mykle.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Dancer in the Dark [+Extras] (2000)

    1991-2000ArthouseDenmarkLars Von TrierMusical

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    SYNOPSIS:
    Selma is a Czechoslovakian immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is
    her passion for music, specifically, the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals.
    Selma harbors a sad secret: she is losing her eyesight and her son Gene stands to suffer the same fate if she
    can’t put away enough money to secure him an operation. When a desperate neighbor falsely accuses Selma
    of stealing his savings, the drama of her life escalates to a tragic finale.

    Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 28 wins & 34 nominations Read More »

  • Janus Metz Pedersen – Armadillo (2010)

    2001-2010DenmarkDocumentaryJanus Metz PedersenWar

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    Storyline:
    In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries, in his own way, to come to terms with putting his life constantly on the lineRead More »

  • Dag Johan Haugerud – Det er meg du vil ha AKA I’m the One You Want (2014)

    2011-2020Dag Johan HaugerudDenmarkDrama

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    This film tells the true story of a 30-year-old female high school teacher who falls in love with a 15-year-old pupil and starts a relationship with him. Sonja Evang’s script is based on interviews with the real life persons. It was developed and shot to be screened at the Norwegian Drama Festival.

    Sindre Kaspersen @ IMDB wrote:
    Norwegian screenwriter and director Dag Johan Haugerud’s second narrative feature which was written by Norwegian screenwriter Sonja Evang, is inspired by real events and interviews with the person in question. It premiered at the Norwegian Drama Festival in 2013, was shot on location in Oslo, Norway and is a Norwegian production which was produced by Norwegian producer Yngve Sæther. It tells the story about a 32-year-old Norwegian female secondary school teacher who gradually fell in love with her 15-year-old pupil and how she approached and handled this situation.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Dogville (2003)

    2001-2010DenmarkDramaLars Von Trier

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    Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hide Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town’s sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace’s freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter.
    Written by Neil Hillman.Read More »

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