Aubrey Lang, a travel and lifestyle blogger, goes to the little town of Solvang for her next holiday vlog piece after it’s voted Most Christmassy Town in the USA. She soon meets Sawyer Larsen, a local community coordinator and chocolate shop owner assigned to show her around the small town. At first, the unlikely pairing is at odds but soon start to fall for each other amidst the twinkling lights of the romantic little Danish village.

Domino

2019

English

4.5

♡ 56

34%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Brian De Palma Director

Nicolas Bro as

Eriq Ebouaney as Actor

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Christian

Guy Pearce as Joe Martin

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

Babette's Feast

1987

Danish

7.8

♡ 13

97%

Gabriel Axel Director

Stéphane Audran as Babette Hersant

Jarl Kulle as General Lorens Löwenhielm / Löwenhielm's Father

Ghita Nørby as Narrator

Bibi Andersson as Swedish Lady-in-Waiting

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

In China They Eat Dogs

1999

Danish

7.3

♡ 16

90%

Lasse Spang Olsen Director

Trine Dyrholm as Hanne

Kim Bodnia as Harald

Søren Sætter-Lassen as Henning

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Martin

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

Terribly Happy

2008

Danish

6.7

♡ 5

87%

Henrik Ruben Genz Director

Lene Maria Christensen as Ingerlise Buhl

Kim Bodnia as Jørgen Buhl

Anders Hove as Købmand Moos

Jakob Cedergren as Robert Hansen

Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.

Reptilicus

1961

Danish

3.7

♡ 6

Sidney W. Pink Director

Carl Ottosen as Gen. Mark Grayson

Mimi Heinrich as Karen Martens

Ann Smyrner as Lise Martens

Robert Cornthwaite as Man

A portion of the tail of a prehistoric reptile is discovered in Denmark. It regenerates into the entire reptile, which proceeds to destroy buildings and property and generally make a nuisance of itself. It can fly, swim, and walk, and has impenetrable scales, which makes it difficult to kill.

Antboy

2013

Danish

5.2

♡ 23

43%

Ask Hasselbalch Director

Nicolas Bro as Dr. Gæmelkrå / Loppen

Lærke Winther as Mor

Caspar Phillipson as Mr. Sommersted

Oscar Dietz as Pelle Nøhrmann / Antboy

12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge. The first Danish superhero-movie. Based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen.

The Marco Effect

2021

Danish

5.4

♡ 5

Martin Zandvliet Director

Ulrich Thomsen as Carl Mørck

Thomas W. Gabrielsson as Hardy

Caspar Phillipson as Rene Eriksen

Anders Matthesen as Teis Snap

When a homeless Romani boy is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant's passport, police inspector Carl Mørck and Department Q are tasked with finding the connection.

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes

2013

Danish

7.2

♡ 18

Action

based on novel or book

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

Mikkel Nørgaard Director

Fares Fares as Assad

Troels Lyby as Hardy Henningsen

Sonja Richter as Merete Lynggaard

Rasmus Botoft as Tage Baggesen

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

Into the Deep

2020

English

6.5

♡ 3

100%

Emma Sullivan Director

Alex Wiseman as John knox

Peter Madsen as Self - Inventor

Kim Wall as Self - Journalist

In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in, Madsen brutally murdered Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine. An unprecedented revelation of a killer and the journey his young helpers take as they reckon with their own complicity and prepare to testify.

Silence of the Tides

2020

Dutch

7.6

♡ 1

Pieter-Rim de Kroon Director

Angelica Kühn as Bird ringer

Ralf Lukkien as F16 Pilot

Johann Petersen as Postman Hanni

Job ten Horn as Redknot rechearcher

The passage of time is spellbinding in this cinematic tour de force about the Wadden Sea. A film that inhales and exhales along with the tides as it explores the fragile relationship between man and nature.

A Funny Man

2011

Danish

6.8

58%

Martin Zandvliet Director

Malou Reymann as Bente Askjær

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Dirch Passer

Lars Ranthe as Kjeld Petersen

Laura Bro as Sitter Horne-Rasmussen

Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise to fame. He struggles between his own desire to gain critical respect and servicing the audience¿s needs. Costing his kindred friendship to on-stage partner Kjeld Petersen (Lars Ranthe) Dirch takes on Steinbeck's classic »Of Mice and Men«, only for the audience to break out in laughter at his first line. Dirch's Lennie becomes a running joke, and so has, Dirch believes, his own life.

Department Q: The Absent One

2014

Danish

7.1

♡ 20

Action

based on novel or book

boarding school

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

Mikkel Nørgaard Director

Fares Fares as Assad

Pilou Asbæk as Ditlev Pram

Danica Curcic as Kimmie

David Dencik as Ulrik Dybbøl

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

Hamlet

1996

English

7.7

♡ 42

95%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Rowena King as Attendant to Gertrude

Rufus Sewell as Fortinbras

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet

Kate Winslet as Ophelia

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Flickering Lights

2000

Danish

7.5

♡ 11

70%

Anders Thomas Jensen Director

Mads Mikkelsen as Arne

Peter Andersson as Færingen

Ulrich Thomsen as Peter

Laura Drasbæk as Susanne

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

This Life

2012

Danish

6.6

♡ 2

denmark

Drama

nazi collaborationism

Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis Director

Thomas Morris as Hans Müller

Nick Wilder as Schwitzgebel

Paul Hüttel as Statsminister Buhl

Jesper Asholt as Thorup Petersen

The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.

300 Miles to Heaven

1989

Polish

7.1

♡ 13

Action

based on a true story

Maciej Dejczer Director

Wojciech Klata as Grzes

Wieslaw Komasa as Komornik

Stanislaw Jaskulka as Lekarz

Aleksander Bednarz as Teacher

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Open Hearts

2002

Danish

7.5

♡ 3

93%

Susanne Bier Director

Sonja Richter as Cæcilie

Birthe Neumann as Hanne

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Joachim

Mads Mikkelsen as Niels

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Speak No Evil

2022

Danish

6.6

♡ 88

83%

husband wife relationship

Christian Tafdrup Director

Morten Burian as Bjørn

Karina Smulders as Karin

Sidsel Siem Koch as Louise

Fedja van Huêt as Patrick

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

The Commune

2016

Danish

6.4

♡ 6

71%

Thomas Vinterberg Director

Fares Fares as Allon

Trine Dyrholm as Anna

Ulrich Thomsen as Erik

Lars Ranthe as Ole

A funny and moving story of family and free love set in a freewheeling 1970s commune. When Anna and Erik inherit a huge house, they gather a motley crew of cohabitants to reinvigorate their lives, forcing them to reconcile their new values with old habits.

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A Very Charming Christmas Town

Domino

Babette's Feast

In China They Eat Dogs

Terribly Happy

Reptilicus

Antboy

The Marco Effect

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes

Into the Deep

Silence of the Tides

A Funny Man

Department Q: The Absent One

Hamlet

Flickering Lights

This Life

300 Miles to Heaven

Open Hearts

Speak No Evil

The Commune