A 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.

Darkland

2017

Danish

6.5

♡ 11

62%

Fenar Ahmad Director

Afshin Firouzi as Doctor

Maria Erwolter as Jordemoder

Magnus Bruun as Kollega

Dar Salim as Zaid

Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice.

The Girl with the Needle

2024

Danish

7.5

♡ 32

92%

Magnus von Horn Director

Trine Dyrholm as Dagmar

Joachim Fjelstrup as Jørgen

Anders Hove as Judge

Søren Sætter-Lassen as Ring Master

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Amanda Knox

2016

Danish

6.9

♡ 6

82%

Rod Blackhurst Director

Donald Trump as Self

Anderson Cooper as Self

Diane Sawyer as Self

Stephanie Kercher as Self - Meredith's Sister

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

A Day in October

1991

Danish

6.4

♡ 1

25%

Kenneth Madsen Director

Tovah Feldshuh as Emma Kublitz

D.B. Sweeney as Niels Jensen

Morten Suurballe as Peter

Kelly Wolf as Sara Kublitz

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family.

A Second Chance

2014

Danish

6.8

♡ 11

52%

Susanne Bier Director

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Andreas

Maria Bonnevie as Anna Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen as Simon

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Tristan

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Breaking the Waves

1996

Danish

7.8

♡ 55

84%

parent child relationship

prostitute

Romance

underdog

Lars von Trier Director

Emily Watson as Bess McNeill

Katrin Cartlidge as Dodo McNeill

Adrian Rawlins as Dr. Richardson

Stellan Skarsgård as Jan Nyman

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Eternal

2023

Danish

5.0

♡ 5

climate change

Drama

Sci-Fi

Ulaa Salim Director

Nanna Øland Fabricius as Anita

Magnus Krepper as David

Simon Sears as Elias

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as Maria

Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he chooses career over love. Years later, during his mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.

All for Two

2013

Danish

5.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Crime

Rasmus Heide Director

Ole Dupont as Bankrådgiver

Laura Christensen as Fiona

Dorte Rømer as Pædagog 3

Kim Bodnia as William Lynge

This sequel to the box office hit All for One finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are planning a heist involving the unlikely combination of unsalted butter, a strict diet and a helicopter. When their seemingly impossible heist succeeds, Nikolai asks to borrow some money to start over. The brothers reject him, but when all three of them are tricked by a fish-loving banking executive, they are forced to team up again.

The Shooter

2013

Danish

5.6

♡ 5

Annette K. Olesen Director

Lars Ranthe as Jesper Bang

Trine Dyrholm as Mia Moesgaard

Kim Bodnia as Rasmus Holm Jensen

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Thomas Borby

The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.

Hush Little Baby

2009

Danish

6.2

♡ 2

Hella Joof Director

Malou Reymann as Barbara

Clara Alexander Fölich as Clara

Rasmus Botoft as Familiefar

Hana Shuan as Pusher

Four girls in rehab is on tour from their treatment centers and it becomes their life stories. The girls run off in a stolen Volvo and soon learns to know the freedom of good and evil. Both the fantastic feeling to be master of its own destiny, but also the heavy feeling of responsibility when you have to figure out what to do with his life. Before long, the girls learn that they can not continue

In the Middle of the Night

1984

Danish

6.8

♡ 4

Erik Balling Director

Ole Dupont as Betjent

Poul Bundgaard as Buhmand

Peter Gilsfort as Medlem af rockerne 'Rotterne'

Anders Hove as Nalle

Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.

Karla & Katrine

2009

Danish

5.7

♡ 2

96%

Action

Family

Charlotte Sachs Bostrup Director

Therese Glahn as Dolly

Nicolaj Kopernikus as Leif

Ellen Hillingsø as Rikke

Jonathan Stahlschmidt as Ulrik

Karla invites Katrine to spend the holidays with her, hoping they might become best friends. As it turns out, nothing goes as planned. Karla meets Jonas and falls in love for the first time, and she nearly forgets all about Katrine. However, the two girls are forced to put their difficulties aside for a while, as they join Jonas in exposing a local gang of thieves.

Karla & Jonas

2010

Danish

5.9

♡ 2

Family

Charlotte Sachs Bostrup Director

Nastja Arcel as Jette

Bodil Jørgensen as Kattedame

Nicolaj Kopernikus as Leif

Anders Juul as Micky

Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives.

Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith

2016

Danish

7.0

♡ 28

Action

based on novel or book

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

religious fundamentalism

Thriller

Hans Petter Moland Director

Fares Fares as Assad

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Carl Mørck

Pål Sverre Hagen as Johannes

Armin Rohde as Religious Leader

Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.

Day of Wrath

1943

Danish

8.1

♡ 20

100%

Carl Theodor Dreyer Director

Anna Svierkier as Herlofs Marte

Sigrid Neiiendam as Merete

Thorkild Roose as Rev. Absalon Pederssøn

Emilie Nielsen as (uncredited)

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.

Under stjernerne på himlen

2025

Danish

6.9

♡ 1

Kasper Gaardsøe Director

Jacob Lohmann as Head of Entertainment

Vicki Berlin as Hilda Heick

Caspar Phillipson as Keld Heick

Anders Matthesen as Tommy Seebach

The undisputed king of Danish Eurovision, Tommy Seebach, is suddenly left out in the cold. Struggling to compose one last song he finds inspiration in his family, but is torn by ambition as the song offers him a final shot at greatness.

Gertrud

1964

Danish

♡ 7

based on play or musical

Carl Theodor Dreyer Director

Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt as

Anna Malberg as Kanning's mother

Edouard Mielche as The Rector Magnificus

Carl Johan Hviid as (uncredited)

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.

Hacker

2019

Danish

5.3

♡ 25

56%

Action

Family

Poul Berg Director

Signe Egholm Olsen as Anna

Morten Suurballe as Falken

Mille Dinesen as Ingrid

Alfred Bjerre Larsen as Spender

13-year-old Benjamin discovers that his mother didn’t die in an accident as he was led to believe. The trail leads to high-ranking officials in the Danish Secret Service. "Trust no one!", he is told.