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The Girl with the Needle

7.6(425)20242h 3m4

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$470.3K
Language
Danish
  • based on true story
  • serial killer
  • post world war i
  • black and white
  • dramatic
  • pessimistic

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Denmark, Poland, Sweden

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • Digital / OTTMUBI24 Jan 2025
  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereBeyond Fest28 Sept 2024
    • PremiereHamptons International Film Festival5 Oct 2024
    • PremiereHawai'i International Film Festival11 Oct 2024
    • PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival20 Oct 2024
    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival22 Oct 2024
    • Theatrical (limited)6 Dec 2024
    • Digital / OTT24 Jan 2025
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical10 Jan 2025
    • Digital / OTT1524 Jan 2025
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney Film Festival11 Jun 2024
    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival13 Aug 2024
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival5 Sept 2024
    • PremiereAtlantic International Film Festival12 Sept 2024
    • PremiereCinefest Sudbury International Film Festival16 Sept 2024
    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival29 Sept 2024
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereRio de Janeiro International Film Festival4 Oct 2024
    • Digital / OTT1624 Jan 2025
  • ChileCL

    • Theatrical (limited)9 Jan 2025
  • ChinaCN

    • PremierePingyao International Film Festival26 Sept 2024
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival 28 Jun 2024
    • Theatrical15+27 Feb 2025
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical23 Jan 2025
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical17 Jan 2025
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical6 Sept 2024

Frequently asked questions

The Girl with the Needle was released on 6 September 2024.

Audience reviews

5
  • B

    Brent Marchant

    12/23/2024

    4/10

    Having been trained as a journalist, I’m generally not one to back away from an unsettling story, whether told through reporting or on the silver screen. However, there are times when I have to question the wisdom of whether certain films should be made in the first place. Just because it can be done, in my estimation, does not necessarily mean that it should be done. Such is the case with writer-director Magnus von …

  • S

    SonOfUniverse

    1/27/2025

    8/10

    I really enjoyed this movie. It was dark, chilling, unsettling and very real. The cinematography took me away. It immersed me so much from picture to picture. Yes, this movie is grotesque and pushes a boundary. But the storytelling is quite fascinating, I love how they created something equally unsettling as it is masterful. Thanks a lot!

  • B

    badelf

    2/14/2025

    7/10

    The Girl with the Needle: Technical Brilliance, Narrative Limitations Magnus Van Horn's "The Girl with the Needle" is a masterclass in period production design and atmospheric storytelling, yet ultimately falls short of its narrative potential. Set in the bleak landscape of post-World War I Denmark, the film is visually extraordinary. The cinematography and production design meticulously reconstruct a world rav…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    4/17/2025

    7/10

    Just after the end of the Great War, the young and expecting “Karoline” (Vic Carmen Sonne) finds herself alone and with little prospects after confusion around whether her soldier husband is alive or dead reigns and she is swiftly shunned by the family of her lover, the father of her unborn child. Through the grapevine, she learns of “Dagmar” (Trine Dyrholm) who runs a popular sweet shop that doubles up as an adoptio…

  • R

    RubenMiranda

    4/22/2025

    4/10

    *“The Girl with the Needle is a subtly cruel piece of cinema, a film that toys with the viewer's emotions much like Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. What makes this sadistic tension even more striking is the film's almost naïve sincerity — the kind of naked, unfiltered directorial intent you might associate with early Xavier Dolan. The photography and the soudtrack are stunning, with each frame carefully c…

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