
Known for
4.2A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.
Bryggeren
1996
7.8In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
A Town in the Province
1977
9.0About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
The Gønge Chieftain
1992
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Nissebanden
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Station 13
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Krigsdøtre
1981
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
Private investigator Hannah Wolfe is tasked with solving a case of sabotage. When the case takes a turn and murder enters the picture, the police get involved. Now Hannah needs more than just her private investigator's quick wits to get out of the trap. Nothing is predictable, and she has to get behind the facade before she can catch the killer.
Hannah Wolfe
2004
4.6A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.
What's Wrong with This Picture?
2004
7.4Poul is a struggling magician looking for just the right trick to take him to the big time. To get the money to acquire 'The Sawed-in-Half Lady' from Frankfurt he makes a deal with Arne, a shifty insurance agent. Using his magic skills, Poul pretends to be a clairvoyant exorcist, while Arne supplies the clients. Then Poul meets Lærke, the owner of the 'Spiritual Universe' store, and he realises there really is more between heaven and earth and that a whole woman is better than two half ones.
True Spirit
2005
1990s · 6 titles
8.0It all begins when ex-boxer and motel owner Ford Fordson wants to get a little workout Rocky-style in the kitchen meat locker. But the door falls shut, and only opens from the outside. Fordson deep-freezes to death. So his son Willy, who is also a boxer, comes home and finds his childhood sweetheart Julie again. But their romance is short-lived, for the ghost of Ford appears to Willy and orders him to find out who slammed the meat locker door shut on him. It turns out the list of possible suspects is a long one indeed.
Motello
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Harmony
1995
5.0Hannibal is a nice and polite boy, but Father and Mother think he hangs too much in front of the television. They therefore give him the dog Jerry, whom he is very pleased with. It turns out that Jerry, as the dog is called, is not an ordinary dog, because it can not bark, but on the other hand it can speak. The crafty toy maker Uncle Grandfather and his henchman Uncle Harry would like to grab Jerry, and it involves various conflicts involving a cheeky dog trader, an unlucky glazier and a distinct police cops.
Hannibal and Jerry
1997
6.0When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Egon.
Albert
1998
4.5In a future surveillance and treatment society where imaginative literature is censored, author Adam Gregor lives an unhappy life. During an argument with his wife, who is prone to conformity, he pushes her over the staircase landing and now believes he has killed her. However, society does not operate with the concept of guilt, and Adam cannot be convicted of murder, but is released after psychiatric treatment. He tries to get in touch with his young son, but encounters a friendly but determined power structure. At the same time, he is monitored by the authorities, who hope he will contact his oppositionist publisher.
Manden der ville være skyldig
1990
7.3No synopsis available yet.
The Major
1998
1980s · 7 titles
6.4Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.
Rubber Tarzan
1981
6.0In a dystopian future, Denmark's lower classes must live as nomads—living in vans, always on the move, endlessly driving on a system of ring roads. Although they try to maintain a certain degree of humanity in their daily lives, there is no room for emotion or compassion among the wanderers.
Strejferne
1980
8.5A farce about cousins Aage and Viggo, whom Aage's girlfriend Else no longer wants living with them. The cousins then become embroiled in a rebellion against their workplace, Multi-Max, and against society in general, with chaotic consequences.
Undskyld vi er her
1980
6.1A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead.
Murder in the Dark
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Opløsning
1988
6.0Peter is a somewhat disheveled individual who has sublet his apartment for use as a massage clinic. He has a season ticket for the Danish State Railways and spends his time traveling by train. This gives him the opportunity to meet train stewardess Eva, whom he has known and been in love with since they were children. Unfortunately, Eva is married to his callous brother, who treats her increasingly brutally and has always been the evil spirit in Peter's life.
Kærlighed uden stop
1989
8.3Individually divorced and disillusioned, Jens and Karen meet and are drawn towards each other, but how does one go about courtship in a natural way, let alone a tangible relationship, in a time and age of general wisdom on every bookshelf? Surrounded by marital misfits and ex-partners, Jens and Karen give love a half-chance nonetheless.
Stepping Out
1981
1970s · 21 titles
5.6A group of children fleeing from a cruel stone age society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse.
Children of the Warriors
1979
5.8Four young men, Henry, Toft, Tam, and Klausen, take the train to Maribo, ending up at the prison gates. All four are serving sentences for drunk driving. They are a little embarrassed, but each has a good explanation for the "accident." They are "almost innocent" and therefore entitled to make the best of their voluntary "vacation."
Holidays in jail
1978
7.3The terrorism from a juvenile gang culminate when the gang leader kills a gang member who want to leave the gang.
Terror
1977
6.8After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1972
5.0The story concerns the sexual awakening of a young woman who is the daughter of a socially conservative and religious Danish couple.
I, a Woman Part III: The Daughter
1970
7.1A folk comedy set in a village on the island of Zealand, where a powerful and dishonest businessman tries to trick the traditional owner out of his farm, Svanegården. The businessman wants to sell it to the Germans, but a group of brave people and couples in love manage to prevent this from happening.
The Man from Swan Farm
1972
5.8Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.
Vandalism
1977
4.8Werner (William Rosenberg) is an inspector for group of farmes called Digeskov. Left alone by Digeskovs owner, Werner is tricking small neighboring farmes out of there land. The owners doughter find out and stops Werner and she falls in love with a young poor farmer from a neighbor farm.
Fætrene på Torndal
1973
6.6A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.
The Marksman
1977
7.0Arntsen takes things and people around him too seriously, and has therefore been awarded a disability pension. And he is not exactly clairvoyant either. But that may come, and often with female help from, for example, Vaskemutter, for whom he does the laundry, or Mette, who has her own problems and accepts him as he is – even without clothes.
Syg og Munter
1974
5.6From a working class coming-of-age novel, Morten Arnfred fashioned his feature film to recapture the feel, the sting, the pain, but also the spirit of solidarity of the 1950s in the metropolitan city of Copenhagen: at the center, young Johnny, helpless, hapless, happy, unhappy, going through the motions of growing up. Bodil awards: Best Film and Best Actor (Allan Olsen).
Johnny Larsen
1979
9.0Alcoholic Herbert's last birthday, experienced through his increasingly deadly drunken stupor.
Tilløkke Herbert!
1974
6.2Clumsy secret agent Jensen (aka Agent 69) must deliver secret formula for new revolutionary fuel source to Western agents. Instead, he mistakenly gives it to a random kid, so now both him and evil rogue agent Scorpio go after the kid.
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
1977
6.8Elderly sisters write a tell-all erotic memoir that threatens to undermine a nasty nobleman.
In the Sign of the Lion
1976
5.4It's 1930 and two record producers are competing to sign a big contract with the leading singer of the day. One kidnaps the other, thinking it's in the bag - unaware that his competitor has a twin who will step in to save the day.
In the Sign of the Gemini
1975
3.0A young journalist is given the chance to become the publisher of a hardcore sex magazine. To prove himself worthy, he goes out in pursuit of sexy, erotic stories all over the world, and winds up getting involved in sexual misadventures everywhere he goes.
Bel Ami
1976
5.2Justine and Juliette is a modern re-telling of the classic sex tale from the Marquis de Sade. Beautiful actresses Marie Forsa and Anne Bie Warburg play two sisters caught in a web of sex and sensual pleasures.
Justine and Juliette
1975
5.5A circus on the brink of bankruptcy comes up with a new show mixing traditional circus acts with sex.
The Hottest Show in Town
1974
4.8In this Danish sex comedy, a young woman pretends to be a man in order to win a job as machinist's mate on a freighter. When she is discovered, they are already at sea.
Bedside Sailors
1976
6.1A photographer Søren Kristiansen, is commissioned by producer Per Hansen to write the script for a porn video to be "realistic". What Hansen does not know is that Søren is in a relationship with Hansen's daughter Mette, and that it is her suggestion that the story be a direct description of her parents' sex life.
The Keyhole
1974
6.1The impending approach of Venus - known to cause "disturbing erotic behavior" - sends two men with very different missions to the town of Petit-Bois. One to save the schoolgirls from lust, the other to test a new aphrodisiac. Chaos ensues.
Danish Pastries
1973
1960s · 2 titles
10.0An adventurous Danish sailor falls in love with the beautiful French singer Christine in this romantic adventure. Chased by soldiers, he takes cover under beds and petticoats in order to escape capture. Several dance scenes highlight this musical comedy that uses a limited amount of sight gags.
The Mad Dane
1969
8.5Being yourself – and above all your own master – that is what the film is about. After a short stay at a girls' home, Annie returns to society and has to adapt once again. It isn't long before Annie gets involved in a deadly fight and is even taken to the police station and brought before the court. Fortunately, one of the jurors takes an interest in her and offers to take care of her and give her a home. However, Annie cannot stand this home and runs away.
Jeg er sgu min egen
1967
Series credits
4.2A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.
Bryggeren
1996
7.8In 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
A Town in the Province
1977
9.0About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
The Gønge Chieftain
1992
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Nissebanden
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Station 13
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Krigsdøtre
1981
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ludvigsbakke
1978
7.5The life of the Danish revue singer Liva Weel (1897-1952), who became very beloved in a series of films. During the Nazi German occupation of Denmark she achieved further renown through the encouraging songs of Poul Henningsen.
Call Me Liva
1992
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Fæhår og Harzen
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Johansens sidste ugudelige dage
1989
