Mads Riisom

Acting

Mads Riisom

Born

1978-08-13 (48)

Place of birth

Kongens Lyngby, Danmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 14 titles

Land of Mine poster
7.8

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Land of Mine

2015

Word of God poster
6.7

It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. Here, the family's patriarch psychologist and self-appointed God, Uffe, rules the roost in his dressing gown and underwear. Changes threaten the peace when Uffe decides to write his memoirs.

Word of God

2017

Skyscraper poster
5.0

Jon is 17. He lives in the midst of a claustrophobic world which once seemed destined to become a seething metropolis of high-rise tower blocks and intersections until one day an absurd traffic accident occurs. At the time, Jon was made responsible. He had just turned nine years of age. Ever since, Jon’s father has anxiously watched over Jon’s development. But then one day Jon’s desire is awakened by a girl and, all at once, his oppressive environment begins to change.

Skyscraper

2011

A Funny Man poster
7.3

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.

A Funny Man

2011

Land Of Glass poster
6.8

Jas lives together with his father, who is a truck driver and spends lot of time away from home. One day, Jas finds a girl and an old lady hiding in the barn. They call themselves Neia and Alva and have strange clothes and hair. They say they live in the woods but cannot return. Soon, couple of secret service agents show up and start asking a lot of questions. Soon they figure out that they're poachers looking for healing gem of the elves. Jas, together with his best friend Isaac, decides to help their new friends against the poachers.

Land Of Glass

2018

When Animals Dream poster
5.6

Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening changes in her body that mark her as a dangerous threat.

When Animals Dream

2014

Succubus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Succubus

2012

Across the Waters poster
6.8

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Across the Waters

2016

Rosita poster
6.4

Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future.

Rosita

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Piv

2011

Hvor lyset kommer ind poster
NR

Elisa's husband is paralyzed after a traffic accident. She takes care of him at home, but it is difficult. Elisa's in-laws do not believe she can handle the situation and want their son admitted to a nursing home. But Elisa disagrees, and as her life slowly crumbles, she refuses to accept that she has lost her husband and the love of her life.

Hvor lyset kommer ind

2013

A Painter poster
5.0

We follow a painter, a successful artist living alone and isolated. Driven only by his work, he finds himself lost when he’s forced to deal with his unannoced son and other outsiders that stand in the way of his work and get him out of balance.

A Painter

2013

No artwork available
3.0

His friends do not know it, but Anders is a virgin. As he finds himself having the chance to rectify this situation, he seizes it. But it turns out to be complicated.

Debut

2014

Rastløs poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rastløs

2015

2000s · 4 titles

Series credits

The Sommerdahl Murders poster
5.9

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

The Sommerdahl Murders

2020

Darkness: Those Who Kill poster
6.9

Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.

Darkness: Those Who Kill

2019

Unit One poster
7.2

Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

Unit One

2000

Rita poster
7.5

Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.

Rita

2012

Follow the Money poster
6.8

'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people who are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex world of economic crime that takes place in banks, the stock exchange, and in boardrooms.

Follow the Money

2016

Lykke poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lykke

2011

The Shift poster
8.0

Midwife Ella runs the best maternity ward in Denmark. The close-knit team goes about their work with conviction and fine ideals, but all too often the mental and physical strain pushes them to their personal limits.

The Shift

2022

Chorus Girls poster
4.0

In the mid-70s, eight young female dancers struggle to make ends meet in a sexist workplace. However, they discover strength in unity and the bravery to oppose and alter one's circumstances during a turbulent summer.

Chorus Girls

2023

Cold Hawaii poster
7.0

A series about love and friendship set in the small, Danish surf-community Cold Hawaii.

Cold Hawaii

2020

Killjoy poster
10.0

When a young woman, living the seemingly perfect life with the perfect relationship, is confronted with the fact that she fakes every single orgasm, a desperate search for release in all aspects of her life begins.

Killjoy

2023

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