Claus Flygare

Acting

Claus Flygare

Born

1945-08-20 (81)

Place of birth

Brønshøj, Danmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

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

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

The Kingdom poster
7.7

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

The Kingdom

1994

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey poster
6.8

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

2004

The Legacy poster
7.4

The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.

The Legacy

2014

Dicte poster
7.0

Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.

Dicte

2013

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

The Price of Peace poster
6.7

After the war, the authorities seek punishment against Karl Skov, and his family is more divided than ever.

The Price of Peace

2026

Margrete: Queen of the North poster
6.5

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.

Margrete: Queen of the North

2021

Out of the Darkness poster
6.9

This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish Resistance movements fight. This movie takes place after 1943 where the official politic of 'corporation' comes to an end, and the Danish Resistance movement is gaining traction. The movie follows the Skov family from 1943 to the end of WWII. The growing opposition to the occupation and the increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.

Out of the Darkness

2022

Hjerternes fest poster
NR

A single mom arrives at her ex-husband's house to celebrate Christmas Eve with their 6year-old-daughter and her new family, but things quickly escalate for the worse.

Hjerternes fest

2021

Pik og muskler poster
NR

The world is cool and dark through Dante's eyes, which are obscured by the memories of a long-term abuse of her father. One night he is forced to face himself as he is confronted with a horrible truth. He must embark on a journey deep into a techno club where he finds hell and possibly himself.

Pik og muskler

2022

2010s · 18 titles

A Fortunate Man poster
6.7

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

A Fortunate Man

2018

Happy Ending poster
5.1

Helle has been waiting forever for her workaholic husband Peter to retire, so they can enjoy the autumn of their life together. She really wants to travel and explore the world with him – but when Peter comes home from his last day at work, life takes a surprisingly new turn, as he has a big surprise for her; he is pursuing a new career as a wine importer and has invested all their savings in an exclusive vineyard in Austria! Helle and Peter split up and they each set out on a blazing journey of discovery, filled with new opportunities, problems and dreams… But can you start over after 50 years of marriage? And can you live without each other after all?

Happy Ending

2018

A Family Business poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Family Business

2017

Danny's Doomsday poster
5.9

Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighbourhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can't stand each other, but are now suddenly forced to barricade themselves in the basement together, to avoid getting eaten. From one day to another, without parents and without electricity, food, water and contact to other people, the brothers have to learn to live together in their vital protection bunker, while monsters move past the basement windows and heavy, sharp claws can be heard moving around upstairs on the wooden floors.

Danny's Doomsday

2014

Needle Boy poster
4.8

Life has become unbearable for 23 year old Nick who is convinced that he's an evil person. Consequently, he shows up at Aarhus University with a gun in his pocket wanting to shoot his fellow students.

Needle Boy

2016

One-Two-Three Now! poster
6.2

Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time.

One-Two-Three Now!

2016

No artwork available
NR

Ivan lives a quiet life with the two things he loves most: his wife and his plants. But his fascination with plants grows uncontrollably. He lets himself be carried away, and slowly but surely, the plant universe separates him from his wife and ultimately from this world.

Under

2014

Nomansland poster
1.0

Nomansland is a modern homosexual love story about unconditional love and the importance of forgiveness. It describes the "no man's land" between sexual drive and the desire for love. It is a raw, non-caricatured depiction of the Danish gay underground.

Nomansland

2013

Sailor's Song poster
2.0

A sailor returns home to Denmark for a single night and tries to track down his lost love whom he left many years ago.

Sailor's Song

2014

Nexus poster
NR

A middle-aged couple embarks on a road trip to pick up a boat that they have bought. As they drive through the country suppressed feelings and fears start to re-surface. As they arrive at their final destination they face the blank ocean and realize that they have completely lost their grip on life.

Nexus

2012

Fodbolddommeren poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fodbolddommeren

2018

A Bond Between People poster
8.0

A young man engaging on a journey towards a better life battles the constant presence of his criminal past.

A Bond Between People

2019

Tarok poster
5.0

A family saga spanning three decades based on the mythology of the most famous race horse Denmark has ever seen. A horse which did the impossible and put Denmark on the world map through its many great victories. The film is first and foremost about the family who owned Tarok and believed in its greatness - and who, against all odds, gave Denmark hope and courage to dream.

Tarok

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fødselsdag

2015

Fri for Flemming poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fri for Flemming

2017

No artwork available
NR

Soccer-lover Lau lives a lonely existence at the refugee center, as his brother Laudrup is hospitalized. When an epidemic breaks loose in Copenhagen, Lau escapes the evacuation of the center and sets out to rescue his little brother.

Lau & Laudrup

2017

The Sunken Convent poster
4.8

An elderly man has a steady routine: working at a gas station, coming home and listening to the neighbours having sex. But something is going on in his own life. What?

The Sunken Convent

2016

Patienten poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Patienten

2013

2000s · 9 titles

Brotherhood poster
6.9

Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.

Brotherhood

2009

After the Wedding poster
7.2

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

After the Wedding

2006

Anja & Viktor poster
5.4

Highschool sweethearts Anja and Viktor find themselves in a lesser state of love when Anja graduates and gets a job in the city.

Anja & Viktor

2001

Brothers poster
6.8

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

Brothers

2004

Kat poster
6.6

Due to a failed séance of her flat mate's quirky grandparents, the cat of law student Maria gets possessed by demonic powers and starts some horrible massacres, adding even more trouble to Maria's already complicated personal situation after the split from her boyfriend Henrik.

Kat

2001

Pure Hearts poster
5.8

To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients their viewing rights are retracted. Kriss is deeply frustrated by this, until he realises that Linda, the young girl in the film, actually exists in the shape of the film's star, the actress Ulla Vilstrup. Setting fire to the hospital, Kriss and Willy escape into the night, determined to find her, because life is what you make of it.

Pure Hearts

2006

Flies on the Wall poster
5.2

My Larsen is a documentarian in her early thirties. Self-centered and assertive, she likes to challenge and provoke her surroundings. She takes on an unusual assignment to make a film about the conservative township of Ravnsborg, but she learns there is a dark side to life in this small town. Someone is trying to cover up a terrible secret and they will stop at nothing, even murder, to keep My from discovering the truth.

Flies on the Wall

2005

Comeback poster
9.0

An elderly theater director returns to Copenhagen in order to reconnect with his estranged son.

Comeback

2008

What's Wrong with This Picture? poster
4.6

A 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

1990s · 9 titles

Europa poster
7.3

In 1945 Germany, following the end of World War II, Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, is hired by his uncle as a sleeping car conductor on the Zentropa train line. Leopold's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but ultimately finds himself being used by both sides.

Europa

1991

The Kingdom II poster
7.6

The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.

The Kingdom II

1998

Bleeder poster
6.7

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

Bleeder

1999

Angel of the Night poster
4.3

Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the vampire was Rebecca's great grandfather, Rico.

Angel of the Night

1998

A Modern Woman poster
4.7

Donna wants to live the perfect Free Woman life. At the same time she needs the daily comfort of a close relationship to her girl-friend Britt. Britt is romantically inclined in an old-fashioned way and would rather opt for life with a wrong man than with no man at all.

A Modern Woman

1990

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Manden som ikke ville dø

1999

Stolen Spring poster
6.9

At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.

Stolen Spring

1993

The Snooks in the Limelight poster
6.8

Eigil's family is in a dire situation, as they must raise 500,000 kroner by the end of the month in order to remain in their home. This is where the story begins, as Snøvsen and Eigil set out into the wide world to earn money. This takes them to Federico's circus, where the shady director tries to cheat Snøvsen out of his wages. They end up in the big city, where they make lots of new friends and have lots of fun adventures before they all meet up at Tivoli Gardens for a final joint attempt to save their home.

The Snooks in the Limelight

1994

Last Round poster
6.8

The final days of a terminally ill young man.

Last Round

1993

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

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

The Kingdom poster
7.7

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

The Kingdom

1994

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey poster
6.8

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

2004

The Legacy poster
7.4

The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.

The Legacy

2014

Dicte poster
7.0

Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.

Dicte

2013

Anna Pihl poster
7.6

A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.

Anna Pihl

2006

Landsbyen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Landsbyen

1991

Landsbyen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Landsbyen

1991

Strisser på Samsø poster
7.0

Strisser på Samsø is a Danish television series in 12 episodes, written and directed by Eddie Thomas Petersen. Produced by Per Holst Filmproduktion, it was first broadcast on TV2 in 1997-1998. The story tells how Christian Torp, a police officer who has lost his wife in an unsuccessful robbery, brings his daughter Sille to the Danish island of Samsø looking for peace and quiet. They have difficulty in integrating into a society full of problems where everyone knows everything about everybody, but they find a friend in Ulla, a secretary. Among others, it stars Lars Bom, Amalie Dollerup and Jesper Milsted. The series was entitled "Island Cop" when broadcast in subtitled form on Ireland's TG4 channel.

Strisser på Samsø

1997

A Fortunate Man poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

A Fortunate Man

2018

Elvira poster
3.6

Elvira's unambitious job is to answer the phone at a brothel owned by her childhood friend and policeman, Køster. However, when a prostitute goes missing, Elvira feels an urge to investigate, which leads to dramatic consequences.

Elvira

2022

Kristian poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kristian

2009

Once a Cop... poster
8.3

Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.

Once a Cop...

1987

Den Store Julefortælling poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Den Store Julefortælling

2026

Anstalten poster
9.0

We follow the residents and personnel of Lykkebo, a mental institution, while they face foreclosure.

Anstalten

2011

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

Jul i hjemmeværnet poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jul i hjemmeværnet

2001