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see all genres ›An early pioneer in commercial film export, Denmark turned more inward in its cinema production for years until it rode a wave of erotic envelope-pushing in the late-1960s. The line of maverick talents from Carl Theodor Dreyer to Lars von Trier grew much more crowded in the 1990s as the "Dogme 95" school helped sweep into prominence such major new directors as Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Lone Scherfig and Thomas Vinterberg (in addition to non-Dogme talents such as Christoffer Boe).
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Adam's Apples
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding...Start your free trial to watch
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Armadillo
The first documentary ever chosen to compete in the International Critics' Week at Cannes (where it won the Grand Prize), Janus Metz's ARMADILLO follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch
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Evening Land
"In October 1975, I was invited by Stig Björkman, a Swedish filmmaker in charge of production for the Danish Film Institute, to begin research on a feature film which was to be funded chiefly by the Institute and two private producers, Steen Herdel and Ebbe Preisler. Together with Danish director/writer Poul Martinsen and...Start your free trial to watch
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Flickering Lights
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. It’s a brand new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose...Start your free trial to watch
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The Inheritance
The owner of a successful bistro in Stockholm suddenly faces a difficult life decision with consequences that threaten all he holds dear. Ulrich Thomsen, the star of Thomas Vinterberg's Dogma classic THE CELEBRATION, gives a heartbreaking performance as Christoffer, the son who must answer the towering call of family...Start your free trial to watch
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The Night Visitor
A powerful Gothic suspense tale of a man wrongly accused of murder who is committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While imprisoned, he makes a series of incredible escapes to methodically wreak vengeance on those responsible for putting him there.Start your free trial to watch
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The Only Way
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark’s Jews remain free. The Nazi’s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken. This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark’s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi...Start your free trial to watch
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Preludium
Five people struggle in the twilight to become free and get into character. Everything happens in real time and in one take, from a hypnosis session on the outskirts of Nordvest to a disintegrating Copenhagen. Some succumb, others move on: Meet Ruth, who has been looking for her beloved Milovan for two years and gets by on...Start your free trial to watch
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Profetia
At an old amphitheater in the northwest part of Copenhagen, Sofie Jensen is burning all she's ever written. She has no idea of the fact that all of her unpublished stories are becoming reality around the city as she burns them. One by one the characters move towards the fire and towards their own story. Will what is written...Start your free trial to watch
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Prostitution Behind the Veil
This film unveils the lives of two women, Minna and Fariba, in a city in Iran. The women are neighbors, good friends and support each other. Both of them have to live with the widespread mistreatment of women and the double standards that permeate Iranian society today. They both make a living from...Start your free trial to watch
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The Red Chapel
Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Mads Brügger’s documentary follows a trio of Danish comedians as they pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in North Korea. Combining the muckracking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, THE RED...Start your free trial to watch
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Storm
Twelve year-old Freddie lives with his father, a police officer. Freddie has no friends and is bullied. One day, when Freddie sees a dog being mistreated by his owner, he decides to do something about it. During a terrible storm, he abducts the dog and calls it Storm. Storm is an unusually fast runner so Freddie brings him to...Start your free trial to watch
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Words of Advice
In 1983, the counter culture icon and author of the cult classic NAKED LUNCH (published in 1959), William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) traveled throughout Scandinavia making a series of personal appearances. Twenty years later, filmmakers Lars Movin and Steen Møller Rasmussen found never-before-seen footage of his Copenhagen...Start your free trial to watch