Best Danish Movies
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Danish Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: psychological, realistic, suspense, captivating, serious and weird. Plot: nordic, murder, love, male nudity, violence, storytelling, bare chested male, female nudity, death and infidelity. Genre: Drama, Crime and Thriller. Country: Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
Best Danish Movies
TOP Movies: The Hunt (2012), Terribly Happy (2008), Before the Frost (2018), Riders of Justice (2020), The Celebration (1998), Queen of Hearts (2019), Pusher (1996), Loving Adults (2022), The Danish Girl (2015), Nightwatch (1994), Darkland (2017), The House That Jack Built (2018), Reconstruction (2003), Adam's Apples (2005), Headhunters (2011), The One and Only (1999), April 9th (2015), Open Hearts (2002), In a Better World (2010), Worlds Apart (2008).
List of Best Movies
405K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style:
bleak, thought provoking, emotional, depressing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
injustice, child abuse, pedophile, false accusation, life turned upside down, social injustice, divorce, social relations, parents and children, friendship between men, church, punched in the face ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return ...
Style:
dark comedy, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, forbidden love, police investigation, fish out of water, power relations, vigilantism, dishonesty, misfit, mental disorder, husband wife relationship, nordic ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film takes place somewhere in the Danish countryside in the middle of the 19th century. Here within a small Danish peasant family, harsh circumstances reign. With the prospect of yet another tough winter, the farmer Jens faces an unbearable ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
hunger, marriage, farmer, fire, arranged marriage, rural setting, swedish, engagement, swamp, class society, death of brother, starvation ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, cold case, police detective, murder mystery, unsolved crime, under the surface, false identity, uncover truth, police partner, homicide detective, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Markus, a deployed military man, has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which ...
Style:
dark comedy, suspense, captivating, funny, sincere ...
Plot:
revenge, father daughter relationship, vengeance, gay subtext, psychology, organized crime, obsessive compulsive disorder, male prostitute, soldier, hacker, revenge killing, statistics ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
cairo egypt, copenhagen, denmark, afghanistan, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style:
black comedy, cerebral, dark comedy, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
dogme 95, family secret, incest, child abuse, hotel, haunted by the past, pedophile, suicide, birthday party, drunkenness, birthday, party ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, emotional, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, incest, sex with stepmother, adultery, older woman younger man sex, sex with stepson, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, cheating wife, unfaithful wife, mature woman ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Is relevant?
51K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Style:
brutal, cult classic, atmospheric, intense, talky ...
Plot:
heroin, drug dealing, gangster, drug, organized crime, crime gone awry, mafia, violent, desperation, debt, drug deal, drug addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996, 70s
Place:
denmark, bolivia, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair — and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, crime thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
adultery, unhappy marriage, marital infidelity, husband wife relationship, relationships, family relations, nordic, marital problem, relationship problems, marriage crisis, family problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, couple relations, painting, love, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, artist, gender ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow ...
Style:
creepy, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, morgue, brutality, night watchman, doctor, murder, rape, psycho killer, oral sex, bet, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, kickboxing, police, brother brother relationship, drug, guilt, society, danger, redemption, escapades, gangster, drug lord ...
Place:
copenhagen
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sadism, cruelty, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, maniac, disturbed individual, murder, extreme violence, photograph, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, love story, couples, losing-it hero, unfaithful wife, adultery, imagination, existentialism, loneliness, depression, art, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot:
priest, church, dark humor, religion, funeral, faith, belief, cynic, skinhead, neo nazism, neo nazi, prejudice ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark, saudi arabia, indonesia
Is relevant?
111K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style:
clever, captivating, dark comedy, breathtaking, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, pre-teens
Plot:
twists and turns, art theft, art thief, surveillance, chase, mercenary, male nudity, infidelity, reputation, male star appears nude, thief, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2011, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, europe, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When handyman Niller comes to install Sus' new kitchen one day, their immediate crush is a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, relationships, abortion, pregnancy, adoption, infidelity, wedding, love triangle, road not taken, love affair, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
denmark, europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, wehrmacht, military, war, soldier, battles, danger, against the odds, nazi, world war, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
hospital, dogme 95, relationships, love story, love triangle, sex scene, coitus, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, fall in love, paraplegic, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, bleak, harsh, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bully, bullying, friendship, father son relationship, revenge, divorce, childhood, parenthood, youth, society, alienation, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jehovah's witness, forbidden love, separation from family, coming of age, religions or cults, introspection, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, moral dilemma, religion, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
nordic, police vigilantism, plot twist, police, telephone call, race against time, guilt, kidnapping, mission, police officer, revelation, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, future
Is relevant?
168K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
rape, society, morality, twists and turns, victim, female protagonist, vengeance, gangster, rocky mountains, sex scene, making love, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, future, near future, year 2004 ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the ...
Style:
touching, realistic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
abuse, orphanage, bully, brother brother relationship, sexualized violence, violence, brother, mockery, corporal punishment, humiliation, escape, male nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In an older apartment in Copenhagen, some craftsmen make a scary discovery: behind a fake wall they find three mummified bodies sitting around a dining table with a free space ready. Carl Mørck and Assad from Department Q now have to find out who ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, rough, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
danger, investigation, murder, cold case, nordic, mockery, medical experiment, conspiracy, police officer, vengeance, teenager, control ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
denmark, spain, copenhagen
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, sad, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
robot, giant robot, friendship, small town, prejudice, self sacrifice, childhood, boy, benign alien, cold war, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1957, future ...
Place:
usa, maine, iceland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
negotiation, pirate, hostage, terrorism, hijacking, sailor, manipulation, ransom, character study, moral dilemma, captivity, workplace ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
somalia, denmark, scandinavia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
When a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, they dispatch Kora, a young woman with a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, epic, dark fantasy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
outer space, spaceship, space, space opera, space adventure, female protagonist, battles, save the day, protector, space battle, planet, warrior ...
Time:
future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
223K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, drinking, teacher, midlife crisis, group of friends, alcohol abuse, nordic, experiment, marriage, friendship between men, dancing, drunkenness ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2013, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, eastern europe
Is relevant?
737K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
Style:
funny, entertaining, psychotronic, saga, bloody ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
hitman, superhero, comic book, invulnerability, anti hero, supernatural power, mutant, sarcasm, superhuman powers, one against many, dark hero, one man army ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan, hong kong
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