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- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsSigrid Horne-RasmussenCarl HegerFrode Arne PedersenEarly Danish kitchen sink drama by Academy Award winner Gabriel Axel with an entertaining mix of working class daily life, children rivalry, crime and romance.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsClara PontoppidanWilliam RosenbergBirgitte FederspielA mother (Pontoppidan) can't adapt to her two children (Rosenberg and Federspiel) being adult. She is ever more demanding and jealous, frightened that they will not need her or attend to her. For her daughter, consequences are fateful.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsAxel BangHenny Lindorff BuckhøjVerner TholsgaardOn the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has a son called Theo and he will once take over the farm.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsBirgitte PricePoul ReichhardtPreben MahrtThe young Helene is neglected by her husband who prioritizes his career. Helene decides to write a novel about Hollywood star Patricia Patterson, and after a car crash Helene thinks she is the star. A doctor is called and he find her condition unique, so everyone has to play in her performance.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsSteen FlensmarkPer GecklerJohannes Meyer
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDirch PasserOve SprogøeHans W. PetersenThe small windswept Danish island Trangö is home of the famous Trangö-eggs. Besides being bigger and whiter than all the others, these eggs light a fire under every woman's skirts.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDirch PasserOve SprogøeBirgitte ReimerAn ambitious office rat declares to his cool boss that he is in love with his daughter.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDirch PasserEbbe LangbergLone HertzA poet moves to a laid-back community quite different from life in Copenhagen. Different characters live in strange "buildings". The land developer/owner decides to bulldoze the community. Will they find a peaceful solution?
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDaniel GélinGhita NørbySusse WoldThree Danish girls travel to Paris. After leaving their luggage and money at a hotel, they tour the city, but forget what the hotel is called and where it is located.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsPoul ReichhardtLise RingheimNina LarsenGabriel Axel's feature film adaptation and interweaving of Peter Ronild's short stories about how different people cope with the afterlife of an atomic eclipse.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsOleg VidovGitte HænningEva DahlbeckThe young beloveds fight for their love in medieval Scandinavia.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsBirgit BrüelAage FønssPoul GlargaardA look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsSvend JohansenGhita NørbyKim MeyerThis three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsBuster LarsenBirte ToveChristian SarvigA young couple follows problems with eroticism at different times and in different environments.
- DirectorGabriel AxelRichard R. RimmelStarsDoris ArdenAlla BeateMaud Maria BluemelA couple of young men and women have lovemaking in mind. They decide to try to do it in 25 spots within a week. A lot of motorcycles and mopeds are involved.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsAxel StrøbyeKirsten WaltherKaren LykkehusThe Iversen family is on the verge of bankruptcy. All the family members are fired from their jobs one after another; most of the furniture is confiscated; the telephone is blocked; the electricity is cut off. When the bailiff wants to sell the house by auction, something must be done. To solve their economic problems, Charles Iversen, the father of the family, decides to become a conman. He needs 1500 kroner as a start-up for this venture, and goes to loan shark Leopold Phieselknasat, who doesn't trust his new customer, so he orders a henchman to tail him when he leaves. With rising astonishment the henchman observes the Iversen family accumulating more and more luxuries, without understanding how they can afford it. With their new fortune the family starts climbing the social ladder. They change their family name to Gyldenkål, and move to a deluxe villa in a fashionable district. To be able to pay for the house within one month, they must swindle one million kroner from somebody. Charles befriends wealthy financier Blaskenberg and starts his confidence trick.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsAxel StrøbyeKirsten WaltherKaren LykkehusNow the family has reached the top step of the socially equitable, but unexpected demands from the tax administration mean that a forced sale is at the door. That is why they start the biggest plan yet: to defraud Fidusbanken.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsDirch PasserJørgen RygPreben KaasThree out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsJean CarmetMichel BouquetMicheline BoudetFather Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsNikolaj Bjarn ChristensenNathalie BrussePreben Lerdorff RyePortrait of a petty criminal eighteen-year-old musician who escapes from an institution to travel down through Europe.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsGabriel ByrneHelen MirrenChristian BaleAn old Norse legend of revenge, power and human spirit, that subsequently inspired William Shakespeare on his tragedy - Hamlet.