Best Danish Movies

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.

Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.

A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

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

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.

A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.

A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

During contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan a Danish commander makes a decision which saves many of his men's lives but inadvertently takes the lives of some Afghani civilians. Now he is facing criminal charges.

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. Nevertheless, all the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

A neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister.

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.

A man look back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has keep hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.

When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.

Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.

The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.

Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.

A series of mysterious disappearances in 2006 are eerily connected to the same institution.