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Movies: Best Movies in Danish(Dansk)

Danish (DAY-nish; endonym: dansk pronounced [ˈtænˀsk], dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ]) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as West Norse along with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as "mainland (or continental) Scandinavian", while Icelandic and Faroese are classified as "insular Scandinavian". Although the written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian and Swedish and thus the degree of mutual intelligibility with either is var... ()

Danish is spoken in Germany, Denmark, Greenland and Faroe Islands and 3,079 movies (between 1897 and 2024) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Denmark (2,852). Popular genres for Danish movies are Drama (1,106), Comedy (908) and Kids & Family (413). Another Round (2020), The Hunt (2012), Love Is All You Need (2012), Italian for Beginners (2000) and A Royal Affair (2012) are among the best known & most successful Danish movies.


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Another Round(2020)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,262 votes)

Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.

The Hunt(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,756 votes)

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.

Love Is All You Need(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 124 votes)

Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.

Italian for Beginners(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.

A Royal Affair(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 398 votes)

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

The Keeper of Lost Causes(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Thriller, Mystery, Crime
3.5/5 (with 322 votes)

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

Klown(2010)

1h 33min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 46 votes)

Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all?

In a Better World(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 180 votes)

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.

Ivan the Incredible(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 20min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Poor Ivan Olsen is plagued by problems bullied at school and constantly pursued by a gang whose greatest pleasure is filling his pants with water. And when Ivan gets home, his dad doesn't have much sympathy for him either because he is crazy about Tarzan and fails to appreciate Ivan's finer qualities. But one day Ivan gets the chance to live up all of his dad's expectations and give the bullies at school a lesson they will never forget. The big question is whether having superpowers makes life any easier?

Directed by Michael Hegner

A Conspiracy of Faith(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 247 votes)

Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q members follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.

Help! I'm a Fish(2000)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 20min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 173 votes)

Three children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem. They must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

The One and Only(1999)

3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

When handyman Niller comes to install Sus' new kitchen one day, their immediate crush is a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.

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Babette's Feast(1987)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 158 votes)

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Breaking the Waves(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 406 votes)

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Mystery of the Snake Crown(2008)

2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

The snake crown is stolen (or taken back) from the Knight Templars by the earth worshippers of Crete; the three kids try to retrieve it on behalf of the Knight Templars.

A Hijacking(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

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.

People Get Eaten(2015)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Herluf lives a complacent life with his wife Inger-Lise. Their daily routines are only interrupted by their daughter's marriages, the third now about to take place. But Herluf's problems are more serious than an indecisive daughter, his wife is cheating on him and he's started forgetting things at work. And one day Herluf doesn't return home.

Ronal the Barbarian(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 114 votes)

Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world. Along the way, our unlikely hero is joined by Alibert the buttery bard, Zandra the gorgeous shield-maiden and Elric the metrosexual elfin guide. To ultimately vanquish the enemy, the band must overcome awesome challenges.

The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II(2007)

2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to rescue his father, who has been kidnapped, and find the lost treasure. But the fearful and dangerous Black Brotherhood lies in wait.

Headhunter(2009)

1h 42min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.

Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury(2014)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 20min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

The film ' Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury ' is a sequel to the Danish superhero film Antboy, based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen. The story is again on the ordinary Danish boy Pelle, who secretly fights crime as a superhero Antboy. In the first film, he made ​​short work of the super villain flea , now tucked away on the local insane clinic.

The Candidate(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Thriller
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.

The Salvation(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 364 votes)

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Hodja from Pjort(1985)

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Inspired by tales from "Arabian Nights", with many a touch of magic, but primarily based on a book by Denmark's Ole Lund Kirkegaard, a master of the baroque stories for children, this adventurer takes the boy Hodja on a flying carpet outing. The boy wants to see the world and asks his girl-friend Emerald along. But an evil Sultan has his own designs on the carpet. Shot on Turkish locations with an extensive use of special effects.

The Inheritance(2003)

1h 56min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.

A War(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 90 votes)

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.

Get Santa(2016)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Eight-year old Julius lives at an orphanage. Julius is a bit of an outsider, and secretly still believes in Santa Claus. When he is confronted with the fact that Santa Claus may just be the headmaster of the orphanage dressing up, Julius loses not only his belief in Santa - also his belief in himself. But then something strange happens, and suddenly Julius finds himself in a magic world.

Directed by Jacob Ley

Cecilie(2007)

1h 32min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Cecilie sees and hears things no one else does; places suddenly change appearance, people aren´t really there. One night she experiences a rape, but no traces are to be found. Her husband Mads commits her to a psychiatric hospital. With the help of a psychiatrist, Per, she begins to see a frightening connection between her condition and a brutal murder that happened more than 30 years before.

Riders of Justice(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 298 votes)

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

Manderlay(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 137 votes)

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.

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