Dancer In The Dark
(2000) [MA]

Selma has emigrated with her son from east Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life...  More

The Great Day At The Beach
(1991) [PG]

A comedy in which a family living in a working-class tenement block in early 1930s Copenhagen go on a trip to the beach with other residents. Here, the relationship between the parents and six year old son is put through a series of tests.  More

Babette's Feast
(1987) [G]

In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself. Although they each are presented with a real opportunity to leave the village, the sisters choose to stay with their...  More

Breaking The Waves
(1996) [R]

Lars Von Trier's challenging Breaking The Waves is set in the early 1970s. A naive young girl, Bess (Emily Watson), living in a small community on the north west of Scotland, falls in love with oil-rig worker and man-of-the-world Jan (Stellan Skarsgard). Despite local opposition they marry and...  More

Smilla's Feeling For Snow (Smilla's Sense Of Snow)
(1997) [M]

A refreshingly different thriller based on the international bestseller by Peter Hoeg. Julia Ormond, star of 'Sabrina' and 'Legends Of The Fall', and Gabriel Byrne, from 'The Usual Suspects', join forces to solve a highly unusual and eerie puzzle... A young boy's mysterious death takes reclusive...  More

All Things Fair
(1995) [MA]

Malmo, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband. They start a...  More

Festen, The Celebration (Dogme 1)
(1998) [R]

This Danish comedy drama won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opens in rural Denmark as family members assemble for the 60th birthday celebration of patriarch Helge (Henning Moritzen). At the family estate are Helge's children: France-based restaurateur Christian (Ulrich...  More

The Idiots
(1998) [R]

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally...  More

Mifune (Dogme 3)
(1999) [MA]

Kresten has moved from his parents farm on a small Danish island to Copenhagen in order to pursue his working career. When his father dies he has to move back to the farm, where nothing much has happened since he left. He places an ad in the local newspaper to get help running the farm and taking...  More

Italian For Beginners
(2001) [M]

A young minister, a widower, is temporarily assigned to a church whose suspended pastor drove parishioners away; he stays at a hotel where he meets Jørgen, who's alone approaching middle age. Jørgen's friend Finn, a temperamental restaurant manager, may be about to be fired. Finn's assistant is...  More