Top Danish Movies


The Top Danish Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Danish List". Lists are calculated daily.

1. Hunt, The ( Jagten )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Alexandra Rapaport
Plot: A lonely teacher, struggling to gain custody of his son, finds his entire world crashing down around him after being accused by a student of sexual molestation and finds everyone in his life turning against him.

2. Celebration, The ( Festen )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen
Plot: It is Helge's 60th birthday party, and his rather large family has gathered for the celebration. But amidst this gathering a shadow hands over the preceding, as a recent suicide by his daughters hangs heavy. Asking his son to say a few words, he is given a choice between to cards - he chooses the Speech of Truth - and the truth may be too much for the family to bear.

3. Guilty, The ( Den skyldige )

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gustav Möller
Actors: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen
Plot: A former police officer who now works as an emergency call operator receives a desperate call from a woman who has been kidnapped. When the call is abruptly cut off, he races to find the woman, with the phone as his only tool and soon comes to realize this crime is a part of something much bigger than he could imagine.

4. Adam's Apples ( Adams æbler )

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen

5. After the Wedding ( Efter brylluppet )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Susanne Bier
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Suhita Thatte, Rolf Lassgård, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Plot: A good natured volunteer seeks a wealthy Danish businessman to have a sponsor for the orphanage he is working for. Anna is newly married and notices a guest who visits her home meets her parents. A daughter finally meets her real father while another person is dying.

6. Royal Affair, A ( kongelig affære, En )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander, David Dencik
Plot: A queen married to a king fallen to madness finds solace in the arms of her physician. But their relationship will spark a revolution - one that will change a nation forever.

7. Ordet

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Sylvia Eckhausen, Emil Hass Christensen, Ejner Federspiel, Gerda Nielsen

8. Kingdom, The ( Riget )

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Søren Pilmark
Plot: This mini-series explores the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark - a bastion of scientific achievement. Yet despite this modern wonder, supernatural events plague the halls - a phantom ambulance appears and disappears, voices echo in the elevator shaft and a pregnant doctor finds her child developing unnaturally fast - some residents aren't willing to let these events rest - but they may not like what they find.

9. With Blood on my Hands: Pusher 2

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Kurt Nielsen, Karsten Schrøder
Plot: After doing time in prison for his involvement with the Copenhagen underworld, habitual screwup Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) tries to win the approval of his gangster father (Leif Sylvester). But convincing dad that he's ready for the big time isn't as easy as Tonny envisioned, especially when he finds out he might be a father himself.

10. Helium

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anders Walter
Actors: Casper Crump, Marijana Jankovic, Pelle Falk Krusbæk
Plot: A terminally ill boy is comforted by a hospital janitor, who tells the boy about HELIUM, an alternative to heaven.

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