A father's 60th birthday party. A son with a speech prepared. The first Dogme 95 film and still the best — a chamber drama that strips away every cinematic comfort and leaves something that feels like bearing witness. Won the Jury Prize at Cannes. Still shocks.

A young couple about to be married. Then an accident paralyzes him — and she falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused it. Susanne Bier's Dogme entry — raw, intimate, and deeply uncomfortable. Mads Mikkelsen in an early role that shows everything he was about to become.

Christoffer is called back from Sweden when his father commits suicide. His mother puts enormous pressure on him to take over the family steelworks. The second film in Per Fly's class trilogy — about duty, identity, and how much a person can give up before nothing is left. Quiet and devastating.

A Danish soldier taken prisoner in Afghanistan is presumed killed. His troubled younger brother steps in to support the family. Then the soldier returns — not the same man who left. About what violence does to a person, and what a person then does to everyone who loves them.

A 14-year-old girl tells the school psychologist her father sexually abused her. He calls her a chronic liar. He's arrested. Guilty? A film that refuses to give you an easy answer — about accusation, evidence, and the machinery that takes over once a claim is made.

A 50-year-old married schoolteacher having an affair with a younger activist woman. When she is involved in a killing, his neat, structured life is shattered. The third part of Per Fly's trilogy, completing his portrait of Danish society from bottom to top.

Jacob investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night, which leads him to a desolate village in provincial Denmark. A psychological thriller that works as much through atmosphere as plot — cold, grey, and thoroughly unsettling.

A man running an orphanage in India travels to Denmark to meet a mysterious benefactor — and finds that something from his past has been waiting for him. Susanne Bier at her most emotionally precise, building a plot of almost unbearable tension from ordinary-looking domestic materials.

A married couple travel to Prague to collect the body of the husband's estranged father. The father's phone rings — and everything Christoffer thought he knew begins to shift. A quiet masterpiece about grief, estrangement, and the things we never got to say.

A Copenhagen crime scene photographer is involved in a car accident. At the hospital, the injured woman's family mistakes him for her boyfriend — and he doesn't correct them. Bornedal's neo-noir is slick, twisty, and builds to something darker than you expect.

A 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl struggles to reconcile her faith with a secret romance with a non-believer. Based on a true story — handled with more nuance than the premise suggests, never demonizing the community and never pretending the choice is simple.

A successful Danish family faces agonizing choices when its charismatic patriarch falls ill. A film about what happens to a family when its centre collapses, and who ends up holding the weight. Jesper Christensen is extraordinary.

The prisoner R arrives at Denmark's toughest prison. He is reduced to a letter — just another inmate. The prison is a parallel world filled with rules, honour, and debts where survival requires total alertness. Lindholm's debut, shot with ex-convicts. No escape, no redemption — just the system working exactly as designed.

Two brothers who, as children, cared for their baby brother while their mother drank herself senseless. The baby died. Years later, one is out of prison, the other is a single father with a drug habit spiraling out of control. Vinterberg's bleakest film — about how damage passes from one generation to the next.

Danish wine seller Christian receives his wife's divorce papers and flies to Buenos Aires — where she is now with an Argentinian football star — determined to win her back. A genuinely charming fish-out-of-water comedy, warmer than most Danish cinema allows itself to be.

A Danish cargo ship is seized by Somali pirates. The CEO refuses professional negotiators and handles it himself. Lindholm strips away every action-movie reflex and leaves only dread, time, and what prolonged uncertainty does to people. No heroism — just the grinding reality of waiting.

A kindergarten teacher in a small Danish village is falsely accused of abusing a child. A study of how quickly a community can turn on one of its own — and how slowly, if ever, it turns back. Mads Mikkelsen won Best Actor at Cannes. One of the essential Danish films.

Two boys form a friendship that tests the limits of revenge — one whose father is a doctor in an African refugee camp, one whose father is being bullied. About violence, its logic, and whether mercy is weakness. Susanne Bier's Oscar winner.

A Danish hairdresser who has just completed cancer treatment comes home to find her husband having an affair. She travels alone to Italy for her daughter's wedding and collides — literally — with a misanthropic widower. Bier's lightest film, carried entirely by Trine Dyrholm.

A liberal couple turns their inherited Copenhagen home into a commune. Everything seems to go well until Erik brings his mistress to live with them. Vinterberg's most personal film after Another Round — drawn from his own childhood. Trine Dyrholm won Best Actress at Berlin.

A young Iranian man desperately tries to meet women who can secure his residency in Denmark. As time runs out, he falls in love — and his past catches up with him. A taut psychological drama about race, class, and survival — and what a person is capable of when backed into a corner.

A world-famous Danish ballerina returns to the Royal Danish Ballet to perform Giselle — and collapses during rehearsal. Her hip is irreparably damaged. She will never dance again. She begins training her young replacement. A portrait of a woman refusing to let go, set inside the cold beauty of professional ballet.

A middle-aged gay man who has lived his entire life in the closet finds himself, late, at a crossroads between the comfortable lie he has built and something that finally resembles truth. A film about the cost of self-concealment over a lifetime.

A successful lawyer begins an affair with her teenage stepson. May el-Toukhy's film is deliberately, uncomfortably one-sided — and Trine Dyrholm makes you understand, if not forgive, every step of the way. Won the Nordic Council Film Prize.

Four middle-aged Danish teachers agree to maintain a constant low level of alcohol to improve their lives. What starts as a philosophical experiment becomes something more dangerous — and then something else entirely. The final scene is one of the great moments in recent cinema. Won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

A mother in the middle of a custody battle abducts her two children and flies to Tenerife. A film about love that has crossed into desperation — quiet and very unsettling. It never judges her but never lets her off either.

An unemployed drunk hangs out at a public bench with like-minded souls. When a single mother moves into a neighbouring apartment, he becomes involved in her troubles. The first part of Per Fly's trilogy — unsparing, unglamorous, anchored by a towering performance from Jesper Christensen.

Ane and Thomas are in the middle of a divorce when Ane suddenly suffers a stroke. They decide to stay together until she recovers — but as she struggles to return to life, love becomes complicated again. Jeanette Nordahl's Berlin 2025 entry — delicate, precise, and carried by two exceptional performances.