Jesper Christensen

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Casino Royale

(2006)

Action, Adventure, Thriller

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of V...

Runtime:

144 min

Director:

Martin Campbell

Cast:

Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright

8.0

95%

80

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Melancholia

(2011)

Drama, Science Fiction

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Runtime:

135 min

Director:

Lars von Trier

Cast:

Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

7.1

N/A

80

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Spectre

(2015)

Action, Adventure, Thriller

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

Runtime:

148 min

Director:

Sam Mendes

Cast:

Daniel Craig, Ben Whishaw, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Léa Seydoux

6.8

64%

60

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Quantum of Solace

(2008)

Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex a...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Marc Forster

Cast:

Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench

6.6

64%

58

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The Young Victoria

(2009)

Drama, History, Romance

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast:

Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent

7.3

76%

64

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The Debt

(2010)

Drama, Thriller

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Over...

Runtime:

113 min

Director:

John Madden

Cast:

Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds

6.9

76%

65

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The Interpreter

(2005)

Crime, Thriller

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Runtime:

128 min

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal

6.4

57%

62

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In China They Eat Dogs

(1999)

Action, Comedy, Crime

An intent fast paced Danish dark comedy film about two separately motivated brothers who with their slightly psychopathic tendencies end up in a touchy situation. One brother gets in serious trouble after a bank robbery and begs the other brother for help.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Lasse Spang Olsen

Cast:

Dejan Čukić, Kim Bodnia, Brian Patterson, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Tomas Villum Jensen

7.4

N/A

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Flame & Citron

(2008)

Drama, History, War

During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells...

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

Ole Christian Madsen

Cast:

Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Mille Lehfeldt

7.2

86%

74

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Italian for Beginners

(2000)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Lone Scherfig

Cast:

Peter Gantzler, Sara Indrio Jensen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk

7.1

87%

77

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Everlasting Moments

(2008)

Drama

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Runtime:

131 min

Director:

Jan Troell

Cast:

Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Callin Öhrvall

7.5

90%

80

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The Inheritance

(2003)

Drama

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 ...

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Per Fly

Cast:

Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Werlinder, Ghita Nørby, Lars Brygmann, Karina Skands

7.3

75%

68

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The Bench

(2000)

Drama

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen ye...

Runtime:

89 min

Director:

Per Fly

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Jens Albinus, Sarah Boberg, Lars Brygmann

7.5

N/A

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The King's Choice

(2016)

Action, Drama, War

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

Runtime:

133 min

Director:

Erik Poppe

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tuva Novotny, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Katharina Schüttler

7.3

84%

64

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Manslaughter

(2005)

Drama

A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Per Fly

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Charlotte Fich, Beate Bille, Vibeke Hastrup

6.8

N/A

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Hamsun

(1996)

Drama

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these...

Runtime:

159 min

Director:

Jan Troell

Cast:

Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Jesper Christensen

7.2

100%

N/A

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Sex, Drugs & Taxation

(2013)

Comedy, Drama

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and impris...

Runtime:

110 min

6.6

N/A

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Okay

(2002)

Comedy, Drama

A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.

Runtime:

93 min

Cast:

Paprika Steen, Ole Ernst, Molly Blixt Egelind, Trine Dyrholm, Lotte Andersen

6.6

N/A

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Revelations

(2005)

Set just before the start of Armageddon, the mini-series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a Harvard professor whose daughter is murdered by satanists while McElhone stars as a nun w...

Runtime:

360 min

Director:

Lili Fini Zanuck, Lesli Linka Glatter, David Semel

Cast:

Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee, Mark Rendall, John Rhys-Davies

6.5

N/A

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A Family

(2011)

Drama

Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Pernille Fischer Christensen

Cast:

Pilou Asbæk, Jesper Christensen, Lene Maria Christensen, Anne Louise Hassing, Line Kruse

6.7

N/A

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Me and Kaminski

(2015)

Comedy, Drama

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

Runtime:

124 min

6.7

N/A

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The Lady Vanishes

(2013)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whille on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station...

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast:

Tuppence Middleton, Tom Hughes, Keeley Hawes, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alex Jennings

6.1

N/A

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Pure Hearts

(2006)

Drama

To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients ...

Runtime:

82 min

Cast:

Anders Matthesen, Laura Bro, Morten Suurballe, Lisbet Dahl, Helle Hertz

6.4

N/A

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One-Hand Clapping

(2001)

Comedy, Drama

Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the w...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Gert Fredholm

Cast:

Jens Okking, Peter Gantzler, Susanne Juhász, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen

6.6

N/A

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Minor Mishaps

(2002)

Drama

Minor Mishaps is the story of a family's reaction to the untimely death of their matriarch, examining the effect of the tragedy on John, her husband, who is himself ill, his daughters, Marianne and Eva, and their friends and family. When a man's wife dies in an accident, his children return home to deal with the tragedy together. The f...

Runtime:

109 min

Director:

Annette K. Olesen

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Jørgen Kiil, Maria Würgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou, Henrik Prip

6.6

20%

N/A

Nana

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Nana

(1988)

Director:

Anette Pilmark

Cast:

Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg, Jesper Christensen, Katrine Jensenius

8.8

N/A

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The Last Sentence

(2012)

Drama, History

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than h...

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Jan Troell

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Ulla Skoog, Peter Andersson, Björn Granath

6.1

76%

60

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This Is Love

(2009)

Drama

Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually being able to pay. Meanwhile, the female detective Maggie learns after 16 years why her husband up...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Matthias Glasner

Cast:

Corinna Harfouch, Duyen Pham, Jürgen Vogel, Devid Striesow, Ernst Stötzner

6.8

N/A

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Emma's Shadow

(1988)

Comedy, Drama

Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hea...

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Cast:

Line Kruse, Börje Ahlstedt, Henrik Larsen, Inge Sofie Skovbo, Bent N. Steinert

7.0

N/A

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Count Axel

(2001)

Comedy

Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements of contemporary humour and satire.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Søren Fauli

Cast:

Peter Frödin, Sofie Gråbøl, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lasse Lunderskov, Ole Thestrup

5.6

N/A

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Barbara

(1997)

Drama, Romance

Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of...

Runtime:

143 min

Director:

Nils Malmros

Cast:

Anneke von der Lippe, Lars Simonsen, Trond Høvik, Jesper Christensen

6.1

N/A

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Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?

(1978)

Drama, Romance

Coming of age, summer camp and first love...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Birger Larsen, Lise-Lotte Rao, Henning Palner, Gertrud Mollerup

6.3

N/A

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Vandalism

(1977)

Drama

Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.

Runtime:

132 min

Director:

Ole Roos

Cast:

Ole Ernst, Kirsten Peüliche, Jesper Christensen

6.5

N/A

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Carl, My Childhood Symphony

(1994)

Drama, Music

Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the compo...

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

Erik Clausen

Cast:

Morten Gundel, Anders Forchhammer, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Stina Ekblad, Jesper Milsted

6.1

N/A

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Hip Hip Hurrah!

(1987)

Drama

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Kjell Grede

Cast:

Stellan Skarsgård, Pia Vieth, Lene Brøndum, Helge Jordal, Morten Grunwald

5.5

N/A

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Albert

(1998)

Action, Family

When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Egon.

Runtime:

80 min

5.0

N/A

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The Russian Singer

(1993)

Crime, Drama

When a secretary at the Danish embassy in Russia dies in suspicious circumstances, the local police seem determined to close the case. But diplomat Jack Anderson, who has been brought in to observe, falls for a beautiful singer with ties to the murder and begins his own investigation.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Morten Arnfred

Cast:

Ole Lemmeke, Igor Yasulovich, Jesper Christensen

5.7

N/A

Between Summers

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Between Summers

(1995)

Drama

Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against her husband. Since none of them know what to do with their feelings, they start ...

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Kristian Petri, Stig Björkman

Cast:

Gunilla Röör, Samuel Fröler, Christopher Järredal-Antoniou, Markus Johansson, Peter L. Abrahamsson

6.1

N/A

Nasty Brats

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Nasty Brats

(2003)

Comedy, Family

Eleven-year-old George is the new kid in the Apple Orchard housing complex. He and the other kids are terrorized by JB, the tyrannical superintendent. George starts out as an outsider, until he discovers he has a talent for leadership. Eventually, the other kids follow George in dreaming up a challenge to JB's abuse. Then, surprising e...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Giacomo Campeotto

Cast:

Jesper Christensen, Bjarne Henriksen, Kirsten Lehfeldt, Dick Kaysø, Paw Henriksen

4.8

N/A

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Tigers and Tattoos

(2010)

Adventure, Animation

Maj lives with her uncle Sonny and loves to sit with him when he “draws” on the tough women and hard-boiled men who frequent his tattoo shop. One day, a particularly large and scary customer dozes off and Maj ends up tattooing all over his huge back with her childish designs. Fearing the man's rage, Sonny and Maj make a hasty escape on...

Runtime:

42 min

7.1

N/A

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