Jens Albinus

Holy Meat (2026)

Father Iversen has a mission: to save his parish. He already has an idea. With a spectacular performance of the Passion story, he wants to convince the theater-loving archbishop to keep the parish. But director Roberto, who has been canceled by the Berlin ...

There's No Place Like Home (2023)

The film "Den, der lever stille" is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Leonora Christina Skov. The story is based on the author's own life and touches on a number of taboos and highly topical themes such as sexuality, guilt and loneliness. The novel ...

Zurück ans Meer (2021)

My Little Sister (2020)

Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven's leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant conseq ...

The Audition (2019)

Violin teacher Anna Bronsky detects remarkable talent in a student, Alexander. Anna becomes obsessed with mentoring him, neglecting her family and spiralling under mounting pressure. As her fixation overtakes her, all is staked on exam day. ...

X&Y (2018)

An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female. ...

A Fortunate Man (2018)

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin. ...

Halvmand (2016)

Point Blank (2016)

Berlin, Germany. Police officer Klaus Roth infiltrates the Serbian mafia, specializing in manipulating sports betting, and befriends the naive Luka, in order to capture Aco Gorić, the enigmatic head of the criminal ring. ...

Long Story Short (2015)

The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebrat ...

Rosita (2015)

Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness o ...

The Idealist (2015)

A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War. ...

Silent Heart (2014)

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother's desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal ...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seli ...

Sprinter - Haltlos in die Nacht (2012)

Henk, a good family man from Wolfsburg, accidentally gets on an ICE Sprinter in Berlin that is going non-stop to Frankfurt. On the train he meets Eva, a woman who is on a dangerous mission. She doesn't need anyone near her. But Henk sticks to her and lives ...

Truth About Men (2010)

Mads moves into a house with his lovely girlfriend Marie when a sudden pang of doubt strikes him. Is this the meaning of life? Has he lived out all his dreams? He drops everything, moves away from his girlfriend and throws himself into a desperate quest to ...

Everything Will Be Fine (2010)

A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind ...

This Is Love (2009)

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 p ...

The Coach (2009)

A small-town tale of Niels, a 14-year-old boy with nothing on his mind but handball. His coach, recognizing his great goal-keeping talent, takes special care of him. On the night of the qualification rounds for the final Danish championships, the coach thr ...

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors ...

Daisy Diamond (2007)

A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in li ...

The Boss of It All (2006)

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers in ...

In Your Hands (2004)

Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers. ...

Dogville: The Pilot (2003)

Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-minute pilot film starred Danish actors Sidse Babett Knudsen (as Grace) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (as Tom). ...

Facing the Truth (2002)

A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man â ...

Far from China (2001)

A young female writer whose father was a militant activist struggles to come to terms with this cumbersome legacy. ...

Wag the Dogma (2001)

Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film systematically breaks each and every one of the Dogme 'vows of chastity' - employing special effects, comedy sound desi ...

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to ...

The Bench (2000)

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 h ...

Zacharias Carl Borg (2000)

Yours Forever (1999)

For the last ten years 40-year-old Jeppe has paid daily visits to the nursing home where his crippled wife, Tove, has been put after a serious traffic accident to remain for the rest of her life. Desperate about this meningless fate, Jeppe has put everythi ...

The Humiliated (1998)

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots". ...

The Blue Monk (1998)

The waitresses at a Copenhagen bar find themselves listening to and advising various clients who wander in to unburden their current problems. The Blue Monk is so named because its jukebox constantly plays music by jazz musician Thelonius Monk. ... ...

The Idiots (1998)

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves. ...

In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema (1998)

German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier. ...

Portland (1996)

The basic story of a young criminal not quite living up to his won ideals of "not to give a damn" sidesteps out of his criminal career while dragging his younger brother into it, could have been interesting. Unfortunately the implementation is simply not g ...

Anton (1996)

Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is obsessed with aeroplanes (his bedroom is full of models and posters) and is (re-)bu ...

Last Round (1993)

The final days of a terminally ill young man. ...

The House That Jack Built (2018)

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years. ...

Antichrist (2009)

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. ...

Dogville (2003)

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price. ...