White Night (2007)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 40M
Director : Jannik Johansen
Sinopsis
Ulrich, un adicto al trabajo cuya vida da un drástico giro cuando él está involucrado en un fatal accidente. A medida que su culpabilidad crece, su vida se desmorona poco a poco a su alrededor. A continuación, un acontecimiento desagradable de su pasado asoma en su cabeza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.
An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including the beautiful, sexy Topsy, who charms the new neighbor boy Tom. But Tom discovers that the price of loving Topsy may be higher than he's willing to pay -- she insists on absolute honesty and a life and love without possession or exclusivity.
A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness.
Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.
A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
Anna (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen), una graduada en teología, y Frank (Lars Ranthe) han intentado durante mucho tiempo tener hijos, pero todo ha sido en vano. Cuando Anna empieza a trabajar como capellana de una cárcel para mujeres, conoce a Kate (Trine Dyrholm), una mujer muy extraña y reservada respecto a su pasado y al crimen que cometió. En la cárcel se rumorea que posee un milagroso poder que le permite curar a la gente con sólo tocarla. Cuando Anna queda, por fin, embarazada, el doctor le comunica que el feto tiene un problema de cromososmas, lo que podría acarrear graves consecuencias para el bebé. Anna tiene entonces que enfrentarse a un espinoso dilema: abortar y perder lo que tanto le ha costado conseguir o dejarlo todo en manos de Dios y seguir adelante. Pero hay una tercera alternativa: confiar en el poder de Kate.
El hijo pródigo de la ciudad, un cantante de ópera de fama mundial, vuelve a casa. Mientras tanto, Sebastian, un ayudante de cocina con un pie en el altar, cae rendido a los pies de Maria, la nueva asistenta. Los rumores que circulan sobre un posible parentesco entre el cantante de ópera y el ayudante de cocina ponen la ciudad patas arriba y amenazan con arruinar las grandes expectativas de todos y el triunfal regreso del cantante de ópera. (FILMAFFINITY)
Me and My Kid Brother and Doggie is a 1969 Danish comedy film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Lisbeth Movin and starring Dirch Passer.
Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he’s placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His new family greets him with warm hospitality. There’s also the beautiful countryside and, last but not least, the teen-aged daughter
For two years, director Anne Wivel and her camera followed her husband, the prominent Danish politician Svend Auken. The initial aim was to portray a modern, idealistic politician with great visions for the future. But during shooting, Auken contracted cancer, and the film became a portrayal of the politician, husband and father who feels his life is fading away, even if his work here is not yet finished.
Grev Rambow har mistet sin formue og må nu bo til leje sammen med sine tre døtre, Beate, Marie og Annette. Grevens eneste håb er, at døtrene gifter sig tilbage til fordums rigdom. Så da tre bejlere melder sig, bliver de nøje målt og vejet. Alt går som planlagt, indtil den rige Hertuginde de Groos vil have sit skvat af en søn gift med Beate. Den desperate greve slår straks til. Men Beate er forelsket i en anden, og nu må pigerne stå sammen, så de alle kan få den, de elsker. Det er en sand stjernebesætning, der stiller op til den sang-, sjov- solfyldte ”Tre Små Piger” - baseret på Walter Kollos operette fra 1927. Instruktør Ebbe Langberg har æren af at instruere Poul Bundgaard, Susse Wold, Malene Schwartz, Daimi, Ove Sprogøe, Bodil Udsen, Karl Stegger og ikke mindst sin 26-årige lillebror, Jesper Langberg i en film, der er lige dele underholdende lystspil og imponerende flot udstyrsstykke. Stærke kræfter bag en musikalsk storfilm - på DVD i Nordisk Films 100-års jubilæumsår.
Jacob and Finn establish their own private detective agency at a car-wrecking dump, then set out to ensnare clients. Once they have one, they proceed to make a hopeless mess out of everything for everybody. They remain, of course, blissfully unaware of their own ineptitude.
Me and my Kid Brother and the Smugglers is a 1968 Danish comedy film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and starring Dirch Passer.
Jacob and Finn run their low-budget private-eye business out of an auto salvage yard. Usually they are woefully incompetent, and on occasion they are inventive, like the time they find a boat captain's dentures. They're broke, so when Finn comes to the attention of a local hospital as having very healthy organs, Jacob is willing to help a corrupt doctor and his gold-digging nurse sell Finn's heart to a dying sheik in Switzerland. Finn rebels, so Jacob plots to substitute a pig's heart; then Finn gets attached to the pig and won't hear of its slaughter. As the sheik's health deteriorates and the doctor gets more desperate, Finn is in grave danger. Jacob has another plan.
When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese people in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.
El cineasta Johannes y su mujer, la profesora de escuela Signe, viven la mayor pena y trance que uno pueda imaginar. Igualmente, en toda su desesperación, tienen que intentar encontrar el amor mutuo y maduro para asi poder continuar con su vida después de la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)
David y Freja son una pareja feliz, y se mudan a una casa en las afueras de su ciudad. Poco después de haber recibido las llaves de la casa, un suicida rompe la calma. David se dispone a desvelar el misterio, pero cuanto más se acerca la hora de la verdad, más difícil se torna su relación con Freja. David debe arriesgarlo todo, sólo para descubrir una realidad que va más allá de lo que jamás ha conocido. (FILMAFFINITY)
Charlotte y Walter están demasiado ocupados para cuidar de su hija de 6 años, Lisa. Con el fin de hacer frente a su solitaria existencia Lisa se ha inventado un amigo imaginario, P, que vive detrás de la pared de su habitación. Cuando un trágico accidente de coche destroza la tranquila existencia de la familia, P se materializa, como por arte de magia, y aparece en el mundo real bajo la apariencia de un joven (FILMAFFINITY)