Erik Aaes

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.

Six people of different ages and with varying mental health problems are forced to spend the night together by bad weather and react upon each other.

A group of better-off thirty-somethings meet for a weekend in Knud and Beth's home. The host couple is prone to bickering regularly. The married couples (Jan and Ilse, and Kjeld and Tove) that are visiting understand and try to stay out of the way. Bachelor Lars, however, comes into his own and is a constant source of provocative comments.

Villa Orfeus er en ejendommeligt gammelt hus, som er blevet et klenodie for kvarterets beboer. Det er et fristed, hvor husets beboer får lov til at være anderledes, at være sig selv i en fremmedgjort verden. Lydia Wiljengren (Ellen Gottschalch), der er enke efter en rig musikhandler, ejer "Villa Orfeus". Hun har efterhånden sat hele sin formue overstyr ved sin forkærlighed for musikalske mennesker. Den eneste betingelse for at bo i huset er, at de enten kan spille eller synge.

In the village Karrild, the Countess Sonia Hardenborg and a young unmarried woman, Marta, give birth to a daughter on the same day. Marta dies after birth, so Marta's daughter, Betina, come under the care of the countess. 17 years later, Betina and Countess Sonia's daughter, Maria, meet, as Betina is living in a home for orphaned girls, which is adjacent to the Hardenborg estate. The two girls become friends, and Maria invites Betina to visit her at Hardenborg, to greet her parents Sonia and Otto Hardenborg and her brother Count Flemming. Meanwhile, Betina's father, Frank Jensen, starts working in the estate's woods, and when the two girls come to visit him, he is shocked by the resemblance between the young countess and Betina's mother Marta.

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.

A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.

In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's roofs, he runs a small "geschæft" that "The wise man". Son Ulf (Frits Helmuth), which reads the doctor's home on leave before the final exam in Copenhagen. Rasmus' big dream has always been that Ulf had to be "real doctor" and achieve what he always wanted so dearly. By thrift and income have gained through the many patients who seek Him from far and near, he has been able to afford his son's studies. His reputation as a wise man has knowledge of.

보겐 농가의 둘째 아들 요하네스는 정신이 쇠약해진 후 자신이 예수 그리스도라고 생각하며 여기저기를 배회하며 성경구절들을 인용해 설교를 한다. 장남 미켈의 아내인 잉거는 그런 그를 불쌍하게 여긴다. 그리고 셋째 아들인 안더스는 종교적으로 대립되는 재단사 집안의 딸과 결혼하려고 한다. 어느 날 셋째 아이를 임신 중이던 잉거가 출산도중 의식을 잃게 되고 보겐가에는 신앙의 위기가 찾아오는데... 목사이기도 했던 극작가 카이 뭉크의 <말씀>을 원작으로 한 이 영화는 신앙의 의미를 묻는 작품으로 칼 테오도르 드레이어의 최고작 중 하나로 꼽힌다.

Danish noir crime drama with a poetic nerve. Two boys, Kristinus and Jakob (Rode and Neergaard) experienced a loveless and abusive childhood. Now as grown-ups, they are acting outside the law.

Sabotage of a Nazi factory is carried out by the husband of the lover of a resistance leader.

마녀 사냥이 한창이던 17세기 노르웨이의 어느 마을. 나이 많고 엄격한 목사 압살론과 그의 젊은 후처 안느는 사랑 없는 결혼생활을 하고 있다. 어느 날 전처의 아들인 마틴이 신학공부를 마치고 집에 돌아온다. 안느는 젊고 잘생긴 마틴에게 사랑을 느끼기 시작하며 그와 맺어지기 위해 남편인 압살론의 죽음을 바란다. 10년 이상 영화를 못 만들고 있던 칼 테오도르 드레이어가 나치 독일의 지배하에 있던 고국에서 완성시킨 영화로 그 묘한 긴장감은 그의 작품 중에서 특히 인상적이다.

A woman wants to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson for his constant stepping out. However, she might fall into her own trap when she falls in love with an attractive pianist.

The celebrated actor George Bergmann has four divorces behind him. When his four former wives get the impression that he is cozying up to a very young actress, they feel that they must take action. However, this leads to various misunderstandings and complications, which partly involves the former wives' new men and partly the young girl's strict parents.

부유한 집안에서 자란 시인 장과 그의 하인 조셉은 입대를 앞두고 있다. 그런데 두 사람은 우연히 같은 부대에서 만나고, 군대의 엄격한 질서에 익숙하지 않은 장과 매사에 부주의한 행동으로 사고를 치는 조셉은 이런저런 소동에 휘말린다.

성냥을 팔기 위해 추운 겨울 날 거리로 나온 소녀가 성냥불로 몸을 녹이면서 환영을 보다 죽는다는 안데르센의 단편동화 "성냥팔이 소녀"를 원작으로 한 무성영화이다. 르누아르의 아내 카트린 헤슬링이 소녀 역을 맡았다. 장난감 가게의 꿈 시퀀스가 아름다운 흑백 무성영화

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.