Movies: Gabriel Axel

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark....

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne....

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Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast sports car, a beautiful silver-gray Jaguar. During his drive, he runs out of gas. A young lady Laur...

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s....

Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzli...

When a young woman falls in love with a gown in a shop window it leads to adventure and romance exceeding even her own vivid imagination....

A Danish movie about the life of Flemming and his best friend Kvik....

A poor dandy embezzled large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade to impress the upper class. The film premiered as "I am a Marquis."...

Factory worker Otto Nielsen and his wife Helga live in a 2-room apartment in a sad Copenhagen suburbs district, where the S-trains still bumble by, but of course, such things can be used to. They have five children and it is often difficult to meet d...

The family Gyldenkål is actually called Iversen, but have changed their name, after numerous problems with the IRS, loan sharks and employers. Using clever scams, the family builds up a reputation as a wealthy and respectable part of society....

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Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station....

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Peters baby is a 1961 Danish comedy film directed by Annelise Reenberg and starring Ebbe Langberg....

Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Christensen) is a young man in search of love, who restlessly leaves his home in Denmark to search for it all over Europe, finally finding some semblance...

Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible....

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