Bodil Award - Best Danish Film
All the films that have won the Danish Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. The Bodil award, established in 1948, is the oldest Danish film award.
The awards is named after two prominent women in Danish film, Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer.
The awards is named after two prominent women in Danish film, Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer.
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- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsBodil KjerPoul ReichhardtKarin NellemoseA good natured soldier with a killer right hand, falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtLisbeth MovinLau LauritzenOn the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote in favor of setting course for England. The crew will undergo much hardship over the next five years ...
- DirectorTorben Anton SvendsenStarsRasmus ChristiansenEllen GottschalchAstrid VillaumeSummer in the small market town of Stenvig equals life and good earnings for the city's shoppers. Love flourishes side by side with the urge to act, and especially the baker's daughter Susanne makes the young men's hearts beat fast. But when the infatuated Otto gets a little too close, it has major consequences for Susanne.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsPoul ReichhardtIb SchønbergIngeborg BramsThis is the story of two different men and their struggle against alcoholism.
- DirectorBodil IpsenLau LauritzenStarsLau LauritzenJohannes MeyerLisbeth MovinTroels is a young, idealistic architect who one day wakes up to a true nightmare: To be accused of abusing and killing a 10-year-old girl. His wife, father and other loved ones react very differently. Meanwhile, Troels goes through a hell that threatens to change him forever.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsLouis Miehe-RenardSonja JensenPer BuckhøjEarly romantic and mildly erotic comedy by Danish star director Erik Balling who earned his first Bodil awards from this 1953 movie. It's all about an anonymous little gray book originating from sexually advanced Paris. The book doesn't look like much, but shouldn't be judged by its cover. Wherever this book goes, something will happen. And for sure, this book goes around.
- DirectorLau LauritzenStarsIb MossinBirgitte PricePer LauesgaardEgon, a young man from Jutland living with relatives in Copenhagen, meets sensible young girl Ruth and falls in love. But Egon is involved with a gang of criminals, and when they assault a man they meet in a bar they are caught by the police. Egon is sent to a juvenile home, but can he stay out of trouble?
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHenrik MalbergEmil Hass ChristensenPreben Lerdorff RyeFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.
- DirectorSven MethlingStarsJohn WittigAstrid VillaumeSvend MethlingA cigar dealer runs his small business in peace and quiet in Copenhagen during the Nazi occupation.
- DirectorTorben Anton SvendsenStarsPoul ReichhardtAstrid VillaumeHelge Kjærulff-SchmidtGrete and Hans are happily married and have no worries. Right up until a tax bill is dumped in the letterbox. It reveals that it would be cheaper for them if they were divorced. In faith and law, therefore, they get a divorce. But being in love and divorced turns out to be harder than they planned.
- DirectorAnnelise HovmandStarsEva CohnLily WeidingHans KurtThe eight year old girl, Lene, feels neglected by her loving, but busy parents. One day when she is once again let down, she run away from home. On her adventure she meets new people, buys a dog and see the ocean.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtRobert SaaskinStarsBirgitte PriceIb MossinGhita NørbyDesperation has a good hold of the youngsters. There are no more than 30,000 teacherships. Young people from the province are flowing to Copenhagen in the hope that the possibilities are greater there.
- DirectorJohan JacobsenStarsBirgitte FederspielPreben Lerdorff RyeVictor MontellA stranger - a fugitive, a sought-after - walks through a deserted landscape a late rainy day in August 1947. He reaches the sea, walks along the beach, the waves scream. He is lost. As it's getting dark he finds shelter in a lonely cottage where a mysterious woman lives alone.
- DirectorSven MethlingStarsKjeld PetersenJessie RindomBirgitte ReimerA comedy of a man's Kafkaesque experience with the Danish welfare system starting with the IRS, the traffic police thinking he's drunk because he's seeing elephants (he drove into one earlier) and finally from jail to a mental hospital.
- DirectorFrank DunlopAnker SørensenEdvin TiemrothStarsTony BrittonDieter EpplerJohn WittigDuring the latter part of WW2, The Danish resistance is taking care of an English agent after getting hurt on his arrival by plane. The agent's goal is a sabotage action, but a traitor is among them.
- DirectorBent ChristensenStarsOsvald HelmuthEbbe RodeGunnar LauringSet in the late fifties in Denmark the poor junk yard assistant Harry inherits some money. He decides to use the money to hire a butler. The butler isn't too keen on the job at first, but he takes it because there aren't that many butler-jobs around at the moment. In the beginning both of them don't know what to expect of the other, but find a way to satisfy both of them. The people in the neighborhood at first make jokes about Harry and his butler, but in the end they start to accept him when he starts to help them.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsJens ØsterholmBirgit BrüelWilly RathnovA group of wealthy middle-aged people meet at a summerhouse. They spend the time nagging and quarreling out of frustration.
- DirectorMogens VemmerStarsSunny NielsenPoul JacobsenDoris JohansenThe workdays of three Copenhagen street prostitutes. 22-year-old Sunny lured by a friend how to make easy money. Doris the luxury escort suffers of an urge for love. Connie drinks to forget.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsNina Pens RodeBendt RotheEbbe RodeIn the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsMorten GrunwaldOve SprogøePoul BundgaardA sales agent of prank items, a real prankster, is returning to Denmark by ferry, when his bag is exchanged with a secret agent's bag. He ends up as a not so secret agent - bringing fun into the otherwise serious spy business.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 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 his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsHarriet AnderssonPreben NeergaardEva DahlbeckIt's a story of fire and play. About women and men. About life and death. About the marvelous legality of coincidences. It's a story of love--heavenly, mortal, and devilish love.
- DirectorLene GrønlykkeSven GrønlykkeStarsJesper KleinPaul HüttelInge BaaringThe warmhearted but rather naive Carl Henning (Jesper Klein) is an 18 y.o. dairy apprentice. He takes the run after a nightly fight with his employer (John Wittig), and is soon introduced to society's darker sides.
- DirectorKnud Leif ThomsenStarsFinn StorgaardAnne-Lise GaboldLotte VæverPeter meets an old girlfriend Ellen. They agree that if they are still single a year later they will get back together. Shortly after he meets Vera. During a trip Vera's interest turns towards Leslie. Is it to late to get back with Ellen?
- DirectorFranz ErnstStarsPernille KløvedalMargit IversenSteen KaaløLone flees from a girls' home in Jutland, and goes to Copenhagen after a showdown. Here we follow her through various environments until she disappears into the city's throng.
- DirectorGert FredholmStarsOve SprogøeBodil KjerKarl SteggerTwo men disappear at the same time, one of them commits suicide with dynamite. The police try to figure out who it was and what happened to the other.
- DirectorHans KristensenStarsOle ErnstTorben Peter HundahlLene VasegaardVesterbro petty criminal Per gets into the clutches of big drug lords.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsSøren RasmussenKnud Randa Frank NielsenLars Randrup MikkelsenIt's nice to be a kid with school, play and friends. But just below the surface is astonishing cruelty, craftiness and seriousness that can make the life hell for a 12-year-old boy in the 5th grade.
- DirectorEdward FlemingStarsGhita NørbyCasper BjørkBo JeppesenDuring the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, a Danish woman falls in love with a German officer.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLars JunggrenInez ThomsenIlse RandeThree episodes that illustrate three steps in a boy's relationship with the sexual. First as five-years old meeting with the more experienced cousin, then the first serious crush as seventeen and finally the student's carefree girl hunt.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredHenning KristiansenStarsKim JensenAllan OlsenHelle NielsenSteffen is picnicking with his girlfriend, daughter of a rich businessman, when he meets Charly - trying to steal Steffen's moped. Later they end up as BFFs despite the differences.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsClaus StrandbergKirsten OlesenJens OkkingA young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsAllan OlsenFrits HelmuthHanne RibensThe coming of age of a young man in the 1950s.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsBuster LarsenElse Benedikte MadsenHenning JensenThe Baron, and his people decide to imagine a social experiment. They carry Jeppe, who is the most inept peasant of all, and who is senseless of drinking, up into the Baron's bed to see what will happen. Jeppe awakens and wonders if he has come in heaven, or whether he is still alive. He quickly changes character from being oppressed and hounded with by all and sundry to become oppressor himself. He is then, when the Barons "experiment" is done, thrown back into the "real life" and onto a dung heap. A fake tribunal is made by the Baron for (a fictitious) court and Jeppe is hung, (again fakely for sport) Jeppe thinks he's dead and is again met by his wife who starts beating him and yelling and pulls him back into reality!
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsAlex SvanbjergOtto BrandenburgPeter SchrøderA weak, dyslexic boy is bullied in school. His Tarzan obsessed dad calls him Rubber Tarzan. He makes a friend in crane driver Ole, who tells him: There's always something, you're good at. You just have to know what it is.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsOle ErnstKaren-Lise MynsterAnna VallgårdaKnud is a pig farmer, and he lives with his wife, Katrine, and their two young children. But life gets tough when the problems start to pile up at the pig farm and in their private life.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLine Arlien-SøborgJesper KleinCarsten JørgensenIn Århus, Denmark, mom's in hospital, pregnant, while dad and 16 y.o.daughter are spending time together painting the baby room. Dad can't accept that his daughter has grown up with interest in guys etc. Instead, he turns to spying on her.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMichael ElphickEsmond KnightMe Me LaiA cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsChristina BengtssonMogens EckertStig HoffmeyerA man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him.
- DirectorHelle RyslingeStarsKirsten LehfeldtTorben JensenPeter Hesse OvergaardA nurse meets an older chief surgeon at a party. He's attending a doctors' congress in Nairobi and asks her to come along. Returning ten days later, she feels used.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsLine KruseBörje AhlstedtErik WedersøeEmma (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 kindhearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma. She then returns to Malthe, and a close bond soon develops between Emma and Malthe. Meanwhile, the police are finally called and begin their investigation. Emma writes a ransom note for $2,000, and her father pays it. Emma uses the money to buy Malthe some new clothes and to treat him to a "Russian" feast at the Grand Hotel. Just as they are leaving the hotel, the police finally catch up with them. Malthe believes the police want to return Emma to the Bolsheviks so he flees with her into the sewers.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsFrits HelmuthMikael HelmuthGhita NørbyThe active Regitze and passive Karl Aage have a party with friends and family at their allotment garden. He reminisces his life with her from meeting her during WWII, having a son, the son graduating, etc. up to present day.
- DirectorBirger LarsenStarsAnders SchoubyeTommy KenterBirthe NeumannLasse is 12 years old and not the most eager schoolboy. In fact, he's a bit of a mess. This is abruptly changed when his mother leaves Lasse's father and moves in with a wealthy dentist. But even though Lasse soon becomes virtuous and gets praise, the loss of his father does not disappear so easily.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBarbara SukowaJean-Marc BarrUdo KierJust after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsTanja SkovMartin BergMarianne PedersenA young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsErik ClausenHelle RyslingeLeif SylvesterThe early 1990's: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- DirectorCarsten RudolfStarsCyron MelvilleMichelle Bjørn-AndersenJens OkkingThrough the adults surrounding him, eight year-old Frederik is confronted with animalistic desires, abandonment, death, hatred, and envy. His parents hold little love for each other, and his mother starts an affair with Frederik's teacher. When Frederik's father is killed, the little boy opts to shut out the world, and deal only through his alter ego, The Beast Within, who perceives everything through a haze of despair.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
- DirectorJonas ElmerStarsSidse Babett KnudsenBjarne HenriksenNicolaj KopernikusThree friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. At the same time Julie is trying to get in contact with her boyfriend René who she thinks is having an affair. They all talk a lot about whats on their mind during this week.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsSidse Babett KnudsenNiels OlsenSøs EgelindWhen handyman Niller comes to install Sus' new kitchen one day, their immediate crush is a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsJesper ChristensenMarius Sonne JanischefskaStine Holm JoensenKaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsStine StengadeLars MikkelsenSven WollterKira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsSonja RichterNikolaj Lie KaasMads MikkelsenA Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA 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 finds out that their support has a price.
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAnders W. BerthelsenSøren PilmarkNastja ArcelElection for the Danish parliament is up and the main opposition party has a chance at winning and its leader at becoming the next prime minister. The leader is hospitalized and the scheming begins.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsJesper ChristensenPernilla AugustBeate BilleA college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
- DirectorPernille Fischer ChristensenStarsTrine DyrholmDavid DencikFrank ThielA tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.
- DirectorPeter Schønau FogStarsJannik LorenzenJesper AsholtJulie KolbeckSouthern Jutland, DK, early 1970s: A dysfunctional family is burdened by an evil, self-righteous father, who manipulates his 11 y.o. son and 14 y.o. daughter with his repeated suicide threats.
- DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsJakob CedergrenLene Maria ChristensenKim BodniaA thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorTobias LindholmMichael NoerStarsPilou AsbækDulfi Al-JabouriRoland MøllerThe R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsKirsten DunstCharlotte GainsbourgKiefer SutherlandTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækSøren MallingDar SalimThe crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika WedderkoppA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsGhita NørbyPaprika SteenDanica CurcicThree generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother's wish to die before her disease worsens gets harder to handle as old conflicts come to the surface.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
- DirectorRasmus HeisterbergStarsKristoffer BechSusana Hermansen ValenzuelaNana Kirstine Bruhn-RasmussenFour students buy an apartment together in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and move in together. We follow their 20s, their ups and downs and the loneliness they discover after they split.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveSimon SearsVic Carmen SonneA brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
- DirectorIsabella EklöfStarsVic Carmen SonneLai YdeThijs RömerA love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenMagnus MillangFour high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
- DirectorLisa JespersenStarsRosalinde MynsterBodil JørgensenAnne Sofie WanstrupA vegan, artsy writer in Copenhagen, who left her parents' farm and rural life years ago without looking back, returns for her brother's wedding. She still doesn't fit in but is she partly to blame?
- DirectorFrelle PetersenStarsJette SøndergaardMette Munk PlumLasse LorenzenEgon and Maren lose their adult son. Together with their daughter Line, who has an intellectual disability, they must try to find their way back to life.