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- Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle.
- Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.
- Marika meets Mads and their two hearts beat as one, but Marika is still oddly stand-offish. She is planning a trip abroad with her friend Helle, but restless Helle's increasing drug habit gradually makes the plans fall apart. But Marika bears a terrible secret. She's got to get away. Away from Helle's father.
- This children's miniseries tells the story of Bamse's fairy tale like adventure on a small remote planet inhabited by the wonderful and strange characters Forlæns and Baglæns. This series was the creation of Finn Bentzen, Elith Nulle Nykjær and Poul Nesgaard (now headmaster of The National Film School of Denmark) and is by many considered to be one of the best television programmes for children ever made in Denmark. After this mini series Bamse got his own weekly tv-series entitled "Bamses billedbog" (1983) set in a completely different enviroment.
- Classic children's show starring Bamse and his friends Kylling and Ælling. In each episodes Bamse's picture book (Bamses billedbog) serves as the source for an interstellar story.
- Cafe Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uffe is definitely not "in". He can't get a cappuccino, but he is given permission, just this once, to use the toilet. But Uffe is prepared for the situation. He can't take any more humiliation and he is armed!
- Two 15-year old cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix. Yet, while the aunt continues in her reveries and Sanne begins to play with the idea of a romance, Iben casts herself into a secretive, new world of longing and intimacy, love and separation.
- The story of Richard Lewis--a harrassed overworked and over stressed area manager for a contract catering company. Richard is a well meaning man, but always cames off badly in his dealings with the boss, his Team of managers and his secretary because he hasn't learnt the two essential lessons of being a manager--how to organise himself and how to organise the others.
- Life is not easy when you are a Danish kid called Aksel who loves meatballs. Especially when you would much rather want to be one of the cool Muslim boys who wear those golden necklaces and say cool stuff in Arabic. To worsen things, during the holidays Aksel gets teamed up with two girls, Fatima and Annika, to perform a song to the local youth club's song contest, Melodi Grand Prix. The girls want to do a girly pop song, and the entire jury panel consist of Muslim boys! Meanwhile the kids find a stray dog who needs a home. This leads to nothing but trouble, and one of the girls, Fatima, is grounded by her parents for the entire holiday season. Now she can't perform the song, and Aksel realizes he must take action! He enters an unknown world of rituals and cultural perceptions, and fixes everything in his own unique way.
- Sinan is a second generation Turkish immigrant. He is young, restless and he likes the ladies. His parents have found him a bride, the beautiful Gül. They have also planned for him to take over his father's restaurant after the wedding. But Sinan has other fish to fry.
- This television children's series marked the debut of a big yellow teddy bear called Bamse who later got his own series "Bamses billedbog" (1983). It is also here we first encounter Bamse's friends Kylling, Aske and Pernille. Søren Hauch-Fausbøll who wears the Bamse costume continues to portray the popular character throughout the following twelve years.
- Henrik and Jacob have just finished high school, but they can't get into university, so Jacob gets a job as a waiter and Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance Henrik finds a book that gives minute details of perfect crimes. Henrik tries the first description - and everything goes according to plan. But what about the second? Or the third?
- Henrik is young and in love and moves with his girlfriend Anne into a commune in the countryside. It is the dawn of the 70's, a time to challenge authority and experiment with relationships. Henrik is challenged too: His role as a man is exhibited and discussed, he has to learn how to sew, to sleep in the group bedroom, to share his inheritance with the commune and his beloved Anne with a lesbian.
- John Cleese shows that, properly planned and organised, a meeting can achieve more in a short time than any other method of internal communication. Makes everyone who attends meetings aware of the damage that can bedone by approaching a meeting without preparation. Demontrates techniques and disciplines which can make meetings shorter and more productive.
- A stranger comes to town. The enigmatic protagonist, Seth, gets off the bus one hot summer day at the end of August and takes rooms at the local inn. This sets off a long chain of reactions in the town. Reactions that have dramatic and fatal consequences for everyone involved.
- Per tries to help people get a new antenna, but gets into serious trouble.
- A sunlit landscape. Green and lush. The emblem of our Danish childhood summer in the country. Before the world went out of joint. Though these landscapes Aage drives his bus every day. He has done so for ages. The bus was once a vital part of the local community. Today nobody uses it; but Aage obstinately drives the bus every day. Why? Does he want to preserve an innocent past? Soon something will happen that will bring Aage up to the present in one night.
- A comedy about Belinda who is unhappy. Her boyfriend is in prison, and he can't stand being locked up. So Belinda has to get hold of the Crown Prince. He will understand her and see to it that her boyfriend is pardoned. Her hunt for the prince takes Belinda on an Odyssey among the spoilt and selfish upper classes. Fortunately, Belinda has a heart and a willpower that defy anything.
- 16-year-old Rasmus' biggest interest is computer games, until he meets Belma who is 15. She lives with her father Josip on a refugee hostel boat and has fled from the war in Bosnia. Josip becomes involved in a terrible act of vengeance against a former prison camp guard and is arrested by the Danish police. Belma is all on her own now and Rasmus realizes that he is the only one who can help her.
- 16 episodes of travel documentary. Biker-Jens continues his adventures, this time riding his Harley Davidson down the dirt roads of the enormous continent of Australia. He sets out to meet the people of The Outback, swim with the sharks on the Great Barrier Reef and try his luck with one of the many gold mines down under.
- A film about attitudes and self-insight. The protagonist, Mads, was a front figure in the band "Madssacre" in the 80's. In the 90's, he's an anachronistic wreck. Booking manager Lone's attempts to recreate the band is doomed to failure. Repeating the past can't solve the problems of the present. At the end of the film, both Mads and Lone have reached a point where they can start liberating themselves from their attitudes.
- Tonight there's a dancing competition at the hottest salsa restaurant in Copenhagen. Henrik, the young cook, is hopelessly in love with enchanting Elena, but lacks the courage to dance with her. Henrik meets the mysterious bag lady, who gives him a pair of magic shoes that make him dance like a dream. Can Henrik win the competition and Elena's heart, and what will happen with the magic shoes?
- Elisabeth is a 70-year-old woman who has injured her leg. Karima is a young girl of immigrant parents who is hired to help Elisabeth. Their backgrounds are very different, and their relationship is characterized by skepticism and suspicion until they find each other in music, their mutual passion. When Karima must suddenly get married, it appears that their lives are perhaps not all that different.
- In 1950s Copenhagen, Jens is a law student with a part-time job in a law firm. He lives at home and is more or less engaged to Lis. Jens' life is very regular and organized until he meets slightly older Erhard, a head clerk at the firm. Erhard lures Jens into the mysterious city nightlife, and from now on, Jens' life changes. The engagement is broken off and his education is neglected.
- Fathers-to-be will tread cautiously after seeing Peter Gren Larsen's film, which respectlessly crosses "Get fit after giving birth" with "The Chainsaw Massacre". Babies are admired and experiences shared in the mothers' group, but something isn't right. Camilla's husband is lying in bed with a huge hole in his head. Camilla and her frying pan put an end to his life, but how can she escape prison so she can bring up baby herself? The mothers go into action and they do it with a vengeance in this paraphrase of "The Perfect Murder".
- A strikingly colourful, surrealistic, animated film, inspired by the work of female Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. Music and imagery flow congenially together in this tragi-comical story of a little boy who dies and goes to heaven, only to be seduced by an operatic angel who takes him to hell.
- Bjarne and Bibi are constantly on the road between seaside hotels on the west coast of Denmark where they have tried to be a success with their songs and music for many years. They are a couple off and on stage, but things aren't going too well. Bjarne is fed up with this race, he wants a small house and an ordinary life with a wife and child. Bibi is struggling to build a career and become a star, a struggle that makes her bitter and self-righteous. It's time for a showdown. Not least with oneself.
- The beer monkey population is increasing by leaps and bounds as they splash their frothy territorial claim across the city jungle clearings. Our devoted guide, nosy Mrs. Ryslinge, leads us through the beer-bellied wilderness and lets the public get a close look at the beer monkey's water holes and habitats.
- Love has a price in this quirky sex comedy. Sten is a 30- year-old librarian. Over a book he meets supersexy Katja, the woman of his dreams, and they soon end up in bed together. It's love at first sight, but the next thing he knows, Katja wants money every time they make love. Otherwise their relationship will become trivial, she says. Reluctantly Sten agrees, but then Katja puts up the price.
- "Julie let her long hair go, got herself a new Romeo" says one of the guys to the other in "When do the Violins set in?". Yes, there is cause for concern. Lars' girlfriend is not only in doubt whether her hair should be long or short, but also whether he is the right one for her or not. What does a young semi-rejected lover do in that situation? He goes to see his best friend, who is not particularly happy with his love life either. When the two of them go to the cinema, fate ties up the threads of the story very happily. This is when the violins set in - in "real" films.
- An experimental narrative about a filmmaker who discovers what appears to be a murder on an old film he finds at a yard sale, and his ensuing quest for the truth.
- Alfred and Erna have sold their farm and moved to the suburbs of a provincial town. It's December 26th and they are expecting their children and grandchildren for the annual Christmas lunch - for the first time in the new house. Alfred finds it hard to adjust to his new, quiet life. It's difficult for Erna to maintain old routines in a new situation and she loses herself in details. When her preparations for the lunch collapse, Alfred has had enough - but he realises that there is still a lot left to lose.
- Director Søren Fauli willingly exhibits and investigates his own weaknesses. With a healthy and curious self-centredness he recognizes that he's an uninhibited supermaterialist. He can't get enough. And one day he gets the fantastic chance to carry out as much as he can from an electronic store in three minutes. But how?
- Despite his talent, recognition and good jobs pass the tenor saxophonist Laslo by. Until Nicole appears and sweet music fills the air. Her singing voice carries towards the stars , and Laslo swears that he will wring his soul to do the right thing for the two of them. But this isn't easy when Nicole gets all the praise in their professional companionship. Laslo is put through the wringer of jealousy in this lyrical variation on "A Star is Born".
- Dating habits and scoring tricks are some of the ingredients in this modern love satire. Emma is looking for a man who is more chivalerous than lecherous. Albert is looking for yet another one-night stand, so he invites her out for dinner. Emma picks a Bulgarian restaurant where even the house wine is a serious matter. And things become even more serious when three gunmen enter the place. A memorable date for Albert.
- The Danish version of the popular quiz show. A group of contestants answer questions on a variety of subjects, with the entire group being awarded cash for each correct answer. At the end of each round, the group votes to remove one of the players ("The Weakest Link"), until only two are left. These two then compete head-to-head to see who will go home with all the cash, and who will go home with nothing.
- A sequel to the film Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976). A manager who has learnt all the practical lessons from his experiences in the first film dreams how he habitually breaks the three laws of meetings. This film gives invaluable insights into the way people behave at meetings, and how skilful hands can extract the right decisions.
- Ole Jensen is a disillusioned, middle-aged, overweight, ex-leftist divorcee with an early retirement pension. A therapist tells Sourface that he is just too dull. How about taking Tango lessons? But Ole Jensen looks a fool at the dancing class. He steals his instructor's flight ticket to the true homeland of Tango, where dancers, writers and activists take him to task.
- Inger is single. She gives the many couples that hug and kiss each other wistful looks, but nobody sees Inger. Not even the young policeman she's in love with. Inger works at the Central Station and so does the policeman. He's very busy; a young woman has been raped by a man wearing a hood. An opportunity arises, and on an impulse Inger pretends to be the victim of an attempted rape. Suddenly the young policeman sees her, and Inger starts dreaming about future. But things don't turn out the way she imagined.
- The remote, dark house hides a terrible secret. From the nursery a grammophone merrily churns out a happy summer song, but there is no child. Daniel died in an accident, and his mother is tormented by grief and guilt. She keeps seeing Daniel, but also his frightening fantasy figure Little Man, with the sharp, gleaming razor. A mysterious visitor appears out of the rain. He knows the secret.
- Zacharias is a painter who lived a hundred years ago. While he is painting his beloved girlfriend, who is sitting on a boat on the lake, the boat capsizes. The girl falls in the water, Zacharias jumps in after her, and they both disappear. The unfinished painting is left on the bank of the lake. Zacharias sinks down through the water and comes up again, a hundred years later, in the middle of a Copenhagen fountain - just as a large exhibition of his paintings is opening at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Among the exhibits is the unfinished portrait. To everybody's dismay, Zacharias wants to finish it.
- Hugo is 18 years old, works in a garage in a provincial town, plays pool with his mates and dates teenage Betina. Hugo wants something else, but he doesn't know what - and it's hard for him to pull himself together. Until he meets student nurse Ester, who is in her 20s.
- Anne and Niels-Peter live in a fishing village by the North Sea. They are going steady, but Anne thinks everything round there is a bit dull. Things liven up when a group of young German surfers camp on the beach. Anne and her girlfriend think they look smashing, but the local lads haven't much time for them. What business have these flashy German jerks got here? One night, when Anne and her girlfriend are dancing with the Germans at the local disco, a fight starts and Anne is forced to take sides.
- Charlotte and Teis, partners for some years, are going to climb a mountain, literally and metaphorically. During a climbing trip to Kullen in Sweden, Charlotte is inches from falling to her death.Teis stands paralyzed, and she is only saved by the intervention of the experienced climber, Lasse. This leads to an emotional avalanche for Charlotte. Her relationship with Teis is threatened. Charlotte contacts the perfect life saver to thank him, but everything isn't what it seems.
- Finn, a stone cutter, lacks meaning and passion in his lonely life. Then one day he sees a tuba in a shop window and falls in love with it. He buys the tuba and starts practising energetically, but nobody wants to listen to his tentative efforts. Finn has almost given up playing, when accidentally and with the help of his music, he stops a woman from taking her own life. Finn's life becomes meaningful and for the first time someone wants to listen to him play. But things aren't that simple, not even when you have found the passion of your life.
- Tom lives alone and works for the council, reporting empty apartments. One day, he ignores the rules and enters a supposedly empty apartment. His life takes a drastic turn when Sally, a stripper, suddenly turns up. Tom takes her home with him. But Sally has a dark past and is on the run from the police.
- Dan is only 10 years old and is caught between a younger and an older sister who tease, manipulate and tell him off. Dan is always the loser of the battle for the affection of their busy parents and the scapegoat who end up doing the dishes on his own. And when the family relax together, there is not really room for him.
- 16-year-old Frida and Mona take the train from the suburbs to Copenhagen on a Friday night to get rid of their virginity. They make themselves up and change their clothes in the ladies' room at the Central Station and the manhunt in Copenhagen's night-life can begin.
- Scrawny, awkward, unlucky Tifanfaya gets a queer start to her life as a orphan. Uncle Brutus and aunt Mathilde agree to look after her, but for devious reasons: Tifanfaya lives in a castle which Aunt Mathilde would like for her very own. But clumsy Tifanfaya becomes Queen of the Mountain Bandits and with her gang she rebels against her wicked stepmother and wins back her castle and her country.
- Comfortably lying in a deck chair on a parking lot John Cleese is being interviewed by popular Danish TV philosopher Anders Lund Madsen. Among many, topics range from hiring people to make children and marrying lizards to the importance of turning 60 and what a frightening sole of a shoe can do to viewers.