Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Bjarne Henriksen

1. The Hunt (2012)

R | 115 min | Drama

A 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.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm

Votes: 364,528 | Gross: $0.69M

2. Badehotellet (2013– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

The seaside hotel "Badehotellet" in NW Denmark opens for its wealthy guests each summer. We follow the guests and staff at the hotel from 1928 and into the 1940s.

Stars: Amalie Dollerup, Lars Ranthe, Anne Louise Hassing, Jens Jacob Tychsen

Votes: 3,947

3. Forbrydelsen (2007–2012)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.

Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen

Votes: 30,207

4. Borgen (2010–2022)

TV-14 | 58 min | Drama

A political drama about a prime minister's rise to power, and how power changes a prime minister.

Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Malling, Lisbeth Wulff

Votes: 29,926

5. The Celebration (1998)

R | 105 min | Drama

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen

Votes: 93,907 | Gross: $1.65M

6. Ófærð (2015– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.

Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Guðjón Pedersen

Votes: 24,925

7. The Chestnut Man (2021– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A figurine made of chestnuts is found at the scene of a grisly murder; from this creepy clue, two detectives hunt for a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

Stars: David Dencik, Danica Curcic, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lars Ranthe

Votes: 54,777

8. Unit One (2000–2004)

75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases.

Stars: Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen, Lars Brygmann, Waage Sandø

Votes: 4,122

9. The Sommerdahl Murders (2020– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

Stars: Peter Mygind, André Babikian, Laura Drasbæk, Mathias Käki Jørgensen

Votes: 1,662

10. Call Me Dad (2024– )

Comedy, Drama

It follows Emil and Viktor, lifelong friends and partners at work. Viktor begins dating Emil's mother, Helle, and this sets an unusual family face-off.

Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Magnus Haugaard Petersen, Ellen Hillingsø, Roberta Hilarius Reichhardt

Votes: 57

11. Huset (2023)

58 min | Crime, Drama

Four prison officers are forced to make some major changes in the prison they work in to help save their jobs, but those changes disrupt the fragile power balance among the inmates and turn daily life into a battle for survival.

Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, David Dencik, Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt, Charlotte Fich

Votes: 1,961

12. The Command (2018)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl

Votes: 21,452

13. King and Conqueror

Drama | Pre-production

William of Normandy and Harold of Wessex were two individuals destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; they were allies but had no claim to the British monarchy until fate drove them into a conflict over the country's crown.

Stars: Anthony Bacigalupo, Calum Sivyer, Eddie Marsan, James Norton

14. Moving On (2009– )

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama

Series of daytime plays set in contemporary Britain, all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of life change.

Stars: Neil Bell, Alicia Brockenbrow, John Draycott, Olivia Fenton

Votes: 512

15. The Art of Crying (2006)

106 min | Comedy, Drama

Southern 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.

Director: Peter Schønau Fog | Stars: Jannik Lorenzen, Jesper Asholt, Julie Kolbeck, Hanne Hedelund

Votes: 2,489

16. Taxa (1997–1999)

45 min | Crime, Drama

Two rival cab companies in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

Stars: Pernille Højmark, Zlatko Buric, Pia Vieth, Jesper Lohmann

Votes: 764

17. Krøniken (2004–2007)

58 min | Drama

Starting in 1949, the series follows four young Danes through 25 years of history and personal developments in a story about finding yourself in a world of changes.

Stars: Anne Louise Hassing, Anders W. Berthelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Waage Sandø

Votes: 1,803

18. Rederiet (1992–2002)

45 min | Drama

"Rederiet" is one of the most successful soap opera in the history of the Swedish television. The story is about the passenger company (Freja), who operates on the Baltic sea between ... See full summary »

Stars: Bert-Åke Varg, Johannes Brost, Hans V. Engström, Kenneth Söderman

Votes: 1,341

19. Minkavlerne (2019– )

Comedy

Gerda and Niller's mink breeding family are once again forced to stand together to secure the farm's future when new problems bubble to the surface and seriously spark speculation about a murder.

Stars: Kasper Gross, Jonas Røn Mogensen, Ruben Søltoft, Mick Øgendahl

Votes: 991

20. The Search (III) (2014)

135 min | Drama, War

A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev

Votes: 2,999

21. Troubled Water (2008)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Music

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Fredrik Grøndahl

Votes: 6,150

22. The Lawyer (2018– )

45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Frank Nordling learns the truth about his parents' death, his world unravels. As he finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman, who happens to be his firm's biggest client.

Stars: Alexander Karim, Malin Buska, Thomas Bo Larsen, Nicolaj Kopernikus

Votes: 1,921

23. Hvide Sande (2021)

333 min | Crime, Drama

White Sands is a light crime series about an undercover expert and a homicide detective who are secretly sent to a Danish seaside town to solve the killing of a young German man while pretending to be a married couple.

Stars: Marie Bach Hansen, Carsten Bjørnlund, Bodil Jørgensen, Amanda Friis Jürgensen

Votes: 1,437

24. The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear (2017)

79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Life in Solby is nice and peaceful until one day Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle by the harbour. The bottle is from the missing mayor of Solby with a message that he is on a... See full summary »

Directors: Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam, Philip Einstein Lipski | Stars: Alfred Bjerre Larsen, Liva Elvira Magnussen, Peter Frödin, Henrik Koefoed

Votes: 1,158

25. Torremolinos 73 (2003)

Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Javier Cámara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Fernando Tejero

Votes: 4,057 | Gross: $0.09M

26. Cry Wolf (2020)

59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Can children always be trusted - and how much stress and heartache can a family endure? Social worker, Lars Madsen, has only a few weeks to find out who is telling the truth in a family which may be suffering from domestic violence.

Stars: Bjarne Henriksen, Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, Christine Albeck Børge, Peter Plaugborg

Votes: 2,053

27. Nikolaj og Julie (2002–2003)

43 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy

Copenhagen thirtysomethings Nikolaj and Julie struggle with marriage, baby and work, plus friends of varying maturity.

Stars: Peter Mygind, Sofie Gråbøl, Dejan Cukic, Sofie Stougaard

Votes: 845

28. Irene Huss (2007–2011)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.

Stars: Angela Kovacs, Reuben Sallmander, Lars Brandeby, Dag Malmberg

Votes: 506

29. Ivan the Incredible (2012)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

A young boy's luck changes when he finds a magic potion that makes him "the best at everything" for one single day.

Director: Michael Hegner | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Signe Egholm Olsen, Cecilie Stenspil

Votes: 815

30. Meter i sekundet (2023)

107 min | Comedy

It follows a Copenhagen couple's new life at a West Jutland folk high school.

Director: Hella Joof | Stars: Sofie Torp, Thomas Hwan, Anders Agger, Lotte Andersen

Votes: 642

31. Peter and Wendy (2015 TV Movie)

97 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

This version establishes a dramatic connection with Great Ormond Street, the world famous children's hospital that has become irrevocably associated with Peter Pan. The story will be retold... See full summary »

Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Dan Tetsell, Laura Elphinstone, Rasmus Hardiker

Votes: 441

32. Get Santa (2014)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.

Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Ewen Bremner

Votes: 4,754

33. Stille liv (2023)

102 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about two adolescents facing racism in their adopted families, while confronting a society where immigration has become a divisive issue.

Director: Malene Choi | Stars: Cornelius Won Riedel-Clausen, Bjarne Henriksen, Bodil Jørgensen, Clara Thi Thanh Jensen

Votes: 203

34. Kongekabale (2004)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

Election 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.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Søren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel, Nicolas Bro

Votes: 4,618

35. Hvidsten gruppen (2012)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, War

The true story of the Fiil family - a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers, but in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.

Director: Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | Stars: Jens Jørn Spottag, Bodil Jørgensen, Thomas Ernst, Laura Winther Møller

Votes: 3,069

36. Lykke (2011–2012)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Lykke is a fresh girl who is determined to have a fine career. She works in public relations for a pharmaceutical company, where she tries to lift the company to the top by any means.

Stars: Mille Lehfeldt, David Dencik, Laus Høybye, Mathilde Norholt

Votes: 712

37. Edderkoppen (2000)

348 min | Crime, Drama, History

A reporter is drawn into the dark side of post-war Copenhagen as he attempts to uncover a crime syndicate on an unprecedented level.

Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Stine Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Bent Mejding

Votes: 791

38. Hotellet (2000–2002)

45 min | Drama

Hotellet is all about the Faber family, who owns the Hotel Faber. As the head of the family commits suicide, the rest of the family try to pick up the pieces after him. The series is clearly inspired by Twin Peaks and Empire.

Stars: Søren Byder, Martin Hestbæk, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Trine Appel

Votes: 177

39. The Country Doctor (1987–2013)

45 min | Drama, Romance

The country doctor.

Stars: Gerhard Olschewski, Heinz Reincke, Walter Plathe, Franziska Troegner

Votes: 124

40. Chinaman (2005)

88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In order to pay for his divorce, a plumber marries a Chinese woman who needs citizenship.

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | Stars: Bjarne Henriksen, Vivian Wu, Lin Kun Wu, Paw Henriksen

Votes: 2,060

41. The Biggest Heroes (1996)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

The bank robbers Karsten and Peter are on the run in Sweden. With them is one of their teenage daughter.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Thomas Bo Larsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Mia Maria Back, Bjarne Henriksen

Votes: 1,329

42. Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet? (2010– )

58 min | Drama

A man is almost obsessed with being anonymous, and never the best in anything. Being second means being unnoticed and forgotten--but still important as a human.

Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Bjarne Henriksen, Giggi Yazicioglu, Annfinnur Heinesen

Votes: 325

43. Slip hestene løs (2000)

99 min | Drama

One day Kevin runs into the rearview mirror on Bent A.'s new car. It smashes and Bent A. gets hold of Kevin's address: he wants compensation. He meets up with Kevin's single mother Vibeke who, as Kevin puts it, has "bad nerves."

Director: Erik Clausen | Stars: Erik Clausen, Marianne Frost, Ricky Vends, Elith Nulle Nykjær

Votes: 323

44. Råzone (2006)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille, a tight-knit gang of girlfriends, she slacks her schoolwork, living mostly for the weekends ... See full summary »

Director: Christian E. Christiansen | Stars: Laura Christensen, Stephanie Leon, Julie R. Ølgaard, Sara Møller Olsen

Votes: 1,307

45. Hold Me Tight (2010)

80 min | Drama

What should be just another school day for teenagers Sara, Mikkel, Louise and Hassan turns out forever scarred. One-by-one seemingly minor events snowball things completely out of control, and leaves everyone involved marked for life.

Director: Kaspar Munk | Stars: Julie Brochorst Andersen, Frederik Christian Johansen, Sofia Cukic, Hicham Najid

Votes: 581

46. Den du frygter (2008)

95 min | Drama, Thriller

A man signs up for a test trial of a new anti-depressant as a way to change his life. When the trial is called off, he continues taking the medication with violent results.

Director: Kristian Levring | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Emma Sehested Høeg, Lars Brygmann

Votes: 1,663

47. The Left Wing Gang (2009–2010)

Crime

The Blekinge Street Gang (Blekingegadebanden) was a group of left-wing extremists who performed various spectacular robberies in Copenhagen in the 1980s. The money from the robberies went ... See full summary »

Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Thure Lindhardt, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, David Dencik

Votes: 290

48. Monas verden (2001)

85 min | Comedy

Mona is taken hostage at a bank robbery, then chased by the love sick bank robber. Her cocaine sniffing boss makes her days miserable until he ODs and she takes over.

Director: Jonas Elmer | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Klaus Bondam

Votes: 620

49. Pizza King (1999)

103 min | Crime, Drama

Junes and Bobby, who hang out with other second generation Muslim immigrants at Pizza King in Copenhagen, come across 50 lbs. hashish in a burglary. The Pakistani owner wants it back.

Director: Ole Christian Madsen | Stars: Ali Kazim, Janus Nabil Bakrawi, Isam Subeihi, Farshad Kholghi

Votes: 462

50. Dybt vand (1999 TV Movie)

160 min | Thriller

A deputy mayor bends the rules and becomes involved in a number of crimes. His actions prove to have terrible consequences and he starts a domino effect of accidents, lies, blackmail and murder.

Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Jens Jørn Spottag, Lotte Andersen, Henning Moritzen, Søren Sætter-Lassen

Votes: 300