Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Born: May 22, 1973
in Glostrup, Denmark
Nikolaj Lie Kaas (born 22 May 1973) is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is the son of actor Preben Kaas and actor and writer Anne Mari Lie and father of two.

Movies for Nikolaj Lie Kaas...

Title: Families Like Ours
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: TV
Danish high-school student Laura who must choose between her divorced parents as the country is evacuated following an apocalyptic flood.
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Title: Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Character: Self / Filip Naver
Released: November 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script to shoot and to the screen at home.
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Fathers and Mothers
Title: Fathers and Mothers
Character: Tommy
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Follows Piv and Ulrik, who are trying to become part of the parent group in their daughter's new school class, going to great lengths to be admitted.
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Title: Dansk films bedste
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Danmark griner
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 2021
Type: TV
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Riders of Justice
Title: Riders of Justice
Character: Otto
Released: November 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
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Title: Face to Face
Character: Sebastian
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: TV
Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stakes and the suspense rise relentlessly as Bjørn inches closer to the truth.
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Collision
Title: Collision
Character: Leo
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: Movie
'Collision' centres on a married couple, Leo and Olivia. As they are facing a crisis in their marriage, their nine-year-old daughter, Liv, becomes a messenger between her mother and father. The film explores the break-up of a family and the decisions parents make in trying to find meaning and hope when everything is falling apart
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The Purity of Vengeance
Title: The Purity of Vengeance
Character: Carl Mørck
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.
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Title: Britannia
Character: Divis
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: TV
An epic drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army – determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.
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Zulu Comedy Galla 2017
Title: Zulu Comedy Galla 2017
Character: Vært
Released: September 10, 2017
Type: Movie
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You Disappear
Title: You Disappear
Character: Frederik Halling
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges.
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A Conspiracy of Faith
Title: A Conspiracy of Faith
Character: Carl Mørck
Released: March 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.
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The Last King
Title: The Last King
Character: Orm
Released: February 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a baby, the illegitimate son of King Håkon, who will be the future king and peacemaker, from those who want to kill him.
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Title: Follow the Money
Character: Sander
Released: January 3, 2016
Type: TV
'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people who are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex world of economic crime that takes place in banks, the stock exchange, and in boardrooms.
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Child 44
Title: Child 44
Character: Ivan Sukov
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
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Men & Chicken
Title: Men & Chicken
Character: Gregor
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.
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The Absent One
Title: The Absent One
Character: Carl Mørck
Released: October 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
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A Second Chance
Title: A Second Chance
Character: Tristan
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
Title: The Keeper of Lost Causes
Character: Carl Mørck
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
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Mad Ship
Title: Mad Ship
Character: Tomas
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way they never feared when they went in search of the dream.
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The Shooter
Title: The Shooter
Character: Thomas Borby
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
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Almost Perfect
Title: Almost Perfect
Character: Gordon Dennis
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she realizes that the child may come to resemble the father and possibly get his less flattering characteristics. Anne feels compelled to find the sperm donor and ensure that he is as perfect as she imagines.
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Beast
Title: Beast
Character: Valdemar
Released: October 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression and hatred, there is no turning back.
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Zulu Comedy Galla 2011
Title: Zulu Comedy Galla 2011
Character: Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Released: September 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Zulu Comedy Galla is a Danish Comedy Award show shown on TV2 Zulu once a year. At the show the Comedian of the year and "Läkerols Talentpris" are awarded and three new comedians attempts to make it in to the comedy scene.
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A Funny Man
Title: A Funny Man
Character: Dirch Passer
Released: August 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise to fame. He struggles between his own desire to gain critical respect and servicing the audience¿s needs. Costing his kindred friendship to on-stage partner Kjeld Petersen (Lars Ranthe) Dirch takes on Steinbeck's classic »Of Mice and Men«, only for the audience to break out in laughter at his first line. Dirch's Lennie becomes a running joke, and so has, Dirch believes, his own life.
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The Fir Tree
Title: The Fir Tree
Character: Grantræet (voice)
Released: April 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A Short Film by Lars Ostenfeld. Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's fairytale, this Danish film tells the story of a Christmas tree from a most unusual angle - through the 'voice' of the tree itself. The tree has big ambitions, doing everything it can to grow so tall that it reaches the sky. Featuring extraordinary photography, the film follows the adventures of its life from sapling to maturity, culminating in a triumphal Christmas Day. Along the way, viewers experience the natural - and human - world from a strangely moving perspective.
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Freddy Frogface
Title: Freddy Frogface
Character: Orla Frøsnapper / Tryllekunster / Klovn
Released: February 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on a classic Danish children's book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard. Being small doesn't make life easy for little ten-year-old Victor and his friends, who not only have to face a world full of stern grown-ups but also the town bully Freddy Frogface. When a circus comes to the sleepy little town, Victor is thrilled at having the chance to perform in a talent show with his dog Sausage. Yet Freddy soon comes up with a sinister plot of his own to spoil Victor's plans...
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The Whistleblower
Title: The Whistleblower
Character: Jan Van Der Velde
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
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Title: ZULU Comedy Galla
Character: Host
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: TV
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Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Title: Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Character: Kniven
Released: August 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.
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Therapy
Title: Therapy
Character: Anders
Released: February 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basement out to family therapist Ulrik. Very soon, Ulrik has put their marriage to a severe test.
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At World's End
Title: At World's End
Character: Adrian
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life.
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Zulu Comedy Galla 2009
Title: Zulu Comedy Galla 2009
Character: Host
Released: September 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Angels & Demons
Title: Angels & Demons
Character: Assassin
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati - a secret, underground organization - after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
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The Candidate
Title: The Candidate
Character: Jonas Bechmann
Released: August 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier.
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Title: Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Aron Bjarke
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: TV
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
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Title: Varg Veum
Character: Kniven
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.
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Just Another Love Story
Title: Just Another Love Story
Character: Sebastian
Released: August 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits her in the hospital and is greeted by her family, who assumes he must be the Sebastian she told them about, the new fiance she met in Vietnam.
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Title: The Killing
Character: Mathias Borch
Released: January 7, 2007
Type: TV
The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
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Pu-239
Title: Pu-239
Character: Tusk
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
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Clash of Egos
Title: Clash of Egos
Character: Claus Volter
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with his two children. They celebrate the reunion by going to the movies to see a new film by the famous, critically acclaimed Danish director Claus Volter. But the film is not the masterpiece it is said to be on the poster; the children are crying and Tony cannot get the money back he spent on tickets and candy. Tony does not give up; he seeks out Claus Volter in order to get an explanation and a refund. It is however easier said than done to get money out of a world-renowned filmmaker.
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Murk
Title: Murk
Character: Jacob
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
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Adam's Apples
Title: Adam's Apples
Character: Holger
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
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The Sun King
Title: The Sun King
Character: Tommy
Released: February 11, 2005
Type: Movie
While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Jannik
Released: August 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
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Title: The Fairytaler
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
The Fairytaler is a 2004 Danish animated television series based on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
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Dogville: The Pilot
Title: Dogville: The Pilot
Character: Tom
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-minute pilot film starred Danish actors Sidse Babett Knudsen (as Grace) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (as Tom).
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Reconstruction
Title: Reconstruction
Character: Alex
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
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Stealing Rembrandt
Title: Stealing Rembrandt
Character: Kiosk Karsten
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?
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The Green Butchers
Title: The Green Butchers
Character: Bjarne / Eigil
Released: March 8, 2003
Type: Movie
A black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further complications arise due to the reappearance of Bjarne's intellectually disabled twin brother Eigil.
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Open Hearts
Title: Open Hearts
Character: Joachim
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.
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Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Title: Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Character: Martin
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: Movie
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
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Jolly Roger
Title: Jolly Roger
Character: Ærkeenglen Theobalt
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
The future is stolen by Captain Bill the Black. It is up to the infamous pirate Jolly Roger and his great-great-great grandchild Lula to save it, helped by the two arch-angels Theobalt and Emil.
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Wag the Dogma
Title: Wag the Dogma
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film systematically breaks each and every one of the Dogme 'vows of chastity' - employing special effects, comedy sound design, and a singing narrator to boot.
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Truly Human
Title: Truly Human
Character: P
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
P. is a little girl's imaginary friend who lives inside the wall of her room. But one day he magically materialises and so must learn to live in the world like everyone else - a world where he is met with suspicion and hate but also with wonder and love.
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Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
Title: Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Flickering Lights
Title: Flickering Lights
Character: Stefan
Released: November 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
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Max
Title: Max
Character: Spacy
Released: March 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.
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In China They Eat Dogs
Title: In China They Eat Dogs
Character: Martin
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: Movie
Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Morten
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.
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The Humiliated
Title: The Humiliated
Character: Self / Jeppe
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
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The Idiots
Title: The Idiots
Character: Jeppe
Released: April 28, 1998
Type: Movie
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
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Davids bog
Title: Davids bog
Character: Jacob
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance he finds a book that gives minute details of perfect crimes.
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Title: The Kingdom
Character: Filip Naver
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
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Carl, My Childhood Symphony
Title: Carl, My Childhood Symphony
Character: Carl 3
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the composer's autobiography, the film itself is designed to soar like a symphony.
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The Boys from St. Petri
Title: The Boys from St. Petri
Character: Otto Hvidmann
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
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Bermuda
Title: Bermuda
Character: The fisherman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An expedition of five students and their mentor are send to find what happened to a documentary crew reportedly missing and last seen around the Bermuda Triangle. After reaching the Bermuda and rented a boat owned by two cryptid hunters the terror slowly takes shape while they're surrounded by something unknown coming from the deepest parts of the ocean.