1. Sisterhood (Sisterhood)
Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's essay The second sex, filmmaker Sophie Dros talks to four women and a group of young girls. Together they go in search of universal stories; about dealing with expectations, empathy and connection, desires, fear, need for confirmation and losing control.
2. Life in Denmark (Livet i Danmark)
The intention of the film is to give an impression of what small exotic Denmark looks like, what the strange Danes look like and how they are. Nearly 100 Danes are presented in the film, amongst them a racing cyclist, a Minister of Finance, a popular actor and 13 unmarried women from a provincial town. "There is too much fogginess and rain and melancholy in most of the pictures of Denmark," says Jørgen Leth. "But not in my film. I would like to show you some authentic, clear and beautiful pictures from this strange country."
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
3. Live and not die in Copenhagen (Жить и не умереть в Копенгагене)
Travel to Copenhagen
4. Den danske satankult (Den danske satankult)
Coins with Lucifer. Letters from a satanic cult, founded in the spring of 1973 on the Danish island of Anholt. Disturbing objects begin to appear in churches. Among priests, gravediggers, and church servants anxiety begins to spread.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
5. Tommy (Tommy)
Tommy Seebach Mortensen; or just Tommy Seebach to the whole nation; were born in Copenhagen in 1949 and passed away far too early in 2003. "Tommy" received four stars out of six by Politiken, Berlingske Tidende and Ekstra Bladet; B.T. awarded it six stars out of six. Dagbladet Information described it as "... a story of an artist who became a victim of the musical genre which he himself had helped innovate, and who, instead of gaining the broad recognition he had longed for his entire life, ended up with a status somewhere in between national heritage and kitsch clown..." Politiken called the film "worthy, worth seeing and moving", Ekstra Bladet "a moving portrait of a man caught between the music, his family and the bottle".
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
6. Danish Dynamite (...Og det var Danmark)
The story about Danish national football team, a traditional minnow until the mid-1980s when they improved dramatically and eventually went on to win the European championship in 1992.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
7. Inger Christensen - The cicadas exist (Inger Christensen - Cikaderne findes)
In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads excerpts from her major works.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
8. Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Starting as a documentary on the sexually liberated culture of late-Sixties Denmark, Sexual Freedom in Denmark winds up incorporating major elements of the marriage manual form and even manages to squeeze in a montage of beaver loops and erotic art. All narrated with earnest pronouncements concerning the social and psychological benefits of sexual liberation, the movie, is a kind of mondo film dotted with occasional glimpses of actual sex.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
9. Silence of the Tides (Silence of the Tides)
The passage of time is spellbinding in this cinematic tour de force about the Wadden Sea. A film that inhales and exhales along with the tides as it explores the fragile relationship between man and nature.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. Violent Jazz from the North (Väkivaltajazzia Pohjoisesta)
Finland has long been the promised land for long hair and heavy rock music, however jazz has it’s own place here too! Then again maybe jazz is just the general name we give to music we can’t quite classify. And the original soundscapes brought forth by guitarist Heikki Ruokangas are just that; hard to classify. In Ruokangas’ creations, elements of jazz meld together with the strums and tweaks of modern classic guitars to create an aggressive medley of sound. The end result is a skillful and intense break from traditional guitar song.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Fluer i Kødbyen (Fluer i Kødbyen)
In 1971 September met four young men in a garden in Gentofte. They wanted to make a band. And they soon found out that they could joke his way to one hit after another. A handful of years later had their playful approach made them Denmark's largest orchestra. But if success came easily to them, it was also their biggest problem. For besides they were hit by alcoholism and stage directing, they faced one overriding dilemma: Should they stick to the happy drengerøvs tone , they had so much luck, or trying to become adults?
12. Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy (Baci rubati: amori omosessuali nell'Italia fascista)
Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini ; intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Skæve dage i Thy (Skæve dage i Thy)
Documentary about the construction of Thy Lejren in 1970 - an alternative summer camp. Features concerts by bands such as Gasolin' and Gnags.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
14. Retreat (Retiro)
Marina and Perla join thousands of women on an annual Catholic pilgrimage. Perla's coming of age accentuates a generational divide as she struggles to assert her independence as a woman.
15. Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema (Sex, sensationer & superstjerner: Historien om dansk stumfilm)
Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.
16. Q's Barbershop (Q's Barbershop)
A colourful, upbeat tale from Vollsmose about the resourceful and funky hairdresser Qasim, who instils dignity, inspiration and hope in young people through something we can all relate to – a cool haircut!
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
17. A Cherry Tale (Kirsebæreventyret)
Three Danish entrepreneurs embark on making cherry wine on the island of Lolland.
18. A Word for Human
The library is a stronghold of humanism, but today libraries are more than places for borrowing books. At the Royal Library in the heart of Copenhagen, researchers and intermediaries work side by side with the library's visitors who come to read and study, but also to participate in talks, concerts, lectures and exhibitions that fill the halls all year round. This documentary looks behind the scenes in a year where Marina Abramovic and Olafur Eliasson contribute to the program, and where colonial history and climate change take center stage.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.
20. Armadillo (Armadillo)
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal – no actors.
It has an average vote of 7.035 on TMDB.
