9 Movies Starring Kim Bodnia

Nightwatch

Nightwatch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-02-25

Languages:

Danish, Swedish

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (11625 Reviews)

Director:

Ole Bornedal

Genres:

Thriller

Fullplot:

In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen. Therefore and because of a strange bet with his fellow student Jens, the police begins to think he is the murderer. Police detective Wormer wants to help him but Martin is more and more suspected.

Pusher

Pusher

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-08-30

Languages:

Danish, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (23369 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jens Dahl

Nicolas Winding Refn

Fullplot:

Frank is a drug pusher on the roll until he makes a huge deal with dope that he hasn't paid for and he gets busted by the police. He manages to dump the dope in a nearby lake but he owes his supplier a lot of money (not a nice guy to owe money to). Now we follow Frank in his quest to raise money in the underworld of Copenhagen.

Bleeder

Bleeder

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-06

Languages:

Danish

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (4388 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

Leo and Louise are a young couple living together in Copenhagen. Leo often goes out with his friends while Louise usually stays home. But when Louise tells Leo she's pregnant, a spark is ignited and Leo begins to become cold and distant. His anger and self-hatred finally erupt into violence against Louise.

In China They Eat Dogs

In China They Eat Dogs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-09-10

Languages:

Danish, English, Serbo-Croatian, German

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (14931 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Arvid is a regular bank clerk, whose life changes radically when he knocks out the bank robber Franz with his squash racket. A few days later Franz's wife visits him lamenting that she needed the swag for an IVF. To obtain the money Arvid and his criminal brother Harald plan a thievery, which ends bloodily and drags them into real trouble.

Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II

Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-07-12

Languages:

Danish, Swedish, Serbian

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (7046 Reviews)

Fullplot:

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. Peter and Martin - the two chefs - want to get him out and soon father and son meet for the first time in their lives. They get on from the word go, but now dad needs a liver transplant and Ludvig and Harald set about raising the wherewithal. Everything goes wrong when they try to rob a bank, though they meet Mille, who puts them onto a new trail, and Peter and Martin also make a contribution. However, soon they have the cops and the anti-terror corps on their tails.

Falling Sky

Falling Sky

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-10-18

Languages:

Norwegian

Countries:

Norway, Denmark

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (888 Reviews)

Director:

Gunnar Vikene

Fullplot:

Reidar is a resident at Solihègda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself. And it doesn't happen often. But maybe one is allowed to hope. That when the quarks in the ball are correctly aligned with the quarks in the wall that you throw it at, there won't be a collision. But a moment of harmony when everything is balanced. And that moment could be now.

Terribly Happy

Terribly Happy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-24

Languages:

Danish

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (4103 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Henrik Ruben Genz (screenplay)

Dunja Gry Jensen (screenplay)

Erling Jepsen (novel)

Fullplot:

Robert Hansen is a cop in Copenhagen who makes a mistake, is remanded for therapy, then assigned to a small town in South Jutland, where cows and problems disappear into the mud. He quickly learns that the town bully, Jèrgen, beats his wife, an outsider like Robert. He tries to get her to swear out a complaint against Jèrgen; she flirts with Robert. When someone dies and Robert knows the prime suspect is innocent, he halts vigilante justice and things get complicated. He wants to protect himself and the daughter of Jèrgen, and he wants to reconnect with his own daughter back home. Is rural justice his ticket back to Copenhagen? Is there any chance at happiness?

My Good Enemy

My Good Enemy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-06-03

Languages:

Danish

Countries:

Denmark

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (300 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Ussing

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Sèren Grinderslev Hansen (screenplay)

Thorstein Thomsen (novel)

Oliver Ussing (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sensitive 12-year-old Alf (Nikolaj Stèvring Hansen) is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the well-oiled gears of the school social order. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Alf discovers that turning the tables on his tormentors has its own dire consequences.

Rosewater

Rosewater

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (6554 Reviews)

Director:

Jon Stewart

Cast:

Writer:

Jon Stewart (screenplay)

Maziar Bahari (book)

Aimee Molloy (book)

Fullplot:

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.

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