Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Also Known As: 니콜라이 코스터-왈도, Lucas Desange, 尼古拉·科斯特-瓦尔道, ნიკოლაი კოსტერ-ვალდაუ, 尼可拉·科斯特-瓦爾道, نیکولای کاستر-والدو
Biography: Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and Scandinavia, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S, his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rudkobing, Denmark
Birthday: July 27, 1970
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Gender: Male
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Black Hawk Down
Overview: When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Genres: Action War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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Enigma
Overview: The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Overview: Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-28
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The Good Cop
Overview: A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-04-16
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Stealing Rembrandt
Overview: 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?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Virtue
Overview: 1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to rescue a village woman who vanished in a haunted forest.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Nightwatch
Overview: Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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Shadow of the Sword
Overview: Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-12
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Wimbledon
Overview: British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Wildside
Overview: Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-05-07
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Wonderful and Loved by All
Overview: Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order to jump-start her life she decides to lie a bit on her next job application with unexpected consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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Angel of the Night
Overview: Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which describes the life of a vampire. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the vampire was Rebecca's great grandfather, Rico.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-12-04
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The Bouncer
Overview: Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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The Baker
Overview: Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Virtuality
Overview: Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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Triple Dare
Overview: Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Overview: Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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Foreign Fields
Overview: Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2000-03-23
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Blackthorn
Overview: In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-01
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Overview: Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Headhunters
Overview: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2011-08-26
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At World's End
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Oblivion
Overview: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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The Flash
Overview: When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-13
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Misery Harbour
Overview: A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Himmerland
Overview: An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-07-31
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Mama
Overview: Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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Gods of Egypt
Overview: A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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The Other Woman
Overview: After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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Filthy Gorgeous
Overview: This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the lives of male and female employees, as well as their chic clients, at New York City's most exclusive and expensive escort service.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-06
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A Thousand Times Good Night
Overview: On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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A Second Chance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-09-08
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Overview: Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2023-12-14
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Overview: The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Shot Caller
Overview: A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Overview: After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction History Mystery
Original Language: en
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
Overview: Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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Bent
Overview: Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-26
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Antenneforeningen
Overview: Director: Søren Fauli Drama Also known as: The Cable Club
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1999-03-25
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Klown Forever
Overview: Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Small Crimes
Overview: A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Firewall
Overview: State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-08
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3 Things
Overview: Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbery he and his partners have been jailed for.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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My Fathers' Daughter
Overview: Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: se
Release Date: 2025-04-11
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Domino
Overview: Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
Overview: HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in the thousands of years before Game of Thrones' story begins.
Genres: Animation Fantasy War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-12
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Exit Plan
Overview: Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Requiem
Overview: A short film about the art of killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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Slaget på tasken
Overview: A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and take photographs to prove that Christian and Louise live illegally. The young people may be thrown out of their homes - but might find something else along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1993-10-18
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Kingdom of Heaven
Overview: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Overview: For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week after the series 8 finale, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH delves deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the very real studios, fields and car-parks of Northern Ireland. Made with unprecedented access, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH is an up-close and personal portrait from the trenches of production, following the crew and the cast as they contend with extreme weather, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers. Much more than a “making of” documentary, this is a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what it means to create a world – and then have to say goodbye to it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-26
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The Silencing
Overview: A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-18
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The Day We Died
Overview: Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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Chicken/Egg
Overview: Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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A Taste of Hunger
Overview: Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they gambled everything to win. One day Carsten receives a letter saying that his wife loves somebody else. But who sent the letter and why? In their continuous passion and pursuit for the ultimate recognition, they forget that the meals of life are best enjoyed together.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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God Is a Bullet
Overview: Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-22
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Against the Ice
Overview: In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-10
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