Jens Jørn Spottag
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Odder, Denmark
Birthday: December 13, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Idiots
Overview: A mix of home-video and documentary styles about 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-04-28
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We Shall Overcome
Overview: A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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B.O.Y. - Bruises of Yesterday
Overview: A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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The Land of Short Sentences
Overview: Marie's life gets turned upside down when the love of her life, Rasmus, takes on a teaching job at a local school in West Jutland, Denmark. Rather unwillingly, Marie joins Rasmus in moving their roots from Copenhagen to the windy town, Velling. While Rasmus is an immediate match to the local ways, it becomes a culture chock for Marie, who time and time again proves herself a misfit to the locals. However, as she gradually learns to listen more and talk less, she realizes that she might need Velling as much as Velling needs her – and her advice column for the local newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Overview: Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: iu
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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Take the Trash
Overview: Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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The Collector
Overview: A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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King's Game
Overview: Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car accident. A flurry of lies and media speculation surrounds the incident. Gradually, Ulrik unearths a ruthless conspiracy involving the incumbent prime minister.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-08-10
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Worlds Apart
Overview: 17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Familien Jul og nissehotellet
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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Before It Ends
Overview: When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Anja & Viktor - Flaming Love
Overview: Finally, Viktor becomes a fireman, while Anja still do not have the great success of the advertising agency. Fortunately, they have each other and everything is bright as Anja gets a great opportunity at the office while being pregnant. Then Viktor just figure out how to be soft father, understanding man and tough firefighter at once. But how hard can it be?
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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Election Night
Overview: On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Matador Musical
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-06-12
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Room 304
Overview: In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A hotel manager lost in despair. A wife abandoned by her husband. A receptionist with blood on his hands. People meet in the intimacy of hotel rooms, secrets are revealed and unexpected events merge into a dramatic tale of love and longing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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ID:A
Overview: A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-11-24
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This Life
Overview: The true story of the Fiils: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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The Kingdom II
Overview: Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Silk Road
Overview: Christine - a picture restorer - is terminally ill. While lying in her sick bed she delves into memories of her life and imagines the reunion with her late husband in the afterworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Carmen & Babyface
Overview: Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end when their parents acrimoniously separate.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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The Wild Swans
Overview: Elise, a princess, lives happily together with her eleven brothers. When her father, the king, marries again, he banishes Elisa. Hereafter his new wife turns Elise's eleven brothers into swans. But fortunately Elise finds her brothers, who are swans during daylight and human beings at night time. In a dream, the fairy Fatamorgana tells the story of the unhappy princess and how she rescues her brothers, the eleven princes.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Black Harvest
Overview: Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1993-11-05
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Knight of Fortune
Overview: The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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The Shooter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-02-27
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Hvor lyset kommer ind
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-04-09
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Ernst & the Light
Overview: The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Hour of the Lynx
Overview: Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Player
Overview: Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer (Bjerg), who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue (Christensen).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Maria's Men
Overview: Maria, an unconventional single mother, finds herself torn between two men, the successful shrink Fredrik and the 22-year-old paraglider Jonas. This all gets very complicated when her ex-husband Lasse returns, demanding full custody of the children.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Speed Walking
Overview: In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-08-28
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Better Times
Overview: After their mother's death, Oskar leans on brother Karl. But Karl's bakery faces court due to their father's debt. United, can they save it?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2023-12-21
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Krummerne - alt på spil
Overview: Mads "Crumb" Krumborg need a new bike so he can take part in an important race against a neighboring school. But it will be difficult to afford to buy a new printer, since the boy's father suddenly decides to terminate his job to invent a machine that according to him will change the world. At the same time a couple of crooks wind of his father's invention, and when the family Krum Borg's future is in problems, Crumb and his siblings to the occasion and save the day.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Hearts and Minds
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Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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The Black Madonna
Overview: The Black Madonna is a 2007 action comedy film written by Nikolaj Peyk and Lasse Spang Olsen and directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Terribly Happy
Overview: Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-07-15
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Little Soldier
Overview: A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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Elsker elsker ikke...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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1864: Brødre i krig
Overview: When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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Tick Tick Boom
Overview: Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her, but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-06-11
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One-Two-Three Now!
Overview: Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2016-05-04
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The Day Will Come
Overview: Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Nothing Ventured
Overview: This is the story of a red suitcase and how its dramatic journey, over the course of a day, forever changes a young woman's life. A Danish crime short film in 4 chapters, shot on 4 different analog film formats: 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 65mm.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-08-27
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The River
Overview: A stream of associative patterns is woven into the many ambiguous meanings of the river image. There are cracks to blind areas of loss and oblivion, world fires and floods - and to an oasis of dreams, fantasies and myths. Images materialize in the borderline between mind and world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-08-12
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Lykken er en underlig fisk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-09-08
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Held for Ransom
Overview: HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Med lukkede øjne
Overview: Tom is a renowned author who is about to suffocate from the shame of not having written a new, good book for over 20 years. But then he meets Renee, a young female admirer who gives him a renewed lust for life. Soon, they move together and settle on the country, away from both Tom's ex-wife and his demanding editor. But life in the countryside does not only offer tranquility for the couple in love. Some local people begin to harass the two with a threatening behavior, and their lives are soon turned into a nightmare ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Ravens
Overview: A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son taking over the farm and continue his legacy. The mother tries her best to keep the family together. Yet, with increasing horror, the son witnesses his father's psychotic behavior escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Afmagt
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-05-22
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The Major
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Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-11-26
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Høstfest
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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The Hidden Reality
Overview: Documentary about people with a new religious conscience, often originating in a disease, accident, or inexplicable occurrences. Concepts such as aura, chakra, karma, and reincarnation are central.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Lulu
Overview: Henrik and his younger lover Lulu go on an intimate trip to France. Unexpectedly, Henrik's son, David, arrives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Persona Non Grata
Overview: The film is a comedy drama about a young woman, Laura, who has distanced herself from her family in the country to settle in Copenhagen as an author and live the artistic bohemian life she has always dreamed of. When she, with much reluctance, goes back home for her brother’s wedding, she realises that he is about to marry her childhood enemy, Catrine. At the same time, Laura finds out that Catrine has in fact taken over her place in the family – and what if Laura wants it back … A film about how we, no matter how hard we try, cannot escape from our past, nor from our roots.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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Maybe Baby 2
Overview: When two couples learn that the fertility clinic didn't swap their eggs after all, they resolve to move in together and raise their kids collectively.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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Sommer i Tyrol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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Se dagens lys
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-07-09
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