Pilou Asbæk
Also Known As: Pilou Asbaek, Johan Philip Asbæk, Johan Philip Pilou Asbæk, 요한 필리프 아스베크, پیلو اسبک
Biography: Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk (born 2 March 1982) is a Danish actor. He is best known for his roles as Euron Greyjoy on HBO's Game of Thrones, Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur (2016), Bouchard in The Great Wall (2016), Batou in Ghost in the Shell (2017), Captain Wafner in Overlord (2018), Cyrus in Samaritan(2022), Gage in Uncharted (2022), and a troubled spin doctor Kasper Juul in the Danish TV political drama Borgen. He was among the recipients of the Shooting Stars Award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. On 10 May he was co-host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, with Lise Rønne and Nikolaj Koppel. Some critics commented adversely on the obscure jokes shared by the presenters throughout the televised show.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Birthday: March 02, 1982
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Gender: Male
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Salem's Lot
Overview: Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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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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Crying for Love
Overview: Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real chance of happiness. Mette has left her deeply religious family, finding it too hard to bear that they have accepted her fate while she hasn't. And Stephanie has brutally rejected her boyfriend in fear of being rejected herself. Although their stories are very different, the three girls are brought together in their search for love and companionship. Based on the Oscar nominated short fiction »At Night«
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-08-01
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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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R
Overview: The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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Monster Busters
Overview: The 12-year-old Oliver discovers that his grandfather used to be a monster hunter and is keeping a shadow monster locked up in his secret cellar. When the shadow monster accidentally escapes, Oliver and his younger brother Lasse have to follow their grandfather's instructions and enlist their friends to catch the monster and bring it back - before it is too late! »Monster Busters« is based on an idea of the universe in the children's book series by Jacob Weinreich.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Uncharted
Overview: A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-10
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A Family
Overview: Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-02-24
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A Hijacking
Overview: Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-02-29
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Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Overview: Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-08-29
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Venus
Overview: An erotic comedy in claymation.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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The Absent One
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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Lucy
Overview: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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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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The A-Z of Eurovision
Overview: Rylan Clark-Neal narrates a guide to all things Eurovision and takes a sideways look at the greatest singing contest on the planet. The A-Z of Eurovision features all the disasters, the costume changes and memorable musical moments from 65 years of Eurovision.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-16
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April 9th
Overview: In the early morning of April 9, 1940, the Danish army is alerted: the Germans have crossed the border.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Ben-Hur
Overview: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Genres: Action History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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Silent Heart
Overview: The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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A War
Overview: Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Ghost in the Shell
Overview: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-29
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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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Natural Disorder
Overview: Jacob Nossell (24) is intelligent, but hardly fits the picture of a dream child: he suffers from a paralysis of the brain, a congenital physical handicap. It affects not only his powers of speech, but also causes cramps and stiffness. When he speaks, his words cluster together, and when he walks it is with difficulty. With a normal intelligence in a weakened body Jacob is the embodiment of the problem ‘what is normality’: he is too much of an invalid to be fully accepted by society and too ordinary for him to be able to accept his own fate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-11-18
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Woodshock
Overview: Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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The Whistleblower
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-13
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Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell
Overview: An in depth look behind the scenes at the making of the live action Ghost In The Shell. Director Rupert Sanders, along with the cast and crew, take you from adapting the script and casting, production design and filming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-25
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The Great Wall
Overview: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-16
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Bora Bora
Overview: Mia, 15, is at odds with everyone. School is hell and her mother is always on her back. Mia is only at peace when she is running - something she is good at. On a downtown shopping street she meets Zack, 16, who runs with a gang of kids who want to become parent independent and live as pickpockets. Mia joins them, but finds the pressure difficult. Moreover, the police have their eye on them. Mia has a choice, to keep ignoring her problems or face up to them.
Genres: Music Family Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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The Guardian Angel
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting under some kind of trance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-29
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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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Hidden Strike
Overview: Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-06
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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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Run Sweetheart Run
Overview: A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-27
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Samaritan
Overview: Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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Comeback
Overview: An elderly theater director returns to Copenhagen in order to reconnect with his estranged son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-04-04
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Outside the Wire
Overview: In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-15
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I.S.S.
Overview: Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Overview: Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Arthur (Aquaman) forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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Overlord
Overview: France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Genres: Horror War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Overview: Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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