Dancer In The Dark
(2000) [MA]

Selma has emigrated with her son from east Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life...  More

Babette's Feast
(1987) [G]

In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself. Although they each are presented with a real opportunity to leave the village, the sisters choose to stay with their...  More

Breaking The Waves
(1996) [R]

Lars Von Trier's challenging Breaking The Waves is set in the early 1970s. A naive young girl, Bess (Emily Watson), living in a small community on the north west of Scotland, falls in love with oil-rig worker and man-of-the-world Jan (Stellan Skarsgard). Despite local opposition they marry and...  More

Smilla's Feeling For Snow (Smilla's Sense Of Snow)
(1997) [M]

A refreshingly different thriller based on the international bestseller by Peter Hoeg. Julia Ormond, star of 'Sabrina' and 'Legends Of The Fall', and Gabriel Byrne, from 'The Usual Suspects', join forces to solve a highly unusual and eerie puzzle... A young boy's mysterious death takes reclusive...  More

The Idiots
(1998) [R]

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally...  More

Italian For Beginners
(2001) [M]

A young minister, a widower, is temporarily assigned to a church whose suspended pastor drove parishioners away; he stays at a hotel where he meets Jørgen, who's alone approaching middle age. Jørgen's friend Finn, a temperamental restaurant manager, may be about to be fired. Finn's assistant is...  More

The Five Obstructions
(2003) [M]

Danish auteur Lars von Trier directs the documentary-of-sorts The Five Obstructions (De Fem Bensp?nd). In 2001, von Trier convinces veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to create five remakes of his 1967 short The Perfect Human. Calling himself the Obstructor, von Trier orders Leth to make his films in...  More

The Kieslowski Collection, Disc 5 : I'm So So
(1995) [M]

This Danish documentary surveys the life of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. He is best known for his Three Colors Trilogy that is comprised of the films Blue, White and Red. In conversations filmed just a few months before his death, documentary director Krzysztof Wierzbicki attempts to...  More

Minor Mishaps
(2002) [M]

The members of a Danish family are thrown into many a crisis by the death of the mother. John, the deceased's widower, is something of a joker; an old charmer who allowed his wife to spoil him for 46 long years and who never really had to take on responsibility for his family. Eva, the oldest...  More

The Kingdom (Riget): Series 1 (2 disc set)
(1994) [R]

Lars von Trier's bizarre gothic miniseries takes place in Copenhagen's Kingdom Hospital, a gleaming edifice to science built on an ancient tribal burial ground. After elderly patient Mrs Drusse is visited by the ghost of a young girl, all manner of supernatural phenomena start to become noticed....  More