Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen

Country: Denmark

Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Director), 39 (Writer)

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    Brothers
    The lives of two very different brothers become simultaneously intertwined and thrust apart in this intense and powerful drama. (IFC Films)
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    Flickering Lights
    Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, starting a new life, renovating the house and forming it into a restaurant. But they can't avoid being caught up by their past. (imdb)
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    The Green Butchers
    This comedy about two friends who start their own butcher shop combines the trite, the morbid and the amusing. (Newmarket Films)
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    Mifune
    Kresten has moved from his parents farm on a small Danish island to Copenhagen in order to pursue his working career. When his father dies he has to move back to the farm, where nothing much has happened since he left. He places an add in the local newspaper to get help running the farm and taking care of his retarded brother. The whore Liva, who is running away from annoying telephone calls, answers it. But running away from your past isn't easy. (imdb)
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    Open Hearts
    Cecilie is devastated when her fiance Joachim is seriously injured in a car accident and is paralysed from the waist down. She begins an affair with Niels, a doctor at the hospital where Joachim is being treated. Their relationship is further complicated by the fact that the doctor's wife Marie was the driver that caused the accident in the first place. (imdb)
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    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold... (imdb)
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    In China They Eat Dogs
    Arvid is a regular bank clerk, whose life changes radically when he knocks out the bank robber Franz with his squash racket... (imdb)
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    Mørke
    The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night. (imdb)
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    After the Wedding
    Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, After the Wedding is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness. (IFC Films)
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    Adam\
    A wickedly dark comedy about a middle-aged neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church.
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    Red Road
    Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
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    Vet hard
    Bennie, a snack bar owner, is behind bars for five years after a failed attempt to rob a jeweller's. When he gets out he is unpleasantly surprised by the news that his foster father Mast is dying. And then the real son of Mast turns up: Koen, a nutcase womanizer, who falls in love with the suicidal Katia... (imdb)
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    Old Men in New Cars
    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... (imdb)
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    Rembrandt
    Four small-time criminals led by the seasoned, but realistic Mick, unite in a plot to steal a painting from a museum for a businessman who has emotional ties to it. By accident they steal the wrong painting and find themselves with an original Rembrandt worth millions. They eye a getaway from their everyday worries and debts, but instead their problems are only multiplied. (imdb)
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    Sprængfarlig bombe
    Tony (Ulrich Thomsen) is angry and wants his money back after watching world-famous director, Claus Volter's (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) new film. Tony just got out of prison for violent behavior. (imdb)
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    Hvid nat
    A psychological drama about Ulrich, a workaholic whose life takes a drastic turn when he is involved in a fatal accident. As his guilt grows, his life slowly crumbles around him. Next, an unpleasant event from his past rears its unforgiving head. (imdb)
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    The Duchess
    A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. (imdb)
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    Solkongen
    While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look. (imdb)
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    Den du frygter
    42-year-old Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted. (imdb)
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    Valgaften
    Valgaften (1998) - Short Film
    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. (imdb)
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    At World\
    Adrian, Beate and Severin go on an adventure in the jungle.
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    Brothers
    A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
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    The New Tenants
    The New Tenants (2009) - Short Film
    Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever, their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic. (imdb)
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    Ernst & lyset
    Ernst & lyset (1996) - Short Film
    Jesus has been resurrected. Unfortunately, he first encounters a salesman on his home.
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    Skagerrak
    In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. (imdb)
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    In a Better World
    The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait. (imdb)
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    Grev Axel
    "Count Axel" is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements of contemporary humour and satire. One should conceive "Count Axel" as a scandinavian version of the humour that you will find in works like "Black Adder" and "Life of Brian". A humorous universe that takes off in the big classical epos of our past. (imdb)
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    Til døden os skiller
    Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente is on the verge of a breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him into group therapy where an unlikely friendship emerges between Jan and the two mechanics Rudy and Alf. Had Jan only known, that Alf loved Opera, and had Bente known what Rudy and Alf were up to, they would never have let them into their home. (imdb)
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    Wolfgang
    Wolfgang (1997) - Short Film
    The middle-aged conductor Wolfgang is tired and so he should be. His mother is in the front row of the concert hall, the only listener. On top of that one of the musicians refuses to play. Wolfgang tries his very best to make things work, in vain it seems, but even middle-aged men have to look for happiness in the autumn of life. But as always, mother gets the last word. (imdb)
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    Love Is All You Need
    Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm and Paprika Steen star in this sparkling romantic comedy from Susanne Bier, about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa. (tiff.net)
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    Alle for to
    Brothers Timo and Ralf succeed with their heist and persuades their old friend to go with them on a quest to win back their money from a greedy bank excecutive.
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    The Salvation
    In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone. (imdb)
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    A Second Chance
    A veteran police officer with a wife and new baby makes a fateful decision when he is brought back into contact with a pair of junkie parents. (TIFF)
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    Men & Chicken
    Men and Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers, who by getting to know their unknown family also discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives. (imdb)
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    Skammerens datter
    The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people, making them feel ashamed of themselves. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, Dina's mother is lured to Dunark under false pretenses to make him confess. Dina and her family are thrown into the adventure of a lifetime in order to put the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Dunark on the Throne. (imdb)
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    The Dark Tower
    The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
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    Ser du månen, Daniel
    The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.
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    Riders of Justice
    Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
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    Bastarden
    The story of Ludvig Kahlen who pursued his lifelong dream: To make the heath bring him wealth and honor.
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