Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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)

In nazi-occupied Denmark, a group of school-mates form a gang devoted to resistance against the occupying forces, but they don't go any further than putting up posters and steeling German soldiers' helmets. But then Otto Hvidmann joins the group, and he knows how to get hold of guns. Soon the game turns deadly serious. (imdb)

In this political thriller, a young woman is found drowned on a winter night by the sea. The dead woman's brother, Thomas, discovers that her death is connected to their father, now deceased, and his work in military intelligence. As Thomas digs deeper into the case his family is brought into sudden danger. (imdb)

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes. (imdb)

Karen, Nana, Richard and Lasse takes one day a huge pile of money buried in a cake tin. The treasure appears to originate from a robbery, and the thief would very much like their prey back. (scope.dk)

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole. (imdb)

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)

Emma is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. (imdb)

In the eighth grade, a class of children go on a trip to Sweden. Cue crushes and intrígue.

A priest is approached by scientist 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. (Danish Film Institute)

The cold power of money and the criminal machinations of capitalists: speculators and finance moguls unscrupulously do their mischief, enriching themselves and provoking the next economic tsunami. It is the story of economic crime: speculators, swindlers and corporate princes and the crimes they commit in the pursuit of wealth. (berlinale.de)

The film that marked Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's move from kiddie and youth movies to mainstream melodrama: John and René are in their twenties, close friends but different enough for René to be nicknamed Thunderbird, while John remains just plain John. John feels irresistibly drawn into Thunderbird's orbit, but René isn't all flash. He actually longs to share John's plainness and quiet calm. (dfi.dk)

The stubborn pig farmer Ernst and his wife Louise celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in the local assembly hall. During the long and festive party, truths emerge and the family is put to the ultimate test.