Preben Lerdorff Rye Movies

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thorkild Roose

One day a strange man comes by and, seeing the lonely situation, invites himself in out of the rain. The woman is quietly hospitable and allows him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Birgitte Federspiel

At Vesterbros Torv in Copenhagen, Olsen has his newspaper kiosk. Here comes high and low in society: Homeless, a district attorney with pain in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ib Schønberg

In order to supplement the family income, Marius Bastrup rents his unused rooms to young women looking for a "discreet stay." The drama in the film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ib Schønberg

Niels Pind is a drunkard who is exploited by some of the town's residents. This comes to an end when his son, Jens, returns from America with a lot...

Genre: Family

Cast: Peter Malberg

Martin the vagabond is cheerful and musical like few others. Together with his new friend Anders, he sings his way to a meal and a place to sleep....

Genre: Family

Cast: Poul Reichhardt

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stellan Skarsgård

Susanne, a journalist, and Morten, a cellist, desperately want a child, but are unsuccessful. The situation leads to desperate acts, occasional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen-Lise Mynster

In the charming old Copenhagen neighborhood of Nyboder lives a group of quirky and distinctive characters. Among them is Albertine, who one day is...

Genre: Family

Cast: Peter Malberg

Paul a young, newlywed writer returns home from abroad with his sweet, young wife, Anna, whom he has met in the South of France. After their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bodil Kjer

A dangerous prison escaper, a young Jutland woman, and a bank clerk, who has just deprived his employer of some cash and is now headed abroad, meet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

A young woman of good family is driven into one of thieves and prostitutes and ends in suicide.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Poul Reumert

Danish farmer's son Rasmus Berg has been given a costly education in Copenhagen, and when he returns, he speaks Latin to his parents, and Latinises...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Niels Borksand

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jørgen Reenberg

TV drama about Christen Kold and his ideas for independent schools, by Bent Grasten and Kirsten Stenbæk. The story is set in the village of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ave Dané Mortensen

What would you do if you found 20,000 Danish kroner? Just like that? In a woman's purse? And what if no one was looking for it? In other words, if...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Malberg

Behind the red gates lies Dyrehaven with the green beeches and the famous zoo hill - the motley world of clowns. Professor Labardi is behind the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ib Schønberg

Sometime in the 1700s, Mikkel, a farmer from Jutland, wants to marry off his daughter Cecil to the wealthy Mads Egelund, but she is in love with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Broberg

The young sailor Morten returns home from his travels in the midst of the general strike of 1944, where he is confronted with the occupation. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy Rathnov

We follow two randomly selected destinies: two young girls whose data could have been taken straight from the police files, which contain so many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne-Marie Juhl

The film could just as well have been called "Where there is room in the heart, there is also room in the house," because it is actually about an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bodil Steen

After World War II, Europe lies in ruins and help is desperately needed everywhere. One person trying to make a difference is Dr. Jørgen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Poul Reichhardt

Tove (Bodil Kjer) is a modest and ordinary girl dreaming of winning the competition to become the next big movie star. She applies with a photo of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lau Lauritzen Jr.

A film director sends his director and two screenwriters out into the city to find out what a film should contain in order for the person in question...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Asbjørn Andersen

Psychological drama about a doctor who, after taking over a practice in a small community, becomes entangled in some of the local intrigues. This has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Kaysø

It's all about an anonymous little gray book originating from sexually advanced Paris. The book doesn't look like much, but shouldn't be judged by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Miehe-Renard

During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Kurt

After librarian Isolde attempts suicide, she leaves her politician husband for a younger student with a dark past. Isolde's former husband, however,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Boesen

The Danish Ingen tid til Kaertegn (Be Dear to Me) is heavily reliant on the appeal of its star, 8-year-old Eva Cohn. Our heroine is the neglected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Cohn

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stéphane Audran

Finn and Claus are best friends and both have a thing for their cute friend Eva. They both go to Copenhagen to study law but Claus would rather study...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jørn Jeppesen

A suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison.

Genre: War

Cast: Poul Reichhardt

The evil lawyer wants to take over the estate, and the evil farmer Esben helps him. But if the good farmer Svend Åge gets the red cow Rosa to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen

An unsuccessful animal impersonator wants publicity and feeds an overly eager journalist a story. The impersonator says he is going to Africa to roar...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kjeld Petersen

Jørgen von Hejden is very distinguished, but poor. He is something of a fortune hunter. He dreams of getting rich quick. But his skills are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Asbjørn Andersen

In the early 17th century, the tyrannical parish priest in Vejlby, Søren Jensen Quist, tries to force his daughter Maren into a lucrative...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Stegger

After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Henning Jensen

"The ship is loaded with" four angry young men, an original skipper, a fashion model, a radio station, a pirate flag and various musical instruments....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frits Helmuth

After a stay in a sanatorium due to violent behavior during an arrest, Detective Karl Jørgensen is transferred to the fraud department. Here,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jens Okking

Mogens Wieth is a songwriter who lives beyond his means. He is expecting to inherit a fortune from his Aunt Tut in Paris, who is old and filthy rich....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mogens Wieth

Else and her husband want a child but Else can't have one following an abortion performed before she got married. When Jytte, her friend, a salesgirl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jørgen Reenberg

Heavily influenced by the French stage sensation La Cage Aux Folles (which was filmed the very same year) a drag-queen comedy about a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frits Helmuth

In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's...

Genre: Family

Cast: Osvald Helmuth

Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ole Ernst

The princess of Illyria, who has rejected all the fine suitors who have proposed to her, begins to take an interest in a gypsy who wanders around...

Genre: Family

Cast: Dirch Passer

At Smedestræde 4 in Copenhagen, a young orphan girl named Elsebeth Jacobsen lives next door to Carl Thomsen, a somewhat dubious character....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olaf Ussing

An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kirsten Olesen

Paul is a calm and sympathetic lawyer who senses from the outset that his wife Anne has found herself a boyfriend. But he doesn't say...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frits Helmuth

Architect Poul Friis Henriksen falls in love with Norwegian Gerd. Unfortunately, she is already engaged to the doctor Arne Lorentzen, whose former...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eyvind Johan-Svendsen

Detective Peter Smeth and his young and charming wife, Louise, visit Magasin Heiberg, where, at his wife's express request, he is to buy himself a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ove Sprogøe

The story about Mr. Petit - a French charming marriage trickster and murderer of women.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sigfred Johansen

The film deals with a problem that affects us all. Whether you are rich or poor, old or young, you can be attacked by tuberculosis. In many, many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grethe Thordahl

As a young man, Martin married the daughter of the farm, removed his grandfather from the board of directors, and, with his energy and willingness to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Director Albrechtsen, who heads a large construction company, is a tough and ruthless businessman. He does not shy away from dubious transactions...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johannes Meyer

Depiction of the social democratic activist and politician Peter Sabroe, who in the time around the turn of the century went to fight for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mogens Wieth

In the year 1646, Denmark is at peace. Only recently have the last occupying troops left Jutland, leaving behind the sad traces of iron heels. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ib Schønberg

Tonnemann lives in one of the wooden sheds at the far end of Islands Brygge, close to Copenhagen's landfill site. But in 1928, he wants to leave this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Poul Reichhardt

Tove Andersen's problem ends in Christianshavn's moat, and this is where the film begins. The body has a noose around its neck. The homicide division...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Leo Paulsen hires Oscar, who lives south of the border, to drive a transit load to Sweden. Oscar is stopped by customs and arrested. Leo seeks out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Knud Rex

The film depicts a series of events that take place in a Copenhagen apartment building while the gate is closed, specifically between 10 p.m. and 7...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Pontoppidan

The young bank assistant Harald Løve is not particularly suited to sharing his name with the king of beasts. At least, courage and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louis Miehe-Renard

With "The Normans," painters Paul Gernes and Per Kirkeby wanted to make a film about the Viking Age, but not a traditional fiction film set in that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lisbet Dahl

Per Brask is a fisherman's son, a lively 16-year-old boy, still too young to go out to sea, even though, like other boys on the west coast, he has to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

In one of Copenhagen's suburbs stands a large house, a villa-like property. The house is owned by the widow Elise Thomsen, who lives on the ground...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jørgen Buckhøj

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Among the many guests at the Rebild festival is Andreas Andersen, a man in his early 30s. But he has not come to Denmark to attend the big festival....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Inger Lassen

Young Jonas Tofte is a waiter in the theater café, but he is more than that; he is also a poet and has written a comedy that is about to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Sigfred Johansen

A former army officer befriends an elderly, poorly, lady and encourages her to enjoy reminiscing about her youthful days.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Karen Lykkehus

About an American's reaction to the Dane's way of chatting about each other. Behind their backs. A rumor begins to flourish. A serious one. About...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Our bandit story takes place in the good old days, when strife, war, and lawlessness were the order of the day—a time quite unlike our own. In...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hans Kurt

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had a good working relationship with a...

Genre: History

Cast: Inger Stender

Three siblings see each other again after many years at their father's deathbed. The eldest, Arthur, a lawyer, has everything under control –...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Manufacturer Mads Juehl, who together with his partner Møller owns the pram factory "Fortuna", is a man with an appreciation for life's many...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johannes Meyer

On the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote...

Genre: War

Cast: Poul Reichhardt

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henrik Malberg

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michael Elphick

Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henning Jensen

The 74-year-old widow, Juliane Cramer, is a very wealthy lady with an incredible appetite for life. Despite her advanced age, she rushes from one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mathilde Nielsen

Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Udo Kier

Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Christensen) is a young man in search of love, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikolaj Christensen

Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick at his principal's behind and is committed to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henrik Koefoed

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye

Jørgen Leth's personal, pleasurable distillation of Danish literature covers seven poets alive at the time of production and twenty classical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Inger Christensen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Gamst

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunther Malzacher

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Cast: Preben Lerdorff Rye