85th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære)
2012
Denmark
Color
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
Plot: A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
86th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee The Hunt (Jagten)
2013
Denmark
Color
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Plot: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee A War (Krigen)
2015
Denmark
Color
Directed by Tobias Lindholm
Plot: Company commander Claus M. Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile, back in Denmark, Claus' wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.
83th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner In A Better World (Hævnen)
2010
Denmark
Color
Directed by Susanne Bier
Plot: 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.
60th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud)
1987
Denmark
Color
Directed by Gabriel Axel
Plot: 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 father, to serve to him and their church. After some years, a French woman refugee, Babette, arrives at their door, begs them to take her in, and commits herself to work for them as maid/housekeeper/cook. Sometime after their father dies, the sisters decide to hold a dinner to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Babette experiences unexpected good fortune and implores the sisters to allow her to take charge of the preparation of the meal. Although they are secretly concerned about what Babette, a Catholic and a foreigner, might do, the sisters allow her to go ahead. Babette then prepares the feast of a lifetime for the members of the tiny church and an important gentleman related to one of them. (Written by Ed Cannon)
61st Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren)
1988
Denmark
Color
Directed by Bille August
Plot: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden. (Written by Mattias Thuresson)
