Best movies on Prime Video (Danemark) : our Top 20

2025 · Joachim Trier

Sisters Nora and Agnes reconnect with their long-estranged father, the magnetic Gustav — a once-celebrated director who offers Nora, a devoted stage actress, a part in the comeback film he’s determined to make. When she turns him down, Nora soon learns he has given the role to an ambitious young Hollywood star.

With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Andreas Stoltenberg Granerud, Øyvind Hesjedal Loven and Anders Danielsen Lie

2008 · Nicolas Winding Refn

Un jeune homme de 19 ans, Michael Peterson, rêve de célébrité et décide de braquer un bureau de poste avec un fusil qu'il a lui-même modifié. Malgré son arrestation rapide, il est condamné à 7 ans de prison. Après 34 ans derrière les barreaux, Charles Bronson, le nouveau nom qu'il s'est donné, est devenu le détenu le plus dangereux d'Angleterre, passant la plupart de son temps en isolement cellulaire.

With Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Kelly Adams, Katy Barker, Amanda Burton and Andrew Forbes

2000 · Lars von Trier

Selma, a Czech émigré facing the loss of her sight, scrambles to support herself and her young son, who has inherited the same degenerative condition and will need an expensive operation to avoid the same fate. Crushed by mounting bills and the strain of making ends meet, she finds refuge in daydreams—turning everyday noises into rhythms and staging small, imagined musical numbers that lift her through the darkest moments.

With Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour and Vladica Kostic

2020 · Thomas Vinterberg

Four burned-out high school teachers, each stalled in their careers and personal lives, embark on a risky experiment: staying perpetually buzzed to see if a constant low-level intoxication will sharpen their confidence and happiness. At first the scheme injects spontaneity and camaraderie into their days, but the line between relief and dependence quickly blurs, unraveling relationships, testing loyalties, and forcing them to confront what improvement really requires.

With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Susse Wold and Helene Reingaard Neumann

2011 · Morten Tyldum

A high-flying executive recruiter plunges into a perilous game of deception and danger to recover a coveted masterpiece guarded by a retired soldier of fortune.

With Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Valentina Alexeeva and Reidar Sørensen

2011 · Ron Fricke

Captured on 70mm over nearly five years and filmed across twenty-five countries on five continents, Samsara presents a visual odyssey through consecrated sites, regions marked by catastrophe, vast industrial landscapes, and the planet’s most awe-inspiring natural scenes.

With Ni Made Megahadi Pratiwi, Puti Sri Candra Dewi, Putu Dinda Pratika, Marcos Luna, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Olivier De Sagazan and Ladyboys of Cascade Bar

2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer

Former leaders of Indonesian death squads stage reenactments of their mass killings, each shot in the stylistic language of a different film genre. As these choreographed scenes unfold, the boundary between lived violence and theatrical performance collapses, turning atrocity into spectacle. The film examines the enduring wounds of Indonesia’s 1965–66 anti-communist purge and probes the moral and psychological landscape of those who carried out the killings, raising unsettling questions about memory, complicity and the ways societies narrate and normalize violence.

With Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno, Safit Pardede and Jusuf Kalla

2022 · Ruben Östlund

Overlooked and desperate to be heard, a teenage girl makes a Christmas wish for someone to finally listen — then wakes up to discover she can only speak the blunt, unfiltered truth, unleashing awkward confessions and upheaval within her family.

With Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić, Vicki Berlin, Dolly de Leon and Henrik Dorsin

2025 · Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt

In an enchanted kingdom where appearance dictates standing and rivalry is fierce, Elvira strives to outshine her impossibly beautiful stepsister and plunges into bold, often reckless schemes to capture the prince’s affection.

With Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger and Ralph Carlsson

2025 · Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt

In an enchanted kingdom where looks are power and beauty is a ruthless currency, Elvira fights to outshine her breathtaking stepsister and will stop at nothing to win the prince’s affection.

With Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger and Ralph Carlsson

1913 · August Blom

A weary biologist named Friedrich von Kammacher, battered by setbacks in both his career and his private life, decides to leave everything behind and travel abroad in search of renewed purpose and joy. Along the way, his travels throw him together with two very different women, and one of them will prove pivotal in shaping the course of his future.

With Olaf Fønss, Frederik Jacobsen, Carl Lauritzen, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Charles Unthan and Alma Hinding

2016 · Hans Petter Moland

In 2016, along Denmark’s coast, a faded message recovered from a bottle that had crossed the ocean propels Department Q into a chilling investigation. As they unravel the cryptic text, the team is drawn back to a haunting case from 2008. Simultaneously, fresh, devastating events erupt that push the investigators to their limits and compel them to confront their faith and deepest convictions.

With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jacob Ulrik Lohmann, Amanda Collin, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Jakob Oftebro

2017 · Joachim Trier

A college student is suddenly struck by violent, uncontrollable seizures and soon realizes those terrifying episodes are the first signs of a nascent, inexplicable power awakening within her.

With Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Grethe Eltervåg, Marte Magnusdotter Solem and Anders Mossling

1998 · Thomas Vinterberg

At a lavish gathering for a powerful entrepreneur’s sixtieth birthday, his family reunites—only for the eldest son’s toast to unveil a buried truth that shatters the evening, turning celebration into a tense night of accusations, loyalty tests, and stubborn denials.

With Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm and Helle Dolleris

2014 · Esben Toft Jacobsen

A novelist renowned for spinning sweeping romantic adventures lives a quiet, uneventful existence—until a mysterious package changes everything. Inside she discovers the ransom demanded for her kidnapped sister, and she rushes to South America to deliver it. But after boarding the wrong bus she finds herself hopelessly stranded deep in the jungle.

With Edvin Ryding, Tuva Novotny, Gustaf Hammarsten, Lennart Jähkel, Sissela Kyle, Leif Andrée and Pelle Falk Krusbæk

2022 · Christian Tafdrup

A Danish couple and their children travel to the Netherlands to return a visit to the family they met on holiday, expecting a calm, friendly weekend. Instead, small awkward moments and mounting tensions peel back polite facades, forcing the visitors to navigate growing rudeness and uncomfortable truths while trying to keep decorum.

With Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Liva Forsberg, Marius Damslev and Hichem Yacoubi

2012 · Thomas Vinterberg

A dozen strangers come to in a lonely clearing, with no clue how they got there or where they are. Behind a veil of dark internet lore, a group of wealthy predators has gathered at a remote estate to stalk humans for amusement. But when one captive fights back and flips the script, the hunters find themselves becoming the prey.

With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing and Lars Ranthe

2021 · Martin Zandvliet

A destitute Romani boy stopped at the Danish border is found carrying the passport of a missing government official. Inspector Carl Mørck and his cold-case team in Department Q must untangle the boy’s story to discover how he is linked to the disappearance.

With Ulrich Thomsen, Zaki Youssef, Sofie Torp, Anders Matthesen, Luboš Oláh, Henrik Noël Olesen and Thomas W. Gabrielsson

2014 · Kief Davidson

A sweeping documentary that traces the global phenomenon of LEGO, exploring how simple interlocking bricks have sparked creativity across generations, fostered vibrant fan communities, influenced art, design and education, and become a lasting cultural and commercial icon.

With Jason Bateman and Jamie Berard

1986 · Pino Van Lamsweerde

A tiny, defiant British hamlet remains the lone refuge against Roman occupation, so two Gaulish heroes answer its plea for aid. Battling thick mists, relentless rain, tepid ale and minty boiled boar, they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus’s troops staggering and beaten. But when a frantic scramble erupts over a missing barrel of the druid’s secret-strength potion, the chase spirals out of control and ends with everyone plunged into the sea.

With Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Graham Bushnell, Pierre Mondy, Maurice Risch, Roger Lumont and Nicolas Silberg