10 Danish Movies You Need To Watch

The theme of this list is the prolific Danish cinema. Danish cinema ended up suffering a major leap in quality in the last half of the 1990s, with the advent of the movement entitled ‘Dogma 95’, which had a series of symbolic rules and regulations on how a film should be made in the country. leading names, none other than Thomas Vinterberg and Lars Von Trier. However, the country’s cinema was definitely consolidating itself as a major power of the seventh art a decade later, with a large load of films, directors and talent actors in a pattern of regularity. The films below seek to bring a good variety of the best about the cinema in Denmark. Let’s go to the list!

 

10º – Pusher (Nicolas Winding Refn, 1996)Concentrated in the middle of the local mafia, the plot develops through the debt of a young man and the intermittent attempt to pay it, regardless of the forms found. Serving as a starting point for a trilogy, ‘Pusher’ presents a frenzied atmosphere to bring the necessary dynamism to the film.

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9º – The Idiots (Lars von Trier, 1998)A group of people breaks with the moral and ethical ties of local society, developing a new way of governing their steps on the earth, based on the instinctive side of their personalities. Controversial, “The Idiots” is a film of mediocre quality, filmed in a primitive way, without aesthetic care in the execution of the scenes, and with a script a little presumptuous. However, the concepts addressed and the central idea of ​​the work make the experience of watching it positive and necessary to understand the evolution of Danish cinema and filmmaker Lars Von Trier (film director).

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