Morten Arnfred (Director)

Copper

After a stay in a sanatorium due to violent behavior during an arrest, Detective Karl Jørgensen is transferred to the fraud department. Here, Karl discovers a case involving his ex-wife and her new husband. When Karl begins to investigate the case, he is stopped by the police chief. Karl teams up with journalist John Bullnes. They gradually get closer to the truth, but are stopped when a suspect commits suicide. Karl is suspended and Bullnes is sent to Berlin on an assignment. Karl then takes the case into his own hands and arrests the city's mayor and a major contractor.

Release Date1976-10-29

Charactersd Egon, pressefotograf

Vote Count4

The Bridge

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

Release Date2011-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count628

The Killing

The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

Release Date2007-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count250

Beck

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Release Date1999-12-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count55

Taxa

TAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.

Release Date1997-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count3

The Kingdom

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

Release Date1994-11-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count59

Anna Pihl

A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.

Release Date2006-02-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count30

Vote Count15

Defense

Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.

Release Date2003-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Hotellet

Release Date2000-10-12

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Breaking the Waves

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

Release Date1996-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count1038

The Kingdom

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.

Release Date1994-11-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobCo-Director

Vote Count251

The Olsen Gang's Last Trick

Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as always, is planning the big heist, the Olsen Gang is once again on the move.

Release Date1998-12-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count39

The Kingdom II

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.

Release Date1997-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobCo-Director

Vote Count46

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness

A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.

Release Date1998-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

Move Me

Morten Arnfred's warm comedy Lykkevej (Move Me) begins with Sara (Birthe Neumann) being left by her husband of a quarter century. Sara gets a job and moves into a new home on a street populated by eccentrics. Neighbor Robert (Jesper Lohmann) showers in his backyard, has been in mourning since his wife's death, and annoys his neighbors by keeping junk on his front yard. Sara and Robert tentatively strike up a relationship, while a couple on the street, Sus and Bo (Ditte Grbl and Asger Reher), have their own marriage issues to deal with. Move Me was screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival.

Release Date2003-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Could We Maybe

Kim, an ordinary 15-year-old given mostly to himself, is living with an unmarried mother in a small apartment. One day, he falls hostage in a bank robbery along with an unfamiliar girl falls, but after making ​​friends with the leader of the robbers, Kim and his new friend run away from them. Settling for a while in an empty house, teenagers fall in love.

Release Date1976-02-16

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count15

The Russian Singer

When a secretary at the Danish embassy in Russia dies in suspicious circumstances, the local police seem determined to close the case. But diplomat Jack Anderson, who has been brought in to observe, falls for a beautiful singer with ties to the murder and begins his own investigation.

Release Date1993-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Tjenstlig tavshed

When parliamentary officer Bertelsen finds the body of a man in a light box at Christiansborg one day, he is immediately given time off with official silence, while a murder investigation is kept secret from the press. The dead man appears to be an international arms dealer, and the government has a problem explaining itself.

Release Date1984-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Me and Charly

Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.

Release Date1978-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

The Big Day

Anne has started a wedding planning biz with happily flaming designer Lars and grumpy accountant Jesper. Hoping to make a big public splash, they land upcoming event that will marry TV chat hosts Anders and Signe. Instant attraction between Anne and Anders is complicated even further by her planned nuptials with boring b.f. Simon.

Release Date2005-03-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Heaven and Hell

Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.

Release Date1988-10-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Land of Plenty

Knud is a farmer and dreams of running the farm together with his wife. He has both ideas and drive, but his finances are not the best.

Release Date1983-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Johnny Larsen

From a working class coming-of-age novel, Morten Arnfred fashioned his feature film to recapture the feel, the sting, the pain, but also the spirit of solidarity of the 1950s in the metropolitan city of Copenhagen: at the center, young Johnny, helpless, hapless, happy, unhappy, going through the motions of growing up. Bodil awards: Best Film and Best Actor (Allan Olsen).

Release Date1979-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Boys

A boy, as seen through three ages and episodes of his life: as a small boy having a boy cousin as his house guest, as a high-school boy in abject love, and as a young stud trying to bed down a nurse.

Release Date1977-02-26

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count14

That Brief Summer

Kirsten gets divorced in her early 40s and moves with her son to her parents' home in Hjørring. Here she falls in love with a German officer, without considering the social ostracism and contempt she exposes herself to. Meanwhile, the tide of war is slowly turning, and German victory is no longer as certain as it once was.

Release Date1976-01-23

DepartmentCrew

JobPhotoscience Manager

Vote Count6

Letters from Denmark

10 short documentaries which form a presentation of Denmark as part of a dialogue project in the wake of the Muhammed drawings. 10 reputable Danish filmmakers are invited to create 10 presentations of Denmark, in collaboration with second-generation immigrants with roots in the Middle East. Each film is shaped as this person's personal application to a relative or acquaintance in the Middle East. The assignment is: Give an important statement about your Denmark, with the intention of challenging and differentiating the image your relative or acquaintance has of Denmark. The strength of the films is in insight and reflection, rather than the dramatic news approach and is communicated through the personal approach to the subject. The 10 films are joined together into one film (duration 58:30 mins), and this film will be a quick and intense contribution to the debate following the publication of the Muhammed drawings.

Release Date2006-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Toppen og bolden

Release Date1969-10-13

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

The Meatlump

A grotesque, raw and vulnerable fusion of three bodies. Explores our intense urge for intimacy and touch and the relationship between our loving and destructive impulses.

Release Date2022-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

White man's seed

When the Indians occupied Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 as a protest against the abuses of the white Americans, the Solvognen street theater organized an event in the center of Copenhagen: "Indians" were driven by "cavalrymen" towards Rådhuspladsen, where the massacre was carried out, while "Nixon" paid tribute to American democracy and a girl guard marched triumphantly over the polling station. Seven cinematographers covered this piece of street theatre.

Release Date1975-02-05

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Bordellet

A young country girl moves to Copenhagen for adventure and ends up working in a brothel.

Release Date1972-07-10

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count3

The Heritage

Anders Refn's film adaptation of Gustav Wied's novel stars Jens Okking and Helle Hertz in the leading roles as Baron Helmuth and his wife Alvilda. The baron is deeply enamored with his wife, but she is repelled by his blunt and coarse nature and is drawn to her cousin, who fulfills her desire for passionate romance.

Release Date1978-12-26

Vote Count4

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson

Release Date1997-12-12

Vote Count4