Morten Arnfred (Directing)

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 Date:2022-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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 Date:2011-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:603

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 Date:2007-01-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:241

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 Date:2006-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Anna Pihl

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

Release Date:2006-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:15

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 Date:2005-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Defense

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

Release Date:2003-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

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 Date:2003-04-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:14

Hotellet

Release Date:2000-10-12

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

Beck

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

Release Date:1999-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:53

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 Date:1998-12-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:39

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 Date:1998-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:29

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 Date:1997-12-12

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1997-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:45

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 Date:1997-09-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:3

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 Date:1996-07-05

Department:Directing

Job:First Assistant Director

Vote Count:996

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 Date:1994-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:248

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 Date:1994-11-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:43

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 Date:1993-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1988-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Tjenstlig tavshed

Release Date:1984-04-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Land of Plenty

Directed by Morten Arnfred

Release Date:1983-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

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 Date:1979-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

The Heritage

Release Date:1978-12-26

Vote Count:4

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 Date:1978-03-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

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 Date:1977-02-26

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:14

Copper

Efter et sanatorieophold pga. voldelig opførsel under en arrestation, bliver kriminalassistent Karl Jørgensen overført til bedrageriafdelingen. Her opdager Karl en sag, hvor hans ekskone og hendes nye mand er indblandet. Da Karl begynder at undersøge sagen, bliver han stoppet af politimesteren. Karl slår sig sammen med journalisten John Bullnes. De kommer efterhånden tættere på sandheden, men stoppes da en mistænkt begår selvmord. Karl bliver suspenderet og Bullnes sendes til Berlin på en opgave. Karl tager herefter sagen i egen hånd og anholder byens borgmester og en stor entreprenør. © Copyright 1997-2012, Lone Hansen & Per Kjær Fredborg

Release Date:1976-10-29

Character:Egon, pressefotograf

Vote Count:4

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 Date:1976-02-16

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:15

That Brief Summer

Release Date:1976-01-23

Department:Crew

Job:Photoscience Manager

Vote Count:6

Bordellet

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

Release Date:1972-07-10

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:3

Toppen og bolden

Release Date:1969-10-13

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography