Jesper W. Nielsen (Director)

Off the Record

A team of journalists investigates a story uncovering injustice and power abuse, despite facing personal and professional challenges.

Release Date: 2024-07-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 5

Max Anger

Max Anger is a former member of the Swedish military who finally found love with his Russian colleague Pashie. When Pashie suddenly goes missing in St Petersburg, Max sets off on a mission to find her but soon finds himself on a deadly hunt leading him to a terrifying discovery that could potentially change the entire world order.

Release Date: 2021-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 5

The Exception

When four female colleagues receive an email death threat each, they are convinced the sender is a war criminal, whom they have exposed. But what if the threats come from within their own office at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide?

Release Date: 2020-07-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 14

Darkness: Those Who Kill

Investigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.

Release Date: 2019-03-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 73

Greyzone

When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.

Release Date: 2018-02-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 28

Kat & Alfie: Redwater

Kathleen and Alfie Moon arrive in the sleepy Irish village of Redwater on a quest to find Kathleen's long-lost son Luke, who was given up for adoption to an Irish family 32 years ago. EastEnders spin-off series.

Release Date: 2017-05-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

The Day Will Come

In 1967, two brothers from Copenhagen, Denmark, wind up in an orphanage, where the headmaster's cruel tyranny slowly provokes the kids to push back.

Release Date: 2017-03-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 2

The Day Will Come

Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.

Release Date: 2016-04-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 73

Seaside Hotel

At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf.

Release Date: 2013-12-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 64

Vote Count: 30

Dicte

Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.

Release Date: 2013-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 42

Lykke

Release Date: 2011-01-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 4

Borgen

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

Release Date: 2010-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 224

Pagten

Pagten is a Danish television series.

Release Date: 2009-12-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 4

Through a Glass, Darkly

A moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept death and understands how wonderful life really is. The script is based on the novel by Jostein Gaarder.

Release Date: 2008-10-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 11

Sommer

Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

Release Date: 2008-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 5

Doxa

Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she finds clipped obituaries of his colleagues, who all seem to have died prematurely. Sanna crosses one border after another, approaching a total collapse of her obsession with truth. In the end, she takes the law into her own hands.

Release Date: 2005-09-16

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 1

Big Plans!

BIG PLANS follows the petty and irresponsible crook Willy, who has a massive fondness for music. Though he's 38 years of age he will not give up his lifelong dream of becoming a famous musician. When he gets paroled he therefore decides to revive his old band to prove to his eight-year-old son, Mikkel, that he isn't the failure everyone thinks he is.

Release Date: 2005-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 12

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.

Release Date: 2004-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 11

The Bouncer

Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness.

Release Date: 2003-08-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Okay

Nete is a tough woman of 37 who runs her job, husband, and teenage daughter with a firm and efficient hand. Her father suddenly becomes ill. Seriously ill. Nete forces a doctor to tell her how much time he has left. 3 weeks, hardly any longer. Nete's father becomes bitter and introvert, but Nete insists that he come to live with her and her family the few weeks he has left. "You should die with your family." Nete's father moves in and puts even more strain on Nete's family and everyday life. They all try to cope with the situation - he has only three weeks left, and you don't argue with a dying man. Three weeks pass by. A month. Nete's father does not die, his appetite comes back, the doctors begin to have doubts as to the prognosis, and Nete has a problem.

Release Date: 2002-03-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 19

Skorstensspöket och andra läskigheter

An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.

Release Date: 1999-03-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Kvinnan i det låsta rummet

Axel is unemployed and works illegally in an apartment. The young Linnéa who lives there has completely isolated herself from the outside world. Why does she stay locked up?

Release Date: 1998-04-10

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Episode Count: 3

Little Big Sister

The second film of the trilogy, "It is forbidden for children". The family is pushed into depression and the heavy drinking mother Skrubsak does not help.

Release Date: 1998-03-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Noodlepoop

Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But she doesn't have good memories of romance. The third of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

Release Date: 1997-07-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

The Last Viking

The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population.

Release Date: 1997-01-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Southern Comfort

7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

Release Date: 1997-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

The Biggest Heroes

The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daughter, whom he should present himself to. Her adoptive father is a mean bastard, and incestive undertones lies in the relationship between the two. The daughter escapes from her adoptive father, turns up at Peter's place, and Carsten, Peter, and the daughter escapes to Sweden.

Release Date: 1996-11-08

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 14

The Bogey Man

The first of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen. Ida and her little brother are visiting their strict grandmother who threatens them with the bogey man if they are not kind. When Ida's little brother gets a toy dog from her grandmother, Ida becomes jealous and lures the brother to show the dog for the bogey man.

Release Date: 1996-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

Carl, My Childhood Symphony

Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the composer's autobiography, the film itself is designed to soar like a symphony.

Release Date: 1994-02-04

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 4

Black Harvest

Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.

Release Date: 1993-11-05

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

Vote Count: 3

Perfect World

A take it or leave it auteur-experimental fiction exercise: two women are monitoring their dreams, dreams that may of course also be stark naked reality, at least to the dreamers, as they come and they go like bubbles, rising, floating, bursting. A man appears out of nowhere. Poet Peter Laugesen co-wrote the script with Tom Elling, who was Lars von Trier's director of photography on "The Element of Crime".

Release Date: 1990-04-30

Department: Editing

Job: Editor

The Knight of Justice

Benjamin act as a moral guardian as he saves both a female thief and a child during Christmas in a futuristic Denmark.

Release Date: 1989-12-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5