Gabriel Axel Movies

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s.

Fourteen-year-old Jan and his companion Erling appear as extras in a film being filmed at Nordisk Film's studios in Valby. A mysterious burglary at...

Factory worker Otto Nielsen and his wife Helga live in a 2-room apartment in a sad Copenhagen suburbs district, where the S-trains still bumble by,...

Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.

A poor dandy embezzled large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade to impress the upper class. The film premiered as "I am a Marquis."

This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the...

Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a...

When a young woman falls in love with a gown in a shop window it leads to adventure and romance exceeding even her own vivid imagination.

On the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has...

Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.

Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a...

At Helene Dragstrup's 20th birthday, her grandmother Margrethe decides that it is time that Helene learns something about life outside the protective...