Gabriel Axel Movies

A group of young actors, ambitious and naive, dream of their big breakthrough, criticize the theater school, want to revolutionize theater, and never...

A Danish movie about the life of Flemming and his best friend Kvik.

Hidden among the dunes on the west coast of Jutland lies HU, where fishermen struggle to earn a living. The hard and dangerous work combines HU's...

The beautiful and spoiled manufacturer's daughter Helga defiantly bets with her friends whether she can survive a whole year as a working housekeeper...

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

Among the residents of the boarding house on Fredhvilevej are Børge Blom, a civil servant, the feisty Nelly Smith, and taxi driver Ib Nielsen....

Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the...

This comedy is based on Finn Søeborg's text. It is a film full of warmth and joie de vivre, set in "Ravnekrogen", where our friends have built...

Who decides where the cupboard should go in a marriage? The film begins with three cheerful movers, Karl, Fredrik, and Lasse, struggling with 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.

A spicy comedy in episode form. We follow a young couple's problems with eroticism at different times and in different environments. The episodes: On...

Gabriel Axel's penetrating study of the aftermath of a crime. Bernard and Catherine lead a quiet life in retirement, enjoying their occasional...

Since her husband's death, Mrs. Tang has lived and worked exclusively for her two children, Erik and Ester. They are her whole world; her entire...

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."

First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son...

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,...

Tonnemann lives in one of the wooden sheds at the far end of Islands Brygge, close to Copenhagen's landfill site. But in 1928, he wants to leave this...

A different kind of Danish film about Denmark, the Danes, and everyday life in Denmark. An episodic film consisting of different storylines, which...