Movies: Gabriel Axel

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 19th century Denmark....

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....

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...

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 truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzli...

This film is based on a true story, depicted in the novel of the same name, "Der kom en dag" (The Day Came), written by Flemming B. Muus. Quote: On April 9, 1940, we surrendered, under protest, to an army that broke all treaties, attacked our borders...

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 Vesterbrogade. In Tivoli. At a castle in 1740. Around a balloon in 1820. On the train in 1890. At th...

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, but of course, such things can be used to. They have five children and it is often difficult to meet d...

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....

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 affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her m...

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

Among the residents of the boarding house on Fredhvilevej are Børge Blom, a civil servant, the feisty Nelly Smith, and taxi driver Ib Nielsen. Because their house is to be demolished to make way for a parking lot, they are given 14 days' notice to va...

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

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

Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the same day. When they return to Peter's home in the morning, they find a letter from the French hospital...

Who decides where the cupboard should go in a marriage? The film begins with three cheerful movers, Karl, Fredrik, and Lasse, struggling with a pompous cupboard because an accountant and his wife cannot agree on where it should go. Of course, they ev...

Gabriel Axel's penetrating study of the aftermath of a crime. Bernard and Catherine lead a quiet life in retirement, enjoying their occasional sorties to the theatre or the cinema. One night, coming home on the Metro, they are jostled and jeered by ...

The family Gyldenkål is actually called Iversen, but have changed their name, after numerous problems with the IRS, loan sharks and employers. Using clever scams, the family builds up a reputation as a wealthy and respectable part of society....

The second film in the series about the enterprising Gyldenkål family. Now the family has climbed to the top of the social ladder, but unexpected demands from the tax authorities mean that a forced auction is imminent. So they embark on their biggest...

Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Christensen) is a young man in search of love, who restlessly leaves his home in Denmark to search for it all over Europe, finally finding some semblance...