Films based on Danish novels

1985 film by Sydney Pollack

1987 film by Gabriel Axel

1987 film directed by Bille August

2012 film by Nikolaj Arcel

Ordet (, meaning "The Word" and originally released as The Word in English) is a 1955 Danish drama film, written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first performed in 1932. The film won the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival, and was the only film by Dreyer to be both a critical and financial success.

2023 film directed by Nikolaj Arcel

1997 film directed by Bille August

Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film was produced by Nimbus Film. As a condition from the financier TV 2, half of the cast and crew were novices, which the director enjoyed as it gave an experience similar to his earliest films.

1928 film by F. W. Murnau

1916 film by Mauritz Stiller

1924 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer

1933 film

2003 film by Paul Feig

2013 film directed by Mikkel Nørgaard

1997 Danish-Norwegian-Swedish film directed by Nils Malmros

2016 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

2004 film by Nikolaj Arcel

1946 film by Bjarne Henning-Jensen, Jon Iversen

1967 film by Henning Carlsen

2011 film by Christian E. Christiansen

1929 film by Allan Dwan

1989 film by Jack Smight

1978 film by Daryl Duke

1947 film by Johan Jacobsen

1969 Scandinavian film directed by Henning Carlsen

1955 film by Sven Methling

2021 film directed by Tea Lindeburg

1927 film by Jenö Illés

Nynne is a Danish film directed by Jonas Elmer, starring Mille Dinesen. It is based on the bestselling Danish novel Nynnes dagbog (en. ''Nynne's Diary) by Henriette Lind, Lotte Thorsen, and Anette Vestergaard, which itself was based on a popular newspaper column in Politiken. Nynne was the fourth-most seen film total in theaters in Denmark in 2005, with 429,301 tickets sold. (The most seen was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''). Dinesen reprised the role in a short series the following year.

1988 film

Ehrengard is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Emidio Greco. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Karen Blixen. It premiered at the 1982 Venice International Film Festival. However, due to the bankruptcy of the producers, it was not released theatrically until 2002.

1950 Danish film directed by Torben Anton Svendsen

1930 Danish-Norwegian film directed by George Schnéevoigt

2017 film