Cast: Jesper Christensen
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jesper Christensen. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 59
Everlasting Moments
2008 · Movie · 130 min. · Denmark
Direction Jan Troell
Cast Maria Heiskanen · Jesper Christensen · Mikael Persbrandt · Amanda Ooms
Synopsis Set in the early XXth century, the Ulm is based on the real life story of the grandmother of Jan Troell's wife. Maria is swept away by the loutish rake Sigfrid, and marries him at a young age. Sigfrid can't...
7.1
330 votes
7.1
330 votes
Direction Nils Malmros
Cast Anneke von der Lippe · Lars Simonsen · Trond Høvik · Jesper Christensen
Synopsis Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and...
7.0
27 votes
7.0
27 votes
The Legacy (TV Series)
2014 · Series · 55 min. · Denmark
Direction Maya Ilsøe · Pernilla August · Louise Friedberg · Jesper Christensen
Cast Trine Dyrholm · Jesper Christensen · Marie Bach Hansen · Carsten Bjørnlund
Synopsis The Legacy is a character-driven drama serial about what it means to be a family in a time when classical family patterns radically changed. The story deals with a family encountering inheritance problems as its matriarch dies.
6.9
284 votes
6.9
284 votes
Casino Royale
2006 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Campbell
Cast Daniel Craig · Eva Green · Mads Mikkelsen · Jeffrey Wright
Synopsis James Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist Mollaka. Not everything goes as planned and Bond decides to investigate, independently of the MI6 agency, in order to track down the rest...
6.8
75K votes
6.8
75K votes
Melancholia
2011 · Movie · 136 min. · Denmark
Direction Lars von Trier
Cast Kirsten Dunst · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Kiefer Sutherland · Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and her fiancée Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth...
6.8
30K votes
6.8
30K votes
Nymphomaniac. Part 1
2013 · Movie · 117 min. · Denmark
Direction Lars von Trier
Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Stellan Skarsgard · Stacy Martin · Shia LaBeouf
Synopsis "Nymphomaniac" is the wild and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor...
6.7
22K votes
6.7
22K votes
More Than Ever
2022 · Movie · 123 min. · France
Direction Emily Atef
Cast Vicky Krieps · Gaspard Ulliel · Liv Ullmann · Jesper Christensen
Synopsis A young woman, happily married, has a few months left and decides to travel across Europe to Norway alone to live the adventure of her life.
6.7
134 votes
6.7
134 votes
Sofie (Sophie)
1992 · Movie · 146 min. · Denmark
Direction Liv Ullmann
Cast Karen-Lise Mynster · Ghita Nørby · Erland Josephson · Jesper Christensen
Synopsis From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents. An artist, Hans Hojby, meets Sofie and is entranced, asking to paint her parents...
6.6
89 votes
6.6
89 votes
Direction Per Fly
Cast Jesper Christensen · Marius Sonne Janischefska · Stine Holm Joensen · Nicolaj Kopernikus
Synopsis Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her...
6.6
126 votes
6.6
126 votes
Direction Jan Troell
Cast Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby · Anette Hoff · Gard B. Eidsvold
Synopsis In this epic story of love and treason, Max von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norways controversial Nobel Laureate. Hamsun is his countrys most beloved writer. But with the shadow of Nazism quickly darkening Europe, Hamsun and...
6.6
320 votes
6.6
320 votes
Flame and Citron
2008 · Movie · 130 min. · Denmark
Direction Ole Christian Madsen
Cast Thure Lindhardt · Mads Mikkelsen · Stine Stengade · Christian Berkel
Synopsis During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
The Debt
2010 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction John Madden
Cast Jessica Chastain · Sam Worthington · Helen Mirren · Tom Wilkinson
Synopsis The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret...
6.4
14K votes
6.4
14K votes
Direction Pernille Fischer Christensen
Cast Jesper Christensen · Anne Louise Hassing · Pilou Asbæk · Lene Maria Christensen
Synopsis Ditte (Lene Maria Christensen) owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend (Pilou Asbæk) and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved,...
6.3
161 votes
6.3
161 votes
The Young Victoria
2009 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast Emily Blunt · Rupert Friend · Paul Bettany · Miranda Richardson
Synopsis A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. Story proper begins in 1837, just before the 18th birthday of Princess Victoria of Kent (Emily Blunt), who, in the absence of...
6.3
5K votes
6.3
5K votes
Drabet (Manslaughter)
2005 · Movie · 100 min. · Denmark
Direction Per Fly
Cast Jesper Christensen · Pernilla August · Charlotte Fich · Beate Bille
Synopsis A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
6.3
110 votes
6.3
110 votes
Sex, Drugs & Taxation
2013 · Movie · 110 min. · Denmark
Direction Christoffer Boe
Cast Pilou Asbæk · Nicolas Bro · Jesper Christensen · Jacob Højlev Jørgensen
Synopsis Spies & Glistrup, the friendship between two Danish eccentrics Simon Spies, the king of charter holidays, and Mogens Glistrup, the controversial tax lawyer-turned-top politician.
6.2
69 votes
6.2
69 votes
Direction Jesper W. Nielsen
Cast Paprika Steen · Troels Lyby · Ole Ernst · Nicolaj Kopernikus
6.2
26 votes
6.2
26 votes
The King's Choice
2016 · Movie · 133 min. · Norway
Direction Erik Poppe
Cast Jesper Christensen · Anders Baasmo Christiansen · Tuva Novotny · Juliane Köhler
Synopsis On the 9. of April, 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The king of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever.
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The Last Sentence
2012 · Movie · 126 min. · Sweden
Direction Jan Troell
Cast Jesper Christensen · Pernilla August · Ulla Skoog · Björn Granath
Synopsis Torgny Segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in Sweden in the 20th century. He fought a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death in 1945.
6.1
42 votes
6.1
42 votes
The Interpreter
2005 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Nicole Kidman · Sean Penn · Catherine Keener · Sydney Pollack
Synopsis In this suspense thriller Ms. Kidman plays a United Nations interpreter who overhears a death threat against an African head of state about to address the General Assembly, and Mr. Penn plays a federal agent assigned to protect her while...
6.0
25K votes
6.0
25K votes