Danish action movies

List of the best Danish action movies selected by visitors to our site: Headhunters, LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, Northwest, Only God Forgives, LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman: Be-Leaguered, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Ronal the Barbarian, Journey to Saturn, Monos, The Salvation.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration01:40

    An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
    CountryUSA, Australia, Denmark
    Duration00:21

    Luke Skywalker embarks on a mission to destroy a Imperial base, but is relentlessly chased by a group of fanatic girls who think of him as a celebrity. Meanwhile, Darth Vader engages a rivalry with Darth Maul, in order to prove that he's the best Sith Lord.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:31

    Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark, France, USA, Sweden, Belgium
    Duration01:30

    Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark
    Duration00:22

    Superman wants Batman to join his new superhero team, but Batman prides himself on being a self-sufficient loner.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Denmark, Australia
    Duration02:11

    Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy....high school.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryDenmark, Belgium
    Duration01:26

    Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world. Along the way, our unlikely hero is joined by Alibert the buttery bard, Zandra the gorgeous shield-maiden and Elric the metrosexual elfin guide. To ultimately vanquish the enemy, the band must overcome awesome challenges.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, cartoon
    CountryDenmark

    A Danish crew of misfits travel to Saturn in search for natural resources. However, the planet is colonized by a ruthless army of Aliens that turn their eye on Earth and invade Denmark. Thus, the crew change their mission to liberate Denmark.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryColombia, Denmark, Luxembourg, USA, Uruguay, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, France

    On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western
    CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, South Africa, Sweden, Belgium
    Duration01:32

    In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, action, drama
    CountryDenmark
    Duration00:50

    Opstandelsen brings the zombie apocalypse into the house of God. Simon's three siblings gather at his funeral - where all hell breaks loose as the undead rise from their graves, driving the siblings down into the deep dark catacombs below the church. Surrounded by death, they now have to face the congregation of zombies in order to escape the house of God alive...

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryFinland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, France, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom
    Duration01:33

      In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom
      Duration01:45

      A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical plan.

      Markimdb: 2.5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:30

      The town of Westbrick is a rough place to live in. It is here that the young rookie cop Matthew lives with his wife. Meanwhile, notorious serial killers Billy and Barbara embark on a killing spree in order to get notoriety. Matthew gets his first assignment with his much older partner William when he unfortunately crosses paths with Billy and Barbara.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
      Duration02:04

      A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryDenmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
      Duration02:10

      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 Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryDenmark

      A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
      Duration01:30

      Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark

      The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers, Jens and Mike, are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryDenmark, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, USA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:33

      The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryDenmark, Norway, Australia, USA
      Duration01:40

      An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime
      CountryUSA, Denmark

      Once the ruler of an entire universe, the Great Spirit Mata Nui finds himself cast out of his own body, his spirit trapped inside the fabled Mask of Life, hurtling through space. After landing on the far-away planet of Bara Magna, the mask creates a new body for Mata Nui, who unwillingly gets caught up in the furious battles of the nearly barren and dangerous planet.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Hungary
      Duration02:04

      Year 1206. Norway is ravaged by civil war. The King's illegitimate son is guarded in deep secret. A boy that half of the kingdom wants to kill and two men will protect to the death. A boy named Earl Håkonsson. Birkebeiners is the story of the escape that changed Norway's history forever.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA, Denmark
      Duration01:35

      In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genreaction
      CountryDenmark

      When a viking mercenary finds himself in the middle of a battle between the old gods and the new, he decides that neither side deserves to win. And so begins an epic battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of a nation.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Denmark
      Duration01:18

      Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryDenmark, Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Morocco
      Duration02:19

      Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
      Duration02:04

      Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark, Sweden, Finland

      Markus, a deployed military man, has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountrySweden, Denmark

      A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryDenmark, Sweden
      Duration00:45

      Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, comedy, crime, sport
      CountryDenmark

      A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, documentary, military, music
      CountryDenmark, USA

      In the slum of Cité Soleil, President Aristide's most loyal supporters were ruling as kings. The five major gang leaders were controlling heavily armed young men; the Chiméres. The Secret army of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a film about Billy and Haitian 2pac. Two brothers. Gang Leaders of the Chiméres.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
      Duration01:52

      Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryDenmark

      An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction
      CountryDenmark

      13-year-old Benjamin discovers that his mother didn’t die in an accident as he was led to believe. The trail leads to high-ranking officials in the Danish Secret Service. "Trust no one!", he is told.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:59

      Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryDenmark

      A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Sweden

      Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA, Denmark, Australia
      Duration01:51

      In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The Lego Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble—Lego Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryDenmark
      Duration01:57

      The nice town of Kellyville is too small to accomodate the world's worst scoundrels, Albert and Egon, who decides to go out in the world.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryDenmark, Sweden, Germany

      14-year-old Lulu moves to a small provincial town with her mother and younger brother. One night, her brother is struck by a beam of white light - actually the spirit of Herman Hartmann from the 19th-century. To her despair, Lulu realizes that Herman has possessed her brother, and the two of them are whirled into a fevered adventure.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, cartoon, detective
      CountryGermany, Denmark
      Duration01:22

      A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryNorway, Denmark, Germany
      Duration01:58

      Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Australia
      Duration01:37

      Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close calls, uncertain loyalties and heart-stopping heroics.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
      CountryIceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
      Duration02:11

      Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom

      Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?




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