The best Axel Strøbye’s drama movies

Axel Strøbye

Axel Strøbye

22/02/1928- 12/07/2005
Today we present the best Axel Strøbye’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Axel Strøbye’s movies.

Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/08/1987
  • Character: The Coach
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.

Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/12/1987
  • Character: Kongstrup - Kungsgården Landlord
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

Gertrud

Gertrud
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/12/1964
  • Character: Axel Nygen
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.

Den sidste vinter

Den sidste vinter
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/09/1960
  • Character: Erik Sørensen

Vandalism

Vandalism
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/11/1977
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.

Topsy Turvy

Topsy Turvy
5/10
An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including the beautiful, sexy Topsy, who charms the new neighbor boy Tom. But Tom discovers that the price of loving Topsy may be higher than he's willing to pay -- she insists on absolute honesty and a life and love without possession or exclusivity.

Fløjtespilleren

Fløjtespilleren
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 18/12/1953
  • Character: Klarinetspiller

The Young Have No Time

The Young Have No Time
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1956
A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.

Selvmordsskolen

Selvmordsskolen
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/03/1964
  • Character: Doktor X
Directed by Knud Leif Thomsen

Kick Me in the Traditions!

Kick Me in the Traditions!
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1979
  • Character: Doktor Schmidt
Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick at his principal's behind and is committed to a psychiatric ward from the perspective of which he takes a close look at his allegedly sane family. They, of course, are the real loonies. The psychiatrists are worse. Only lovely class-mate Lis is down-to-earth and trustworthy.

Duellen

Duellen
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1962
A sort of forerunner to Hollywood's Boogie Nights (1997), this Danish melodrama is set in the world of strip clubs. A medical student (Frits Helmuth) earns money for tuition working in a burlesque joint. He falls for one of the girls (Malene Schwarz), but she is also involved with a movie director (John Price). The director and Helmuth get into a philosophical debate about love and Darwinism, and the film ends with a duel (the film's title). Duellen was met with mostly incomprehension when it premiered and is no more lucid when viewed today. The striptease scene featuring full-frontal nudity is tame by modern standards.

The Chronic Innocence

The Chronic Innocence
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/10/1985
  • Character: Rektor
For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts his role as their highly loved third party. Helle's fashionable mother, however, is a bit too interested in Tore. Written by Allan Simonsen

Faith, Hope and Witchcraft

Faith, Hope and Witchcraft
4.6/10
In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Troldø lives a single farming family. The grandmother Gunhild is the only woman on the island and her son Enok is unable to find a wife. Gunhild's advanced age causes her to worry for the future of the family. So she initiates a plan to get Enok married, a plan that is put into action when the young Eva becomes stranded on the island. But the community must be shaken by several dramatic events before Gunhild can breathe a sigh of relief.

Naalen

Naalen
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1951

Rainfox

Rainfox
3.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1984
  • Character: Brander

Det gælder livet

Det gælder livet
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/12/1953

Sextet

Sextet
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
Six people of different ages and with varying mental health problems are forced to spend the night together by bad weather and react upon each other.

Premiere i helvede

Premiere i helvede
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1964
  • Character: Richard - Direktør
About an American's reaction to the Dane's way of chatting about each other. Behind their backs. A rumor begins to flourish. A serious one. About death. perhaps even murder.

Tine

Tine
5.8/10
Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.

Høfeber

Høfeber
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1991
  • Character: Overlæge
A confrontational and friendly judge gets in trouble when his wife is trying to arouse his jealousy of her long-term relationship with their mutual friend Chief Klausen. Superintendent and is still convinced that he strives against his life. At the same time the judge's chess friend Lise not stand that he was not hitting on her. All intricacies rubs judge with a serious time hay fever

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