The best Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s drama movies

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

27/07/1970 (53 años)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993. Coster-Waldau's breakthrough performance in Denmark was his role in the film Nightwatch.
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Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven
7.3/10
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Shot Caller

Shot Caller
7.3/10
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Enigma

Enigma
6.4/10
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Bent

Bent
7.1/10
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

A Second Chance

A Second Chance
6.8/10
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Small Crimes

Small Crimes
5.8/10
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.

Wildside

Wildside
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1998
  • Character: Ossy
Charming desperado Ossy, carryng a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past.

Exit Plan

Exit Plan
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/2019
  • Character: Max Isaksen
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.

A Taste of Hunger

A Taste of Hunger
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/06/2021
  • Character: Carsten
Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they gambled everything to win. One day Carsten receives a letter saying that his wife loves somebody else. But who sent the letter and why? In their continuous passion and pursuit for the ultimate recognition, they forget that the meals of life are best enjoyed together.

Virtuality

Virtuality
5.7/10
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.

A Thousand Times Good Night

A Thousand Times Good Night
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/08/2013
  • Character: Marcus
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.

Himmerland

Himmerland
4/10

The Day We Died

The Day We Died
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/03/2020
  • Character: Rico
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.

Triple Dare

Triple Dare
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/2006
  • Character: Martin
Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

The Kautokeino Rebellion
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/2008
  • Character: Biskop Juell
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

3 Things

3 Things
5.5/10
Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the robbery he and his partners have been jailed for.

Misery Harbour

Misery Harbour
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/09/1999
  • Character: Espen Arnakke
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/2007
  • Character: Sammy
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.

Slaget på tasken

Slaget på tasken
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1993
  • Character: Christian
A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and take photographs to prove that Christian and Louise live illegally. The young people may be thrown out of their homes - but might find something else along the way.

Requiem

Requiem
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/03/1991
A short film about the art of killing.

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