mike_cesara: Well.. several times already.. It's a great story, I'm dying to see more movies like Adams æbler : )
I was going to PM you some recommendations, but then the OP explicitly asked for good movies, so I might as well post them here. Maybe someone else can use them as well.
Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights) Four small-time crooks steal a lot of money from a gangster boss, and are forced to flee and go into hiding. They wind up in a small rural community, and try to blend in with the locals. Many of the actors from Adams Æbler are in this one too.
I Kina Spiser De Hunde (In China They Eat Dogs) After preventing a robbery in the bank he works at, Arvid Blixen's life suddenly spirals out of control. Left by his girlfriend, assaulted by a musician customer, and guilt-tripped by the bank robber's wife, he seeks out his estranged brother Harald to ask for help. Together, the two (aided by the two cooks and the guy who runs the dishwasher at Harald's restaurant) embark on a journey of increasingly dubious moral choices.
De Skrigende Halse (The Screaming Throats) The movie takes place in the punk rock subculture of Copenhagen in 1984. Ronni plays the guitar in the punk band The Screaming Necks. You'd think that would make him cool, but Ronni is anything but cool. He is a complete wimp, he has constant stomach trouble, his band members generally blame him for everything that goes wrong for them, his girlfriend has left him, and his elderly female doctor wants to take advantage of him sexually. After he faints on stage at a concert, he panics when he wakes up to a bunch of angry faces, and claims to be dying from an unspecified terminal illness. As the story spreads, a lot of attention is suddenly directed towards the band.
All those three movies are comedies, in case you were wondering. If you would like something a bit more serious and thought provoking, I recommend one of these:
Babettes Gæstebud (Babette's Feast) In a remote 19th Danish century village two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each case and they spent their lives caring for him. Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in French refugee, Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters for their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them and their friends on the 100th anniversary of their father's birth. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for everyone. This was the first Danish movie to ever win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Festen (The Celebration) The first movie made under the
Dogme 95 Manifesto, this is a gripping tale of a man who, during the celebration of his father's 60th birthday, confronts the father (and all the assembled guests) with some unpleasant truths from his childhood. Personally, I think it is a fantastic movie, though not for the faint of heart. It is not a horror movie by any stretch of the definition (all the unpleasantness takes place only in the dialog, nothing is actually shown), but the MPAA did give it an "R" rating. If you have never seen a Dogme film before, the concept does take a bit of getting used to, but it works very well for this film I think.
