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Nikolaj Arcel has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Promised Land.
The Promised Land
2023 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Hulu · Included
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · Movie · Writer
Top 9%Prime Video · Included
The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013 · Movie · Writer
Top 11%AMC+ · Included
The Absent One
2014 · Movie · Writer
Top 12%AMC+ · Included
A Royal Affair
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 19%Tubi · Free w/ ads
A Conspiracy of Faith
2016 · Movie · Writer
Top 36%AMC+ · Included
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel · With Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Dir. Niels Arden Oplev · With Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
Dir. Mikkel Nørgaard · With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
Dir. Mikkel Nørgaard · With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel · With Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.
Dir. Christoffer Boe · With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.
Dir. Hans Petter Moland · With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen
12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge. The first Danish superhero-movie. Based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen.
Dir. Ask Hasselbalch · With Oscar Dietz, Amalie Kruse Jensen, Samuel Ting Graf
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel · With Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor
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