Anders Thomas Jensen
Known for: Directing
Born: April 6, 1972
Place of birth: Frederiksværk, Danmark
Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune's Last Song (co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), In China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples. In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film).
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Filmography
63 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Sonny Mango
2026
7.3
The Last Viking
2025
7.7
The Promised Land
2023
6.4
Agent
2023
7.0
Dansk films bedste
2022
5.8
The Marco Effect
2021
7.3
Riders of Justice
2020
6.0
The Idiots Who Started The Party
2020
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When Danish Film Crosses the Line
2020
5.6
Abbi fede
2020
8.7
Between Us
2019
9.2
Minkavlerne
2019
7.0
Held for Ransom
2019
6.4
After the Wedding
2019
5.8
The Dark Tower
2017
5.8
The Shamer's Daughter
2015
6.4
People Get Eaten
2015
6.5
Men & Chicken
2015
6.6
A Second Chance
2014
6.5
The Salvation
2014
8.0
Tomgang
2013
5.5
All for Two
2013
6.0
Love Is All You Need
2012
6.4
Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past
2012
6.4
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
2011
7.2
In a Better World
2010
5.9
The New Tenants
2009
7.3
Brothers
2009
5.5
At World's End
2009
6.6
Antichrist
2009
5.1
Fear Me Not
2008
7.0
The Duchess
2008
4.6
White Night
2007
5.6
With Your Permission
2007
6.0
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
6.5
Red Road
2006
5.7
Clash of Egos
2006
6.0
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
7.1
After the Wedding
2006
6.2
Murk
2005
7.5
Adam's Apples
2005
6.8
The Sun King
2005
5.9
Too Fat Too Furious
2005
6.8
Brothers
2004
6.0
Stealing Rembrandt
2003
6.4
Sweet Dreams
2003
7.1
The Green Butchers
2003
6.5
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2002
7.1
Open Hearts
2002
6.8
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
2002
6.3
Count Axel
2001
7.2
Flickering Lights
2000
6.1
Beyond
2000
5.5
The King Is Alive
2000
7.3
In China They Eat Dogs
1999
7.0
Mifune
1999
6.0
Albert
1998
6.1
Baby Doom
1998
7.1
Election Night
19985.5
Restless Heart
1998
5.9
Wolfgang
1997
6.9
Ernst & the Light
1996
7.5
Café Hector
1996
7.0
Davids bog
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Upcoming Remake of 'Riders of Justice'
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The Monster of Florence
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Winter Warriors
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My Fairytale Life
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