Items13The creator’s order
  1. 1The Celebration (1998)The Celebration (1998) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 19, 1998The camera stays close enough to a family birthday dinner for a toast to feel like an intrusion. The handheld movement makes it hard to find a comfortable place to look once the son starts talking. Begin here to see what Dogme's stripped-down setup could do to a roomful of people.0
  2. 2Mifune (1999)Mifune (1999) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 12, 1999Kresten's return to the family farm brings him back into his brother Rud's daily life. The farm feels occupied well before the story begins. Its lived-in look involved a few liberties: the director's Dogme confession mentions moving the furniture and coaxing the neighbor's hens into the shot.0
  3. 3The King Is Alive (2000)The King Is Alive (2000) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased May 11, 2000Stranded bus passengers try staging King Lear in a desert ghost town. It's an odd choice of diversion, which is part of the fun. The barren setting leaves nowhere for the performers to hide as the play starts bringing their resentments into the open.0
  4. 4Lovers (1999)Lovers (1999) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 8, 1999A Paris bookstore introduces Jeanne and Dragan. The romance has an easy, unguarded quality that makes the pressure of his immigration status feel like an intrusion into something private. It shows how readily a movement associated with Danish family dramas could move into a different city and…0
  5. 5Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 15, 1999Werner Herzog plays a father who drills his son in wrestling. The video can feel like an unsettling family recording, especially when Herzog turns an ordinary instruction into an ordeal. Korine pushes the rough image toward something strange and staged, making this a good test of how far the label…0
  6. 6Italian for Beginners (2000)Italian for Beginners (2000) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 7, 2000A beginner's language class gives lonely adults a reason to keep meeting. The plain rooms have a lot to do with the comedy: a clumsy exchange feels like something you could have overheard in a real class. Choose this if the movement's reputation for misery has kept you away.0
  7. 7Truly Human (2001)Truly Human (2001) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 27, 2001A young girl's imaginary friend becomes a real person. The premise sounds like it calls for visual effects, but the ordinary Danish settings are what give the story its bite. Watch how people make sense of a stranger whose arrival has no explanation they can accept.0
  8. 8Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 26, 2001Kira comes home to her husband and children after treatment. Stine Stengade gives the reunion a strained energy, as if keeping things normal has become a full-time job. It's a close look at the pressure a respectable-looking household can put on someone trying to find her footing.0
  9. 9Open Hearts (2002)Open Hearts (2002) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 6, 2002A car crash pulls two couples into one another's lives. The close camera lets you read a flicker of sympathy or guilt before a character has found the words for it. Pick this if you want to see how much emotional force a familiar relationship-drama premise can get from simply staying in the room.0
  10. 10Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 31, 2003An old boyfriend turns up just as a bride-to-be needs everything to go smoothly. Sidse Babett Knudsen lets the woman's efforts to avoid an awkward conversation become the engine of the farce. It's an energetic counterpoint to the idea that an unpolished movie has to play like a tragedy.0