Susanne Bier

Susanne Bier

1960-04-15 Copenhagen, Denmark 23 Credits

Biography

Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010...

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Practical Magic 2

2026

Director

Directing

A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing f...

Bird Box Barcelona

Bird Box Barcelona

2023

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona....

The Idiots Who Started The Party

The Idiots Who Started The Party

2020

as Herself

6.0
Acting

Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The I...

Bird Box

Bird Box

2018

Director, Executive Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Serena

Serena

2014

Director, Producer

5.6
Directing Producing

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon pr...

A Second Chance

A Second Chance

2014

Director, Story

6.6
Directing Writing

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, rece...

Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need

2012

Story, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides ...

In a Better World

In a Better World

2010

Director

7.1
Directing

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in...

Brothers

Brothers

2009

Writer

7.3
Writing

When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to ...

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007

Director

6.6
Directing

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the f...

After the Wedding

After the Wedding

2006

Story, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Brothers

Brothers

2004

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission th...

The One and Only

The One and Only

2002

Executive Producer

4.6
Producing

When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Too late for both of them....

Open Hearts

Open Hearts

2002

Director

7.1
Directing

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the ot...

Once in a Lifetime

Once in a Lifetime

2000

Director

4.4
Directing

Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite S...

The One and Only

The One and Only

1999

Director

6.6
Directing

When kitchen fitter Niller comes to install Sus's new suite, their immediate attraction to one another proves a sweet escape from both of their proble...

Credo

Credo

1997

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist...

Like It Never Was Before

Like It Never Was Before

1995

Director

5.4
Directing

The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the se...

Family Matters

Family Matters

1993

Director

2.8
Directing

Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his b...

Letter to Jonas

Letter to Jonas

1992

Acting

Camilla and Louise are digging in the desert sand of Israel. They are looking for relics of the past, but while doing so, self-deception and life-lies...

Letter to Jonas

Letter to Jonas

1992

Director

Directing

Camilla and Louise are digging in the desert sand of Israel. They are looking for relics of the past, but while doing so, self-deception and life-lies...

Freud Leaving Home

Freud Leaving Home

1991

Director

4.8
Directing

In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the wo...

Notes on Love

Notes on Love

1989

Additional Writing

4.5

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as t...