Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Last Viking
2025
Director, Screenplay
Anker is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence for robbery. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the money from the...

The Promised Land
2023
Writer
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 ...

Riders of Justice
2020
Director, Screenplay, Idea
Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims ...

The Idiots Who Started The Party
2020
as Himself
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...

When Danish Film Crosses the Line
2020
as Self – Interviewee
Sex, animal cruelty, Jesus and politics! Movies evoke emotions - some more than others. In this documentary, Maria Månson explores the Danish films th...

Abbi fede
2020
Original Film Writer
A remake of the 2005 film "Adam's Aebler." The criminal Adamos, serving his prison sentence in a social rehabilitation community, encounters the blind...

Held for Ransom
2019
Writer
HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS a...

The Dark Tower
2017
Screenplay, Executive Producer
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...

The Shamer's Daughter
2015
Writer
The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people. When th...

Men & Chicken
2015
Writer, Director
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves an...

A Second Chance
2014
Writer, Story
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, rece...

The Salvation
2014
Writer
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow tow...

All for Two
2013
Writer
This sequel to the box office hit All for One finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are p...

Love Is All You Need
2012
Screenplay, Story
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 ...

Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past
2012
Production Manager
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A ca...

Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
2011
Writer
Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, i...

In a Better World
2010
Screenplay
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...

The New Tenants
2009
Writer
A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-...

Brothers
2009
Writer
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 ...

At World's End
2009
Writer
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recl...

Antichrist
2009
Story Supervisor
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course...

Fear Me Not
2008
Writer
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling...

The Duchess
2008
Screenplay
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

White Night
2007
Writer
A psychological drama about Ulrich, a workaholic whose life takes a drastic turn when he is involved in a fatal accident. As his guilt grows, his life...

With Your Permission
2007
Screenplay
Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

Red Road
2006
Writer
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to...

Clash of Egos
2006
Screenplay
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with h...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

After the Wedding
2006
Screenplay, Story
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Murk
2005
Writer
The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding ...

Adam's Apples
2005
Director, Screenplay
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

The Sun King
2005
Writer
While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love af...

Too Fat Too Furious
2005
Screenplay
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his ...

Brothers
2004
Screenplay
A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission th...

Stealing Rembrandt
2003
Screenplay
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rem...

Sweet Dreams
2003
Screenplay
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da...

The Green Butchers
2003
Screenplay, Director
A black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon in...

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2002
Screenplay
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their f...

Open Hearts
2002
Screenplay
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...

Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
2002
Screenplay
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell....

Count Axel
2001
Screenplay
Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements ...

Flickering Lights
2000
Author, Director
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to...

Beyond
2000
Writer
During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 howev...

The King Is Alive
2000
Writer
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...

In China They Eat Dogs
1999
Writer
Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bra...

Mifune
1999
Writer
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back ...

Albert
1998
Screenplay
When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Eg...

Baby Doom
1998
Writer
Max is a programmer, Nicoline is a chef, and they are both young, in love, and ambitious. Then lightning strikes: they have a baby. From that day on, ...

Election Night
1998
Director, Writer
On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a var...
Restless Heart
1998
Writer
Hugo is 18 years old, works in a garage in a provincial town, plays pool with his mates and dates teenage Betina. Hugo wants something else, but he do...

Wolfgang
1997
Director, Screenplay
A composer with a straining birth name is caught between his mother fixation and his need to father his own ambitions. Oscar nominated short film fro...

Café Hector
1996
Screenplay
Café Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uff...

Davids bog
1996
Writer
Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance he finds a book that giv...

Ernst & the Light
1996
Director, Writer
The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker...
The Monster of Florence
N/A
Director, Writer
A reconstruction of eight double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around Florence, Italy.
Upcoming Remake of 'Riders of Justice'
N/A
Original Film Writer
An upcoming remake of 'Riders of Justice' by Michael Schwartz & Tyler Nilson.