Best dark & gritty Danish movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
15 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 7.0. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. Breaking the Waves (1996)
Movie · Danish · 2h 39m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 7.8 (76.9K votes)
Slow-burnMatureDark & gritty
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
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2. Flee (2021)
Movie · Danish · 1h 29m · Documentary, Animation · IMDb 7.9 (21.4K votes)
TwistySlow-burnDark & grittyHeartwarming
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
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3. The Promised Land (2023)
Movie · Danish · 2h 7m · Action, Drama · IMDb 7.7 (43.2K votes)
Visually stunningCold & detachedMatureDark & gritty
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
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4. The Girl with the Needle (2024)
Movie · Danish · 2h 3m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.5 (21.3K votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyTwistyMature
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
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5. Submarino (2010)
Movie · Danish · 1h 55m · Drama · IMDb 7.5 (12.7K votes)
Slow-burnMatureDark & grittySerious
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When thei
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6. The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Movie · Danish · 1h 47m · War, Drama · IMDb 7.3 (19.6K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyVisually stunningMature
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
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7. Manderlay (2005)
Movie · Danish · 2h 18m · Drama · IMDb 7.2 (26.7K votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyMatureVisually stunning
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she f
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8. Amanda Knox (2016)
Movie · Danish · 1h 32m · Documentary, Crime · IMDb 6.9 (27.8K votes)
Dialogue-drivenDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.
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9. Speak No Evil (2022)
Movie · Danish · 1h 38m · Horror, Thriller · IMDb 6.7 (66.2K votes)
MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
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10. The Idiots (1998)
Movie · Danish · 1h 50m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 6.7 (36.5K votes)
MatureFunnyCold & detachedSlow-burn
A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of 'idiots'. Their primary activity becomes going out into the world of 'normal' people and pretending to be mentally incompetent. They take advan
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11. The Element of Crime (1984)
Movie · Danish · 1h 44m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.6 (12.4K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which invo
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12. Loving Adults (2022)
Movie · Danish · 1h 46m · Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (16.8K votes)
MatureCold & detachedTwistyFast-paced
The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair — and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.
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13. Crossing Lines (2025)
Movie · Danish · 1h 43m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 6.4 (694 votes)
MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatSerious
Cairo, a reformed criminal, enjoys his new life as a gang exit counselor. When his nephew Hamza disappears, Cairo discovers he had secretly joined his former gang. Despite his pledge to avoid violence, frustration with the police's lack of action pushes Cairo to seek help from his former underworld connections. His inv
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14. Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023)
Movie · Danish · 1h 53m · Horror, Thriller · IMDb 5.8 (4.6K votes)
Dark & grittyMatureTwistyCold & detached
Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events.
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15. Epidemic (1987)
Movie · Danish · 1h 46m · Drama, Horror · IMDb 5.9 (6.8K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
A filmmaker and a writer collaborate on a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist, they do not notice, that a real epidemic is developing around them.
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