Paprika Steen
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Paprika Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1949 to win both Best Actress (for Okay) and Best Supporting Actress (Open Hearts) in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8015 |
| Birthday | 1964-11-03 |
| Place of Birth | Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Also Known As |
2000
Dancer in the Dark
7.849/1991
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder a...
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Dancer in the Dark
2002
Open Hearts
7.124/125
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...
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Open Hearts
1999
Mifune
7.014/72
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...
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Mifune
1998
The Celebration
7.705/1252
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that revea...
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The Celebration
1998
The Idiots
6.457/647
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.
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The Idiots
2005
Adam's Apples
7.468/787
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
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Adam's Apples
2007
The Substitute
5.703/69
6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she...
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The Substitute
2000
Help! I'm a Fish
6.628/450
Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one pr...
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Help! I'm a Fish
2002
Okay
5.905/21
Nete is a tough woman of 37 who runs her job, husband, and teenage daughter with a firm and efficient hand. Her father suddenly becomes ill. Seriously...
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Okay
2006
Snart kommer tiden
0/0
A surreal story about the married couple Hilbert and Rebekka and their seven-year-old son Granberg. On Rebekka's 35th birthday, their son is sent on a...
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Snart kommer tiden
2010
Everything Will Be Fine
6.3/17
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish...
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Everything Will Be Fine
2002
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
7.643/28
When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of...
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The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
2023
Tove’s Room
6.7/6
In a flat in Copenhagen, we meet one of the biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, and her husband, the sadistic news editor in chief Victor Andrease...
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Tove’s Room
1995
Just a Girl
5/3
PUK SCHARBAU plays Lise Nørgaard in the epic film adaptation of her fascinating life story. In a chronicle of both love and war, masterfully directed...
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Just a Girl
2008
Fear Me Not
5.1/24
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...
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Fear Me Not
1996
The Biggest Heroes
6/16
The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daugh...
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The Biggest Heroes
1999
The One and Only
6.555/55
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...
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The One and Only
2007
The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
4.654/13
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s,...
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2009
Applause
5.8/13
When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking per...
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Applause
2012
Keep the Lights On
5.7/102
In 1997 New York City, filmmaker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a one-night fling. As their relationship evolves through dysfunctional pat...
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Keep the Lights On
2011
Superclasico
6.1/40
Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months...
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Superclasico
1998
The Humiliated
6.857/7
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
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The Humiliated
2012
Love Is All You Need
5.992/297
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...
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Love Is All You Need
2005
Forty Shades of Blue
4.466/29
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visi...
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Forty Shades of Blue
1997
Hannibal and Jerry
4.962/26
Hannibal is a nice and polite boy, but Father and Mother think he hangs too much in front of the television. They therefore give him the dog Jerry, wh...
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Hannibal and Jerry
1988
Rami og Julie
8.5/2
A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love.
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Rami og Julie
1993
Black Harvest
5.4/5
Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate...
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Black Harvest
2013
Weekendfar
0/0
Against his will the boy Sune is going camping in the Swedish woods with his father.
What was meant to be a trip for bonding, ends up tearing father...
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Weekendfar
2000
Max
5.625/8
Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband...
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Max
2001
Prop and Berta
6.571/7
Prop & Berta is the story of a friendship between a little stout man and a big and proud cow, who are able to talk to each other. Together they confro...
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Prop and Berta
1993
Last Round
6.8/5
The final days of a terminally ill young man.
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Last Round
2014
Silent Heart
6.6/45
Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her...
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Silent Heart
2014
The Psychiatric Ward
4.9/8
When Acacia, an alternative treatment therapist, is sentenced to a mental examination on a psychiatric ward, she's looking forward to the opportunity...
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The Psychiatric Ward
2005
Run
4/1
A young woman who works in a newspaper kiosk runs every day. Until now.
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Run
2010
Skeletons
5.7/40
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their se...
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Skeletons
1994
Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner
7/3
There is a cheeky Frida hiding inside all of us. Hideouts, secrets, kissing techniques, and dreams of becoming heroes by exposing evil bandits. Parent...
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Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner
2023
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
6.2/91
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 cel...
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
2000
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
5/3
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a ge...
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2016
Antboy 3
6.9/58
Antboy is challenged by the release of archenemy Loppen from prison, the new super villain, Alicia Dufort, and competition from an all new vigilante;...
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Antboy 3
2016
Undercover
4.9/14
In the comedy ' undercover ' is to be Denmark's worst police officer Muhammed on his first undercover mission. The only problem is that it is small an...
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Undercover
The X-Gene Project
0/0
Due to the tragic loss of his wife Karen, who died of cancer while 6 months pregnant, Dr. Simon Hamilton has dedicated his life to finding a cure for...
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The X-Gene Project
2018
That Time of Year
6.368/34
From Danish director and actor Paprika Steen comes a caustic comedy about the deep-rooted grievances that can rip families apart -- and the ties that...
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That Time of Year
2019
Domino
4.625/297
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...
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Domino
1999
The Little Knight
0/0
A long time ago in the world of Fairy tales, there was a little boy who lived in a country where quarrels, fights, rage and anger were forbidden, and...
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The Little Knight
Rita
0/0
A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority - as well as her family - in a messy and unfiltered way.
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Rita
1996
Den store kul-tur
7/1
What does a desperate mayor of culture do when he is handed a stack of millions with instructions to make it a success? What does a cultural city cons...
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Den store kul-tur
2000
Solen er så rød
7.5/2
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Solen er så rød
2020
The Idiots Who Started The Party
6/1
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...
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The Idiots Who Started The Party
2005
The Celebration in Retrospect
0/0
This 2005 documentary features interviews with the cast and crew of The Celebration, including director Thomas Vinterberg and co-screenwriter Mogens R...
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The Celebration in Retrospect
2025
Mango
6.466/58
An ambitious hotelier and her reluctant daughter take a trip to Málaga, where they find what they've been craving in a farmer's idyllic mango orchard.
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Mango
2003
Stealing Rembrandt
6.027/37
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...
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