Susanne Bier

Susanne Bier

Date of Birth: 15 Apr 1960

Country: Denmark

Biography: Best known for "After the Wedding" and the Oscar-winning "In a Better World", director Susanne Bier was born in Copenhagen. She became famous in Denmark with the lighthearted comedy "Den Eneste Ene" but achieved international recognition with 2002's "Open Hearts", which adhered to Dogme-95 standards.

Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Director), 7 (Writer)

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    Brothers
    The lives of two very different brothers become simultaneously intertwined and thrust apart in this intense and powerful drama. (IFC Films)
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    Open Hearts
    Cecilie is devastated when her fiance Joachim is seriously injured in a car accident and is paralysed from the waist down. She begins an affair with Niels, a doctor at the hospital where Joachim is being treated. Their relationship is further complicated by the fact that the doctor's wife Marie was the driver that caused the accident in the first place. (imdb)
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    After the Wedding
    Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, After the Wedding is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness. (IFC Films)
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    Things We Lost in the Fire
    Audrey Burke's life has been shattered by the sudden death of her husband. In grief, she turns to one of his lifelong friends, Jerry Sunborne, a former lawyer who is on a serious downward spiral. Together they work to repair their lives. (DreamWorks Pictures)
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    Den Eneste ene
    This romantic comedy follows two couples in Copenhagen trying to settle down. Sus, who works in a beauty clinic, tries to live happily with her Italian husband. Soon after she tells him that she's pregnant she discovers that he's having an affair with one of her clients at the beauty clinic. She kicks him out of the apartment just as their new kitchen arrives... (imdb)
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    Livet är en schlager
    The film is based around the life of Mona Berglund, a mother-of-four obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest - so much so, that her house is decorated with posters of her idols, and she has named her children after Swedish Eurovision performers: Kikki, Anna Book, Lena PH and Carola... (Wikipedia.org)
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    In a Better World
    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 wait. (imdb)
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    Love Is All You Need
    Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm and Paprika Steen star in this sparkling romantic comedy from Susanne Bier, about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa. (tiff.net)
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    Serena
    In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned that his wife, Serena, cannot bear children. (imdb)
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    Family Matters
    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 birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him. (imdb)
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    Credo
    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, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her friend, and decides to investigate. Mona and Anne will find themselves embroiled in a strange world of psychiatry and fanaticism, in which both young women's lives will be endangered. (imdb)
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    A Second Chance
    A veteran police officer with a wife and new baby makes a fateful decision when he is brought back into contact with a pair of junkie parents. (TIFF)
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    The Night Manager
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    Like It Never Was Before
    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 sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it will be like it never was before. (imdb)
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    Bird Box
    A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a dystopian setting along a river.
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    The Undoing
    The Undoing (2020) - TV Mini-Series
    Life for a successful therapist in New York begins to unravel on the eve of publishing her first book.
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    Freud flyttar hemifrån
    The Jewish Cohens live in Stockholm. Rosha's 60th birthday is up and her husband and 3 kids will be there. 25 y.o. Angelique, a psychology student called Freud, still lives at home. Rosha's told, she's got cancer with weeks to live. (imdb)
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    The First Lady
    The First Lady (2022) - TV Series
    In the East Wing of the White House, many of history's most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America's charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.
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    The Perfect Couple
    The Perfect Couple (2024) - TV Mini-Series
    Amelia is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket. But when a body is found on her wedding day, suddenly everyone's a suspect. (Netflix)
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