Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj William Coster-Waldau (born 27 July 1970) is a Danish actor and producer. He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen in 1993, and had his breakthrough role in Denmark with the film Nightwatch (1994). He played Jaime Lannister in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Coster-Waldau has appeared in numerous films in his native Denmark and Scandinavia, including Headhunters (2011) and A Thousand Times Good Night (2013). In the U.S, his debut film role was in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), playing Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon. He then played a detective in the short-lived Fox television series New Amsterdam (2008), and appeared in the 2009 Fox television film Virtuality, originally intended as a pilot. He is a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, drawing public attention to issues such as gender equality and climate change.

  • Popularity : 33.965
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1970-07-27
  • Place of Birth : Rudkobing, Denmark
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Movies

  • 2001
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    Black Hawk Down

    Black Hawk Down

    7.386 2001 HD

    When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...

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  • 2001
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    Enigma

    Enigma

    6.357 2001 HD

    The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

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  • 2004
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    My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure

    My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure

    4.3 2004 HD

    Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's...

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  • 2004
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    The Good Cop

    The Good Cop

    6.4 2004 HD

    A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a...

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  • 2003
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    Stealing Rembrandt

    Stealing Rembrandt

    5.9 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Virtue

    Virtue

    1 1970 HD

    1350, England: A heroic knight returns to his plague-ravaged homeland. Wracked with guilt for leaving his wife and neglecting his people, he vows to...

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  • 1994
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    Nightwatch

    Nightwatch

    6.9 1994 HD

    Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to...

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  • 2005
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    Shadow of the Sword

    Shadow of the Sword

    5.7 2005 HD

    Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them...

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  • 2004
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    Wimbledon

    Wimbledon

    6.218 2004 HD

    British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it...

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  • 1998
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    Wildside

    Wildside

    6.1 1998 HD

    Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job,...

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  • 2007
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    Wonderful and Loved by All

    Wonderful and Loved by All

    5.7 2007 HD

    Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In...

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  • 1998
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    Angel of the Night

    Angel of the Night

    3.9 1998 HD

    Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts...

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  • 2003
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    The Bouncer

    The Bouncer

    4.5 2003 HD

    Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost...

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  • 2007
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    The Baker

    The Baker

    6.392 2007 HD

    Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of...

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  • 2009
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    Virtuality

    Virtuality

    5 2009 HD

    Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In...

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  • 2006
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    Triple Dare

    Triple Dare

    4.8 2006 HD

    Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they...

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  • 2002
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    24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

    24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

    5.4 2002 HD

    Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19...

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  • 2000
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    Foreign Fields

    Foreign Fields

    4.5 2000 HD

    Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn...

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  • 2011
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    Blackthorn

    Blackthorn

    6.6 2011 HD

    In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber...

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  • 2007
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    The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

    The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

    4.5 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Headhunters

    Headhunters

    7.2 2011 HD

    An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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  • 2009
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    At World's End

    At World's End

    5.4 2009 HD

    An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish...

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  • 2013
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    Oblivion

    Oblivion

    6.649 2013 HD

    Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war...

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  • 2023
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    The Flash

    The Flash

    6.687 2023 HD

    When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and...

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  • 1999
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    Misery Harbour

    Misery Harbour

    5 1999 HD

    A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but...

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  • 2008
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    Himmerland

    Himmerland

    4.5 2008 HD

    An American travels to Europe to unravel the mystery surrounding his sister's death.

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  • 2013
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    Mama

    Mama

    6.273 2013 HD

    Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day...

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  • 2016
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    Gods of Egypt

    Gods of Egypt

    5.66 2016 HD

    A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

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  • 2014
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    The Other Woman

    The Other Woman

    6.4 2014 HD

    After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three...

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  • 2007
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    Filthy Gorgeous

    Filthy Gorgeous

    2 2007 HD

    This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Robert Allan Ackerman ("The Reagans") charts the...

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  • 2013
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    A Thousand Times Good Night

    A Thousand Times Good Night

    6.9 2013 HD

    On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly...

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  • 2014
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    A Second Chance

    A Second Chance

    6.551 2014 HD

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

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  • 2023
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    Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

    Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

    6 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

    Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

    8.5 2015 HD

    The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they...

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  • 2017
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    Shot Caller

    Shot Caller

    7 2017 HD

    A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of...

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  • 1970
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    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

    1 1970 HD

    After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and...

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  • 2008
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    The Kautokeino Rebellion

    The Kautokeino Rebellion

    6 2008 HD

    Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

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  • 1997
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    Bent

    Bent

    6.9 1997 HD

    Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a...

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  • 1999
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    Antenneforeningen

    Antenneforeningen

    6 1999 HD

    Director: Søren Fauli Drama Also known as: The Cable Club

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  • 2015
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    Klown Forever

    Klown Forever

    6.1 2015 HD

    Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his...

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  • 2017
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    Small Crimes

    Small Crimes

    5.35 2017 HD

    A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the...

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  • 2006
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    Firewall

    Firewall

    5.824 2006 HD

    State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a...

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  • 2017
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    3 Things

    3 Things

    6.2 2017 HD

    Before entering the witness protection program, bank robber Mikael demands 3 things from the police. 3 things that cast a whole new light on the...

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  • 2024
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    My Fathers' Daughter

    My Fathers' Daughter

    1 2024 HD

    Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often...

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  • 2019
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    Domino

    Domino

    4.645 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

    Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

    7.7 2017 HD

    HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in the thousands of years before Game of Thrones'...

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  • 2019
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    Exit Plan

    Exit Plan

    6 2019 HD

    Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of...

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  • 1991
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    Requiem

    Requiem

    1 1991 HD

    A short film about the art of killing.

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  • 1993
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    Slaget på tasken

    Slaget på tasken

    8 1993 HD

    A young couple, Christian and Louise, are woken up by their sweetest slumber a morning. Two employees in their property company acquire access and...

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  • 2005
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    Kingdom of Heaven

    Kingdom of Heaven

    6.97 2005 HD

    After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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  • 2019
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    Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

    Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

    7.103 2019 HD

    For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the...

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  • 2020
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    The Silencing

    The Silencing

    6.46 2020 HD

    A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have...

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  • 2020
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    The Day We Died

    The Day We Died

    5.5 2020 HD

    Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.

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  • 2017
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    Chicken/Egg

    Chicken/Egg

    9.5 2017 HD

    Mark is going to help his uncle out. Maybe.

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  • 2021
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    A Taste of Hunger

    A Taste of Hunger

    6 2021 HD

    Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it...

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  • 2023
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    God Is a Bullet

    God Is a Bullet

    6.1 2023 HD

    Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits...

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  • 2022
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    Against the Ice

    Against the Ice

    6.76 2022 HD

    In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

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  • 2005
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    Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

    Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

    8.5 2005 HD

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  • 2022
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    Against the Ice

    Against the Ice

    6.76 2022 HD

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  • 2022
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    Against the Ice

    Against the Ice

    6.76 2022 HD

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  • 1970
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    Virtue

    Virtue

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2023
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    The Flash

    The Flash

    6.687 2023 HD

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  • 1998
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    Wildside

    Wildside

    6.1 1998 HD

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  • 2021
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    Flee

    Flee

    7.8 2021 HD

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  • 2011
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    Game of Thrones

    Game of Thrones

    8.456 2011 HD

    Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very...

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  • 2008
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    New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam

    7.3 2008 HD

    John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native...

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  • 2000
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    Lock, Stock...

    Lock, Stock...

    5.75 2000 HD

    Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series off-shoot from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The series was shown on Channel 4 and...

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  • 2009
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    Virtuality

    Virtuality

    8.3 2009 HD

    Virtuality is a television pilot co-written by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor and directed by Peter Berg that aired on the Fox network. Since the...

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  • 2009
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    The Left Wing Gang

    The Left Wing Gang

    8 2009 HD

    In 1989, seven radical left-wing activists were charged of being behind a series of the most professional robberies in the history of Denmark. The...

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  • 1975
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    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.9 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 2019
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    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    6.2 2019 HD

    Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are...

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  • 1988
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    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    5.2 1988 HD

    A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...

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  • 1989
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    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons

    8.018 1989 HD

    Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

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  • 2023
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    The Last Thing He Told Me

    The Last Thing He Told Me

    6.975 2023 HD

    A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.

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  • 1997
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    Leute heute

    Leute heute

    3 1997 HD

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  • 1970
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    King & Conqueror

    King & Conqueror

    1 1970 HD

    The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of...

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  • 2003
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    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    5.5 2003 HD

    Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

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  • 2024
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    An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

    An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

    7.667 2024 HD

    Follow Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s search for the people, ideas, traditions, and attitudes – the solutions – which will transform fear...

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  • 2009
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    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    5 2009 HD

    Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

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  • 2019
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    Through Greenland - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

    Through Greenland - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

    2 2019 HD

    What did my father really do - and who was he?

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  • 2014
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    The Men In Blazers Show

    The Men In Blazers Show

    6.5 2014 HD

    A celebration of the Premier League, the world's greatest sporting telenovela, with Roger Bennett and Michael Davies.

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  • 2009
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    Live from Bremen

    Live from Bremen

    7 2009 HD

    Live from Bremen has been described as the successor to Casper and the Mandril Agreement, as the show has the Mandril Agreement's Lasse Rimmer and...

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  • 2010
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    ZULU Comedy Galla

    ZULU Comedy Galla

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2023
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    Agent

    Agent

    7.8 2023 HD

    As an agent for some of the top names in music and film, Johan’s job is to solve his clients’ private and professional problems....

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  • 2014
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    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    5.835 2014 HD

    After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program...

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  • 2008
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    Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

    Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1970
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    Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

    Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

    1 1970 HD

    The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of...

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