# The best Mads Mikkelsen movies

From Pusher to The Promised Land and Hollywood: Mads Mikkelsen's strongest roles, ranked from Gold Derby, Screen Rant and users' lists on Letterboxd.

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- Feb 10, 2026 · aarhusfilmbuff
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## Top 10

1. **A Royal Affair (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilde.
2. **The Hunt (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A teacher wrongly accused in a small town; best actor at Cannes.
3. **Another Round (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four teachers and an experiment with alcohol; Oscar for best international film.
4. **Adam's Apples (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ivan, the relentlessly optimistic priest, by Anders Thomas Jensen.
5. **Pusher (1996)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tonny in Nicolas Winding Refn's debut.
6. **Riders of Justice (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A soldier out for revenge with three nerds.
7. **Flickering Lights (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four gangsters stranded at an inn on Funen.
8. **After the Wedding (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An aid worker from India faces his past, by Susanne Bier.
9. **Flame & Citron (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Resistance fighters in occupied Copenhagen.
10. **Casino Royale (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The villain Le Chiffre against Daniel Craig's Bond.
11. **Valhalla Rising (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The mute warrior One-Eye, by Refn.
12. **Arctic (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alone in the Arctic after a plane crash.
13. **Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Scientist Galen Erso, Jyn's father.
14. **The Promised Land (2023)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Captain Ludvig Kahlen tries to cultivate the heath in the 1700s.

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