Known for Editing
Olivier Bugge Coutté is an editor and producer, best known for Thelma (2017), Beginners (2010), Oslo, August 31st (2011), and The Worst Person in the World (2021).
Born
May 26, 1970 (age 56)
Birthplace
København, Danmark
Filmography
30 films, 2 shows


Sentimental Value
2025 · 2h 13m
country: Turkey
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.


Acts of Love
2025 · 2h 4m
country: Denmark
Hanna lives in a New Age Christian community in rural Denmark and longs to have a child. But her sheltered life starts to unravel as the unexpected arrival of her younger brother Jakob stirs up long-buried memories of their troubled past. Will his arrival threaten Hanna’s dream of becoming a mother? And will the members of the community be able to live up to their own rules and beliefs, when they are confronted with the question: who gets to decide over love?


The Apprentice
2024 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.


Matters of the Heart
2024 · 1h 50m
country: Denmark
A middle-class family, on the surface happy and perfect, are close to disintegration due to the father's escalating alcoholism. After several years of failure and broken promises, they finally give him an ultimatum. However, they must soon recognize that the solution rests on everyone's shoulders.


The Promised Land
2023 · 2h 7m
country: Denmark
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 in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?


The Pod Generation
2023 · 1h 50m
country: Belgium
In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babies, his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.


Copenhagen Does Not Exist
2023 · 1h 39m
country: Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark. While young Ida remains missing, Sander is interrogated by two men in an empty apartment.


The Worst Person in the World
2021 · 2h 8m
country: Norway
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.


The Good Traitor
2020 · 1h 56m
country: Denmark
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.


Congo
2018 · 2h 8m
country: Norway
In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache.


Violently in Love
2017 · 1h 15m
country: Denmark
Behind the closed doors of the Copenhagen-based women's shelter, the women and children are slowly recovering after having escaped domestic violence. Day by day the women are processing their traumas, building confidence and slowly understanding what it takes to break the cycle of violence.


Thelma
2017 · 1h 56m
country: Denmark
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.


A Conspiracy of Faith
2016 · 1h 48m
country: Denmark
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.


Louder Than Bombs
2015 · 1h 49m
country: Norway
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's elder son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in — and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.


The Idealist
2015 · 1h 54m
country: Denmark
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.


Virgin Mountain
2015 · 1h 30m
country: Denmark
Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.


Bridgend
2015 · 1h 44m
country: Denmark
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama.


Arthur Newman
2012 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.


Oslo, August 31st
2011 · 1h 35m
country: Norway
A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.


Beginners
2011 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.


Unmade Beds
2009 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers as she tries to move on from heartbreak. Their stories come together in the melting-pot of 21st century London.


The 27 Club
2008 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Twenty-seven is more than just a number. It is a lifetime.


The Secret War
2006 · 58m
country: Denmark
Controversal documentary focusing on events in Afghanistan in 2002 in which Danish soldiers handed over prisoners to the US Army even though USA no longer treated prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention. Further, the film questions the Danish Prime Minister's reasons for getting Denmark involved in the so-called War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan in the first place.


Reprise
2006 · 1h 47m
country: Norway
Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.
Lykketoft Final
Lykketoft Final
2005 · 55m
country: Denmark
Intimate portrait of Mogens Lykketoft running for Prime Minister during the weeks up to the Danish Referendum 2005. The documentary deals in particular with his confrontations with the media and his relationship to his spin doctors.
Fucking 14
Fucking 14
2004 · 22m
country: Denmark
14-year-old Cecilie is both frustrated and fascinated by her dawning sexuality.
Stjernekigger
Stjernekigger
2002 · 1h 11m
country: Denmark
A behind-the-scenes film about the long and winding road towards the stars for the Danish rock-band Swan Lee.


Still
2001 · 20m
country: United Kingdom
An ambitious short in which the story plays out in the mind of an old man about to die from a heart attack in a public park.


Pieta
2000 · 16m
country: United Kingdom
Julian tells the story of the loss of his best friend Jacob. Years later, he goes back to the place where Jacob died and finds himself caught up in a cathartic experience with Rebecca, Julian's mother.