Lars von Trier — Director (27)
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Images of Liberation (1982)
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Lars von Trier actor: Edward Fleming / Kirsten Olesen
other title: Befrielsesbilleder / Bilder der Befreiung …
A German officer visits his Danish mistress after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
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Dimension (2010)
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Lars von Trier actor: Eddie Constantine / Ernst-Hugo Järegård …
other title: Dimension 1991-2024
A poetic gangster story and a thriller about the passage of time. Recorded between 1991 and 1997 but released in 2010; von Trier's long-running project was to premiere in 2024, but production was halted.
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Menthe: The Benefactor (1979)
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Lars von Trier actor: Inger Hvidtfeldt / Annette Linnet …
other title: Menthe - la bienheureuse / Menthe – la bienheureuse …
Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission.
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The Orchid Gardener (1977)
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Lars von Trier actor: Lars von Trier / Inger Hvidtfeldt …
other title: Orchidégartneren / Le Jardinier d’Orchidées …
A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting humanity's willingness to extend help to one another, he has been referred to as a wimp, subsequently resulting in a fear of weakness and being incapable.
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Why Try to Escape from That Which You Know You Can't Escape From? Because You Are a Coward (1970)
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Lars von Trier
other title: Hvorfor flygte fra det du ved du ikke kan flygte fra? Fordi du er en kujon / Why Try to Escape from Which You Know You Can't Escape from? Because You Are a Coward …
A man is being haunted by a masked stranger. The only language used in the movie comes from three (inter) title cards and a few sentences of sermon-like talk in Danish. Some of the talk is modified citations from the bible and similar sources.
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The Kingdom II (1997)
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Lars von Trier / Morten Arnfred actor: Ernst-Hugo Järegård / Kirsten Rolffes …
other title: Riget II / O Reino 2 …
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.
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The Kingdom (1994)
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Lars von Trier / Morten Arnfred actor: Ernst-Hugo Järegård / Kirsten Rolffes …
other title: Il regno / Riget …
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.
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The Boss of It All (2006)
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Lars von Trier actor: Jens Albinus / Peter Gantzler …
other title: Il grande capo / Direktøren for det hele …
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
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Manderlay (2005)
Manderlay
Lars von Trier actor: Bryce Dallas Howard / Isaach de Bankolé …
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.
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The Idiots (1998)
Idioterne
Lars von Trier actor: Bodil Jørgensen / Jens Albinus …
other title: Idioti / Idioterne …
A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
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The Kingdom (1994)
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Lars von Trier actor: Søren Pilmark / Ghita Nørby …
other title: Il Regno / Riget …
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Gina Clayton …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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The Five Obstructions (2003)
De fem benspænd
Jørgen Leth / Lars von Trier actor: Jørgen Leth / Lars von Trier …
other title: Le cinque variazioni / De Fem Benspænd …
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
The House That Jack Built
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Lars von Trier actor: Matt Dillon / Bruno Ganz …
other title: La casa di Jack / The House That Jack Built - A Casa de Jack …
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.