Lars von Trier — Director (25)
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
8.1 (11 ratings) director: Lars von Trier actor: Charlotte Gainsbourg / Stellan Skarsgård …
other title: Nymphomaniac - Volume 1 / Ninfomaníaca: Vol. I …
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
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Dancer in the Dark (2000) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Dancer in the Dark
director: Lars von Trier actor: Björk / Catherine Deneuve …
other title: Dançando no Escuro / Bailar en la oscuridad
A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.
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The Element of Crime (1984) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Forbrydelsens element
director: Lars von Trier actor: Michael Elphick / Esmond Knight …
other title: L'elemento del crimine / Forbrydelsens element …
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
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The House That Jack Built (2018) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The House That Jack Built
director: 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.
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The Five Obstructions (2003) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
De fem benspænd
director: 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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To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theo Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti …
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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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
7.7 (10 ratings) director: Lars von Trier actor: Charlotte Gainsbourg / Stellan Skarsgård …
other title: Nymphomaniac - Volume 2 / Ninfomaníaca - Vol. 2 …
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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The Kingdom (1994) [TV] TMDB
Riget
director: 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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The Idiots (1998) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB
Idioterne
director: 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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Manderlay (2005) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Manderlay
director: 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 Boss of It All (2006) [Movie] TMDB
Direktøren for det hele
director: 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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The Kingdom (1994) [Movie] TMDB
Riget
director: 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 Kingdom II (1997) [Movie] TMDB
Riget II
director: Lars von Trier / Morten Arnfred actor: Ernst-Hugo Järegård / Kirsten Rolffes …
other title: Riget II / O Reino 2
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
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Why Try to Escape from That Which You Know You Can't Escape From? Because You Are a Coward (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hvorfor flygte fra det du ved du ikke kan flygte fra? Fordi du er en kujon
director: 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.