Lars von Trier — Playwright (15)

Movie

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.

Movie

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.

Movie

Manderlay (2005)
Manderlay
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.

Movie

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.

TV

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.

Movie

The House That Jack Built (2018)
The House That Jack Built
★ 7.2 11 ratings
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.

Movie

The Element of Crime (1984)
Forbrydelsens element
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.

Movie

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Dancer in the Dark
★ 9.2 5 ratings
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.

Movie

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
★ 7.9 14 ratings
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.