Lars von Trier

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus (2022)

Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script to shoot and to the screen at home. ...

Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck (2020)

Lars von Trier was interviewed by Christian Lund at his home outside Copenhagen in November 2020. ...

The Idiots Who Started The Party (2020)

Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The Idiots' during the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 put Denmark on the film world map. Another eight films unde ...

Living the Light: Robby Müller (2018)

For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 featur ...

Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life. ...

Plankton Salesmen (2017)

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov. ...

En invitation fra Lars von Trier (2015)

Arteholic (2014)

Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes art and at times he is even a living art piece. In this playful docu-fiction, we follow Udo on a road trip through famous museums in Frankfurt, Cologne, Par ...

Colors (2013)

The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão Geraldo because things happen here. Here people love as much as dolls hang themselves and chicken are slaug ...

Trespassing Bergman (2013)

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all ...

Bergmans video (2012)

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came fro ...

Side by Side (2012)

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development ...

… But Film Is My Mistress (2010)

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars v ...

Ernst-Hugo (2008)

A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything. On the out side he was a hailed and confident diva. In his solitude he was plagued by insomnia, anxiet ...

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

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 ...

Filmbyen: The New Mecca of Cinema (2007)

Filmbyen is a cinema-town created by Lars Von Trier (director) et Peter Aalbek Jensen (producer). They founded together a company which regroups all the cinema business industry. That documentary retraces the Filmbyen story, how it functions, the artistic ...

The Boss of It All (2006)

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers in ...

A Conversation with Lars von Trier (2005)

Filmmaker Eva Ziemsen was determined to interview renowned film director, Lars von Trier. Her provocative offer, to conduct the interview nude, led to a revealing and truthful conversation about filmmaking. ...

Looking Back At The Idiots (2005)

In 2005 the cast and crew with Lars Von Trier gatherd to talk about Lars Von Trier's Dogma film The Idiots. ...

Dogville Confessions (2004)

A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deepe ...

The Five Obstructions (2003)

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 ...

Inside Björk (2003)

Following the career of Björk, this documentary looks at her early musical career with local icelandic bands, her acclaimed stint in The Sugarcubes, and her massive success as a free-spirited solo artist. ...

The Purified (2003)

The filmmakers who created the Dogme Manifesto reflect, argue, and watch clips of their own films. ...

Wag the Dogma (2001)

Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film systematically breaks each and every one of the Dogme 'vows of chastity' - employing special effects, comedy sound desi ...

Von Trier's 100 Eyes (2000)

Although at first sight this might look like a simple 'making of DANCER IN THE DARK', the later developments in the film reveal the whole drama of Lars von Trier's inner life during the shooting process. All his doubts and insecurities in collaborating wit ...

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95 (2000)

The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a generation. The film tells how a 'brotherhood' of four Danish directors armed with a radical Manifesto, has ...

The Exhibited (2000)

Jesper Jargil's documentary portrait of a bizarre piece of Danish experimental theater directed by Lars von Trier. ...

100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision (2000)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier. ...

FreeDogme (2000)

Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital video. The discussion is about the Dogme 95 film movement and how technological transformations affect cinemat ...

The Copyist (1999)

It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. He joins the reputable company Zentropa, where he is even lucky enough to meet the famous Lars von Trier (von Trier himself), who does not have many positiv ...

The Humiliated (1998)

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots". ...

The Kingdom II (1998)

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 hav ...

The Idiots (1998)

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves. ...

In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema (1998)

German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier. ...

Lars From 1 - 10 (1998)

Breaking The Waves director Lars Von Trier invents his own set of rules for filmmaking. ...

Ironie und Gottessuche - Das Kino des Lars von Trier (1998)

Documentary on Lars von Trier ...

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997)

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at ...

I Am Curious, Film (1995)

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries ...

The Kingdom (1994)

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a ...

The Making of Europa (1991)

Documentary about the making of Lars von Trier's 1991 film. ...

Europa (1991)

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him. ...

Trier's Element (1991)

Behind-the-scenes documentary about Lars von Trier's latest movie Europa (1991). Also features unique footage of Trier and cast shooting a bit of footage for Trier's 30-year project "Dimension". ...

Portrait of Lars von Trier (1991)

Danish documentary from TV2 in 1991. ...

Epidemic (1987)

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality. ...

Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime (1984)

Behind the scenes documentary of Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime (1984). ...

The Element of Crime (1984)

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 cr ...

Kaptajn Klyde og hans venner vender tilbage (1980)

Close The comedy quartet Klyderne attempts to create "a typical Danish film" through a long series of absurd sketches, parodies, musical interludes, and animated segments. The film includes the story of Anton W. Olsen and his singing foot, a soccer match b ...

Menthe: The Benefactor (1979)

Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission. ...

The Orchid Gardener (1977)

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. ...

Goodbye, I'm Kurt (1969)

A story of 6-year-old Alberte who decides to leave her parents, because they are always busy working or watching TV, and don't have time to do fun things with her. She moves to the boat right outside her house, and decides that her new name is Kurt. She h ...

Clandestine Summer (1969)

Summer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he hears a scream from a garden. ...

Good Night, Dear (1968)

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery. ...

The House That Jack Built (2018)

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. ...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

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. ...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

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 Seli ...

A Royal Affair (2012)

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever. ...

Melancholia (2011)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. ...

Dimension (2010)

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. ...

Antichrist (2009)

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. ...

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

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 ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) (2007)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

The Boss of It All (2006)

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers in ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

Le court des grands (2005)

A program of debut shorts from some of cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears, featured auteurs include George Lucas' "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966), Ridley Scott's "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965), Robert Zemeckis' "The Lift" (1 ...

Manderlay (2005)

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 h ...

Dear Wendy (2005)

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunslingers led by Dick Dandelion. Following a code of strict pacifism at odds with the fact that they all carry guns, the group eventually lets in Sebastian, th ...

Visions of Europe (2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors. ...

Kingdom Hospital (2004)

Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died. ...

The South (2004)

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosth ...

Dogville: The Pilot (2003)

Dogville: The Pilot was shot during 2001 in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and sparse scenery would work. The 15-minute pilot film starred Danish actors Sidse Babett Knudsen (as Grace) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (as Tom). ...

The Five Obstructions (2003)

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 ...

Dogville (2003)

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price. ...

Screaming Men (2003)

A documentary film about the Finnish screaming male choir. ...

Kayaking On The Top Of The World (2000)

In 1999 two Danish adventurers, John Andersen and Frederik Jacobi, set out to travel north around Greenland, on foot, on skies, and in kayak. As they move forward they visit areas where former explorers fought life-and-death-battles with the Polar, and tel ...

Italian for Beginners (2000)

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies wi ...

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to ...

D-Day (2000)

Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebrations. ...

The Kingdom II (1998)

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 hav ...

The Idiots (1998)

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves. ...

Breaking the Waves (1996)

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another. ...

The Kingdom (1994)

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a ...

Europa (1991)

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him. ...

Medea (1989)

Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. ...

Epidemic (1987)

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality. ...

Sauna (1986)

A risqué TV commercial directed by Lars von Trier for Ekstra Bladet. ...

The Element of Crime (1984)

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 cr ...

Images of Liberation (1982)

A German officer visits his Danish mistress after the occupation of Denmark has ended. ...

Nocturne (1980)

It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a plane ticket from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires at 6 that morning. She doesn't want to go. ...

Menthe: The Benefactor (1979)

Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission. ...

The Orchid Gardener (1977)

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. ...

A Flower (1971)

A boy grows a seed into a flower while the world around him marches on. ...

Why Try to Escape from That Which You Know You Can't Escape From? Because You Are a Coward (1970)

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. ...

Good Night, Dear (1968)

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery. ...

The Trip to Squash Land (1967)

The earliest recognized film by Lars Trier (made in his youth before he adopted the "von") is this stop motion cartoon, where a super-sausage saves a bunny. ...