Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches. He is known for his female-centric parables and his exploration of controversial subject matter. Von Trier began making his own films at the age of 11 after receiving a Super-8 camera as a gift, and his first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener, in 1977. His first feature film came seven years later, The Element of Crime, in 1984. As of 2010, he has directed a further 10 feature films, 5 short films and 4 television productions. He has been married twice and is currently married to Bente Frøge. Von Trier suffers periodically from depression, as well as various fears and phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As he himself once put it, "Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking".

Works

The House That Jack Built

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.

Release Date: 2018-07-05

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 2797

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

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.

Release Date: 2013-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2937

Nymphomaniac: 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.

Release Date: 2013-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3411

A Royal Affair

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

Release Date: 2012-03-29

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 881

Melancholia

Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth…

Release Date: 2011-05-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3534

Dimension

Dimension is a short film written and directed by Lars von Trier, released in 2010. The film was shot in three-minute segments over several years. The original intention was to continue production for a period of 30 years for a final release in 2024. However, von Trier lost interest in the project and it was shelved in the late 1990s. The short film consists of the completed footage at the time the film was abandoned.

Release Date: 2010-08-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

Antichrist

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.

Release Date: 2009-05-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2613

The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

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, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.

Release Date: 2007-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Narrator

Vote Count: 10

To Each His Own 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.

Release Date: 2007-10-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: The filmmaker (segment "Occupations")

Vote Count: 137

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

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

Release Date: 2007-09-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Boss of It All

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.

Release Date: 2006-12-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Narrator (uncredited)

Vote Count: 285

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

Release Date: 2006-06-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Le court des grands

A program of short films from some of the cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears. - George Lucas "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966) - Ridley Scott "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965) - Robert Zemeckis "The Lift" (1972) - Tony Scott "One of the Missing" (1969) - Emir Kusturica "Guernica" (1978) - Luc Besson "L'avant dernier" (1981) - Lars von Trier "Nocturne" (1980) - Terry Gilliam "Storytime" (1968) - Paul Verhoeven "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960) - Roman Polanski "Le gros et le maigre" (1960) - Jane Campion "Peel" (1982) - Stephen Frears "The Burning" (1967)

Release Date: 2005-11-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

All About Anna

Anna is a young costume designer, focused on her job and wary of getting caught in romantic relationships. She has just found a new apartment, and is tempted to let her latest boyfriend, Frank, move in with her. Instead, she finds a tenant: The flamboyant, fun-loving Camilla, who shares Anna’s views on love and commitment. For both of them, it’s all about fun.

Release Date: 2005-11-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 114

Manderlay

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.

Release Date: 2005-06-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 348

Dear Wendy

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, the grandson of Dick's childhood nanny, Clarabelle, who fears the other gangs in the area. Dick and company try to protect Clarabelle, but events transpire that push the gang past posturing.

Release Date: 2005-02-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 123

Visions of Europe

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

Release Date: 2004-05-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 18

Kingdom Hospital

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.

Release Date: 2004-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 49

The South

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 prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.

Release Date: 2004-01-24

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5

Dogville: The Pilot

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).

Release Date: 2003-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 13

The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.

Release Date: 2003-11-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self / Obstructor (segment "The Conversations")

Vote Count: 155

Dogville

When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.

Release Date: 2003-05-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2444

Screaming Men

A documentary film about the Finnish screaming male choir.

Release Date: 2003-02-21

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 7

Kayaking On The Top Of The World

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 tell their stories in details.

Release Date: 2000-12-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

Italian for Beginners

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 with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

Release Date: 2000-12-07

Department: Production

Job: Associate Producer

Vote Count: 130

Dancer in the Dark

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 cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Release Date: 2000-09-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1814

HotMen CoolBoyz

HotMen CoolBoyz (or H.M.C.B.) is a Danish adult film directed by Knud Vesterskov and starring Ron Athey and Billy Herrington. It is the only gay hardcore pornographic film ever produced by an established mainstream film company, yet upon its release was almost completely ignored by the Danish press, and only later started to gain an international reputation for its unique artistic imagery.

Release Date: 2000-04-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

D-Day

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

Release Date: 2000-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 24

Constance

Constance, a young woman, arrives at the mansion of the experienced Lola, where she is initiated into the mysteries of sexuality.

Release Date: 1998-04-30

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2

The Idiots

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.

Release Date: 1998-04-28

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Vote Count: 583

The Kingdom II

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.

Release Date: 1997-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self (uncredited)

Vote Count: 45

Breaking the Waves

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

Release Date: 1996-07-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 995

The Kingdom

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.

Release Date: 1994-11-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self (uncredited)

Vote Count: 248

Europa

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

Release Date: 1991-06-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Jew

Vote Count: 324

Medea

It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent. Medea is the tragic character that after helping Jason in the Voyage of the Argonauts (myth says that she has even sacrificed her own brother for Jason's success), she gets from him only betrayal, as he arranges to marry the King's of Corinth daughter. The king decides to exile Medea, as she is a danger for his daughter happiness, but Medea asks from him just a day… before she goes outside the borders. That day Medea gets her revenge.

Release Date: 1989-08-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 73

Epidemic

A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them in the real world.

Release Date: 1987-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self / Dr. Mesmer

Vote Count: 121

Sauna

A risqué TV commercial directed by Lars von Trier for Ekstra Bladet. (Danish tabloid paper)

Release Date: 1986-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Element of Crime

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.

Release Date: 1984-05-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Schmuck of Ages

Vote Count: 202

Images of Liberation

Set in Copenhagen during World War II, the film follows a German officer who visits his Danish mistress in the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.

Release Date: 1982-06-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

Nocturne

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. Her friend encourages her to make the trip. Later, she stands in a car park with her suitcase. Flying geese fill the screen.

Release Date: 1980-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 53

Menthe: The Benefactor

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

Release Date: 1979-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character:

Vote Count: 10

The Orchid Gardener

A young, mentally ill man, a visual artist in crisis Victor Marse (Lars von Trier) meets two nurses (Eliza and her girlfriend) during his stay in a sanatorium. These nurses are obvious lesbians. Victor lives with Eliza and her son. He imagines another woman when he is roaming at a coast. He pretends committing a suicide but Eliza does not react to it. Every moment, he stays in front of a blank canvas and thinks. Meanwhile he dresses into Nazi clothes or into women dresses, then he leaves to go to the cinema, and abuses and probably kills a small girl. His masochistic affair with Eliza lasts; he is close to shooting her with a gun but instead she takes out a whip. Victor goes along the streets then he lies naked in front of the canvas on which he has left his bloody fingerprints. After this he drives a funeral car to his work - he is employed in a garden where orchids are grown. Eliza is now the past and in the end, Victor might be dead as someone drives a cross into the ground.

Release Date: 1977-05-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Victor Morse

Vote Count: 13

A Flower

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

Release Date: 1971-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 16

Why Try to Escape from That 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.

Release Date: 1970-03-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 23

Good Night, Dear

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

Release Date: 1968-05-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character:

Vote Count: 12

The Trip to Squash Land

The earliest recognized film by Lars Trier (made in his youth before he adopted the "von") is this stop motion cartoon, Turen til Squach land… En Super Pølse film (Trip to Squash Land… A Super Sausage film).

Release Date: 1967-07-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 25

After

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Nocebo

A series of ten black and white shorts.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Nymphomaniac - The Good Cut

A new cut of Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac that combines both films into one from genius auteur/pretentious wanker: Banjo Joynt. Running two hours shorter and including a new soundtrack and alternate ending. This is The Good Cut

Release Date: 2025-01-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

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.

Release Date: 2022-11-20

Character: Self / Director / Devil

Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck

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

Release Date: 2020-12-24

Character: Lars von Trier

Vote Count: 1

The Idiots Who Started The Party

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 under the strict Dogme rules followed and created great international careers for several of the talents in front of and behind the handheld camera. Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Lone Scherfig, Sonja Richter and many more of the country's greatest filmmakers look back on when Denmark became Dogme.

Release Date: 2020-10-13

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 1

Living the Light: Robby Müller

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 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.

Release Date: 2018-09-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

Bergman: A Year in a Life

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.

Release Date: 2018-07-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 36

Plankton Salesmen

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

Release Date: 2017-10-29

Character: Self (archive footage)

En invitation fra Lars von Trier

Release Date: 2015-01-12

Arteholic

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, Paris, Copenhagen and Berlin, and eavesdrop as he chats with artists including Marcel Odenbach, Rosemarie Trockel, Jonathan Meese and Tobias Rehberger and filmmakers such as Nicolette Krebitz and Lars von Trier.

Release Date: 2014-10-16

Vote Count: 1

Colors

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 slaughtered to death. Would I still hang dolls and burn memories in the next 18 years? It astonishes me how less and less I do not care for things that are not my extension. Being my own destruction is the only way. Intimacy is a farewell. All I see is a lot water and all the colors are not enough. All forms of comunication are not enough for a lot of water.

Release Date: 2013-12-30

Character: Fuck Putas Edition

Trespassing Bergman

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 over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

Release Date: 2013-08-28

Character: Self

Vote Count: 27

Side by Side

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 of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

Release Date: 2012-08-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 291

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

Release Date: 2011-09-03

Character: Self

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 59

… But Film Is My Mistress

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 von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.

Release Date: 2010-05-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 12

Ernst-Hugo

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, anxiety and a complicated relationship with his father. Includes Ernst-Hugo Järegårds last performance "Aktörens läte/ The sound of the actor" (1998) and "Abstract Poker" (1971).

Release Date: 2008-12-28

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Filmbyen, la nouvelle Mecque du cinéma ?

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

Release Date: 2007-01-01

Character: self

A Conversation with Lars von Trier

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.

Release Date: 2005-10-17

Character: Interviewee

Looking Back At The Idiots

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

Release Date: 2005-04-28

Klovn

Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.

Release Date: 2005-02-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 24

Dogville Confessions

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 deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe.

Release Date: 2004-06-27

Character: Self

Vote Count: 24

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

Kingdom is a hospital whose bizarre population includes a brilliant surgeon who lives in the basement, a nearly blind security guard and a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood. But when patients and staff hear the voice of a girl crying through the halls and a patient destined for life as a paraplegic miraculously recovers, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers... at their own peril.

Release Date: 2004-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 115

Inside Björk

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.

Release Date: 2003-08-23

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

The Purified

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

Release Date: 2003-01-17

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 3

Wag the Dogma

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 design, and a singing narrator to boot.

Release Date: 2001-06-11

Von Trier's 100 Eyes

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 with the crew and actors - especially actresses - are exposed. The biggest drama started when Björk walked off the set. Nobody knew whether she would be back or not. Admitting that he feels threatened by women, who can ‘make him feel embarrassed’, the director gives this documentary the nature of a personal diary. When he discusses the importance, purpose and beauty of the use of a hundred cameras in a certain sequence or the meaning of the Dogma 95 rules, the audience is witnessing the process of the artist’s search. Is the pain that the director went through during the shooting really visible in the final result, as Lars von Trier claims in this film? (from: http://www.idfa.nl/)

Release Date: 2000-12-02

Character: Self

Vote Count: 7

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

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 inspired, outraged and provoked filmmakers and filmgoers the world over. The rules of Dogme95 take filmmaking back to its brass-tacks - stories must be set in the here and now; the films must be shot on location, with a handheld camera, using natural light, and direct sound; the rules forbid murders and weapons (staples of the much-loved action-movie genre); and, most amusingly, the director must not be credited (that holds also for the director of The Name of this Film is Dogme95...).

Release Date: 2000-11-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

The Exhibited

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

Release Date: 2000-03-13

FreeDogme

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 cinematic practice.

Release Date: 2000-01-01

Character: himself

Vote Count: 1

100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision

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

Release Date: 2000-01-01

The Copyist

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 positive words for Tafdrup. Tafdrup tells aspiring young women that he is actually a director, and he therefore gets them to show up for auditions

Release Date: 1999-11-25

Character: Self

Dogma 95, a Serious Game?

Shot in Denmark in 1999, the documentary features exclusive interviews with the creators of the filmmaking movement Dogma 95: Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Soren Kragh-Jakobsen.

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Character: Self

The Humiliated

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

Release Date: 1998-10-30

Vote Count: 5

Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos

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

Release Date: 1998-01-01

Character: Self

Lars From 1 - 10

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

Release Date: 1998-01-01

Vote Count: 1

Ironie und Gottessuche - Das Kino des Lars von Trier

Documentary on Lars von Trier

Release Date: 1998-01-01

Character: Self

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

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 work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson

Release Date: 1997-12-12

Vote Count: 3

I Am Curious, Film

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

Release Date: 1995-10-28

Character: Self

Vote Count: 6

The Kingdom

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.

Release Date: 1994-11-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 42

The Making of Europa

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

Release Date: 1991-12-31

Character: Self - Director

Vote Count: 1

Trier's Element

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".

Release Date: 1991-01-01

Character: Himself

Portrait of Lars von Trier

Danish documentary from TV2 in 1991.

Release Date: 1991-01-01

Character: Himself

Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime

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

Release Date: 1984-05-31

Character: Self - Film Director

Kaptajn Klyde og hans venner vender tilbage

Release Date: 1980-12-26

Vote Count: 2

Clandestine Summer

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.

Release Date: 1969-06-01

Character: Lars

Episode Count: 4

Goodbye, I'm Kurt

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 has always wanted to be a boy.

Release Date: 1969-05-03

Character: Børge

Vote Count: 1

The Missing Films

Making film wears down director Lars von Trier, but he is not able to live without them. In the documentary film this Danish auteur’s all-consuming love affection for film is portrayed. Now he is standing at a cross-road. While film as we know it is dying.

Character: Himself

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date: 1964-01-16

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1