Movies with screenplay written by Lars Von Trier

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Antichrist

Antichrist is a classic case of the Emperor's New Clothes. On the surface, it seems like there's something there - as if Lars von Trier is making bold statements about important issues. But when you think about it, he's not saying much, and what ...

Run Time: 1:44
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-23
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sex, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Breaking the Waves

According to writer/director Lars von Trier, Breaking the Waves is "a simple love story", but "simple" hardly begins to describe this deeply disturbing, multi-layered drama. In fact, nowhere is the picture's complexity more evident than in it...

Run Time: 2:39
U.S. Release Date: 1996-11-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge, ...
Dogville

Warning: Significant spoilers starting in Paragraph #4. (But, in a case like this, do plot details really matter?) Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has gone from Dogma to Dogville. The director's latest, a three-hour political allegory, has fu...

Run Time: 2:57
U.S. Release Date: 2004-03-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Bill Raymond, Philip Baker Hall, ...
Manderlay

Let me start with a few brief editorial comments about Lars von Trier. Key to understanding my views about Manderlay is my disclosure of a belief that in order to be able to criticize something, you have to have first-hand familiarity with it. Vo...

Run Time: 2:19
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, ...
Melancholia

No one could ever accuse Lars von Trier of being uninteresting. Even his most maddening, inaccessible films are compulsively watchable, if only to see what will happen next. Melancholia represents von Trier at his best and worst. Visually and thema...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, ...
Nymphomaniac Volume 1

Nymphomaniac Volume I is possibly the best movie Lars von Trier has made since Dancer in the Dark. It doesn’t take much analysis to determine the “why” of this statement - for Nymphomaniac, the iconoclast director has dialed back the pretent...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-21
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Graphic Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, ...
Nymphomaniac Volume II

Nymphomaniac Volume II, the continuation of the story begun by writer/director Lars von Trier in Nymphomaniac Volume I, is a clear case of a narrative running out of steam. Exhaustingly repetitive, this movie attempts many of the same things its pr...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-04
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Graphic Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, ...