Lars von Trier
1) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire , and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Selma, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, is a single mother working in a factory in rural America circa 1964. She is also afflicted by a hereditary disease, which will cost her her sight. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The Sound of Music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life...
Publisher
Distributed by KOCH Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Danish
Description
Delve deeper into the realm of the supernatural. Starting with the birth of 'Little Brother', the son of a diabolical murderer, and continuing with Doctor Helmer's plan to turn the staff into zombies, the forces of evil are once again alive and well.
6) Manderlay
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young girl traveling across 1930's America with her father, discovers a plantation that doesn't know that slavery has been abolished. Can this well-meaning girl and her lawyer father change the minds and hearts of the plantation owners?
8) Antichrist
Series
Criterion collection volume 542
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human...
9) Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 454
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Deutsch
Description
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
1997
Language
Danish
Description
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin to occur, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. At the urging of a spiritualist patient, the employees attempt to help the supernatural forces rest.
Series
Criterion collection volume 705
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A quiet woman in Northern Scotland marries an oil rig worker, who becomes paralyzed in an accident.
12) Dogville
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1168
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The element of crime: From his exile in Cairo, a former police investigator undergoes hypnosis in order to relive his memories of Europe and his last case, for which he went to dangerous lengths to enter the mind of and catch a serial killer targeting children.
Epidemic: A harried screenwriter attempts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadly disease which coincides with a grisly, real-life plague.
Europa: An idealistic American travels...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac is found beaten in the gutters. As a kind soul tries to nourish her back to health, Joe reveals her troubled past encounters, through erotic flashbacks of her youth that led her down this road to low self-esteem and self-worth.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Volume 1: Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac is found beaten in the gutters. As a kind soul tries to nourish her back to health, Joe reveals her troubled past encounters, through erotic flashbacks of her youth that led her down this road to low self-esteem and self-worth.
Volume 2: The story picks up with Joe's adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications, near destruction, reconciling her decisions to move on.
16) Epidemic
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Danish
Description
Tells the bizarre story of a director (played by von Trier himself) and a writer who create a script about a mysterious plague that engulfs Europe, only to find their horrific scenario coming true in real life.
17) Antichrist
Series
Criterion collection volume 542
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human...
Series
Criterion collection volume 705
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A quiet woman in Northern Scotland marries an oil rig worker, who becomes paralyzed in an accident.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Volume One and Volume Two Extended Director's Cut offers almost an hour and a half more visual experience. The director's cut brings Lars von Trier's full vision to fruition for this provocative story centered on Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac. The films odyssey follows Joe as she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and adulthood, during which her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications.
