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May 7, 2023 · By Jeremy Urquhart. Published May 7, 2023. Chaos reigns. From Melancholia to Dancer in the Dark, this is the definitive ranking of every feature film from controversial director Lars...
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
- “Melancholia” (2011) As Justine in Lars von Trier’s masterful end-of-days drama “Melancholia,” Kirsten Dunst professes, in the face of utter, inexplicable doom, that she “knows things.”
- “Breaking the Waves” (1996) Twenty-five years later, “Breaking the Waves” has lost none of its power, not only as the breakout vehicle for a then-unknown Emily Watson as a martyr in the Scottish Highlands trying to save her paralyzed husband’s life, but also as the film that brought von Trier American attention.
- “Dogville” (2003) “Dogville” went off like a bomb at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, dividing American and international critics’ for Lars von Trier’s three-hour-long screed against class lines in the United States, here situated into Depression-era Colorado.
- “Dancer in the Dark” (2000) “Dancer in the Dark” is a punishing experience enlivened by an all-time performance from Björk who deservedly won Best Actress at Cannes for walking through hell with von Trier, and arriving intact on the other side.
- Dogville (2003) “For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah,” wrote The Village Voice’s J. Hoberman in an overwhelmingly positive review, “this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier’s strongest movie–a masterpiece, in fact.”
- The Idiots (1998) Von Trier’s first film made in complete compliant with the Dogme 95 Manifesto, The Idiots isn’t an easy viewing experience and is the kind of polarizing project that his fans admire while his detractors utterly abhor.
- The Boss of It All (2006) While even von Trier’s most dirge-like films offer moments of comical interlude, 2006’s The Boss of It All is the only film thus far in his canon that’s an across-the-board comedy, though of course of the pitch dark and satiric variety.
- Europa (1991) The very presence of actor Eddie Constantine in Europa invokes his iconic role of Lemmy Caution from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 sci-fi classic Alphaville, and it’s no coincidence.
17 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Dogville. 2003 2h 58m R. 8.0 (159K) Rate. 61 Metascore. 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 finds out that their support has a price. Director Lars von Trier Stars Nicole Kidman Paul Bettany Lauren Bacall.
- Melancholia. Von Trier’s visually stunning apocalyptic drama stars Kirsten Dunst and the director's favorite, Charlotte Gainsbourg, as the deeply depressed Justine and her sister Claire with a mask of calm.
- Dancer in the Dark. Winner of the 2000 Palme d’Or, this heart-rending musical drama tells the story of Selma (played by Icelandic musician Björk), a factory worker who has to cope with losing her eyesight.
- Breaking the Waves. The first film in the director’s Golden Heart trilogy (succeeded by 1998’s The Idiots and 2000’s Dancer in the Dark), the 1996 drama Breaking the Waves is the extraordinary tale of how far someone would go for love.
- Antichrist. Von Trier’s 2009 sinister horror poem opens with a gorgeous, slow-motion, black-and-white prologue, as She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and He (Willem Dafoe) are making love as their child climbs from his crib to look at snowflakes outside and tumbles out of an open window.
Apr 29, 2024 · In this sense, von Trier’s films are an atlas of the human and the inhuman, with plots and circumstances in his films serving as forks in the map of values. Below is the list of All Lars von Trier’s films ranked in descending order:
Lars von Trier's films ranked. by dimitriskalakidis | created - 1 week ago | updated - 1 week ago | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Sort by: View: 15 titles. 1. Dogville (2003) R | 178 min | Crime, Drama. 8. Rate. 61 Metascore.
