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What is the best Lars von Trier movie of all time?

By YPB Team1 vote

From his early provocations to late-career shockers, von Trier's filmography swings between raw emotion, formal experimentation, and genuine transgression. Classics sit alongside deeply divisive works — cast your vote!

  1. Dogville — ranked #11
    Dogville
    A theatrical, stage-set drama starring Nicole Kidman as a fugitive who takes refuge in a small Rocky Mountain town with dark consequences.
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  2. Dancer in the Dark — ranked #22
    Dancer in the Dark
    A tragic musical following a Czech immigrant in America who is slowly going blind and dreams of a better life for her son.
    555pts
  3. Nymphomaniac — ranked #33
    Nymphomaniac
    An epic, two-volume exploration of a womans erotic journey from birth to age 50, told through raw confessions.
    333pts
  4. Antichrist — ranked #44
    Antichrist
    A grief-stricken couple retreats to a cabin in the woods where nature becomes the backdrop for escalating dread and violence.
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  5. Melancholia — ranked #55
    Melancholia
    A psychologically intense sci-fi drama in which two sisters face the end of the world in very different ways.
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  6. Breaking the Waves — ranked #66
    Breaking the Waves
    A deeply emotional drama about a naive woman in a remote Scottish community whose devotion to her paralyzed husband leads to tragedy.
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  7. The House That Jack Built — ranked #77
    The House That Jack Built
    A dark and provocative thriller told through the eyes of a meticulous serial killer over twelve years.
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  8. Europa — ranked #88
    Europa
    A hypnotic train ride through post-war Germany in luminous black and white; released as Zentropa in the US, it took the Jury Prize at Cannes 1991.
  9. The Element of Crime — ranked #99
    The Element of Crime
    The sepia-drenched 1984 debut: a detective noir dreamscape that won the Cannes technical Grand Prix and announced a stubborn new stylist.
  10. Epidemic — ranked #1010
    Epidemic
    Meta-horror on a shoestring: von Trier and co-writer Niels Vorsel script a plague film while a real epidemic spreads around them.
  11. The Idiots — ranked #1111
    The Idiots
    Dogme #2 and the great provocation of the era: a commune fakes madness in public with the camera rules stripped to the bone.
  12. Manderlay — ranked #1212
    Manderlay
    The chalk-line follow-up to Dogville takes Grace to an Alabama plantation where slavery never ended.
  13. The Boss of It All — ranked #1313
    The Boss of It All
    His rare straight comedy: an actor is hired to impersonate a company's invented boss in front of the unsuspecting staff.

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