7 Lars von Trier films to watch for free on Arte.tv
From Breaking the Waves to Dogman via Manderlay or his very first film, Element of Crime.
No Dancing in the Dark (2000), from Melancholia (2011), nor Nymphomaniac (2013), but 7 major films of Lars Von Trier can be seen again or discovered on Arte.tv and for free. A genius experimenter for 4 decades, often provocative of various controversies, the 67-year-old Danish director unveils his work in streaming until the end of the year on the platform.
Element of Crime (1984) – Available until 12/31/2023
Lars von Trier’s debut film blurs the lines between dream and reality. A strange thriller where an inspector exiled in Cairo puts himself under hypnosis to try to find a serial killer.
Epidemic (1987) – Available until 12/31/2023
A distressing film full of curiosities, which follows a director and his screenwriter, writing the story of a doctor fighting against the spread of a virus.
Europe (1991) – Available until 12/31/2023
Jean-Marc Barr and Barbara Sukowa in this historical film about post-World War II Germany…
Breaking the Waves (1996) – Available until 10/31/2023
A romantic whirlwind filmed with a hand-held camera with Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and César for best foreign film. “On the Scottish coast, a naive young girl falls in love with a mature man who works on an oil rig…”
Dogville (2003) – Available until 12/31/2023
First opus of the Scandinavian’s American trilogy, an official selection of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, this UFO in the 1930s tells the story of a small mountain town in the United States where a young woman is being pursued by gangsters. With Nicole Kidman.
Manderlay (2005) – Available until 12/31/2023
This second film in the American trilogy takes us to Alabama, to a plantation where slavery seems to have never been abolished. A corrosive parable about the pitfalls of democracy. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe.
The Director (2006) – Available until 12/31/2023
He also knows how to do comedy. But social. The story of a business leader who hires an actor to play his fictional superior and make major decisions for him.
