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The Five Obstructions
Foreign Films
With THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor,...... read more
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The Kingdom - Series One
Foreign Films
Director Lars von Trier puts his mischievous mind to work once again, this time creating a bizarre, humorous, and suspenseful tale about a Danish hospital that is haunted by ancient...... read more
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Kingdom - Series Two
Television
In 1997 Danish director Lars von Trier produced a second set of episodes for his unique and compelling TV show, THE KINGDOM. The action once again takes places in the creepy surroundings...... read more
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Babette's Feast
Foreign Films
This Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film was a big art house hit, spawning a whole international subgenre, "foodie" (films about the liberating effects of good food)....... read more
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Italian for Beginners
Foreign Films
In this beautiful, understated film, every character possesses a naive, heartbreaking honesty and every line communicates the sweet simplicity of basic human longing. From Danish director...... read more
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The Celebration
Foreign Films
Thomas Vinterberg's contribution to the Dogma 95 collective is an electrifying achievement, driven by powerhouse acting and hand-held digital camera work so realistic that one might...... read more
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Nightwatch
Foreign Films
While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes....... read more
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You Are Not Alone
Foreign Films
Lasse Nielson's YOU ARE NOT ALONE is the story of innocence, young love, and sexual coming - of - age. Set in a Danish all - boys boarding school, the film explores the intimate connection...... read more
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Reconstruction
Foreign Films
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also...... read more
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The Idiots
Foreign Films
Lars von Trier's first contribution to Denmark's Dogme 95 collective (subtitled "Dogme 2," following Thomas Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION) concerns a group of adults who decide to get...... read more
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Friends Forever
Foreign Films
A hit at international gay film festivals, this coming-of-age story explores the difficulty faced by a young man questioning his own sexual identity. read more
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Medea
Foreign Films
Euridipides' Greek tragedy MEDEA is transposed to Denmark in this 1988 television entry from Lars von Trier. Following Jason's betrayal of the woman he once loved, Medea vows revenge...... read more
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Hunger
Foreign Films
A starving writer in 1890's Norway stumbles through the streets in search of his own fantasies. His articles are all refused by editors until he is left penniless and without food....... read more
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Quiet Days in Clichy
Foreign Films
Joey is a struggling, poor writer. His roommate, Carl, is a ladies man whom lusts after young girls. The pair find all the joys a man could ask for (wanton women, wild orgies, outrageous...... read more
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Please Vote for Me
Foreign Films
What happens when people who have never lived in a democracy suddenly have the right to vote and, better yet, run for office? PLEASE VOTE FOR ME explores this scenario, by chronicling...... read more
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