

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery.

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery.
1968-05-11
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4.6The earliest recognized film by Lars Trier (made in his youth before he adopted the "von") is this stop motion cartoon, where a super-sausage saves a bunny.
A man is being haunted by a masked stranger. The only language used in the movie comes from three (inter) title cards and a few sentences of sermon-like talk in Danish. Some of the talk is modified citations from the bible and similar sources.
7.2Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
7.3A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
7.1Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
7.5Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.
8.1Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
5.7A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
7.4A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
6.5Mark Patton sets the records straight about the controversial 1985 sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended his acting career, just as it was about to begin.
7.4Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
6.7Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
7.8A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
7.6The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
5.5Lynch's first film project consists of a looping animation of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.
6.5With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
6.9Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
7.1A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.
6.8Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.
7.3The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
A shoplifter thinks all his dreams have come true when he enters a seemingly deserted supermarket. However, he soon discovers he is not alone and getting out becomes a matter of life and death.
0.0An assassin decides to avenge an old friend, murdered in his arms. With only a street address as a clue, he uncovers a gang of mobsters' murderous plot to seize all the loot from a robbery committed years earlier.
0.0Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hannover subway system. He lives an isolated life in an asylum home outside the city...
0.0Kate finds herself lost and followed in a foreign city. Despite her attempts to communicate the city reflects her own fear and alienation back at her.
0.0When a young convict is caught by law enforcement, his only way out is to infiltrate and deceive his own team as they gear up for their biggest score yet.
0.0In the aftermath of a robbery gone wrong, two criminals bury their accomplice and face a harrowing choice: split his share or send it to his family.
0.0Tthe story of the two sisters Hanna and Lena who are trying to realize their dream of emigrating. Hanna seduces rich men, goes home with them, sleeps with them and copies the house key. The next day the two sisters then break into the houses and loot cash and jewelery. This is fine until Hanna falls in love with the rich guy Finn. Plans and feelings get mixed up. From this moment, a story evolves about love, togetherness, the darkest and most beautiful things in life.
4.2The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life leap from a train on his way to trial for the murder of Arthur Dyson.
0.0The winner of a regional women's darts final suspects her opponent of letting her win, and won't let her leave until she finds out why.
0.0A young woman is forced to confront her past when her family is attacked. She quickly learns she can’t run from her roots.
A young gangster is torn between right and wrong on the day of his 18th birthday.
0.0Three guys in the mafia are assigned to make a hit but when they realise whom they have to kill the night comes to a halt.
0.0A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
0.013-years-old Javid and his friends come across a sack of rice on the side of the road while wandering around. After arguing and fighting over ownership of the bag of rice, they finally agree on a risky bet.
7.0It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who not only created him, but now needs to switch places with him.
0.0These two men need information, and they'll use every pun in the book to get it.
0.0The Good, the bad, and the girl. These lives come together as two thieves rob a bank while one life becomes collateral damage and the other changes for the better.