
Dogville
(2003)A withering indictment of American social values, written and directed by a man who has never set foot in America, Lars von Trier’s Dogville is an ambitious provocation. With an all-star cast led by Nicole Kidman, this epic Brechtian drama is a raw examination of small-town hypocrisy and prejudice.

Dancer in the Dark
(2000)The ultimate postmodern musical, von Trier’s quirky genre hybrid hinges on a ravishing performance by Icelandic pop star Björk, which makes the most of her innocent vitality. This idiosyncratic fantasy and overpowering tearjerker took home the Palme d’Or at Cannes, along with Best Actress for Björk!

The Man from Nowhere
(2010)An ex-enforcer sets aside his new and humble life to take on a brutal trafficking ring to keep a child, his only friend, from harm’s way.

Decision to Leave
(2022)A detective investigates the unnatural death of a man in the mountains and begins to develop feelings for the murder suspect, the man's mysterious wife.

Following
(1999)A voyeuristic writer looking for material enters a world of treachery and deceit when he crosses paths with a thief who takes him under his wing.

Irreversible
(2002)Starring Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci, Gaspar Noé’s infamous backtracking revenge thriller is a groundbreaking, frightening provocation that caused much controversy at its premiere in Cannes. A viciously dark story audaciously told, Irreversible is not for the faint of heart!

The Girl with the Needle
(2024)Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Brawl in Cell Block 99
(2017)After he's fired from his mechanic gig, a hot-tempered ex-boxer enters the drug-running game which lands him in the battleground of a brutal prison.

13 Tzameti
(2006)Tension simmers until it reaches an explosive boil in Géla Babluani’s taut, atmospheric noir. Etched in stark monochrome, this story of a hard-on-his-luck Georgian immigrant and his struggles to support his family arches with unexpected twists. A triumph of diabolical filmmaking imagination.

Europa
(1991)This early triumph by Lars von Trier, which won no less than three prizes at Cannes, is one of his most bizarre yet accessible works: a feverish retooling of film noir, an unhinged thriller, and a visually mind-blowing odyssey into a nightmare of our past.

Boiling Point
(1990)In his second feature film, Takeshi Kitano dives further into Japan’s underworld by way of a baseball player turned patsy in this carefully plotted road trip lined with vengeance. Boiling Point deepens Kitano’s analysis of male violence…while also featuring one of cinema’s greatest karaoke scenes.

Heli
(2013)A factory worker struggles to protect his family from a corrupt police force when his sister inadvertently lands them in the middle of a drug war.

Intermission
(2003)Director John Crowley (Brooklyn) and playwright Mark O’Rowe made the move from stage to screen with this rollicking tale of malcontents on the make. With Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy leading an ensemble cast of familiar faces, Intermission is a crime comedy with mischief and attitude to burn.

The Settlers
(2023)Chile, 1901. Three horsemen embark on an expedition, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property. Accompanying a British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman Segundo, who comes to realize their true mission is to violently “remove” the indigenous population.

Lurker
(2025)When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

The Delinquents
(2023)Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

The Element of Crime
(1984)A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

The Unknown Girl
(2016)Injecting a dose of neo-noir into melodrama, the Dardenne brothers reinvigorate their signature moral intrigue with a daring detective film. Starring Adèle Haenel in an impressive lead performance, The Unknown Girl is never squeamish about probing French attitudes to race and immigration.

The Blue Room
(2014)A puzzlebox neo-noir, this erotic thriller from Mathieu Amalric is one where the French actor’s filmmaking is every bit as enthralling as his performance. We hand you the keys to The Blue Room, a spiral of passion, secrets & murder brilliantly adapted to the screen from Simenon’s eponymous novel.

First Name: Carmen
(1983)Godard stars as an eccentric filmmaker in this fragmentary love poem from his 1980s period. Loosely based on Bizet’s opera, First Name: Carmen reinvents cinema into elliptical broken rhythms and passages of poetry to renew one of the oldest of tales: that of two lovers on the run.