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A Minecraft Movie
2025 film directed by Jared Hess
Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 film by David Fincher
Melancholia
2011 film directed by Lars von Trier
Midsommar
Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden. Supporting actors include William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.
The Square
2017 film directed by Ruben Östlund
The Woman in Black
2012 film directed by James Watkins
Antichrist
2009 film directed by Lars von Trier
Sentimental Value
Sentimental Value is a 2025 drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt. It follows sisters Nora and Agnes in their reunion with their estranged father Gustav. It also stars Elle Fanning.
In a Better World
2010 film by Susanne Bier
The House That Jack Built
2018 film directed by Lars von Trier
Manderlay
Manderlay is a 2005 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, the second and most recent part of von Trier's projected USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy. Unlike von Trier's other trilogies, the films' stories are connected and it is a direct sequel to Dogville. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan. Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in Dogville. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Jean-Marc Barr re
Kon-Tiki
2012 film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Before I Go to Sleep
2014 film directed by Rowan Joffé
Diana
2013 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Wife
2017 film by Björn Runge
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov
The Invisible
2007 film directed by David S. Goyer
Europa
1991 film directed by Lars von Trier
The Boss of It All
2006 Danish comedy film directed by Lars von Trier, in which an unemployed actor is employed to pretend to be a director, to facilitate a sale of a company
The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018 American film directed by Fede Álvarez
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
2013 film by Felix Herngren
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 film directed by Bille August
Kung Fury
2015 short film directed by David Sandberg
Into the White
2012 film by Petter Næss
Love Is All You Need
2012 film by Susanne Bier
Borg McEnroe
2017 film by Janus Metz Pedersen
ABBA: The Movie
1977 film by Lasse Hallström
The Serpent's Egg
1977 film by Ingmar Bergman
Force Majeure
2014 Swedish film by Ruben Östlund
The Mill and the Cross
2011 film directed by Lech Majewski
Filth
2013 film directed by Jon S. Baird
Tom of Finland
2017 film by Dome Karukoski
Perfect Sense
2011 film by David Mackenzie
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
1988 film by Ken Annakin
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989 film by Aki Kaurismäki
Lords of Chaos
2018 film by Jonas Åkerlund
The Vintner's Luck
2009 film by Niki Caro
The Kindness of Strangers
2019 film by Lone Scherfig
Pleasure
2021 film directed by Ninja Thyberg
Metropia
2009 film by Tarik Saleh
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015 film by Wim Wenders
Aberdeen
2000 film directed by Hans Petter Moland
Euphoria
2018 Lisa Langseth's film
Sundown
2021 film directed by Michel Franco
The Touch
1971 film by Ingmar Bergman
The Settlers
2023 film directed by Felipe Gálvez
The Roads Not Taken
2020 film by Sally Potter
Hamilton
Swedish-Norwegian 1998 film by Harald Zwart
Spinning Man
2018 film directed by Simon Kaijser da Silva
Mammoth
2009 film by Lukas Moodysson
Joe Hill
1971 film by Bo Widerberg
Trishna
2011 film by Michael Winterbottom
Sea Fever
2019 film directed by Neasa Hardiman
Slow
2023 film directed by Marija Kavtaradze
The 101-Year Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
2016 film by Felix Herngren, Måns Herngren
The Night Visitor
1971 film directed by László Benedek
Bananas!*
Bananas!* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP.
Hideaways
Hideaways is a fantasy thriller film directed by Agnès Merlet and written by Nick Murphy. It stars Rachel Hurd-Wood and Harry Treadaway. The film is a French/Irish/Swedish co-production.
Stitches
2012 film by Conor McMahon