Shock & Awe: Four Films by Lars Von Trier - BLU-RAY

Collection featuring three 1970s-80s TV crime films including 'Contract on Cherry Street' (1977), 'To Kill a Cop' (1978), and 'Cocaine and Blue Eyes' (1983). Presented across three discs with bonus features. Each film follows gritty police investigations involving mob wars, political tension, and private-eye intrigue.

He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. These sixteen masterpieces, which blur the line between fiction and documentary, illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most daring, visionary and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime, the director that both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut have called the greatest filmmaker alive today. This deluxe set includes EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL, LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS, FATA MORGANA, AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, HEART OF GLASS, STROSZEK, WOYZECK, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, FITZCARRALDO, BALLAD OF LITTLE SOLDIER, WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM, COBRA VERDE, LESSONS OF DARKNESS and LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY.

Ever since his debut was heralded as Incha young master's first masterpieceInch by none other than Ingmar Bergman, director Lukas Moodysson has been hailed internationally as one of Sweden's greatest filmmaking talents, delighting and confounding audiences in equal measure. Moodysson's first film, Fucking Åmål (released overseas as Show Me Love), tells the story of awkward small-town teenager Agnes and her crush on popular classmate Elin, which unexpectedly blossoms into real-life romance; it was quickly heralded as a new queer cinema touchstone and one of the most authentic portrayals of youthful relationships on film. He swiftly followed this with the bittersweet, satirical 1970s-set Together, in which the inhabitants of a commune try to reconcile their ideals with their hearts' desires. Having made a name for himself as the new master of tragicomic, feel-good humanism, Moodysson suddenly frustrated expectations with a trio of startlingly confrontational works the hauntingly bleak Lilya 4-ever, based on a real-life case of a Russian girl sold into S*x trafficking in Sweden; the abrasive and semi-improvised A Hole in My Heart, detailing the messy (un)making of an amateur porn video in a tiny flat; and the avant garde Container, narrated in it's English version by Jena Malone (Donnie Darko). After making his mainstream English-language debut with the expansive Mammoth, starring Gael García Bernal and Michelle Williams, Moodysson returned to his roots with We Are the Best! (based on a graphic novel by his wife and InchconsigliereInch Coco), the charming and funny tale of three schoolgirls starting a punk band in early-1980s Stockholm. Moodysson's eclectic filmography can now be appreciated as the work of a singular filmmaking voice, as avowedly uncompromising and unabashedly political as it is keenly observed, deeply felt and frequently hilarious.