158 Udo Kier Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Herr von Bohm is a reputed building commissioner, who falls for a woman named Marie Louise, a single mother, who is the daughter of his landlady. However, he doesn’t know that she is also a singer working at a bordello, and is the mistress of Schuckert, a corrupt builder.

Grace Mulligan is given refuge from gangsters by the people of Dogville, an American town, in exchange for doing small chores. But things take a darker turn when chores turn into torture and rape. When Grace finally accepts her identity of being the gang leader’s daughter she burns the town and its people to the ground. 

Dancer in the Dark is the story of a young East European immigrant, who comes to the USA with her young son with a dream in her eyes. Struggling to survive, herself suffering from degenerating eye condition, she continues to save money so that her son can undergo surgery to save his eyesight. But fate is not kind to her and she ends up being labeled as a communist sympathizer and murderer. 

American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion secures admission into prestigious German school Tanz Dance Academy. The night she reaches, she sees a girl fleeing from the academy and the girl is found murdered the next day. Suzy often feels ill, and experiences odd occurrences, strange sounds, maggot infestations. Academy’s members die under suspicious circumstances. Her resolute investigations reveal that the academy is mere front for sinister witchcraft.

A religious Scottish young woman Bess McNeil, who is naïve in her beliefs, falls in love and marries Jan Nyman, a Danish oil-rig worker. When an accident aboard the rig paralyses him, Bess blames herself for praying for his return. Jan impels her to have sex with other men, which initially shocks her but she starts believing that God is guiding her. 

Europa is a drama thriller film which takes us to the time after the end of the Second World War. A young idealistic American of German descent tries to help the German people, and takes up a railway job in Germany. However, he soon gets involved in a terrorist conspiracy.

A tribute to the 1970s exploitation film, it has two horror feature films - Planet Terror and Death Proof. In the first movie, there is a fierce struggle between the blood thirsty zombies and determined humans who want to survive. In the second movie, a psychopath Hollywood stuntman kills young women by using his death proof car. The movie also features fake exploitation trailers.

In 1933, while traveling through Alabama, Grace Mulligan and her father come across a plantation, ‘Manderley,’ where slavery still persists. Repulsed by the owner’s rules for the slaves, Grace intervenes. Although some of her suggestions backfire, but by harvest time, she succeeds in applying rules of democracy to white owners and black slaves. Eventually, it is Grace who learns the most from the experience. 

In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso has managed to establish himself as a prominent figure in the world of art. However, Amadeo Modigliani, his friend as well as rival, is still struggling and trying to catch up. Things get worse for him, after he impregnates a noblewoman named Jeanne, and they both have a child out of wedlock. Now he needs an income to provide for his family as well.

Brett and Anthony, two police detectives, raid the house of Vasquez, a drug dealer. Although they manage to uncover a bag of money and narcotics, they are suspended because they assaulted the suspect. They soon become disillusioned with law enforcement, and they fall into the criminal underworld.

Set in Eastern Europe, The Painted Bird is an adaptation of the book by the same name. A a young Jewish boy goes through a series of gruesome encounters following the death of his aunt.

Loosely based on Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, this film tells the story of two best friends who work as street hustlers, as they embark on a journey of self discovery. 

After losing his job, ex-boxer Bradley Thomas works as drug-runner. He and his wife decide to have a baby to save their crumbling marriage. A drug-deal bust leads to his imprisonment while the drug-lord loses his shipment. In the prison, he receives an ultimatum to kill inmate of cell block 99 or else his kidnapped wife and unborn baby will be affected.

Based on Marvel’s fictional superhero, the movie follows Blade, a Dhamphir, half-human, half-immortal with all the strengths of a vampire. He must control his own bloodthirst and stop the vicious vampire Deacon Frost who wants to control all humans by summoning an ancient evil God using Blade's blood. 

The second installment of Lars von Trier’s Depression Trilogy, Melancholia follows the two sisters Justine and Claire. The severely depressed Justine and the fearful Claire must come to terms with their destinies as a rogue planet named Melancholia heads on a direct collision course towards Earth.

American Animals is a crime drama film which revolves around the story of four men, Spencer, Warren, Eric and Chas, who set their eyes on a rare collection of books in the school’s library.  When they come to know that they could earn millions from buyers in the black-market, they decide to perform a robbery and steal the books.

Moscow on the Hudson is a romantic comedy drama film which revolves around Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian musician who wants to defect to the US. He eventually succeeds, but soon finds out that adjusting to American life is way more difficult than he expected.

Shadow of the Vampire is a horror drama film, which tells the story of a director who wants to make the perfect and the best vampire movie ever. He even goes as far as to employ a real vampire for the job, and explains to his crew that he is a method actor. 

Count Dracula comes to know that if he fails to drink the blood of a pure virgin, he will die pretty soon. His assistant suggests that they go to Italy, where it would be easier to look for a virgin bride, since the people there are quite religious. They soon find a family with four virgin brides ready for marriage. However, Dracula suspects that the girls may not be as pure as they claim.

Ace Ventura, a private detective specialising in finding lost animals, is assigned to find Snowflake, a bottlenose dolphin that is the aquatic mascot of the Miami Dolphins. With the Super Bowl close, the wacky Ventura has to move quickly to find the mascot and also deal with a murder and a kidnapping.

This is the second volume of a two part erotic art film created by Lars von Trie.  In this volume, Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, continues to recount her erotic experiences to Seligman, a bachelor who has brought her home after she was assaulted. In this volume, she delves deeper into her adulthood before recounting how she came to be assaulted, which finally helps her to find peace.   

Following a group of deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth, Armageddon explores the challenges faced by the team as they struggle to accomplish their mission. 

Flesh for Frankenstein is a horror film which revolves around Baron Frankenstein, who lives with his wife Baroness Katrin, and their two teen kids. He is a scientist and his goal is to create a ‘master race’. With the help of his assistant Otto, he creates two ‘zombies’, one male and one female. His intentions is to mate them, as he believes that this is the key to creating his ‘master race’.

Detective Havenhurst and his partner Detective Vargas receive a call, and they drive to the scene of a murder. They find the body of Mrs McCullam, who was stabbed with an antique sword. They soon realize that the murderer is her son Brad, when he takes two hostages in the house across the street. It soon seems that Brad is delusional and has lost touch with reality.

A mentally unstable Michael Myers murders his sister, her boyfriend and his mother’s boyfriend and is consequently sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium for treatment. After years of confinement, he manages to escape and returns to his hometown to look for his younger sister. Dr. Sam Loomis, who was his doctor at the mental institution, follows him.

Doug works hard at a luxury hotel, hoping to start his own business one day. His life takes a turn when he discovers that the woman, whom he likes, is being seduced by the same man who is his potential investor. Now, Doug must decide whether his business is more important or the girl.  

This mystery drama thriller film tells the story of a young computer programmer, who finds several mysterious empty packages inside his apartment. He soon decides to investigate personally, regarding who has been sending them and why. This leads him to discover his eccentric neighbors, a virtual-reality sex game, as well as a possible corporate conspiracy.  

While holidaying in Europe, a lawyer is asked by a publisher to go to Salzburg in order to see a photographer for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. However, when he arrives at the place, it seems that the photographer has vanished, leaving his wife and brother behind. He soon finds himself involved with spies and assassins who are on the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis about people who had collaborated with them.

A twenty year old Christine York, disturbed by her strange dreams, is oblivious that Satan has selected her to conceive his child on the eve of the new millennium. When he arrives in a man’s body looking for Christine, an ex-cop Jericho Cane, whose wife and daughter have been murdered earlier, is there to protect her.

Paul Safranek, and his wife, Audrey, decide to take part in a process where scientists shrink people down to miniature size, to live in small communities. Although the procedure is irreversible, the people are able to live a life of wealth and leisure as it helps cut down on the consumption of resources. However, Paul eventually learns that his tiny suburb comes with its own set of problems. 

A data courier Johnny, who carries data packages for a fee, receives an assignment to carry a package which is too large to hold, and which he needs to deliver before a given time. 

After the end of the Second World War in Germany, Jakob Formann sees an opportunity and decides to use it to rise as an entrepreneur.  

Producer Mike Max has made a huge amount of money in his life through his violent and gory action films. However, his life takes a turn when shortly after his wife decides to leave him, he is kidnapped by a group of thugs. This causes him to reexamine his life. He is soon able to find shelter with a group of gardeners, and he eventually decides to drop out of Hollywood.  

Although he is quite wealthy, Drew lives a lonely and empty life. When Christmas is approaching, he is visited by an annoying old friend. He offers to pay him cash to celebrate Christmas with his family.  

Geppetto is a puppet maker, whose creation Pinocchio magically comes to life one day. Pinocchio wishes to become a real boy some day, but his biggest problem is that his nose grows whenever he tells a lie.

Mother of Tears is a supernatural horror film which tells the story of an American girl named Sarah, who is studying art in Rome. When she opens an ancient box, she finds a tunic, a dagger, and three statues representing three witches. But by opening the box, she unknowingly triggers the return of the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum. After her boss is killed, it is now up to her alone to stop the witch’s reign of terror.

Radio-DJ Heidi Hawthorne of Salem, Massachusetts, receives a record of unknown band in a wooden box labeled a ‘gift of the Lords.’ As Heidi plays it, the record creates ominous flashbacks of past trauma, followed by terrible hallucinations of witches and demons. Ignorant of her connection to the ‘Lords of Salem,’ she gets drawn into the coven of witches raging for vengeance.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a western romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman who has been hitchhiking through the US from a young age. Her life takes a turn when she becomes an advertising model, shortly after which her agent sends her to his ranch in California, for shooting a commercial. There, she develops a friendship with Bonanza, one of the cowgirls.

During the Second American Civil War, a mercenary and a bounty hunter named Barb Wire, is forced into a secret government plan involving biological weapons, after her ex-lover re-enters her life, and asks her for a favor.

Valerie Cardinal is an American journalist who tries to investigate a research project run by Dr Krieger, who is trying to build robot soldiers without any intelligence. She hires Jack Carver, a boatman and ex-soldier to take her to the island, where Krieger lives, in order to meet him. However, they are soon attacked, and Valerie is taken captive. It is now up to Jack to save her before it is too late.   

Rayne, who is half-human and half-vampire, escapes from the freak show, in which she once took part. She eventually teams up with a team of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother. 

Metropia is an animated science fiction film which takes us to a future, where there is a huge underground network beneath Europe. A man named Roger chooses to avoid the underground as he finds it disturbing. One day, he learns that Trexx, the company running the rail network in Europe is actually controlling the minds of the people using their shampoo.