Jørgen Leth
Danish film director and poet
0.65body-of-work score · ranked #1248 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- June 14, 1937 · Aarhus
- Died
- September 29, 2025 · Herlev Hospital
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Work
- film director, poet, autobiographer, writer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1The Five ObstructionsDe fem benspænd
2003 · Denmark / Switzerland / Belgium · documentary, drama
Sarris's annual top 10 2004 #1 · Kehr's annual top 10 2004 #9
0.652 citations
Complete filmography
All 52 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1963Stop for Bud
- 1965Look Forward to a Time of Security
- 1967The Perfect Human
- 1968Near Heaven, Near Earth
- 1968Ophelia's Flowers
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969
- 1970Frændeløs
- 1970Motion picture
- 1970
- 1970The Deer Garden, the romantic forest
- 1971The Search
- 1972Kinesisk bordtennis
- 1972Livet i Danmark
- 1973Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee
- 1974Stjernerne og vandbærerne
- 1975
- 1975The Good and the Bad
- 1975The Impossible Hour
- 1976A Sunday in Hell
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1981Step on silence
- 198266 Scenes from America
- 1982
- 1983Pelota
- 1983Udenrigskorrespondenten
- 1986
- 1987Danish Music at the Louisiana
- 1987Notebook from China
- 1989Notater om kærligheden
- 1989
- 1992
- 1993Michael Laudrup - en fodboldspiller
- 1994Ra-ra
- 1996Haiti. Untitled
- 1999I Am Alive
- 2002Dreamers
- 2002New Scenes from America
- 2003The Five Obstructions
- 2005
- 2007Monument
- 2007Tropical Mix
- 2009
- 2010The Erotic Man
- 2013
- 2015Pelota II
- 2016
- 2019
- 2022Music for Black Pigeons