Stellan Skarsgard

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Perfect Murder, The (1987): Dir. Zafar Hai
Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgard, Madhur Jaffrey; This throwaway Indian farce has a number of possible suspects trying to kill (and protect) a Bombay millionaire (Mr. Perfect). Adapted for the…
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Stellan Skarsgard; In war–torn Czechoslovakia 1968, a young doctor is caught between two lovers and the political struggle of his homeland. Daniel Day–Lewis…
Wind (1992): Dir. Carroll Ballard
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Cliff Robertson…; Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey play a yachtie couple determined to win the America's cup from the Ozzies.
Ox, The (1992): Dir. Sven Nykvist
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Ewa Froling, Lennart Hjulstrom; During the famine years of Sweden in the 1860s, a peasant family slaughter their employer's ox, then reap the consequences. Directed by Ingmar…
Slingshot, The (1993): Dir. Ake Sandgren
Feat. Jesper Salen, Stellan Skarsgard, Basia Frydman; A bittersweet snapshot of pre–war Stockholm in which an enterprising 10–year–old flirts with boyhood rebellion. This local…
Zero Kelvin (1995): Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Gard B. Eidsvold, Stellan Skarsgard; This tale of hardcore cabin fever in the 1930s has the Arctic wasteland as a backdrop for the face off between two romantic idealists – one a…
Breaking the Waves (1996): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge…; Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Ronin (1997): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone…; Perfunctory caper round the grey streets of Paris stuffs as much car–chasing and other cliches as possible into its baggy plot concerning…
My Son The Fanatic (1997): Dir. Udayan Prasad
Feat. Akbar Kurtha, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths…; Penned by Hanif Kureishi (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE), this Brit drama conflates various issues of British–Asian culture as a family is polarised…
Insomnia (1997): Dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard; An edgy, ingeniously plotted psychological thriller about an amoral Swedish detective whose murder investigation in Northern Norway (where the sun…
Timecode (2000): Dir. Mike Figgis
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter…; Dividing the screen into four quadrants, each carrying an unbroken 90 min shot, the dir. of LEAVING LAS VEGAS juxtaposes four stories set in the…
Harlan County War (2000): Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine…; Based on the famous (and deadly) Union–vs–Company showdown in a Kentucky coalmine in 1976, this TV docudrama is an Emmy–nominated…
Aberdeen (2000): Dir. Tony Spataro, Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson; Bleakly funny dysfunctional family drama set in Aberdeen, Scotland, where a dying mother (Charlotte Rampling) enlists the help of her daughter to…
Taking Sides (2001): Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Moritz Bleibtreu; The ambiguities of Germany during the Nazi era are interrogated with skill in this taut examination of the case of famed classical conductor Dr…
City of Ghosts (2002): Dir. Matt Dillon
Feat. Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone…; A moody debut for dir. Dillon, unfolding a familiar thriller of dueling lowlifes in the exotic–chaotic scenery of presentday…
Helen of Troy (Mini Series) (2003): Dir. John Harrison
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Stellan Skarsgard, John Rhys-Davies…; Combining various Greek legends into a grand composite tale, the stories of Helen, Agamemnon, Paris and Troy are reasonably well–served in this…
King Arthur (2004): Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Keira Knightley, Clive Owen, Joel Edgerton…; An interesting, serious–minded revision of the Camelot legend, recasting Arthur (Owen) as a half–Roman mercenary who, with his comrades,…
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, James D'Arcy, Isabella Scorupco; A latterday prequel to the horror series starring Stellan Skarsgard as Father Merrin, who rediscovers his lost faith in East Africa upon his first…
Beowulf and Grendel (2005): Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley; A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo–Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly…
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (2006): Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley…; Smash sequel–equal, which replicates the swashbuckling wit, quirkiness and visual excitement of its predecessor, again following the…
Goya's Ghosts (2006): Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard…; A lavish, if ill–designed costume epic based around Spanish artist Francisco Goya (Skarsgard), his closest acquaintances, and the eventful late…
Waz (w Delta z) (2007): Dir. Tom Shankland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair; Intriguing horror debut from UK dir. Shankland sees a detective and his assistant investigate a series of chilling murders, involving loved ones who…
Mamma Mia! (2008): Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
Feat. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth…; A knowingly cheesy yet still irresistible movie version of the smash–hit stage musical about a girl trying to find her father before her…
Boogie Woogie (2009): Dir. Duncan Ward
Feat. Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming…; Broad satire of the modern art scene with Danny Huston as a supercilious art dealer scheming to get his hands on a rare Mondrian. Hugely…
Metropia (2009): Dir. Tarik Saleh
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier…; A minion trapped in a giant subterranean web beneath Europe attempts to escape the clutches of his dystopian existence. Upscale futurist saga is…
A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010): Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Bjorn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold…; A dry, deadpan delight, about a gentle but explosive ex–con (Skarsgard) whose efforts to go straight after a long stint in prison are thwarted…
King of Devil's Island (2010): Dir. Marius Holst
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Kristoffer Joner, Benjamin Helstad…; The boys of an early 20th century reform school revolt against an abusive regime in this stirring, snow–swept Norwegian drama. Featuring music…
Frankie & Alice (2010): Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad; A typically eye–catching performance from Halle Berry elevates this tough, though never quite focused, 70s melodrama of a stripper's struggles…
Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010): Dir. Maria Lindberg
Feat. Max von Sydow, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan Skarsgard…; Tove Jansson's beloved creatures get an animated outing as Moomintroll and his friends rush to save everyone in Moomin Valley from a ferocious comet.…
Thor (2011): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman…; Engaging superhero escapism with The God of Thunder banished to earth where his skills with a hammer soon come in handy. Flitting between godly…

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