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…
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990): Dir. Kjell Grede
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Karoly Eperjes; Swedish WWII film starring Stellan Skarsgard as Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman who saved over 60000 Hungarian Jews by helping them to acquire…
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…
Melancholia (2011): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Alexander…; A wedding party celebrating the marriage of a young couple is overshadowed by the threat of a planet on a collision course with Earth in this…
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011): Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer…; David Fincher helms this electrifying big–budget remake of the dynamite Swedish thriller, adapted from Stieg Larsson's worldwide bestseller.…
Avengers, The (Marvel's Avengers) (2012): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson…; Barnstorming blockbuster with Marvel's premier superheroes joining forces to combat Thor's evil brother Loki and his alien army. Skilfully helmed…
Thor: The Dark World (2013): Dir. Alan Taylor
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston…; In this predictably bombastic sequel, the action relocates from Earth to the Nine Realms, where the Norse God must team up with nemesis Loki…
Railway Man, The (2013): Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada…; Tormented by his experience as a prisoner of war, a former British Army officer confronts one of his torturers in civilian times this haunting…
Nymphomaniac (Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & II) (2013): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin…; The controversy–baiting director Lars Von Trier's wild and poetic opus detailing a woman’s erotic journey from birth to middle age as told by…
Romeo and Juliet (2013): Dir. Carlo Carlei
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis…; A richly imagined, though largely unreliable version of Shakespeare's most quoted play. Set in the authentic setting of Renaissance Verona, this only…
Physician, The (Der Medicus) (2013): Dir. Philipp Stölzl
Feat. Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard…; A historical epic centred on an orphan from an 11th–century English town whose mother died of a mysterious illness, travels to Persia where he…
In Order of Disappearance (2014): Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen…; Stellan Skarsgård reunites with the director of ZERO KELVIN and A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN for this blackly comic Nordic noir. He plays a somewhat…
Cinderella (2015): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden…; Dir. Kenneth Branagh re–imagines the classic tale of young Ella who finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters, and…
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo…; More Marvel mayhem has the team forced to reassemble after Tony Stark and Bruce Banner awaken a long dormant peacekeeping program.
River (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Nicola Walker, Adeel Akhtar; CONTRABAND TITLE. Seasons 1 & 2 are not legally available for sale, rent or trade in New Zealand unless submitted for approval to the NZ Office of…
Our Kind of Traitor (2016): Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard…; Solid adaptation of the John Le Carre novel about a couple who finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon…
Borg Vs. McEnroe (Borg McEnroe) (2017): Dir. Janus Metz
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Sverrir Gudnason, Stellan Skarsgard…; The famous rivalry between tennis stars Björn Borg and John McEnroe reaches fever pitch at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships, culminating in the…
Return to Montauk (2017): Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Nina Hoss, Niels Arestrup; A famous novelist reunites with a lover he met 17 years prior in this elegant and literate romantic drama from director Volker Schlöndorff (THE TIN…
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Mamma Mia 2) (2018): Dir. Ol Parker
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Christine Baranski…; Everything you adored (or despised) about the first movie is here in spades in this sequel to the impossibly rowdy all–singing,…
Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The (2018): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard…; Madcap fantasy adventure from director Terry Gilliam following a cynical advertising director (Adam Driver) who succumbs to outrageous delusions…
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series) (2019): Dir. Johan Renck
Feat. Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard…; Powerful dramatisation of the 1986 nuclear accident in Ukraine, one of the worst man–made catastrophes in history. Unfolds in 5…
Dune (2021): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac…; Spellbinding first installment of the long–awaited two–part adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel Dune, from director…
Dune: Part Two (Dune 2) (2024): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya , Austin Butler…; The mythic journey of Paul Atreides continues as he unites with the indigenous Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who…

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Stellan Skarsgard

Filmography (All Films)