Movies by Stellan Skarsgård
As part of the cast:
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The Avengers (2012)
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo …
Directed by: Joss Whedon
An all-star lineup of superheroes -- including Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk and Captain America -- team up to save the world from certain doom. Working under the authority of S.H.I.E.L.D.,…
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A Somewhat Gentle Man (2011)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold …
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
With revenge on his mind, a gangster (Stellan Skarsgård) who spent 12 years in prison for murder sets out to kill the man (Henrik Mestad) who put him there. But the promise of a normal life…
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Thor (2011)
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston …
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
In this Marvel Comics-inspired action flick, thunder god Thor finds himself banished by his father, Odin, and forced to live among humans on Earth to learn humility. Can Thor regain his…
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Melancholia (2011)
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård …
Directed by: Lars von Trier
This inventive drama charts the disintegrating relationship between newly married twentysomething Justine and her melancholy sister, Claire, just as Earth hurtles toward certain collision…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer …
Directed by: David Fincher
When a young computer hacker is tasked with investigating a prying journalist, their separate missions become entangled amid a decades-old conspiracy. David Fincher directs this English…
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Cast: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad …
Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
It's a crushing battle for conscious dominance inside a disturbed woman's (Halle Berry) mind as a multiple personality disorder pits her organic self -- an African American woman --…
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King of Devil's Island (2010)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner …
Directed by: Marius Holst
This gripping drama tells the true story of the uprising at the notorious Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility on a Norwegian island. When a new boy arrives, he inspires the inmates to rise…
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Angels & Demons (2009)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer …
Directed by: Ron Howard
In this follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, Catholic Church officials call upon Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to help foil a bomb attack on the Vatican by a secret society looking…
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Metropia (2009)
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier …
Directed by: Tarik Saleh
In an oil-depleted future, Stockholm native Roger navigates the vast web of underground networks that connect Europe. When a voice in his head persists, Roger begins to suspect someone is…
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Boogie Woogie (2009)
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming …
Directed by: Duncan Ward
A star-studded cast brings the eccentricities of the contemporary London art scene to life in this character-driven satire, which centers on Piet Mondrian's iconic painting -- who owns…
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As If I Am Not There (2009)
Cast: Natasa Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Juanita Wilson
After just moving to Sarajevo to take up a teaching post, a young woman is taken by soldiers and imrpisoned in a Bosnian war camp.
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth …
Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
On the idyllic Greek isle of Kalokairi, single mom Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep) goes into a tizzy when her bride-to-be daughter (Amanda Seyfried), in a bid to learn her father's…
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Masterpiece Contemporary: God on Trial (2008)
Cast: Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper …
Directed by: Andy DeEmmony
Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper, Antony Sher and Stellan Skarsgard star in this Masterpiece Theatre World War II drama about a group of Auschwitz prisoners who decide to put God on trial. The…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley …
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
In the third installment of the swashbuckler series, Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with brave Will…
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The Killing Gene (2007)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters …
Directed by: Tom Shankland
The crimes of a sadistic killer force a cop who has seen it all to take another look at a case he'd hoped was closed in this grizzly tale of violence and gang warfare. All along someone…
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Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Peter Flinth
Based on Jan Guillou's Crusades trilogy about Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson (Joakim Nätterqvist), this adventure saga follows the son of nobility from his monastic education to…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley …
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
With the help of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, happy-go-lucky troublemaker Capt. Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, hoping to avoid eternal damnation.
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Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Milos Forman
Painter Francisco Goya is targeted by the Spanish Inquisition when he paints young Inés, whom the church views as a heretic. Years later, Inés asks Goya to help her find the daughter she bore…
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Cast: Kathy Bates, Julie Delpy, Anna Faris …
Directed by: George Gargurevich, Savina Dellicour, Phil Dornfeld …
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their…
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Years before exorcising the devil from Regan MacNeil, Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) experiences a crisis of faith, leaves the priesthood and heads to Africa on an archaeological…
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Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Steindor Andersen …
Directed by: Sturla Gunnarsson
In an adventure imbrued with blood and tragedy, the legendary Norse warrior Beowulf (Gerard Butler) must command an army across the seas of ancient Northern Europe to save the kingdom by…
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Dogville (2004)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall …
Directed by: Lars von Trier
When a mysterious woman claims she's being chased by hoodlums and needs a place to hide out, the residents of Dogville come to her rescue. But she must prove herself worthy of the…
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King Arthur (2004)
Cast: Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table struggle to retain power amid a shaky political landscape in Antoine Fuqua's take on the myth of Camelot, which is steeped in gritty…
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Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, James D'Arcy, Izabella Scorupco …
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Sent to Africa at the close of World War II to tend to the needs of the local community, Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) gets more than he ever bargained for when he has his first…
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City of Ghosts (2003)
Cast: Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone …
Directed by: Matt Dillon
Coming under scrutiny during an FBI investigation of insurance fraud, a con man hops on an airplane and tracks his ex-boss to Cambodia -- where he soon becomes entangled in an underworld rife…
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Taking Sides (2002)
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu …
Directed by: Istvan Szabo
American officer Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) mercilessly prosecutes controversial German symphony conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård), one of the most renowned of his…
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No Good Deed (2002)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
In this film based on a Dashiell Hammett story, Samuel L. Jackson is Jack, a cop who, while chasing down a runaway, stumbles upon a mob robbing a bank and is abducted by the criminals. They…
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The Glass House (2001)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Daniel Sackheim
After the untimely death of her parents, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her brother (Trevor Morgan) move in with family friends (Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgård). But how could Ruby know…
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Aberdeen (2001)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Anderson, Lena Headey …
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Beautiful and feisty Scot Kasia finally has her life together, at least until her mother asks her to bring back Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father. Kasia and her dad set out on a…
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Passion of Mind (2000)
Cast: Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, William Fichtner …
Directed by: Alain Berliner
Marie's a French widow with two daughters to raise and a country villa to tend. Marty's a New York literary agent out to conquer the publishing world. But both women are…
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Timecode (2000)
Cast: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Salma Hayek, Saffron Burrows …
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter and a huge ensemble cast star in Mike Figgis's harrowing chronicle of fear and loathing in Los Angeles. Shot on digital video in real time, Time Code tells four…
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse …
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Nearly blind Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant who dwells in a mental world of fantastical song and dance, performs a haunting act of deliverance when a neighbor (David Morse) steals the…
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Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
Cast: Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Carl Gustaf Nykvist
Lovingly directed by his son Carl-Gustaf, Light Keeps Me Company offers an intimate and moving look at the life of the legendary Swedish cinematographer. Film clips, rare home movies, family…
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Harlan County War (2000)
Cast: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine …
Directed by: Tony Bill
Ruby Kincaid (Holly Hunter) is the wife of a hardworking coal miner in Harlan County, Ky., in the 1970s. After she witnesses two deaths, her husband's near-fatal accident and his…
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Signs and Wonders (2000)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger …
Directed by: Jonathan Nossiter
Stellan Skarsgård stars in this intriguing tale as Alec, an Athens-based commodities trader whose obsession with interpreting the meaning behind every random incident and occurrence…
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Cast: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J …
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Two scientists conduct research on sharks, hoping to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. When they decide to take a dangerous shortcut, they end up breeding larger sharks with larger…
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Savior (1998)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Peter Antonijevic
Based on a true story, director Peter Antonijevic's bleak war drama profiles American military liaison Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid). After his wife and child are killed in a terrorist…
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Ronin (1998)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
When a briefcase with undisclosed contents being sought by both Irish terrorists and the Russian mob makes its way into criminals' hands, a squad of mercenaries is assembled to recover the case.
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My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Cast: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha …
Directed by: Udayan Prasad
Parvez (Om Puri), a Pakistani immigrant working as a cab driver in England, feels increasingly estranged from his home life as his marriage begins to crumble and his college-age son (Akbar…
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Insomnia (1997)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand …
Directed by: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
After he accidentally shoots his partner during a fog-shrouded stakeout, detective Jonas Engström covers his tracks -- but forgets that the suspect witnessed the killing. His guilty…
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Amistad (1997)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
An African-born slave leads a mutiny against his brutal captors, but because the ship is in American waters, a U.S. court must decide the slaves' fates. In an eloquent courtroom speech,…
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck …
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back in this uplifting drama about friendship and risk.
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge …
Directed by: Lars von Trier
The revolutionary Dogma 95 school of filmmaking washed up on American shores with this intense European drama starring Emily Watson as Bess, a naïve Scotswoman who's convinced that…
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Cast: Bjorn Sundquist, Gard B. Eidsvold, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
When an idealistic young poet leaves Oslo to work as a fur trapper in Greenland, he's forced to share a cabin with a cynical old salt. Soon clashing over their opposing views, the two…
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Wind (1992)
Cast: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Cliff Robertson …
Directed by: Carroll Ballard
Matthew Modine and Jennifer Grey are experienced sailors determined to win the prestigious America's Cup yacht race. But their abiding love for each other is put to the test when…
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The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Katja Flint, Burkhard Driest …
Directed by: Per Berglund
The West German security police need help infiltrating a group connected to the Rote Arme Fraktion. The Swedish James Bond, Carl Hamilton, goes to Hamburg undercover as a Swedish officer…
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn …
Directed by: John McTiernan
When a Soviet nuclear sub headed toward American waters drops off U.S. scanners, the Yanks scramble to take defensive steps. But CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) convinces the brass that…
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Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Károly Eperjes …
Directed by: Kjell Grede
In 1944, Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg helped Jews in Budapest obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path. Wallenberg's efforts helped save…
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Parker Kane (1990)
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Marisa Tomei, Drew Snyder …
Directed by: Steve Perry
Ex-cop and ex-boxer Parker Kane (Jeff Fahey) -- an unorthodox private investigator whose office is a booth in a Long Beach, Calif., diner -- works by a few simple principles, which he often…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Special Edition (1988)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Though Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is adept at juggling girlfriends (Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin), he has a tougher time following the dictates (or lack thereof) of his political conscience…
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The Perfect Murder (1988)
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgård, Amjad Khan …
Directed by: Zafar Hai
Bombay inspector Ghote (Naseeruddin Shah) investigates the attempted murder of a powerful businessman's secretary in this mystery. Ghote sets out to find the attacker, but runs into…
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Anita: Swedish Nymphet (1973)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Christina Lindberg, Danièle Vlaminck …
Directed by: Torgny Wickman
This erotic tale centers on the alluring Anita (Swedish cult star Christina Lindberg), whose search for love leads to an empty life of nymphomania. Anita's self-destructive path takes a…