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Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (born 10 April 1929) is a Swedish-born actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many movies and had supporting roles in dozens more. He has performed in movies filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish,...
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Druids
Druids (French: Vercingétorix: La légende du druide roi) is a French film first released on August 31, 2001, directed by Jacques Dorfmann. It stars Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Inés Sastre, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, and Max von Sydow....
Duet for One
Duet for One (1986) is a film based on an award-winning British play by Tom Kempinski about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis. It is set in London and directed by Andrei...
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 science fantasy film directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by William Goodhart. It is the sequel to The Exorcist, set four years after the events of the first film, a now 17-year-old Regan MacNeil is in...
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a 1980 science fiction film, based on the eponymous comic strip character Flash Gordon. The film was directed by Mike Hodges and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It stars Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol, Max von Sydow,...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen and stars Mia...
Hawaii
Hawaii is a 1966 American film based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student (Max von Sydow) who, along with his new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes a Calvinist missionary in...
Hour of the Wolf
Hour of the Wolf (Swedish: Vargtimmen) is a 1968 Swedish film. It is Ingmar Bergman's only gothic horror film.
Johan Borg (von Sydow) is a painter who is haunted by what seem to be demons. He only tells his wife Alma (Ullman) about them, and his...
Intacto
Intacto is a film thriller first released in Spain during November, 2001, and then internationally on the film festival circuit in 2002. It was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.
It stars Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Antonio...
Minority Report
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "Precrime...
Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror (Danish: Pelle Erobreren; Swedish: Pelle Erövraren) is a 1987 Danish film by Bille August that tells the story of two Swedish immigrants to Denmark, a father and son, who try to build a new life for themselves. It stars Pelle...
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Skammen
Shame (Swedish: Skammen) is a 1968 black-and-white film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.
The story follows two musicians, who, as a result of civil war, have moved away from society to a farm on a...
Utvandrarna
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna) is a 1971 film directed by Jan Troell. It tells the story of a Swedish group who emigrate from Småland, Sweden to Minnesota, United States in the 19th century. The film follows the hardship of the group in Sweden...
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1973 U.S. horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...
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The Magician
The Magician is a 1958 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its original Swedish title is Ansiktet, which means "face", and it was released theatrically as The Face in the UK, although video releases have used the U.S. title.
The film stars...
The Passion of Anna
The Passion of Anna (Swedish: En Passion) is a 1969 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman was awarded Best Director at the 1971 National Society of Film Critics Awards for the film.
Andreas, a man struggling with the...
The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the...
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The Touch
The Touch (originally titled Beröringen) is a 1971 film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Elliot Gould, and Sheila Reid.
Andreas and Karin Vergerus (von Sydow and Andersson) live in fine rapport, their...
The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring (Swedish: Jungfrukällan) is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, it is a revenge tale about a father's merciless response to the murder of his daughter. The story is based on a 13th century...
Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i en spegel) is a 1961 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a three-act “chamber film,” in which four family members act as mirrors for each other. It...
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World (German: Bis ans Ende der Welt) is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the...
Winter Light
Winter Light (Swedish: Nattvardsgästerna) is a 1962 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bergman regulars Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. Its original Swedish title translates as "The Communicants."...
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again, released in 1983 by Orion Pictures, is a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Unlike the majority of other Bond films it was not produced by EON Productions. The film stars Sean Connery as British Secret Service...
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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf is a 1974 film adaptation of Hermann Hesse's 1928 novel of the same name. The film made heavy use of visual special effects, which were cutting-edge at the time of its release.
The film took seven years of complicated pre-production for...
The Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior is a 1975 science fantasy film directed by Robert Clouse. One of the first in a series of post-apocalyptic films released in the 60’s and 70’s, it is set in post-holocaust 2012 New York City and depicts the struggles of a small...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le scaphandre et le papillon) is a 2007 French/American biopic/drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke at the...
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Sleepless
Sleepless (Italian: Non ho Sonno) is a 2001 horror film by Dario Argento. The film stars Max von Sydow and Stefano Dionisi and marks Argento's return to the giallo subgenre.
Sleepless opens with Detective Ulisse Moretti (Max Von Sydow) investigating...
Brass Target
Brass Target is a 1978 American war film, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan and directed by John Hough. It stars John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow.
The film revolves around...
Private Confessions
Private Confessions (Swedish: Enskilda samtal), is a 1996 Swedish drama film directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Ingmar Bergman. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1974 book written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. It was the basis of a 1976 film drama. The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St. Louis ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees...
Dreamscape
Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing. The first draft was written by Bill Sweet as a student in Screenwriting at Columbia College in Chicago in 1979...
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film based on Oliver Sacks' memoir of the same name. It tells the true story of Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and played by Robin Williams who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new...
Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during World War II. The film was directed by John Huston and stars Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone...
Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3 is a 2007 martial arts/action-comedy film, and the third installment in the Rush Hour film series, starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, that began with the 1998 film Rush Hour and continued with the first sequel Rush Hour 2 in 2001....
Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd is a 1995 action film directed by Danny Cannon, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the Judge Dredd strip in the British comic 2000 AD. Certain elements of...
Death Watch
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 French science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe.
Much of the filming took...
Flight of the Eagle
Flight of the Eagle (Swedish: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a 1982 Swedish biographical drama film directed by Jan Troell, based on Per Olof Sundman's novelization of the true story of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, an ill-fated...
The Apple War
The Apple War (Swedish: Äppelkriget) is a 1971 Swedish comedy-drama film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson, Monica Zetterlund and Max von Sydow. The political theme of the film is the battle between...
The Best Intentions
The Best Intentions (Swedish: Den goda viljan) is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of the complex courtship of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin (who...
The New Land
Nybyggarna (English: The New Land) is a 1972 Swedish film written by Bengt Forslund and directed by Jan Troell. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Eddie Axberg.
The movie is based on the last two novels of The Emigrants Suite by Vilhelm Moberg:...
Emotional Arithmetic
Emotional Arithmetic (2008) is a film directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis,...
Father
Father is a 1990 film about a retired German immigrant living in Australia, Joe Muller (Max von Sydow), who is accused of being a former Nazi who committed war crimes in the Second World War by a strange woman called Iya Zetnick (Julia Blake). His...
Strange Brew
The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew is a 1983 film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Max von Sydow co-stars. The story is loosely based...
March or Die
March or Die is a 1977 film directed by Dick Richards, starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve and Ian Holm.
The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion. Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), a war weary American is haunted...
Needful Things
This article is about the Stephen King novel. For the movie based on this story see Needful Things (film).
Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by Stephen King.
The story is set in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, where a new shop...
The Quiller Memorandum
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) is a film adaptation of the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Trevor Dudley-Smith, screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger and Alec Guinness....
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 U.S. motion picture epic produced and directed by George Stevens and distributed by United Artists. It is a retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, from the Nativity through the Resurrection.
The Greatest Story...
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Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a film directed by Michael J. Bassett, and based on the character created by Robert E. Howard in 1928. James Purefoy stars in the title role.
The movie tells the origins of Solomon Kane and is hoped to be the first of a trilogy of...
Code Name: Emerald
Code Name: Emerald is a 1985 action-drama film about a spy for the Allies working undercover in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film was directed by Jonathan Sanger, and stars Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, and Patrick Stewart. It was the first...
Dune
Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in...
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Citizen X
Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing 53 women and children, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him....
Needful Things
Needful Things is the 1993 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name directed by Fraser C. Heston, the son of actor Charlton Heston. The film starred Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, and Bonnie Bedelia.
A mysterious proprietor named Leland...
A Frozen Dream
A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm) is a documentary film released in 1997 as a follow up to the 1982 Swedish movie Flight of the Eagle, both directed by Jan Troell. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole in a...
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Rush Hour
The Rush Hour film series consists of a trilogy of martial arts/action-comedy films, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by New Line Cinema. The first film, Rush Hour, was released in September 18, 1998....
The Kremlin Letter
The Kremlin Letter is an American noir film directed by John Huston, starring Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Max Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Patrick O'Neal and George Sanders. It was released in February 1970 by 20th Century-Fox. The screenplay was co...
Hamsun
Hamsun is a 1996 Danish-Swedish-Norwegian-German drama directed by Jan Troell, about the later life of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow), who together with his wife Marie Hamsun (Ghita Nørby) went from being national saints to...
Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel, was adapted from the novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.
The...
Shutter Island
Shutter Island is an upcoming American thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. Production started in March 2008; Shutter Island was originally slated...
