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4.6

♡ 15

9%

Jamie Bradshaw Director

Leelee Sobieski as Abby

Rachel Davies as Cow's Voice

Max von Sydow as Marketing Guru

Viktor Verzhbitskiy as Yuri Nikolaevich

In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

6.3

♡ 6

57%

Michael Anderson Director

Senta Berger as Inge Lindt

Max von Sydow as Oktober

Philip Madoc as Oktober's Man

Robert Helpmann as Weng

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Ingmar Bergman

1972

7.0

♡ 8

Stig Björkman Director

Elliott Gould as Self

Bibi Andersson as Self

Ingmar Bergman as Self

Max von Sydow as Self

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

Citizen X

1995

7.4

♡ 25

86%

based on a true story

Chris Gerolmo Director

Jeffrey DeMunn as Andrei Chikatilo

Max von Sydow as Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky

Stephen Rea as Lt. Viktor Burakov

Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Burakov

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

The New Land

1972

8.0

♡ 17

100%

Jan Troell Director

Allan Edwall as Danjel

Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar

Liv Ullmann as Kristina

Per Oscarsson as Pastor Törner

A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.

Steppenwolf

1974

6.1

♡ 3

53%

Fred Haines Director

Max von Sydow as Harry Haller

Dominique Sanda as Hermine

Eduard Linkers as Mr. Hefte

Sunnyi Melles as Rosa

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?

The Emigrants

1971

husband wife relationship

8.0

♡ 15

94%

minnesota

ship

the new world

Jan Troell Director

Allan Edwall as Danjel

Hans Alfredson as Jonas Petter

Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar

Liv Ullmann as Kristina

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

Echoes of the Past

2021

Greek

6.5

♡ 6

88%

Drama

Nicholas Dimitropoulos Director

Alice Krige as Andrea Foss

Thanasis Nakos as Cobbler

Max von Sydow as Nikolas Andreou

Maria Apostolakea as Panagiota

A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.

Illustrious Corpses

1976

Italian

7.3

♡ 8

Francesco Rosi Director

Paolo Bonacelli as Dr. Maxia

Fernando Rey as Security Minister

Max von Sydow as Supreme Court's President

Tina Aumont as The prostitute

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

French

8.0

♡ 30

94%

92%

based on novel or book

Julian Schnabel Director

Michael Wincott as Fashion Photographer

Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Roi

Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Do

Max von Sydow as Papinou

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

Here Is Your Life

1966

7.3

♡ 4

Jan Troell Director

Bengt Ekerot as Byberg

Gunnar Björnstrand as Lundgren

Signe Stade as Maria

Max von Sydow as Smålands-Pelle

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

The Apple War

1971

6.6

♡ 4

Comedy

Fantasy

Tage Danielsson Director

Tage Danielsson as Bernhard Lindberg

Kar de Mumma as Den välklädde herrn

Max von Sydow as Roy Lindberg

Gösta Ekman as Sten Wall, PR-man

A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.

Europa

1991

German

7.5

♡ 28

81%

Lars von Trier Director

Lars von Trier as Jew

Barbara Sukowa as Katharina Hartmann

Udo Kier as Lawrence Hartmann

Max von Sydow as Narrator

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

The Virgin Spring

1960

8.0

♡ 45

88%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Allan Edwall as Beggar

Leif Forstenberg as Farm-hand

Gudrun Brost as Frida

Max von Sydow as Töre

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

The Passion of Anna

1969

7.6

♡ 18

100%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Max von Sydow as Andreas Winkelman

Bibi Andersson as Eva Vergérus

Ingmar Bergman as Narrator

Lars-Owe Carlberg as Police Officer

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

The Flight of the Eagle

1982

7.2

♡ 1

75%

Jan Troell Director

Marga Pettersson as Dancer

Knut Husebø as Fridtjof Nansen

Clément Harari as Lachambre

Max von Sydow as S.A. Andrée

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.

Hamsun

1996

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Jan Troell Director

Gard B. Eidsvold as Arild Hamsun

Per Jansen as Harald Grieg

Max von Sydow as Knut Hamsun

Ghita Nørby as Marie Hamsun

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.

Pelle the Conqueror

1987

Danish

7.7

♡ 6

84%

89%