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6.7

♡ 2

78%

Martha Coolidge Director

Stellan Skarsgård as Benno Moser

Stephen Dorff as General Huber

Connie Nielsen as Lena

Leo Suter as Robert Pulaski

Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic opera singer, and Rachel, a Jewish violin virtuoso, dream of one day performing together at legendary Carnegie Hall. When they're torn apart by the German invasion of Poland, Robert vows to find Rachel, no matter what the war may bring. His search leads him on a life-threatening journey through the heart of Nazi Germany, to a reckoning that Rachel may be lost to him forever.

In Order of Disappearance

2014

Norwegian

7.1

♡ 43

86%

Hans Petter Moland Director

Tobias Santelmann as Finn Heimdahl

Stellan Skarsgård as Nils Dickman

Kristofer Hivju as Strike - Stig Erik Smith

Peter Andersson as Wingman - Egil Dickman

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

Exorcist: The Beginning

2004

religion and supernatural

5.1

♡ 60

10%

secret

Thriller

vatican (holy see)

Renny Harlin Director

James D'Arcy as Father Francis

David Bradley as Father Gionetti

Stellan Skarsgård as Father Merrin

Alan Ford as Jefferies

Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

Hope

2019

Norwegian

7.3

♡ 9

100%

Maria Sødahl Director

Andrea Bræin Hovig as Anja

Elli Rhiannon Müller Osbourne as Julie

Steinar Klouman Hallert as Simon

Stellan Skarsgård as Tomas

Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will impact the entire family. As they try to make sense of the changes, they end up rediscovering their love for one another.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

2018

♡ 47

66%

60%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Terry Gilliam Director

Jorge Calvo as

Olga Kurylenko as Jacqui

Will Keen as Producer

Stellan Skarsgård as The Boss

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

Dancer in the Dark

2000

7.9

♡ 61

69%

91%

blindness and impaired vision

Lars von Trier Director

David Morse as Bill Houston

Stellan Skarsgård as Doctor

Peter Stormare as Jeff

Catherine Deneuve as Kathy

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist

2005

5.1

♡ 41

29%

Paul Schrader Director

Andrew French as Chuma

Rick Warden as Corporal Williams

Stellan Skarsgård as Father Lankester Merrin

Julian Wadham as Major Granville

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

God on Trial

2008

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

7.6

♡ 4

84%

Andy De Emmony Director

Stellan Skarsgård as Baumgarten

Eddie Marsan as Lieble

Dominic Cooper as Moche

Matthew Goode as Self - Host

In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

P & B

1983

6.1

♡ 4

based on novel or book

Comedy

Drama

swindle

Hans Alfredson Director

Tage Danielsson as Drunkard

Gösta Ekman as Guest at Restaurant

Stellan Skarsgård as Karl-Johan 'Charlie' Pettersson

Björn Gustafson as Nilsson

Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.

The Simple-Minded Murderer

1982

7.5

♡ 11

92%

Drama

mentally disabled

Hans Alfredson Director

Björn Andrésen as Angel

Lars Amble as Bengt

Stellan Skarsgård as Sven

Gösta Ekman as The New Driver

The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

False as Water

1985

parent child relationship

6.0

♡ 7

Hans Alfredson Director

Ing-Marie Carlsson as Göteborgskan

Tage Danielsson as Party Guest

Povel Ramel as Party Guest

Stellan Skarsgård as Stig

John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she moves into an apartment owned by John. John breaks up with his wife and moves in with Clara. But Clara has a nervous breakdown.

Breaking the Waves

1996

Danish

7.8

♡ 55

84%

prostitute

Romance

underdog

Lars von Trier Director

Emily Watson as Bess McNeill

Katrin Cartlidge as Dodo McNeill

Adrian Rawlins as Dr. Richardson

Stellan Skarsgård as Jan Nyman

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Last Words

2020

4.7

♡ 3

44%

Jonathan Nossiter Director

Valeria Golino as

Charlotte Rampling as Batlk

Nick Nolte as Shakespeare

Stellan Skarsgård as Zyberski

The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the film’s narrator Jo, a boy of African descent, aims to make the world’s last film.

Savior

1998

7.2

♡ 5

60%

Predrag Antonijevic Director

Robert Apisa as Colonel

Dennis Quaid as Joshua Rose

Nastassja Kinski as Maria Rose

Stellan Skarsgård as Peter Dominic

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

Taking Sides

2001

7.0

♡ 2

73%

Drama

Music

War

István Szabó Director

Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz

Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist

Harvey Keitel as Major Steve Arnold

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

Anita

1973