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  • Pelle The Conqueror
  • Pelle The Conqueror review by crispin40 from Stirling, Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars A moving epic 15 March 2006
    ...ry peasant people who were virtual slaves to the landowners and farm managers. Max von Sydow is wonderful and so is the boy Pelle. However, the direction and film technique...   Read customer review
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Seventh Seal review by from GLASGOW
    Rated - 5.0 stars 22 April 2004
    ...ellent! A truly classic Bergman in every sense. The Seventh Seal sports a young Max von Sydow and a host of other outstanding Swedish actors....   Read customer review
  • The Magician
  • The Magician review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Great Duel Between Science and Magic 5 October 2004
    ...n 1846, the Albert Emanuel Vogler (Max von Sydow) and his magnetic health theater is moving in a coach to Stockholm, escaping from the accusation of charlatanism. By the way...   Read customer review

Max von Sydow - filmography


  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sandra Bullock,  John Goodman
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,924 members
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  • Shutter Island on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Mark Ruffalo,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 79,937 members
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  • Solomon Kane on DVD (2010)
    Starring: James Purefoy,  Max von Sydow,  Patrick Hurd-Wood
    Director: Michael J. Bassett
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Solomon Kane is a 16th century anti-hero created by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian). When Solomon Kane (James Purefoy) meets the Devil's Reaper, he postpones his fate by renouncing violence - a vow that is soon tested by the forces of evil. As Kane once again straps on his weapons,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 18,336 members
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  • The Tudors - Series 3 (3 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Kevin Doyle,  Sarah Bolger,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Ciaran Donnelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All eight episodes from the third season of the Emmy Award-nominated historical drama series. Set in Renaissance Britain during the early part of Henry's reign, the story focuses on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Episodes comprise; 'Civil Unrest', 'The ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 1,905 member
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  • Rush Hour 3 - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Youki Kudoh,  Vinnie Jones,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Third instalment of the popular action series starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. While in Paris, Chief Inspector Lee's (Chan) latest assignment is to escort and to protect Chinese Ambassador Han (Tzi Ma) as he delivers a major address before the World Criminal Court Summit in Los Angeles. While ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,470 member
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  • Heidi on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Emma Bolger,  Geraldine Chaplin,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Paul Marcus
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Children's adventure based on the classic book by Johanna Spyri. Young Heidi (Emma Bolger) is sent to live with her bad-tempered grandfather (Max von Sydow) in the mountains, and before long she has managed to cheer him up. But when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl, she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 976 members
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  • Sword Of Xanten on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Benno Furmann,  Kristanna Loken,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Uli Edel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A fantasy-adventure story based on Nordic myths of the Ring of the Nibelungs. The story follows the son of a simple swordsmith, Siegfried (Benno Furmann) who repeatedly saves his country, not knowing that he is heir to a throne. He becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,154 members
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  • Minority Report on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Jessica Capshaw,  Kathryn Morris,  Mike Binder
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick ('Blade Runner', 'Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 52,662 members
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  • Minority Report - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Jessica Capshaw,  Kathryn Morris,  Mike Binder
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick ('Blade Runner', 'Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 802 members
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  • Sleepless on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Max Von Sydow,  Stefano Dionisi,  Chiara Caselli
    Director: Dario Argento
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Cult director Dario Argento revisits the themes of his earliest movies in this blood-soaked thriller. Insomaniac ex-cop Ulisse Moretti (Max von Sydow) is called out of retirement to investigate a series of violent slayings, all of which bear a resemblance to a case he worked on 17 years ago. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 877 members
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  • Druids (2001)
    Starring: Christophe Lambert,  Klaus Maria Brandauer,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Jacques Dorfmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Young Vercingetorix came of age in 60 B.C., as soldiers of the Roman Empire ran roughshod over Gaul and his father was captured and executed by Romans. A wise and philosophical druid, Guttuart, tells the angry Vercingetorix that he should seek justice by winning freedom for Gaul from the Romans. As ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 9 members
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  • What Dreams May Come on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Annabella Sciorra,  Robin Williams
    Director: Vincent Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chris Neilson (Robin Williams) is robbed of his blissful life with his wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) when he dies in a car crash. His ghost is allowed to keep in touch with Annie by residing in one of her paintings, but both parties remain frustrated by the mortal divide between them. When Annie ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,840 members
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  • Hostile Waters (1997)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  Martin Sheen
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a Soviet nuclear submarine collides with an American sub off the coast of Bermuda, the captains of both vessels (Rutger Hauer as the Russian skipper, Martin Sheen as his American counterpart) are forced to work together to thwart a meltdown. Based on an actual event that occurred in 1986, with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 34 members
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  • The Bible - Solomon on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  David Suchet,  Ben Cross
    Director: Roger Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-television biopic of one of the most important Biblical prophets and kings, whose name became a byword for wisdom but who was brought low by his fateful meeting with the Queen of Sheba. Solomon (Ben Cross) rises to become the benevolent King of Israel, presiding over the construction of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 429 members
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  • Hamsun (1996)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Ghita Norby,  Anette Hoff
    Director: Jan Troell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 on the 9th of April, 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 2 members
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  • Judge Dredd (1995)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  Rob Schneider,  Joanna Miles
    Director: Danny Cannon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) - the most feared policeman in Mega City One - finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is framed by those inside the Great Hall of Justice. He must try to clear his name and wipe out the corruption in the city, with the help of a small time criminal, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 10,352 members
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  • Needful Things on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Frank C. Turner,  Valri Bromfield
    Director: Fraser C. Heston
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Newly arrived and seemingly kindly antique shop owner Gaunt (Max von Sydow) has the strange talent of finding the perfect present for each of Castle Rock's quiet townsfolk. However, Gaunt does not want any money in return - instead he asks a small favour from each of them. These favours start off ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,204 member
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  • A Kiss Before Dying on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Sean Young,  James Russo,  Max Von Sydow
    Director: James Dearden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ellen Carlson (Sean Young), deeply troubled by the mysterious death of her sister Dorothy, hopes to rebuild her life with charismatic new lover Jonathan (Matt Dillon). However, Jonathan's past seems to be connected with her dead sister, and as her investigations continue, Ellen begins to suspect ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 61 members
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  • The Best Intentions on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Ghita Norby,  Max von Sydow,  Pernilla August
    Director: Bille August
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Very loosely based on the account of his parents in Ingmar Bergman's autobiography 'The Magic Lantern', the film begins in 1909 when Henrik (Samuel Froler) is studying to be a priest. Though engaged to a waitress, he falls in love with Anna (Pernilla August) but their relationship is disapproved of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 101 members
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  • Awakenings on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Penelope Ann Miller,  Julie Kavner
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dr Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy neurologist and keen lover of earthworms and botany who accidentally wins a job at the New York Bainbridge Hospital looking after catatonics. He discovers, through sheer patience, hard work and experimentation, that the patients may be revivable, with one ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 10,742 members
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  • Out Of The Ashes on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Tamlyn Tomita,  Max Von Sydow,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Peter Werner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Some 150,000 citizens were killed or severely wounded when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 - an event that still remains one of the most controversial in modern warfare. This Emmy-nominated drama focuses on a disparate group of individuals caught up in the blast and relives their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 62 members
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  • Pelle The Conqueror (1988)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Erik Paaske,  Max Von Sydow
    Director: Bille August
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pappa Lasse (Max von Sydow) decides to leave turn-of-the-century Sweden for Denmark, hoping the quality of his life and that of his son (Pelle Hvenegaard) will improve. The grass is no greener in Denmark, however, and they must work like slaves on a farm to survive. Through Pelle's eyes we see how ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 890 members
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  • Quo Vadis on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Barbara de Rossi,  Cristina Raines
    Director: Franco Rossi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1980s mini-series set against the backdrop of Rome in crisis as the Emperor Nero (Klaus Maria Brandauer), caught in the grip of insanity, begins to commit increasingly extreme atrocities against the Christians, culminating in the burning of Rome. When General Marcus Vinicius (Francesco Quinn) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 63 members
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  • Dune - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Francesca Annis,  Kyle MacLachlan,  Sian Phillips
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    'Blue Velvet' and 'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch made this sci-fi epic set on planet Dune, where a precious life-enhancing spice is guarded by monster worms. Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) is the Prince who leads his people against the territorial designs of the Harkonnens, and who, once on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 320 members
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  • Samson And Delilah (1984)
    Starring: Belinda Bauer,  Max von Sydow,  Antony Hamilton
    Director: Lee Philips
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic blockbuster by Cecil B.DeMille relating the Biblical story of the strong man with the long hair who falls for the beauty and charms of the lovely Delilah, and eventually destroys himself in trying to please her.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 103 members
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  • Dune on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Francesca Annis,  Kyle MacLachlan,  Sian Phillips
    Director: David Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 11,461 members
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  • Dreamscape (1983)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Max Von Sydow,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Joseph Ruben
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Dennis Quaid plays a compulsive gambler with telepathic powers who takes a job as a dream therapist to pay off his debts. He has the ability to step into the nightmares of other people and, in doing so, can help them overcome the traumas which cause them. However, someone else with the same gift is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,168 member
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  • Never Say Never Again - Blu-ray (1983)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Edward Fox,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Irvin Kershner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sean Connery returns - after a 12-year absence - to the role that made him famous, in this 'unofficial' Bond movie, made outside the auspices of regular producer Albert Broccoli and without any of the series' regular faces. A remake of the earlier Connery-Bond film 'Thunderball', it concerns the ..read more »
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  • Never Say Never Again on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Bernie Casey,  Max von Sydow,  Edward Fox
    Director: Irvin Kershner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The title of the 1983 James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again is a self-mocking reference to star Sean Connery's insistence back in 1971 that he would never play Bond again. Reportedly, the huge salary offered Connery was but one consideration that brought him back to the 007 fold; the other was ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 10,180 members
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  • Conan The Barbarian - Blu-ray (1981)
    Starring: Narr),  Ben Davidson,  Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mythical hero Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) vows to take revenge after the murder of his parents and destruction of his village. Determined to learn the 'riddle of steel', he sets off with his companions, Subotai the Mongol (Gerry Lopez) and Queen of Thieves (Sandahl Bergman), to kill Thulsa Doom (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 126 members
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  • Conan The Barbarian on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Narr),  Ben Davidson,  Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,133 members
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  • Escape to Victory on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Sylvester Stallone,  Max Von Sydow
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner of war camp, Major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the camp commander, once a member of the German national soccer team, decides to put together a soccer match between a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,749 members
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  • Flash Gordon on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Topol,  Melody Anderson,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,312 members
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  • Death Watch on DVD (1980)
    Starring: ThéRèSe Liotard,  Eva Maria Meineke,  Bernhard Wicki
    Director: Bertrand Tavernier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Before Big Brother there was Death Watch. Media mogul Vincent Ferriman (Harry Dean Stanton) wants to create the most popular reality television show ever. He cajoles journalist Roddy (Harvey Keitel) into having cameras implanted in his eyes and sets him on the trail of terminally ill Katherine ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 102 members
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  • Death in Full View (1980)
    Starring: Romy Schneider,  Harvey Keitel,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Bertrand Tavernier
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain he is employed to film a documentary about terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His film would then be shown on the popular TV series "Death Watch", but all does not work out according to plan.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 20 members
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  • March Or Die on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Terence Hill,  Max von Sydow,  Ian Holm
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1918, Major Foster (Gene Hackman) of the French Foreign Legion is recommended to accompany and protect the archaeological expedition being led by Marneau (Max Von Sydow). Foster, who regards Marneau's activities as little better than grave robbing, reluctantly obeys, but the excavation offends ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 217 members
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  • Exorcist 2 - The Heretic on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Ned Beatty,  Max von Sydow,  Kitty Winn
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Regan (Linda Blair), the demonically possessed child from 'The Exorcist', is now a relatively normal, happy teenager, living under the care of a psychiatrist (Louise Fletcher) and her mother's ex-secretary (Kitty Winn). When the demons return to haunt Regan, priest Father Lamont (Richard Burton), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 2,071 members
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  • The Exorcist on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Lee J. Cobb,  Max von Sydow,  Kitty Winn
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen and withdrawn, Regan becomes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 25,416 members
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  • The Night Visitor on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Trevor Howard,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Laslo Benedek
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller in which a detective attempts to link a brutal murder to a man incarcerated in an insane asylum. Salem (Max von Sydow) was sent to the asylum after being convicted of murdering a farmhand with an axe. When members of Salem's family are discovered to have been killed in an equally brutal ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 2 members
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  • The Emigrants (1971)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Liv Ullmann,  Eddie Axberg
    Director: Jan Troell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough. One of their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8 members
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  • The Kremlin Letter on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Lila Kedrova,  Orson Welles,  Dean Jagger
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Huston directs this classic spy thriller starring Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow. An undercover espionage agency recruits Charles Ron (Patrick O'Neal), a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory, to assist with a top-secret mission inside Russia. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 62 members
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  • Hour Of The Wolf on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,041 member
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  • Shame on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Liv Ullmann,  Gunnar Bjrnstrand
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Second in the 'Faro Island trilogy' (between 'Hour of the Wolf' and 'The Passion of Anna') directed by the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Set in a near-future civil conflict, the film documents the struggle of a young married couple, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva Rosenberg (Liv Ullmann) to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 836 members
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  • The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
    Starring: George Segal,  Max von Sydow,  Alec Guinness
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An early James Bond imitator, although the hero never uses a gun. After the brutal murder of two British agents in Berlin, secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is assigned by his boss Pol (Alec Guiness) to West Berlin where he must uncover the operations of the mysterious neo-Nazi organisation ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 572 members
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  • Hawaii (1966)
    Starring: Julie Andrews,  Max von Sydow,  Richard Harris
    Director: George Roy Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hawaii hadn't even begun filming when director Fred Zinnemann was replaced by George Roy Hill; similarly, the role intended for Charlton Heston ended up being played by Richard Harris (though Heston would eventually star in the 1970 sequel, The Hawaiians). Based on James A. Michener's best-selling ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 8 members
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  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
    Starring: Pat Boone,  David McCallum,  Van Heflin
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    George Stevens' epic retelling of the Bible substitutes Utah for the Middle East and features a host of big names in cameo roles. Concentrating on the birth, life, execution and resurrection of Christ (Max von Sydow), Stevens was helped by fellow directors David Lean and Jean Negulesco in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 690 members
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  • Winter Light on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Gunnel Lindblom,  Ingrid Thulin
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ingmar Bergman's stark look at faith is the second part of a trilogy with 'Through a Glass Darkly' (1961) and 'The Silence' (1963). A pastor (Gunnar Bjornstrand) who seems to have lost his faith after his wife's death finds himself unable to give spiritual reassurance to a local fisherman (Max von ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,671 member
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  • The Magician on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Lars Ekborg,  Max von Sydow,  Axel Duberg
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Max von Sydow plays a 19th century mesmerist who is charged with blasphemy and questioned by the authorities, in an attempt to prove him a fraud. Ingmar Bergman directs. Also availalbe as part of an Ingmar Bergman Collection.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,582 member
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  • The Seventh Seal on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Bibi Andersson,  Gunnar Bjornstrand
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Classic, much-parodied allegorical drama from director Ingmar Bergman. A knight (Max von Sydow) returns from the crusades to his plague-ridden homeland and engages Death (Bengkt Ekerot) in a game of chess. This leads the knight to ponder the question of whether or not God exists.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 10,994 members
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  • Wild Strawberries on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Victor Sjostrom,  Bibi Andersson
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director Victor Sjöström stars as Isak Borg, an aging medical professor who reassesses his life while journeying to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 6,431 members
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  • Voyage Of The Damned
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A star-studded cast feature in this big-screen dramatisation of a tragic true life story. In May 1937, 137 Jewish refugees are permitted to leave Nazi Germany on the luxury liner S.S. St Louis, bound for Cuba. However, unbeknownst to the ship's captain, Gustav Schroeder (Max Von Sydow), Goebbels ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 56% from 23 members
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Max von Sydow facts

5 most recent films

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 3.5 stars
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Shutter Island - 3.5 stars
Solomon Kane - 3.0 stars
Solomon Kane - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Tudors - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
The Tudors - Series 3 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Exorcist - The Version You've Never Seen - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Shutter Island - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Never Say Never Again - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Hamsun - 2.5 stars
Hostile Waters - 2.5 stars
Voyage Of The Damned - 2.5 stars
The Emigrants - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Frain - 23 times - show films
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - 23 times - show films
Henry Cavill - 23 times - show films
Joss Stone - 16 times - show films
Max Von Sydow - 11 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ingmar Bergman - 17 times - show films
Ingmar Bergman - 16 times - show films
Ciaran Donnelly - 15 times - show films
Jeremy Podeswa - 8 times - show films
William Friedkin - 6 times - show films