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  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia review by FatDan from Oxon
    Rated - 2 stars Great if you understand Swedish... 11 February 2004
    ...ubtitles. Overall though, an enjoyable film with an excellent performance from Stellan Skarsgard as always....  
  • Goya's Ghosts
  • Goya's Ghosts review by DanaK from London
    Rated - 4 stars A very realistic period piece worth watching 28 August 2007
    ...d with Goya’s beautiful teenage muse, Ines - Natalie Portman. The Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (Pirates of the Caribbean) does a nice job as Goya, who plays the political gam...  
  • Waz
  • Waz review by Northernsky from Halifax
    Rated - 4 stars "There are many shades of grey ". 26 October 2008
    ...ssage carved into the flesh she is paired up with gruff detective Eddie Argo ( Stellan Skarsgard) and it transpires the victim was the pregnant girlfriend of a notorious gang m...  

Stellan Skarsgard - filmography


  • Mamma Mia! on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Meryl Streep,  Pierce Brosnan
    Director: Phyllida Lloyd
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 45,897 members
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  • Waz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Stellan Skarsgard,  Melissa George,  Selma Blair
    Director: Tom Shankland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Waz bodies are turning up in the city streets - some horribly mutilated, others with an equation craved into their flesh. Detective Argo (Skarsgard) and his new partner (George) unearth the meaning of the equations, only to realise that each victim is being offered a grusome choice: kill your ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 6,119 members
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  • City Of Ghosts on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Matt Dillon,  James Caan,  Natascha McElhone
    Director: Matt Dillon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Actor Matt Dillon (OVER THE EDGE, THE OUTSIDERS) makes his directorial debut with CITY OF GHOSTS, an atmospheric thriller about an American man who finds himself in a very dangerous Cambodia. Dillon plays Jimmy Cremmins, a New York scam artist who has been working as a front man for a phony ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 2,342 members
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  • Aberdeen (2000)
    Starring: Lena Headey,  Stellan Skarsgard,  Charlotte Rampling
    Director: Hans Petter Moland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Kaisa (Lena Headey), a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together - at least until her mother (Charlotte Rampling) asks an enormous favour: to bring back to her Kaisa's estranged, larger-than-life father (Stellan Skarsgard). The two of them, father and daughter together, set ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 17 members
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  • Ronin on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Jean Reno,  Jonathan Pryce
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 18,642 members
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  • Good Will Hunting on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Matt Damon,  Ben Affleck
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,184 members
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  • My Son The Fanatic (1997)
    Starring: Om Puri,  Rachel Griffiths,  Stellan Skarsgard
    Director: Udayan Prasad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A bittersweet story about a Pakistani taxicab driver in London who learns the hard way that multiculturalism is a myth. Actor Om Puri, typically the villain in Indian cinema, is likeable as the innocent Parvez, who for the first time in his life raises questions about the life he has made for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 59 members
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  • The Perfect Murder on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Naseeruddin Shah,  Stellan Skarsgard,  Amjad Khan
    Director: Zafar Hai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the award-winning novel by H.R.F. Keating, Merchant Ivory Productions presents THE PERFECT MURDER, a highly entertaining, exotic detective thriller. Inspector Ghote (NASEERRUDDIN SHAH, Monsoon Wedding) of the Bombay police has just been assigned his most perplexing case: a savage attack on ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 75 members
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Stellan Skarsgard facts

5 most recent films

Mamma Mia! - 3.5 stars
Waz - 2.5 stars
Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - 3.5 stars
Goya's Ghosts - 3.0 stars
Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ronin - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Good Will Hunting - 3.5 stars
Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - 3.5 stars
Ronin - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Aberdeen - 2.5 stars
Signs & Wonders - 2.0 stars
The Perfect Murder - 2.0 stars
No Good Deed - 2.5 stars
City Of Ghosts - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stellan Skarsgård - 6 times - show films
Jonathan Pryce - 4 times - show films
Natascha McElhone - 3 times - show films
Ronan Vibert - 2 times - show films
Naomie Harris - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Gore Verbinski - 2 times - show films
Sturla Gunnarsson - 2 times - show films
Renny Harlin - 2 times - show films
John Frankenheimer - 2 times - show films
John Kent Harrison - 1 times - show films