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  • Mortensen wins Genie Award for A Dangerous Method - 9 March 2012
    -Viggo Mortensen showed his support for his favourite Canadian ice hockey team by waving its flag onstage as he picked up a top prize at the 32nd Annual Genie Awards in Toronto on Thursday (08Mar12).-Mortensen, a longtime hockey fan, drew cheers as he unfurled the Montre


  • Mortensen unnerved by hopping Fassbender - 15 January 2012
    -Viggo Mortensen was left unnerved by his A Dangerous Method co-star Michael Fassbender on the set of the period drama, because the Irish actor prepared for their tense scenes by hopping on one foot and covering an eye.-The two stars play friends-turned-rivals Sigmund Fr


  • Mortensen appeals for more Freud letters to be made public - 2 September 2011
    -Actor Viggo Mortensen has appealed to the family of Sigmund Freud's psychiatrist protege Carl Jung to release more letters of correspondence between the pair, because they make "fascinating" reading.-The Lord of the Rings star portrays famed psychoanalyst Freud in new d

Viggo Mortensen - what members say


  • Witness
  • Witness review by from Harrow, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Looks dated...but holds up well 31 January 2006
    ...cting against his normal casting as the likeable second fiddle and a very young Viggo Mortensen - who looks about 15 - as a very minor, but beautiful, extra. I enjoyed this...   Read customer review
  • The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  • Rated - 5.0 stars The most precious movie(s) ever made - Overwhelmingly Special. 17 April 2005
    ...uron. Amongst the Fellowship who help him along the way are: Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen,) Legolas the Elf Prince(played by Orlando Bloom,) and Gandalf the wizard, (pla...   Read customer review
  • Eastern Promises
  • Eastern Promises review by from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Russian Godfather 25 October 2007
    ...nada, this story of the Russian mafia in London is on a par with The Godfather. Viggo Mortensen is unforgettable in the role of 'just a driver' with a secret or three. Naomi ...   Read customer review

Viggo Mortensen - filmography


  • On The Road - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Kristen Stewart,  Elisabeth Moss,  Sam Riley
    Director: Walter Salles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Brazilian director Walter Salles helms this adaptation of the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that defined the Beat Generation. Sam Riley stars as Kerouac's self-styled protagonist, down-and-out intellectual Sal Paradise, who takes to the backroads of America with his free-spirited friend Dean ..read more »
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  • On The Road on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Kristen Stewart,  Elisabeth Moss,  Sam Riley
    Director: Walter Salles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Brazilian director Walter Salles helms this adaptation of the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that defined the Beat Generation. Sam Riley stars as Kerouac's self-styled protagonist, down-and-out intellectual Sal Paradise, who takes to the backroads of America with his free-spirited friend Dean ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,764 member
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  • Good on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Jason Isaacs,  Jodie Whittaker
    Director: Vicente Amorim
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual. A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,548 members
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  • The Road on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Charlize Theron
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 45,836 members
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  • The People Speak (2009)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Marisa Tomei,  Morgan Freeman
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Inspired by Howard Zinn's best-seller A People's History of the United States and it's companion book Voices of a People's History of the United States this star studded documentary takes an unguarded look at our nation's decades-long struggle with the pressing issues of war, race, class, and women'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 5 members
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  • Reclaiming The Blade on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Karl Urban,  John Rhys-Davies,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Daniel McNicoll
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    John Rhys-Davies narrates this documentary celebrating the history, culture and craft of the sword. The film examines the role of the sword in myth, legend and film, and looks at the current re-emergence of medieval and Renaissance martial arts.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 161 members
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  • Appaloosa - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Renee Zellweger,  Ed Harris
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ed Harris directs and stars in this Western, which co-stars Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons. When Virgil Cole (Harris) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen) arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of villaionous rancher Randall Bragg (Irons). Their attempts to free the town from Bragg'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,419 members
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  • Appaloosa on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Renee Zellweger,  Ed Harris
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ed Harris directs and stars in this Western, which co-stars Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons. When Virgil Cole (Harris) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen) arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of villaionous rancher Randall Bragg (Irons). Their attempts to free the town from Bragg'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 16,279 members
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  • Eastern Promises on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Viggo Mortensen,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 53,816 members
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  • Hidalgo on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Zuleikha Robinson,  Omar Sharif
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Period adventure set in 1890 based on a true story, starring Viggo Mortensen as Frank T Hopkins, a former US Cavalry officer with a reputation for being one of the fastest and most daring riders in the West. When he meets Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle), an associate of wealthy Bedouin Sheikh Riyadh (Omar ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 18,715 members
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  • Hidalgo - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Zuleikha Robinson,  Omar Sharif
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Period adventure set in 1890 based on a true story, starring Viggo Mortensen as Frank T Hopkins, a former US Cavalry officer with a reputation for being one of the fastest and most daring riders in the West. When he meets Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle), an associate of wealthy Bedouin Sheikh Riyadh (Omar ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 351 members
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  • 28 Days on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Steve Buscemi,  Sandra Bullock,  Dominic West
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gwen Cummings is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl. She shares this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club to bar to hangover with boyfriend Jasper-handsome, magnetic and equally attracted to life on the wild side. Life is just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,094 members
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  • Psycho on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Robert Forster,  William H. Macy
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion's employer asks her to take $400,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,784 member
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  • A Perfect Murder on DVD (1998)
    Starring: David Suchet,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Sarita Choudhury
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Remake of Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder' (1954). The marriage of UN administrator Emily Taylor (Gwyneth Paltrow) and bond dealer Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) is not a happy one. For some months Emily has been having an affair with struggling artist David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen), unaware that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,666 members
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  • G.I. Jane on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Lucinda Jenn,  Kevin Gage,  Jason Beghe
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore) must face prejudice and harassment when she is selected to become the first female US Navy SEAL. In particular, Jordan encounters resentment from Master Chief Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen), her commanding officer. Although she gradually overcomes resistance from her male ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,605 members
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  • Daylight on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jay O. Sanders,  Sage Stallone,  Barry Newman
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sylvestor Stallone comes to the rescue in this disaster/adventure picture. A truck containing dangerous chemicals explodes in the Holland Tunnel, trapping those New Yorkers not killed in the explosion. Authorities know there are survivors, but cannot figure out what to do to save them. Ruptured ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,626 members
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  • Daylight - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Jay O. Sanders,  Sage Stallone,  Barry Newman
    Director: Rob Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    It is rush hour in Manhattan and commuters are making slow progress through the Hudson tunnel. When an outlaw gang crashes its car into a lorry carrying toxic waste, the resulting explosion seals off both ends of the tunnel, and a motley group of passengers find themselves stranded. Threatened by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 121 members
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  • Passion of Darkly Noon (1996)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Ashley Judd,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Philip Ridley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. A truck driver, Jude, rescues the exhausted man, who has only a bible for comfort. He brings him to the house of Callie and Clay, two lovers who live in the forest. While Clay is away in the forest, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 84 members
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  • The Prophecy on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Elias Koteas,  Eric Stoltz,  Amanda Plummer
    Director: Gregory Widen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Tommy Dagget wanted to be a priest, but lost his faith and became a cop instead. He once wrote a learned treatise on angels, so when a physiologically abnormal individual is found murdered and a copy of Dagget's study discovered on the crime scene, he's assigned to investigate. What he uncovers is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,409 members
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  • Crimson Tide - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Gene Hackman,  George Dzundza
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide. They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 2,093 members
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  • Crimson Tide on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Gene Hackman,  George Dzundza
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide. They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,386 members
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  • The Young Americans on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Thandie Newto,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Danny Cannon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Harris (Harvey Keitel), a tough New York narcotics cop is seconded to London apparently to help Scotland Yard unravel a spate of drug-related killings resulting from the expansion of America's drug racketeers into Europe. Privately, however, his aim is to nail Carl Fraser (Viggo Mortensen), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,426 member
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  • American Yakuza on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Robert Forster,  Michael Nouri,  Yuji Okumoto
    Director: Frank Cappello
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Classic action thriller about the battle for control of America's crime underworld between the Mafia and the Yakuzas. Into this field steps FBI Agent Viggo Mortensen, whose mission is to topple the Yakuza empire, at whatever cost.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 724 members
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  • Carlito's Way - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Sean Penn,  Penelope Ann Miller
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Carlito (Al Pacino) is a Hispanic drugs boss just released from prison. Determined to go straight and move to the Bahamas with his girlfriend, Gail (Penelope Ann Miller), Carlito is tempted back to the wrong side of the law by his lawyer, nerdish coke-head David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn), for 'one last ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 348 members
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  • Carlito's Way on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Sean Penn,  Penelope Ann Miller
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 24,749 members
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  • Ruby Cairo (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Liam Neeson,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Graeme Clifford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Bessie Faro's husband Johnny dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline's terminal in Veracruz, she discovers her husband was pumping large amounts of money into bank accounts all over the world.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 22 members
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  • The Indian Runner (1991)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Patricia Arquette,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Sean Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1968 ex-Sheriff Joe Roberts (David Morse) tries to bring his wayward brother Frank (Viggo Mortensen), a Vietnam veteran, back into the fold. But even after getting married and taking a job on a construction site, Frank proves too volatile to maintain a working man's existence. Based on the Bruce ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,092 member
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  • The Reflecting Skin (1990)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Lindsay Duncan,  Jeremy Cooper
    Director: Philip Ridley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. But far more ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 50 members
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  • Prison on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Kane Hodder,  Chelsea Field,  Lane Smith
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A convict executed by a 60,000 volt shock in 1964, comes back to seek revenge on the guard who was responsible, wreaking havoc in the prison in which he was killed.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 234 members
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  • Witness on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Danny Glover,  Harrison Ford,  Jan Rubes
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a young Amish boy (Lukas Haas) witnesses a murder in a big city train station, detective Jon Book (Harrison Ford) is given the job of protecting him. Suspecting that the murder was part of a police conspiracy, Book retreats to the small farming community where the boy lives. As time passes, ..read more »
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