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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal (1957) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson

Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius Block, wearily heading home after ten years' worth of combat. Disillusioned by unending war, plague, and misery ...

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What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come (1998) more movies like this

directed by Vincent Ward
featuring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Jessica Brooks Grant

Based on a metaphysical 1978 novel by science fiction and horror author Richard Matheson, this romantic fantasy-drama won an Oscar for its expensive and impressive visual vistas depicting an imaginative afterlife. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who has suffered with his artist wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) through the devastating ...

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Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor (1975) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman

"His code name is Condor. In the next 24 hours, everyone he trusts will try to kill him." As the ads ominously announced, a low-level spook confronts the unfathomable in Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller, adapted from the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor. CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the ...

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Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) more movies like this

directed by Scott Hicks
featuring Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Eric Thal, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune

Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy of U.S. policies against Asian-Americans. In December 1950, just off the shores of San Piedro Island in Washington, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) stands accused of murder after his close friend ...

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Minority Report

Minority Report (2002) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests ...

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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon (1980) more movies like this

directed by Mike Hodges
featuring Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

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) and his attractive companion, Dale Arden (Melody ...

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist (1973) more movies like this

directed by William Friedkin
featuring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn

Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan proves quite a handful for her actress-mother, Chris ...

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Charlton Heston

Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played herein by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting cast includes Dorothy McGuire as Mary, Claude Rains ...

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Strange Brew

Strange Brew (1983) more movies like this

directed by Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis
featuring Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin

Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has discovered an additive that when guzzled in beer, allows the drinkers to be easily controlled. Braumeister Smith (Max von Sydow) has a plan to take over the world with his new brew, and only the Great White hosers of the North, Bob ...

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Never Say Never Again

Never Say Never Again (1983) more movies like this

directed by Irvin Kershner
featuring Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Kim Basinger

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 the producers' assurance that Connery would have ...

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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow

A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell each other that forms the film's various subplots. ...

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Conan the Barbarian (1982) more movies like this

directed by John Milius
featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson

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 would be deadly, but here (as in The Terminator) ...

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Victory (1981) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pele, Werner Roth

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 team of Allied prisoners, led by Captain John Colby ...

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Needful Things (1993) more movies like this

directed by Fraser C. Heston
featuring Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, J.T. Walsh

Satan opens an antique shop in a small town and lures the residents into evil actions in this supernatural chiller. Based on a novel by the prolific Stephen King, the film bears many of the author's trademarks, such as the New England setting and the focus on regular people tempted by the forces of supernatural evil. Here, the enticements toward ...

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Hawaii (1966) more movies like this

directed by George Roy Hill
featuring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor, Elizabeth Cole

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 novel, the time frame of which was spread out over ...

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The Wolf at the Door (1986) more movies like this

directed by Henning Carlsen
featuring Donald Sutherland, Jean Yanne, Fanny Bastien, Max von Sydow, Sofie Gråbøl, Merete Voldstedlund

This drama looks into the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. Donald Sutherland plays Gauguin as he struggles through a few years in the 1890s in Montmartre after he has come back from his first stay in Tahiti. His new and radical painting style is not amenable to easy acceptance, as witnessed by August Strindberg's rejection of it here. The best ...

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Dreamscape (1984) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Ruben
featuring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw

Great special effects do not always make for a great film, but Dreamscape comes awfully close. Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow) and Dr. Jane Devries (Kate Capshaw) run a clinic for the study of dreams. Hoping to alleviate the pain of those plagued with recurring nightmares, Novotny hires a team of psychics to "inhabit" the subconsciouses of the ...

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Pelle the Conqueror (1988) more movies like this

directed by Bille August
featuring Max von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske, Bjorn Granath, Axel Ströbye

Long but rewarding, the Danish-Swedish Pelle the Conqueror is based on the early passages of Martin Andersen Nexoe's four-volume novel. Pelle (Pelle Hvengaard) is the son of a 19th-century Swedish farmer (Max Von Sydow). Seeking escape from their poverty-stricken surroundings, father and son emigrate to Denmark. Upon arrival, however, they are ...

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Voyage of the Damned (1976) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Rosenberg
featuring Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers refused entry by the Cuban government, in keeping with ...

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The Passion of Anna (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell

Liv Ullmann plays the widowed, crippled Anna Fromm, who while traveling on a remote island calls upon reclusive ex-convict Andreas (Max von Sydow) in order to use his telephone. After Anna leaves, Andreas discovers she's left her purse behind; he opens it, hoping to find some identification. A letter in the purse details Anna's unhappy marriage ...

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Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004) more movies like this

directed by Uli Edel
featuring Julian Sands, Max von Sydow, Robert Pattinson, Samuel West, Kristanna Loken, Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt

After witnessing the brutal murder of his powerful father King Solomon of the Netherlands, a young heir to the throne begins preparation for his ultimate revenge in director Uli Edel's medivel tale of might and magic. An allied royal court has granted refuge to young Siegfried following the tragic death of his father, and in the following years ...

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Hostile Waters (1997) more movies like this

directed by David Drury
featuring Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Richard Graham, Rob Campbell

Based on an actual event, this made-for-television movie chronicles a delicate international situation that could have derailed Russian-American relations in the 1980s. Martin Sheen and Rutger Hauer star as military leaders on opposing sides, in this edgy drama about the collision between a Russian nuclear submarine and an American submarine off ...

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Until the End of the World (1991) more movies like this

directed by Wim Wenders
featuring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American hitchhiker (William Hurt), who himself steals some of ...

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Shame (1968) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hans Alfredson, Birgitta Valberg

Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated to an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. Trained and employed as classical violinists, they make a modest living raising and selling ...

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Solomon (2000) more movies like this

This drama was the ninth in a series of made-for-TV features dramatizing famous stories from the Bible. Solomon (Ben Cross), the son of David (Max Von Sydow), inherits his father's kingdom and becomes the ruler of Israel. While Solomon consolidates power through his marriages, it is his intelligence, sense of justice, and desire to see his people ...

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