Max von Sydow films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films on Boxlist

Known for The Seventh Seal, Minority Report and Wild Strawberries.

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Starring Max von Sydow

The Seventh Seal
1957 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block...
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Minority Report
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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Wild Strawberries
1957 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects...
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Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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The Exorcist
1973 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately...
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Moonage Daydream
2022 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
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Shutter Island
2010 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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Awakenings
1990 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm...
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The Virgin Spring
1960 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of...
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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past on a windy island. Between midnight and dawn, he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Winter Light
1963 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Citizen X
1996 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by...
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Shame
1968 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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Europa
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life...
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Until the End of the World
1991 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American...
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Conan the Barbarian
1982 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the...
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Flash Gordon
1980 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Dreamscape
1984 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing...
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What Dreams May Come
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades...
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Kursk
2018 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive...
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Never Say Never Again
1983 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 one more time to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy...
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Ghostbusters II
1989 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a...
Solomon Kane
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
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Sleepless
2001 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
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Robin Hood
2010 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and...
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The Wolfman
2010 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
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Dune
1984 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Dune—the only place where the time-travel substance 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some unsavory...
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Needful Things
1993 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
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Judge Dredd
1995 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
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Rush Hour 3
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must...
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The Ice Pirates
1984 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy...
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its...
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