Best movies of Max von Sydow

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sheila Reid, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor...

Actors : Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Max von Sydow, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Jonathan Sanger,

In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who know the date and place of the "D" day). ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...

Actors : Anna Godenius, Max von Sydow, Gösta Ekman, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Hans Alfredson,

This musical tragicomedy starring Max von Sydow as The Father, the patriarch of a seemingly nameless family. A factory owner whose workers transform eggs into specialized tools for ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : Max von Sydow, Stellan Skarsgård, Ewa Fröling, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Sven Nykvist,

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox and feeds it to his wife and baby daughter. No-one suspects anything until the meat is finished and Helge ...

Actors : Sven Lundberg, Elsa Ebbesen, Annika Tretow, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Kenne Fant,

Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.

Actors : Danae Skiadi, Astrid Roos, Max von Sydow, Nikolas Papagiannis,
Directors : Nicholas Dimitropoulos,

A fictional drama inspired by true events, the "Massacre of Kalavryta" committed by invading German troops in December 1943. When the Greek government launches a multi-billion legal claim ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

Actors : Alexander Skarsgård, Mads Mikkelsen, Max von Sydow, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Maria Lindberg,

One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley - everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, the Moominhouse, too! ...

Actors : Sverre Anker Ousdal, Eva von Hanno, Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two ...

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Jean Yanne, Max von Sydow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Henning Carlsen,

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his ...

Actors : Jorge Luke, Charlotte Rampling, Peter O'Toole, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them ...

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Max von Sydow, Shelley Winters, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".

Actors : Max von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf, Gina Rovere,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.

Actors : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Yvette Mimieux, Max von Sydow, Gilbert Roland,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

Bounty hunters capture a wanted fugitive, but on the return trip begin to fight among themselves as to who should get the bigger share of the reward.

Actors : Julia Blake, Carol Drinkwater, Max von Sydow, Steve Jacobs,
Directors : John Power,

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family. Mueller is arrested, but prevails in a trial. Zetnick breaks into his house, and kills ...

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Sarah Miles, Lothaire Bluteau, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex ...

Actors : Micheline Presle, Laure Dechasnel, Max von Sydow, François Arnal,
Directors : Claude d'Anna,

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she ...

Actors : Thommy Berggren, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Toralv Maurstad,
Directors : Lars-Magnus Lindgren,

A young Finnish woman is searching for the sailor Colett, who rescued her once from drowning. She arrives to a small port of Rio de Janeiro.