Breaking the Waves (1996)
Drama
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Adrian Rawlins
Director: Lars von Trier
Dune / Dune: Part One (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Oscar Isaac
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series 2019)
Drama | History | Thriller
Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident — one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Emily Watson, Robert Emms, Sam Troughton
Creator: Craig Mazin
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko
Director: Terry Gilliam
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again / Mamma Mia 2 (2018)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna as she learns more about her mother's past.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Andy García, Julie Walters, Cher
Director: Ol Parker
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
Starring: Saffron Burrows, Michael Rapaport, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Jane, Stellan Skarsgård, LL Cool J
Director: Renny Harlin
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland / Muumien taikatalvi (2017)
Animation | Family
Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of having his winter slumber as usually. Winter is certainly totally different than he had imagined.
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, Alicia Vikander
Director: Ira Carpelan, Jakub Wronski, Bartosz Wierzbieta
Borg vs. McEnroe / Borg McEnroe (2017)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of the 1980s tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
Starring: Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, David Bamber, Robert Emms
Director: Janus Metz
Ronin (1998)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, Skipp Sudduth
Director: John Frankenheimer
Angels & Demons (2009)
Mystery | Thriller
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Director: Ron Howard
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Thriller
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam, Alicia von Rittberg
Director: Susanna White
Cinderella (2015)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer
Director: Peter Chelsom
Exorcist: The Beginning / The Exorcist IV (2004)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Archeologist and former priest Lankester Merrin is hired to excavate a church that has been found buried in sands of British East Africa. Accompanied by a young priest, Father Francis, Merrin discovers an ancient hiding place where evil has been buried for centuries.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy, Remy Sweeney, Julian Wadham, Andrew French
Director: Renny Harlin
The Railway Man (2013)
Biography | Drama
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences, after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered, left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later, he met Patti, a beautiful woman, on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of his demons. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Would she stand by him, whatever he did?
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Insomnia (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the facts surrounding the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Maria Mathiesen, Gisken Armand, Kristian Figenschow, Thor Michael Aamodt
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Frankie & Alice (2010)
Biography | Drama
Frankie is a go-go dancer struggling with two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Starring: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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The Glass House (2001)
Thriller
After her parents mysteriously die, a teenager becomes wary of her new legal guardians-and her $4 million inheritance. Starring Leelee Sobieski and Diane Lane.
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgård, Diane Lane, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II / Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013)
Drama | Mystery
The continuation of the erotic adventure and life story of Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac whose personal and professional lives are shaped by her out-of-control sexual compulsions.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Christian Slater
Director: Lars von Trier
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I / Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013)
Drama
After he finds her bloodied, bruised, and nearly dead in an alleyway, an older gentleman rescues Joe, a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, and returns with her to his apartment. Over the course of the night, she recounts to him the story of her life, including her complicated relationship with her parents and how she lost her virginity.
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Connie Nielsen, Jesper Christensen
Director: Lars von Trier
