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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Game of Thrones.
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Game of Thrones
2011 · Series · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Headhunters
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Prime Video · Included

Nightwatch
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%AMC+ · Included

A Second Chance
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Blackthorn
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Bent
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Dir. David Benioff, D. B. Weiss · With Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Dir. Morten Tyldum · With Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Dir. Ole Bornedal · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Dir. Joseph Kosinski · With Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Dir. Andy Muschietti · With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Dir. Ric Roman Waugh · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Omari Hardwick, Jon Bernthal

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
Dir. Susanne Bier · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Dir. Robin Pront · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Dir. Mateo Gil · With Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Dir. Sean Mathias · With Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Brian Webber

On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
Dir. Erik Poppe · With Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Dir. Peter Flinth · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Charles Dance

For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week after the series 8 finale, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH delves deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the very real studios, fields and car-parks of Northern Ireland. Made with unprecedented access, GAME OF THRONES: THE LAST WATCH is an up-close and personal portrait from the trenches of production, following the crew and the cast as they contend with extreme weather, punishing deadlines and an ever-excited fandom hungry for spoilers. Much more than a “making of” documentary, this is a funny, heartbreaking story, told with wit and intimacy, about the bittersweet pleasures of what it means to create a world – and then have to say goodbye to it.
Dir. Jeanie Finlay · With Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Karl Glusman

Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.
Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows

A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Dir. Laura Dave, Josh Singer · With Jennifer Garner, Angourie Rice, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Dir. Alex Proyas · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Gerard Butler

A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Dir. E.L. Katz · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Robert Forster, Jacki Weaver
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Søren Malling, Paprika Steen
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