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Stellan Skarsgård has 44 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 4 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Good Will Hunting.
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The Avengers
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Dune
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Good Will Hunting
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Chernobyl
2019 · Mini · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Dogville
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Mubi · Included

The Physician
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Dir. Joss Whedon · With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Dir. Craig Mazin · With Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Dir. David Fincher · With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, John Hurt

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Dir. Philipp Stölzl · With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
Dir. Ol Parker · With Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.
Dir. Phyllida Lloyd · With Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.
Dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg · With Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjørn Floberg

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
Dir. Joachim Trier · With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
Dir. Hans Petter Moland · With Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden

Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Dir. Predrag Antonijević · With Dennis Quaid, Pascal Rollin, Catlin Foster

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
Dir. Václav Marhoul · With Petr Kotlár, Nina Šunevič, Alla Sokolova

Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.
Dir. Marius Holst · With Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner

Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Dir. Peter Chelsom · With Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette

The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.
Dir. Janus Metz · With Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård

After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
Dir. Hans Petter Moland · With Stellan Skarsgård, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Floberg

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky · With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Dir. Peter Flinth · With Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård
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