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Peter Stormare
Actor 72 years old

Peter Stormare

Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden

Peter Stormare (August 27, 1953) was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. He is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear... Read full bio →

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Until Dawn

Until Dawn

David F. Sandberg 2025 1h 43m 3.5

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers.

So Long, Marianne

So Long, Marianne

2024 46m 6.0

Based on the relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, follows two lonely people falling in love while they are still trying to discover who they are.

The Journey - 15 dagar i Nepal

The Journey - 15 dagar i Nepal

2022 43m 6.0

15 days and six famous Swedes, through the deepest inaccessible jungle, over the rolling highlands of Nepal and finally to the mountains at 4,500 meters altitude in the Himalayas.

Cryptozoo

Cryptozoo

Dash Shaw 2021 1h 35m 5.0

Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

Troll Hunters

Troll Hunters

Judyta Fibiger 2020 1h 29m

An evil force is about to destroy the peaceful Gnome community. Young gnome Junior is set to save the forest once again, this time, it's personal.

Songbird

Songbird

Adam Mason 2020 1h 25m 3.0

In 2024 a pandemic ravages the world and its cities. Centering on a handful of people as they navigate the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, martial law, quarantine, and vigilantes.

Beyond The Sky

Beyond The Sky

Fulvio Sestito 2018 1h 25m

A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the enigmatic culture of the Pueblo Indians.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

Cal Brunker 2017 1h 31m

When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.

John Wick: Chapter 2

John Wick: Chapter 2

Chad Stahelski 2017 2h 2m 6.7

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

Rupture

Rupture

Steven Shainberg 2016 1h 42m 5.0

A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

Every Thing Will Be Fine

Every Thing Will Be Fine

Wim Wenders 2015 1h 58m 6.0

One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

Dark Summer

Dark Summer

Paul Solet 2015 1h 21m

Follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Tokarev

Tokarev

Paco Cabezas 2014 1h 38m 5.0

When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

Penguins of Madagascar

Penguins of Madagascar

Simon J. Smith, Eric Darnell 2014 1h 32m 5.8

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Mall

Mall

Joe Hahn 2014 1h 28m 5.0

The lives of five disaffected suburbanites come together at a shopping mall in the wake of one man's shooting spree.

I Am Here

I Am Here

Anders Morgenthaler 2014 1h 37m

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.

Clown

Clown

Jon Watts 2014 1h 39m 7.0

A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Bang Bang Baby

Bang Bang Baby

Jeffrey St. Jules 2014 1h 30m

A small town teenager in the 1960s believes her dreams of becoming a famous singer will come true when her rock star idol gets stranded in town. But a leak in a nearby chemical plant that is believed to be causing mass mutations threatens to turn her dream into a nightmare.

22 Jump Street

22 Jump Street

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller 2014 1h 52m 6.5

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

The Zero Theorem

The Zero Theorem

Terry Gilliam 2013 1h 47m 6.4

A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

The Last Stand

The Last Stand

Kim Jee-woon 2013 1h 47m 6.3

Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border.

Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain

Michael Bay 2013 2h 10m 6.2

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Tommy Wirkola 2013 1h 28m 5.8

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

Educazione siberiana

Educazione siberiana

Gabriele Salvatores 2013 1h 50m 6.3

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own.

Bad Milo!

Bad Milo!

Jacob Vaughan 2013 1h 24m 5.7

A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

Autumn Blood

Autumn Blood

Markus Blunder 2013 1h 40m

Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters.

Tai ji 2: Ying xiong jue qi

Tai ji 2: Ying xiong jue qi

Stephen Fung 2012 1h 40m 5.0

Yang Luchan marries the Chen style kung fu grand master's daughter in Chen village in 1800s China, so he can learn Chen style kung fu/tai chi. The deputy governor wants the village.

Small Apartments

Small Apartments

Jonas Åkerlund 2012 1h 36m 6.2

A man is surrounded by strange events and odd neighbors in this adaptation of Chris Millis' novel.

Lockout

Lockout

Stephen St. Leger, James Mather 2012 1h 35m 5.7

Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter (Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.

Get the Gringo

Get the Gringo

Adrian Grünberg 2012 1h 36m 6.7

A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

The Wayshower

The Wayshower

Jsu Garcia, John-Roger 2011 1h 30m 4.0

Running from mistakes of the past, a man finds a secret book with ancient powers. But a Dark Force has been awoken, one that will stop at nothing to reclaim the sacred text. When the book is stolen, an age long battle resumes.

Jägarna 2

Jägarna 2

Kjell Sundvall 2011 2h 9m 6.5

A Stockholm cop returns again to his hometown in the northern wilderness to investigate a murder.

Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen

Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen

Nini Bull Robsahm, Patrik Syversen 2011 1h 47m 6.0

Glenn has been dumped by his girlfriend. He is lonely, and terribly difficult to deal with. To cheer him up, his buddies get a brilliant idea. How about organizing a fake audition for a non-existing feature film?

 Xing ying bu li

Xing ying bu li

Dayyan Eng 2011 1h 37m 6.0

A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.

Undocumented

Undocumented

Chris Peckover 2010 1h 36m

A documentary crew accompany a group of illegal immigrants crossing the Border, but their plans run afoul when they are captured by a gang of sadistic radicals in New Mexico.

Small Town Murder Songs

Small Town Murder Songs

Ed Gass-Donnelly 2010 1h 15m 5.0

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.

Janie Jones

Janie Jones

David M. Rosenthal 2010 1h 54m

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Henry's Crime

Henry's Crime

Malcolm Venville 2010 1h 48m 7.0

An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Kevin Munroe 2010 1h 47m 3.5

The adventures of supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, who seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans.

The Killing Room

The Killing Room

Jonathan Liebesman 2009 1h 33m 5.7

Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Terry Gilliam 2009 2h 3m 7.2

A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.

Otis E.

Otis E.

Jeff Daniel Phillips 2009 1h 25m

A movie about a tough world where mohd mambeer get locked up in jail for something he didn't do. So he plan for his revenge in the inside of the reberso prison with his close inmate kandiman.

Horsemen

Horsemen

Jonas Åkerlund 2009 1h 30m 6.2

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Witless Protection

Witless Protection

Charles Robert Carner 2008 1h 37m 4.0

The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her

Varg

Varg

Daniel Alfredson 2008 1h 35m 6.0

A story from the wilderness, where conditions of survival challenge the rules of modern society, Wolf is a contemporary drama set in northern Scandinavia. Klemens and Nejla own a small herd of reindeer. Klemens lives in tune with nature and according to the rhythm dictated by his work.

Tomtar & troll: Den hemliga kammaren

Tomtar & troll: Den hemliga kammaren

Robert Rhodin 2008 1h 10m 5.0

Junior, a teenage gnome, dreams of inventing gizmos in his tree house laboratory. His father however, wants him to be sensible and help distribute food rations to the animals of the forest. Evil troll brothers Face and slim try to thwart Junior's efforts with a carefully plotted plan to steal the food form the gnome secret food chamber.

Insanitarium

Insanitarium

Jeff Buhler 2008 1h 29m 3.0

After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths

Tatt av kvinnen

Tatt av kvinnen

Petter Næss 2007 1h 27m 6.0

A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.

Switch

Switch

Ole Martin Hafsmo 2007 1h 29m 4.0

Mikkel (15) lives a good life with his mother in Oslo. Here he has heaps of friends and spends most of his day on a skateboard. When his mum gets a new job, Mikkel has to move to a small village and start all over. In this village skateboard no longer matters and snowboard is the new big thing.

Premonition

Premonition

Mennan Yapo 2007 1h 36m 5.8

Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.

Ekko

Ekko

Anders Morgenthaler 2007 1h 20m

A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.

Boot Camp

Boot Camp

Christian Duguay 2007 1h 39m 5.0

A group of troubled teens are sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji. What their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed.

Anamorph

Anamorph

Henry Miller 2007 1h 47m 6.8

A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.

Unknown

Unknown

Simón Brand 2006 1h 25m 6.2

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre

Jared Hess 2006 1h 32m 5.7

Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed. The producers are Jack Black, David Klawans, Julia Pistor, and Mike White.

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

Terry Gilliam 2005 1h 58m 6.0

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

Prison Break

Prison Break

2005 45m 8.4

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Constantine

Constantine

Francis Lawrence 2005 2h 1m 7.4

John Constantine came into this world with the gift of seeing half-blooded angels and demons who live in disguise amongst us humans. These visions eventually drive him into killing himself. Soon after his death he is brought back from hell to fighting for his own redemption. A comic book influenced movie starring Keanu Reeves.

2001 Maniacs

2001 Maniacs

Tim Sullivan 2005 1h 27m 6.8

On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a taste of them!

Birth

Birth

Jonathan Glazer 2004 1h 40m 5.8

Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind.

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

2003 6.8

A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.

Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II

Michael Bay 2003 2h 26m 6.6

Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstacy into Florida.

Windtalkers

Windtalkers

John Woo 2002 2h 14m 5.7

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

The Tuxedo

The Tuxedo

Kevin Donovan 2002 1h 39m 4.9

Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo.

Spun

Spun

Jonas Åkerlund 2002 1h 41m 8.1

Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.

Minority Report

Minority Report

Steven Spielberg 2002 2h 25m 7.9

A Steven Spielberg film based on the dytopic science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. Tom Cruise is a cop in the future who arrest people before they kill yet things turn bad when Cruise is accused of a murder and is forced to run and figure out his destiny.

Bad Company

Bad Company

Joel Schumacher 2002 1h 56m 5.1

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

13 Moons

13 Moons

Alexandre Rockwell 2002 1h 34m 4.0

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi, has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily, just serves to compound Banana's despair.

The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel

Wim Wenders 2000 2h 2m 6.6

The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living. The film was made in collaboration with Bono and the soundtrack is also from U2.

Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark

Lars von Trier 2000 2h 20m 8.4

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation.

Circus

Circus

Rob Walker 2000 1h 35m

Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail.

Chocolat

Chocolat

Lasse Hallström 2000 2h 1m 7.6

A fable of emotional liberation. A mom and daughter move to a small French town where they open up a chocolate shop. The town at first is very against the idea especially that it’s open on Sundays and right across from the church, yet they eventually they earn their hearts and their taste buds.

Bruiser

Bruiser

George A. Romero 2000 1h 36m 6.0

After years of being browbeaten and walked on, a man wakes one day wearing an expressionless mask, fitted with a personality that enables him to take revenge.

8MM

8MM

Joel Schumacher 1999 2h 3m 6.5

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger.

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 1998 1h 57m 8.7

The Coen Brothers bring to life a ficticious day in the life of "The Dude” through Bowling, Joints, and an endless supply of “White Russian” cocktails. An off the wall adventure of mix-ups, dirty carpets, pornography producers, Nihilists, and psychopaths make this one of the most celebrated films of the ninties.

Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising

Harold Becker 1998 1h 51m 6.0

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.

Hamilton

Hamilton

Harald Zwart 1998 2h 2m 6.0

Swedish agent Carl Hamilton (Peter Stormare) and Finnish Åke Stålhandske (Mats Långbacka) are ordered to stop Russian smugglers. The smuggled goods is a nuclear missile. It's an SS 20, 1,5 megatons, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". The American villain is Mike Hawkins (Mark Hamill).

Armageddon

Armageddon

Michael Bay 1998 2h 31m 6.8

As the millennium approaches, top scientists are mysteriously dying.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg 1997 2h 9m 7.1

A research team is sent by John Hammond to the Site B island to study the dinosaurs. Meanwhile factions within his own company set about capturing them and displaying them in a new theme park in a Californian city.

Playing God

Playing God

Andy Wilson 1997 1h 34m 7.5

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter.

Fargo

Fargo

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 1996 1h 38m 8.4

Oscar winning film from the Coen brothers that takes place in the snow covered wasteland of their home state Minnesota. A clueless car dealer Jerry Lundegard stages the kidnapping of his wife in order to get money from his father-in-law when things turn unexpectedly bad.

Damage

Damage

Louis Malle 1992 1h 51m 7.3
Awakenings

Awakenings

Penny Marshall 1990 2h 7.9

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Seppan

Seppan

Agneta Fagerström-Olsson 1987 2h 4m

About an 11-year old girl and her life in the area commonly known as "Seppan", after the local factory AB Separator, south of Stockholm in the 1960s.

Fanny och Alexander

Fanny och Alexander

Ingmar Bergman 1982 3h 8m 8.4

A widowed actress and her children suffer hardships when she marries a conservative church leader.

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