TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Max von Sydow.
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Birthdate: April 10, 1929
Max von Sydow
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1950s
2.5996
2
1960s
2.6970
8
1970s
2.1756
14
1980s
2.6265
15
1990s
2.1885
9
2000s
1.8674
6
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7737
2.7737
Max von Sydow Movie Rankings
1
3.6102A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. ...more about Seventh Seal
DVD from $24.29
(15 sellers)
2
3.6087The Exorcist is based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and considered one of the scariest movies of all time. The devil possesses the body of a young girl and it is up to two priests to expel it from her body before she is too strong to control. ...more about Exorcist
DVD from $5.24
(10 sellers)
3
3.3973Hannah and her sisters are very close; they tell each other practically everything. Over the course of several years, their lives become very complicated each struggling with love and career. ...more about Hannah and Her Sisters
DVD from $4.86
(13 sellers)
4
3.2316
As a child, Conan is enslaved by the warriors that killed his parents. When he is released from slavery, he is taught the ancient ways of the warrior and seeks to find and kill the man that murdered his family. ...more about Conan the Barbarian
DVD from $5.85
(11 sellers)
5
3.0465
In the future murder no longer exists. The government has the ability to predict when a murder will take place and arrest the guilty before they can commit the crime. But when the program's lead guy, Chief Anderton, is accused he has to prove the future is wrong. ...more about Minority Report
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $3.99
(13 sellers)
6
3.0000
In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless. ...more about Flash Gordon
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
- Napierville Cinema Festival - Best Actor (Meilleur Comédien)
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.9980
In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. ...more about Dune
DVD from $9.58
(14 sellers)
8
2.9565
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by swineherds after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. ...more about Virgin Spring
DVD from $24.99
(10 sellers)
9
2.9484
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. ...more about Hawaii
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $6.37
(11 sellers)
10
2.8228
After the death of their two children, Dr. Chris Nielson ('Robin Williams' (qv)) and his wife Annie ('Annabella Sciorra' (qv)) find continuing their lives fraught with difficulties, especially for Annie. ...more about What Dreams May Come
DVD from $6.29
(14 sellers)
11
2.8166
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. ...more about Dreamscape
DVD from $5.85
(11 sellers)
12
2.7732
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. ...more about Strange Brew
DVD from $6.82
(11 sellers)
13
2.7258
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him. ...more about Three Days of the Condor
Actor Awards
- Cartagena Film Festival - Best Actor (Mejor Actor)
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
14
2.7163
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. ...more about Ansiktet
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6947
A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. ...more about Awakenings
DVD from $3.95
(12 sellers)
16
2.6797
The life of Jesus Christ. ...more about Greatest Story Ever Told
DVD from $7.49
(12 sellers)
17
2.6337
Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in own nets, but with a serious head wound. ...more about Snow Falling on Cedars
DVD from $4.52
(14 sellers)
18
2.5999
In a standard comic book dystopian near-future Americans are ensconced in mega-cities which protect them from the desolation of the world outside, and the peace is kept by The Judges. ...more about Judge Dredd
DVD from $7.02
(12 sellers)
19
2.3956
Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn's pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have always coveted. ...more about Needful Things
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $9.41
(11 sellers)
20
2.3094
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. ...more about Quiller Memorandum
DVD from $11.23
(10 sellers)
21
2.2738
In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propiganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game. ...more about Victory
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
22
2.2660
Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has fashioned an enigmatic tale of four people...lives intertwined by destiny...subject to the laws of fate... ...more about Intacto
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.1925
937 Jewish Germans are offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. They depart Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. ...more about Voyage of the Damned
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1849
General Patton tries to transfer the German gold stock to Frankfurt. But someone foils his plan. The military police begin to find the guilty... ...more about Brass Target
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.1185
SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. ...more about Never Say Never Again
DVD from $5.69
(11 sellers)
26
2.1018
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 knew the date and place of the "D" day). ...more about Code Name: Emerald
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.9579
While in Paris, Lee and Carter inadvertently get mixed up with the Chinese Triad crew. ...more about Rush Hour 3
DVD from $6.10
(17 sellers)
30
1.9131
Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. ...more about Duet for One
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.7947
The demon is back in this the second film of the three part series as a new priest played by Richard Burton tries to find the demon still living inside Regan (Linda Blair). ...more about Exorcist II: The Heretic
DVD from $3.91
(15 sellers)
33
1.7396
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. ...more about Pelle the Conqueror
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Bodil Awards - Best Actor (Bedste mandlige hovedrolle)
- European Film Awards - Best Actor
- Guldbagge Awards - Best Actor (Bästa manliga huvudroll)
- Robert Festival - Best Actor (Årets mandlige hovedrolle)
DVD from $9.99
(1 sellers)
35
1.7085
Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organised in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other. ...more about Ultimate Warrior
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.7062
Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. ...more about March or Die
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
37
1.5335
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 from a concentration camp who found refuge in the U.S. ...more about Touch
DVD from $2.75
(5 sellers)
38
1.3150
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 herself in front of his family. ...more about Father
Actor Awards
- Australian Film Institute - Best Actor in a Lead Role
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.2648
Realising his secret girl-friend Dorothy's pregnancy will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father, career-minded Philadelphia student Jonathan Corliss cooly murders her, making it look like suicide. ...more about Kiss Before Dying
DVD from $4.49
(14 sellers)
40
1.1354
Max von Sydow plays 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 symphony on his neglected piano. ...more about Dotkniecie reki
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.0921
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. ...more about Kremlin Letter
- Not Available on DVD
43
0.7717
Young Vercingetorix came of age in 60 B.C., as soldiers of the Roman Empire ran roughshod over Gaul and his father was captured and executed by Romans. ...more about Druids
DVD from $8.26
(9 sellers)
45
Three years after the Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, rumors that he is a prophet who has risen from the dead are inciting the people to rebel against their Roman rulers. ...more about Inquiry
- Not Available on DVD
47
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 wife, his children, and his former lover. ...more about Oviri
- Not Available on DVD
48
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...more about Passion of Anna
DVD from $13.52
(10 sellers)
51
During civil war, two musicians retreat to a rural island to farm. They are apolitical; a neighbor sometimes gives them a fish; wine is a luxury. ...more about Shame
DVD from $14.99
(6 sellers)
54
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories. ...more about Hour of the Wolf
DVD from $14.75
(8 sellers)
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