Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare
Date of Birth: 27 Aug 1953
Country: Sweden
Biography: Peter Stormare 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 Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo... (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 121 (Actor)
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Armageddon
When an asteroid is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.
Bad Boys II
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back -- and oh so bad -- on the streets of Miami in Bad Boys II, reuniting them with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. (Sony Pictures)
Bad Company
Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) is a veteran CIA agent who must transform sarcastic, street-wise punk Jake Hayes (Rock) into a sophisticated and savvy spy to replace his murdered identical twin brother. (Touchstone Pictures)
The Big Lebowski
When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. (imdb)
Birth
A metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Like many fairy tales, Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown.
Chocolat
When Vianne (Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. (Miramax Films)
Constantine
Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil's foot soldiers back to the depths. (Warner Bros.)
Dancer in the Dark
Bjork stars as Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a factory in rural America. She is losing her eyesight and her 10 year-old son stands to suffer the same fate if she can't put away enough money to secure him an operation.
Fargo
Jerry's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants.
The Million Dollar Hotel
Focusing on a gang of unique outcasts and misfits living in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, this is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. (Icon/Road Movies)
Minority Report
An action-detective thriller set in Washington, D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime.
Spun
An out-of-control speed freak (Schwartzman) is introduced his drug of choice's creator (Rourke) by his dealer (Leguizamo). A massive three-day adventure ensues (with Fugit, Murphy, and Suvari in tow). (imdb)
The Tuxedo
Suddenly thrust into a dangerous world of espionage and paired with a rookie partner (Hewitt) even less experienced than he is, cabbie-turned-chauffer Jimmy (Chan) becomes an unwitting - if impeccably dressed - secret agent. (DreamWorks)
Windtalkers
In 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. In John Woo's Windtalkers, Marine Joe Enders (Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Beach) -- a Navajo Code Talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. (MGM)
8MM
Tom Welles (Cage) is a family man with a modest home-based private investigation business living a simple life in Pennsylvania -- until a reel of crudely shot eight millimeter film sends him down a gritty and frightening path into society's darkest corners. (Sony)
The Brothers Grimm
The adventures of legendary fairytale scribes Will and Jake Grimm, two brothers who travel around the Napoleonic countryside vanquishing monsters and demons in exchange for quick money. But when the French authorities figure out their scheme, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse when they enter an enchanted forest where young maidens keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. (Miramax)
Awakenings
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.
In the Presence of a Clown
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault (imdb)
Damage
A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son (imdb)
Nacho Libre
Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a cook by day in a Mexican orphanage, who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans in this comedy from the creators of "Napoleon Dynamite" and the writer of "The School of Rock." (Paramount)
Purgatory
Purgatory (1999) - TV Movie
An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell. (imdb)
Mercury Rising
Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code. (imdb)
2001 Maniacs
Eight college students traveling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia where they are set upon by the residents whom are out to avenge their deaths by Union troops over 100 years earlier during the Civil War. (imdb)
Playing God
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.
Bruiser
George Romero's latest film (his first since "The Dark Half") is about a man who one day wakes to find that his face is now a smooth white, featureless mask. Freed by this newfound anonymity, he then seeks revenge on all who have wronged him. (imdb)
Unknown
Unknown unfolds in the style of "Memento," a story told in reverse with an unforeseeable ending. Five men wake up trapped in a chemical warehouse with no memory of who they are or how they got there. They are forced to try to figure out who is good and evil before it's too late. (The Weinstein Co.)
13 Moons
Just as his career as a television clown is tanking, Banana (Steve Buscemi) is told that his wife, Suzi (Jennifer Beals), from whom he's separated, is in custody for battering Banana's current girlfriend, Lily (Karyn Parsons). What happens next will send Banana, his buddy Binky (Peter Dinklage) and a whole slew of others on a crazy adventure involving a bail bondsman, a hip-hop magnate and the search for a liver donor.
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler (Robert Carlyle) from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany... (imdb)
Premonition
In this eerie, time-bending, emotionally charged thriller, Sandra Bullock stars as a wife in a furious race against time and fate. (Sony Pictures)
The Movie Hero
A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see. (imdb)
Ekko
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. (imdb)
Commander Hamilton
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). (imdb)
Anamorph
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. (imdb)
Happy Campers
When a summer camp director gets injured, the diverse group of college freshmen counselors take charge and spice up the everyday routine of the camp. (imdb)
Insanitarium
Insanitarium (2008) - Direct-to-Video
A man (Metcalfe) pretends to be crazy in order to save his sister (Sanchez) from being involuntarily hospitalized. Once inside the institute, the siblings discover that a doctor (Stormare) is using his patients like lab rats, forcing them to take a drug that turns them into flesh-eating psychopaths. (IMDB)
Boot Camp
A group of at-risk teens are sent to a what they think is a rehabilitation program on Fiji, but is really a prison-like camp where kids are abused and brainwashed. (imdb)
Horsemen
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.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Varg
A story of what happens when old traditions are confronted by modern society. Klemens, a man devoted to looking after his reindeer, finds himself in a difficult situation when he is accused of killing a wolf.
The Killing Room
Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program.
Nobody Wants Your Film
Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and enthusiasm that go into completing a picture. Using footage from an indie movie set, e-mails constructing a plotline about distributor difficulties and interviews with indie mainstays such as Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell, the film provides a riveting look at one producer's rejections and rewards.
Muumi ja punainen pyrstötähti
One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley - everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, the Moominhouse, too! Moomintroll runs to ask the well-read Muskrat if he knows what is happening. Muskrat declares that this is the way things tend to look like before the earth faces an awful fate coming from the sky... (imdb)
Henry\
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Small Town Murder Songs
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. (imdb)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Paranormal investigator Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh) unearths secrets about the undead in New Orleans with the help of his sidekick, zombie Marcus (Sam Huntington), in this supernatural mystery based on the internationally best-selling Italian comic book series.
Minnesota Nice
A documentary about the making of "Fargo" (1996).
Janie Jones
A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.
Jägarna 2
In a small town in northern Sweden a girl has disappeared and blood has been found. A city investigator with roots in that town has been called up to investigate. But all cops in the small town are not fully cooperating.
Undocumented
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. (imdb)
Lockout
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates. (imdb)
Small Apartments
Franklin Franklin is dreaming of Switzerland and waiting for cassette tape instructions from a brother confined in a mental hospital, but he has a problem: his evil landlord's dead body is lying on the floor of his seedy LA apartment.
Le Polygraphe
Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour François, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a suspect in the continuing investigation and is unsure of his own innocence although he has an alibi from his previous girlfriend.. (mubi.com)
Get the Gringo
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy. (imdb)
Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen!
Glenn's "friends" hold a fake movie audition to find him a woman. Before they know it, the lot of them are contractually bound to complete the filming of a medium-budget motion picture... despite their total lack of experience or competence.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
In this dark spin on the fairy tale, siblings Hansel and Gretel are a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. (imdb)
Inseparable
A troubled young man, Li faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. Chuck, rescues Li from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor. But who is Chuck really?
Tai Chi Hero
Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" trilogy continues the journey of Yang Luchan, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead who helped save a village from a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines with the knowledge of Tai Chi that they entrusted him with. (imdb)
The Last Stand
The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff. (imdb)
Corridor
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, Frank is scared... the talkative concierge, the annoying child, the love-sick Lotte, her brutal ex-boyfriend and above all, her new jealous boyfriend, the scary Micke, they all seem to be Frank's enemies. (imdb)
Pain & Gain
A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. (imdb)
Educazione siberiana
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria. (imdb)
The Zero Theorem
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. (imdb)
Bad Milo
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines. (imdb)
Marianne
The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence. Not only must he raise his newborn child alone, he must also contend with the mood swings of his older daughter Sandra, a rebellious youth harbouring deep animosity towards her father, blaming him for all the ills that have befallen the family. (imdb)
Jewtopia
A romantic comedy centered on a gentile who pretends to be Jewish in order to win the affection of his love interest.
Rage
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice. (imdb)
Autumn Blood
High in the Mountains, a widowed mother dies, leaving her two children orphaned. Fearing being split up they keep their mother's death a secret. They survive until villagers destroy their innocence when they brutally assault the girl. Now the siblings must come of age to protect each other and survive. (imdb)
22 Jump Street
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. (imdb)
Heatstroke
On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival. (imdb)
Mall
The lives of five disaffected suburbanites come together at a shopping mall in the wake of one man's shooting spree. (imdb)
Bang Bang Baby
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. (imdb)
Penguins of Madagascar
Super spy teams aren't born...they're hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then...you know). Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, from destroying the world as we know it. (imdb)
Von Trier\
It explains the complicated process of filming 'Dancer in the Dark', that utilized 100 cameras(or eyes) to capture as many possible angles at one time. By using this process, Lars was able to create a "live" feeling to the film, especially in the non-musical parts. This process was invented by Lars von Trier and his crew and is entirely exclusive to this film. This documentary also reveals what Lars feels were the successes and the failures of using this technique. (imdb)
Choreography: Creating Vincent Paterson\
A look at how the dance sequences in 'Dancer in the Dark' were choreographed.
Strange Magic
A fairy tale of goblins, fairies and imps meeting for the first time and the consequent confusions and conflicts the culture clash causes. (imdb)
Dark Summer
A 17-year-old is on house arrest for the summer while his mother is away on business. A horrifying incident occurs leaving an ominous presence in the house. (imdb)
Every Thing Will Be Fine
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? (imdb)
I Am Here
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 (imdb)
Clown
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. (imdb)
Prison Break
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 from the inside out.
Rupture
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her. (imdb)
Midnight Sun
The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi (Leïla Bekhti) go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin (Peter Stormare) she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.
John Wick: Chapter 2
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Kill\
An unidentified man arrives at a local hospital, seriously wounded. He is taken care of by a devoted nurse, Suzanne. Things take a turn for the worse when an international gang shamelessly invades the hospital to kill him.
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Following the events of the first film, Surly and his friends must stop Oakton City's mayor from destroying their home to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park. (imdb)
Love in the Mirror
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Swedish Dicks
Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles. (imdb)
LA to Vegas
LA to Vegas (2018) - TV Series
An ensemble workplace comedy about a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world, set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life.
Pirates of the Lake
It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Mälaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and even find a dead body.
The Assassin\
A rookie detective, son of a dead disgraced cop, works to solve his first major case while under the watchful eye of a ghost-like assassin. (imdb)
Encounter
While shooting a documentary to expose the lies of alien abductees, a provocative filmmaker and his crew encounter a young woman with a dark secret who leads them to uncover a disturbing truth.
Age of Summer
A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986. (imdb)
The Poison Rose
A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects, and dead bodies. (letterboxd.com)
The Wayshower
Running from his mistakes, Jesus heads to Helper, Utah to reconnect with his mentor/teacher John-Roger's past. Through dreams and a Mystical book, he learns from his mentor's past-life mistakes. He realizes he must confront his own inner conflict, forgiving the past and self examining himself, he finds peace and reunites with his Mentor/teacher.
Backanterna
This collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and the composer Daniel Börtz on an opera version of Euripides' play came about at Bergman's behest. (ingmarbergman.se)
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012) - Direct-to-Video
Scooby-Doo and the gang go on vacation to Atlantic City, but they get involved in a mystery at a circus.
Seppan
Seppan (1986) - TV Movie
Seppan is the largely autobiographical story of Fagerström-Olsson's own childhood in 'Seppan', Tullinge. Her friends were the children of the workers at the Separator factory – workers who came from all corners of a war-torn Europe. Death is constantly present, sexuality is a recurring subject of conversation among the prepubescent children, and some of the fathers sometimes drink a bit too much and get violent. But everything is seen through the eyes of Sara, Pirjo and the other childr
Songbird
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.
Cryptozoo
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. (imdb)
Freud flyttar hemifrån
The Jewish Cohens live in Stockholm. Rosha's 60th birthday is up and her husband and 3 kids will be there. 25 y.o. Angelique, a psychology student called Freud, still lives at home. Rosha's told, she's got cancer with weeks to live. (imdb)
The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica
In 1221 a young man is set on his path to becoming St. Francis of Assisi. A thousand years later an architect must build a mausoleum for a dying billionaire. Separated by history, these men's lives will be forever changed by a pandemic.
Arrow - Season 3
Watching Ellie
A single woman, Ellie Riggs, tries to navigate her way through the Los Angeles music scene and her own messy personal life. Told in real time, each episode is a linear 22-minute slice of Ellie's life. (imdb)
Day Shift
A hard-working, blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted 8-year-old daughter. His mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income: hunting and killing vampires.
The Box
The Box (2021) - TV Series
Follows Sharon Pici, a Kansas City police officer, who experiences a supernatural nightmare after getting obsessed with an investigation. (imdb)
American Gods - Season 1
American Gods - Season 2
The Ritual Killer
A detective on the verge of retirement teams with a professor of African Studies to track down a serial killer who is performing the ancient black magic practice of Muti.
1923 - Season 1
Den Frusna Leoparden
Two brothers meet again after a few years away from each other. Jerry has been in prison for petty crimes but has now decided to try to live honestly and build a family. Kiljan is a dreamer who lives a life of a bohemian. (imdb)
Tracker - Season 1
Hamilton
Hamilton (2001) - TV Mini-Series
Swedish intelligence agent Carl Hamilton gets busy when it is discovered that a group of Soviet rebels intend to smuggle a nuclear missile through Sweden. Carl and his colleague must risk life and limb to stop the uprising. (imdb)
Kill \
Phillip and Suzanne are retired from the spy game, living peacefully off the grid. That’s until their whereabouts are discovered by Vlad the vengeful brother of their target from the first film.
So Long, Marianne
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. (imdb)
Black Widows
Three women are gathered at a cabin with their three colleague husbands when they watch the men blow up in the boat just going out fishing. A police man investigates the widows, who will have to try to explain what happened. (imdb)
Horror Noire
Presents together six horror stories from Black directors and screenwriters in a single film: "Daddy," "Bride Before You," "Brand of Evil," "The Lake," "Sundown" and "Fugue State".
Until Dawn
A group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes chase and kill them in gruesome ways, must survive until dawn to escape it. (imdb)
Stand Your Ground
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