The best Max von Sydow’s war movies

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

10/04/1929- 08/03/2020
Max von Sydow (10 April 1929-8 March 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish. Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
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Victory

Victory
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/06/1981
  • Character: Major Karl von Steiner
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

March or Die

March or Die
6.3/10
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…

Shame

Shame
8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/09/1968
  • Character: Jan Rosenberg
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/12/1976
  • Character: Captain Schroeder
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Hostile Waters

Hostile Waters
6.3/10
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.

Code Name: Emerald

Code Name: Emerald
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 07/09/1985
  • Character: Jürgen Brausch
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French resistance.

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
6.1/10
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.

Spion 503

Spion 503
2.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/08/1958
  • Character: Horst, Gestapo-mand

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