Michael Nyqvist

Date of Birth: 08 Nov 1960
Country: Sweden
Total Credits at Criticker: 51 (Actor)
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A group of young people all living under the same roof in mid-70's Sweden finds themselves questioning their long-held social and political beliefs as the world rapidly changes around them. (IFC Films)
The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. (imdb)
A psychological thriller, where the main character, John (Kristoffer Joner), has recently been dumped by his girlfriend, Ingrid. He is seduced by his beautiful neighbors, Anne and Kim, and is taken to a mystical and frightful world where he isn't able to tell reality from fantasy. (imdb)
A successful international conductor suddenly interrups his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice... (imdb)
Viktor an afghanistan veteran, comes to Stockholm on behalf of the Russian mafia. Ronny is a Swedish policeman, educated in the east and with a strong will to stop the mafia with violence. Josefin a young woman becomes a witness to a homicide but doesn't dare to tell what she has seen. Soon Victor who is hunted by both the mafia and the police feels that his inner self starts to protest against the "Heart of stone" he has created for himself during many years of violent fights. (imdb)
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. While Ingmar is away during the winter, a religious wave spreads in the area. Also Gertrud becomes a follower of the new christian belief. The new priest is very mesmerizing and he wants his followers to emigrate with him to Palestine. Ingmar's sister decides to follow him... (imdb)
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norweigian village. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family... (imdb)
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. "Mother of Mine," the latest from the award-winning Klaus Haro ("Elina"), tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies. (imdb)
The movie is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his young mistress, his lonely sister, his forgetful mother, a fanatic football coach, a pregnant whore and an angel disguised as an old man. They are all looking for the answer to the same question: "If love is the answer - what is the question?" (imdb)
The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? (imdb)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing -- or dead -- for forty years by a young female hacker.
Sick of her life, housewife Nancy (Bello) just wants it to be over and done with, but rather than kill herself, she hires a stranger from the Internet to do the job for her. But fate takes a strange turn when she meets her killer (Patric) and the two fall in love. Of course, Nancy realizes that love and murder do not naturally go hand in hand. (imdb)
Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for her muslim family. But then they start to support each other in a very delicate and subtle manner... (imdb)
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together. (imdb)
The second film in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy. We follow Lisbeth Salander who is wrongfully accused for triple murder and reporter Mikael Blomkvist who stands by her side. A blond beast is amongst her enemies this time.
Desirée, a modern librarian with urban friends and interests is visiting her late husband's grave when she meets Benny, a simple farmer. After his mother's death Benny lives alone on the run-down farm, desperately seeking a woman to take care of him. In spite of their differences the two have the dream of finding that special someone in common, and fall passionately in love. Benny wants Desirée to move in with him and start a family as soon as possible. But being a farmer's wife is not something (imdb)
The third and final movie in the Stieg Larsson series. Lisbeth Salander is seriously wounded since the second movie and is recovering in the hospital waiting for her trial.
The young and beautiful "K" is haunted by a dream about a strange man. On a business trip, as a fashion photo-grapher, she meets the man from her dreams. Her otherwise perfect life, with her beloved Johan, their daughter and her successful job, now is in danger, because of a mystical love between two strangers. (zentropa.dk)
Millennium (2010) - TV Mini-Series
A 6-episode tv-series tells the story of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Lisbeth is an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with a photographic memory whose social skills are rather poor and Blomkvist is an investigative journalist.
The tv-series is edited from the 3 feature films, adapted from the novels written by Stieg Larsson.
When teenager Nathan comes across his own childhood picture while scrolling through a missing persons website, he begins to question everything he ever took for granted -- including the people he always assumed were his parents.
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. (imdb)
The Man from Beijing (2011) - TV Movie
A cold day in January 2006. The police makes a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspects a madman behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin hears the news, she instantly knows that her grandparents August and Britta Andrén are among the victims. And even more: Almost everybody killed somehow relates to her. (imdb)
A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world. (imdb)
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget... (imdb)
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon. (imdb)
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. (imdb)
An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. (imdb)
Brigitte and Xavier are a couple of cattle farmers living and working together in Normandy. They have always got on well but now that their two children have left the household routine and weariness have set in. One night, Brigitte, who has been invited to a party by a group of Parisians in the house next to their farm, lets herself be wooed by Stan, a witty, cool attractive young man. Some time later, giving a visit to a dermatologist as an excuse, she goes to Paris to meet him. (imdb)
Zero Hour (2013) - TV Series
Revolves around a bizarre twist of fate that pulls a man who's spent 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history. (imdb)
Set in the world of New York publishing, a young book editor is forced to confront a troubling chapter from her past when a bestselling author re-enters her life. (imdb.com)
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality. (imdb)
An adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg's novel "The Serious Game" from 1912. The great Swedish love story. (imdb)
Set in Las Vegas and Paris, this love story covers the full circle of emotions: love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and eventually the search for redemption. (imdb)
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from. (imdb)
Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art "smart home". But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike's daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life.
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general. (imdb)
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them. (imdb)
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. (imdb)
Reine quits his job because he's tired of his boss. He takes a job at the Kumla Prison in hope that he can set up a play acted by the prisoners, who are not very interested. But they realize that if they do the play, they can escape while at a theatre. (imdb)
Om Stig Petrés hemlighet (2004) - TV Mini-Series
Stig Petré has inherited a mechanical factory from his father and has to deal with problems in the company. (imdb)
På sista versen (1999) - TV Movie
When a department manager at Swedish Television threatens to relocate one of the less talented documentary filmmakers, the filmmaker puts forward the idea to film his dying father. (imdb)
A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal. (imdb)
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relation gone stale. Still her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self certain Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye. (imdb)
Johan and Anna-Karin have been a couple for years but despite many attempts, Anna-Karin doesn't get pregnant. A visit to a fertility clinic shows why: Johan's sperm quality is too low. Johan is waiting to take over his father's farm, but what's the point if they can never have children? The news also puts a strain on their relationship since Anna-Karin desperately wants to be a mother. (imdb)
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. (imdb)
100 Code (2015) - TV Series
New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and act as an adviser to the Stockholm Police Department in order to help solve these crimes. (imdb)