Viggo Mortensen Filmography

Appaloosa

Actors: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen star as a pair of lawmen out to tame a chaotic Western town from the throes of a criminal rancher in Appaloosa, an adaptation of the Robert B. Parker novel that puts Harris back behind the camera for the second time after his acclaimed directorial debut with Pollock. Renée Zellweger Read More

Good

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Gemma Jones

Eastern Promises

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack

Synopsis: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into Read More

Alatriste

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Alex O'Dogherty, Nacho Perez, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: A fierce soldier fighting for the Spanish cause in Flanders returns to a drastically different Spain to fulfill the dying wish of a fallen friend, only to find that life isn't what it once was in his decaying homeland in director Agustín Díaz Yanes' adaptation of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's popular Read More

Captain Mike Across America

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Joan Baez, Roseanne, Steve Earle, Eddie Vedder, Michael Moore

Synopsis: Opinionated documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes an up-close look at the political leanings of college students in George W. Bush-era America with this effort shot during Moore's 60-city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 election. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Lysistrata

Synopsis: In January 2003, two Manhattan activists, Sharron Bower and Kathryn Blume, conceived the idea of staging a public reading of Aristophanes's seminal anti-war comedy, Lysistrata, as a protest against the preemptive strike on Iraq and subsequent U.S. occupation. Word of their doings caught fire and Read More

A History of Violence

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello Read More

Hidalgo

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Saïd Taghmaoui, Peter Mensah

Synopsis: Actor Viggo Mortensen made his first starring appearance in a film after his breakthrough performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy with this period adventure. Frank T. Hopkins (Mortensen) is a U.S. Cavalry officer who earned a reputation as one of the fastest and most daring riders in the Read More

Time Machine: The True Story of Hidalgo

Spirit Riders

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Charlotte Black Elk, Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Christopher Leith, Mel Lonehill

Synopsis: The Lakota Native American tribe has a long tradition of ceremonial horseback rides, which are used to celebrate within the community or bring positive spiritual energies toward matters of concern. In 1990, members of the Lakota Nation felt it was time the tribe addressed the growing need for Read More

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Synopsis: Explore the influence of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on modern popular culture in this revealing documentary narrated by Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan. For over fifty-years fans of Tolkien's literary masterpiece have bonded over tales of brave hobbits and evil wizards, and Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

28 Days

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a journalist who's become too much the life of the party finds a new lease on life in a drug and alcohol treatment center. New York newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) has a fondness for liquor, a boyfriend (Dominic West) with a similar taste for the bottle Read More

A Walk on the Moon

Actors: Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Viggo Mortensen, Tovah Feldshuh

Synopsis: The personal turning points of a family in crisis are portrayed against the backdrop of one of America's most tumultuous summers in this drama. In 1969, Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane) is spending the summer at a resort in the Catskills. Married to TV repairman Marty (Liev Schreiber) and the mother Read More

Psycho

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Independent film director Gus Van Sant attempts a first in American film history: a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. With a few minor, modern-day changes (including filming it in color), his version is essentially the same film with a different cast and the Read More

A Perfect Murder

Actors: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: A Perfect Murder is based on Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Married to commodities trader Stephen Taylor (Michael Douglas), Emily Bradford (Gwyneth Paltrow) is romantically involved with artist David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen). Aware of this affair Read More

Vanishing Point

Actors: Christine Elise, Keith David, John Doe, Viggo Mortensen, Jason Priestley

Synopsis: A Desert Storm veteran with a 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger and a need for speed incurs the wrath of authorities when he makes a cross-country dash to be by the side of his ailing, pregnant wife in this remake of director Richard Sarafian's 1971 cult classic. Jimmy Kowolski (Viggo Mortensen) is a Read More

G.I. Jane

Actors: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. Read More

La Pistola De Mi Hermano

Actors: Daniel Gonzalez, Nico Bidasolo, Andres Gertrudix, Karra Elejalde, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: Novelist Ray Loriga made his directorial debut with this stylish Spanish youth movie, based on his own novel. A mall security guard accuses a 17-year-old (Daniel Gonzalez) of stealing a comic book, so the "Young Man" shoots him in the face. He then steals a car, which is how he meets the "Girl" (Nico Bidasolo Read More

Albino Alligator

Actors: Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Joe Mantegna, Viggo Mortensen

Synopsis: Actor Kevin Spacey made his directorial debut with this thriller. Dova (Matt Dillon), Milo (Gary Sinise), and Law (William Fichtner) are three small-time crooks on the run after a botched robbery of a New Orleans warehouse led to a car chase, causing the death of two cops. Needing a place to hide Read More

The Portrait of a Lady

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has Read More

Daylight

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: Sylvestor Stallone comes to the rescue in this disaster/adventure picture. A truck containing dangerous chemicals explodes in the Holland Tunnel, trapping those New Yorkers not killed in the explosion. Authorities know there are survivors, but cannot figure out what to do to save them. Ruptured Read More

Crimson Tide

Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Two leaders with different philosophies about battle and leadership wage war with each other in this tense military thriller. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) is the commanding officer of a nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Alabama. Ramsey is a distinguished veteran near the end of his career, and he Read More

The Prophecy

Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, Moriah Snyder

Synopsis: The directorial debut from Highlander screenwriter Gregory Widen stars Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel, who, fed up with God giving all of his attention to humans, decides to stage a sort of coup. With plans of killing all of the good angels, Gabriel decides to enlist the help of a Read More

The Passion of Darkly Noon

Synopsis: For his second outing as a director, filmmaker Philip Ridley once again enlisted the talents of Viggo Mortensen, who starred in Ridley's debut, The Reflecting Skin, and co-stars here with Ashley Judd and Brendan Fraser. Fraser plays Darkley Noon, a disturbed young man who received a sheltered Read More

Floundering

Actors: James LeGros, John Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Lisa Zane, Maritza Rivera, Kim Wayans, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Noted independent film producer Peter McCarthy made his writing and directing debut (Angie Brown served as co-director) with this surreal comedy. John Boyz (James LeGros) is an aimless sad sack who is wandering Los Angeles in the wake of the 1992 riots. John is in an unclear state of mind; he Read More

The Crew

Actors: Donal Logue, Viggo Mortensen, Pam Gidley, Jeremy Sisto, Laura del Sol

Synopsis: This melodrama explores class differences, bigotry, and alternative lifestyles aboard a pleasure cruise that is anything but. The five main characters all eagerly anticipate their upcoming cruise through the Bahamas on a small yacht. The hero, Bill, still devastated by his alcoholic mother's Read More

American Yakuza

Synopsis: American FBI agent Nick Davis is lured into the Tendo family crime syndicate -- a major family in the Japanese yakuza. Viggo Mortensen stars in this two-fisted action spectacular. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Boiling Point

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The boiling point is mighty low in this tepid action programmer. Wesley Snipes plays Jimmy Mercer, a Treasury agent whose sting operation goes bad. Engineered by Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a dull-witted but sadistic ex-con, the operation not only fails, but one of Jimmy's colleagues is killed by Read More

Carlito's Way

Actors: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Read More

The Young Americans

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Viggo Mortensen, Iain Glen, John Wood, Geoffrey McGivern, Dave Duffy, Keith Allen, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young Britons into hardened criminals. The gang has gunned down a well-known Read More

The Gospel According to Harry

Actors: Jack Kehoe, Viggo Mortensen, Jennifer Rubin

Synopsis: As directed by Polish film stalwart Lech Majewski in English, with a Hollywood cast including Viggo Mortensen (A Walk on the Moon) and Jack Kehoe (Melvin & Howard), the 1993 allegory The Gospel According to Harry unfolds at some indeterminate point in the future - when much of the Pacific Ocean is Read More

Ruby Cairo

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The owner of an aircraft salvage company (Viggo Mortensen) is reported killed in a crash. However, his wife (Andie MacDowell) knows better, and she decides to find him and his secret bank accounts. She travels around the world, and winding up in Cairo, she meets Liam Neeson, who helps her uncover Read More

The Indian Runner

Actors: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote the script, based on the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman") is a brooding tale of two brothers -- one peaceful and sedate, the other violent and aggressive -- whose natures, left unchecked since they were children, are Read More

The Reflecting Skin

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser

Synopsis: Set in a 1950s-era American heartland of sprawling wheat fields and lonely old houses, The Reflecting Skin is British director Philip Ridley's fascinating and very strange investigation into the horrors of childhood innocence and fantasy. The film's mixture of gruesome subject matter, morbid Read More

Young Guns 2

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group Read More

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

Actors: Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortensen, William Butler, Ken Foree, Joe Unger

Synopsis: Upon stopping for gas and directions on the Texas back roads, bickering yuppies Michelle (Kate Hodge) and Ryan (William Butler) get harassed by leering service-station owner Alfredo (Tom Everett). When the helpful intercession of a hitchhiker named Tex (Viggo Mortensen) leads to violence, the Read More

Tripwire

Actors: Terence Knox, David Warner, Isabella Hoffman, Charlotte Lewis, Andras Jones

Synopsis: An obsessed government agent and a ruthless terrorist have some grudges to settle in this intense actioner. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Fresh Horses

Actors: Patti D'Arbanville, Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Ben Stiller, Leon Russom, Viggo Mortensen

Synopsis: Fresh Horses features Molly Ringwald as Jewel, a Kentucky shanty gal. Jewel finds herself romantically involved with wealthy University of Cincinnati student Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy). Though willing to throw over his "proper" fiancee for Jewel, Matt isn't prepared for the horrible secret that Read More

Prison

Actors: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Andre de Shields, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: Prison guard Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith) watched as Burke (Viggo Mortensen) dies in the electric chair in 1964. Over two decades later, Sharpe is the warden, and Burke returns from the dead to exact revenge on the wicked warden when the prison re-opens. Two victims drip blood while dangling in Read More

Salvation!

Actors: Stephen McHattie, Dominique Davalos, Exene Cervenka, Viggo Mortensen, Billy Bastiani

Synopsis: When his wife Rhonda mails his hard-earned dough to a scamming TV evangelist, Jerome gets even by arranging for his pubescent sister-in-law to seduce the gospel raper. Once the man of the cloth is seduced, Jerome intends to blackmail him to partake of the preacher's wealth. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Witness

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several Read More