Mikael Håfström
Actor | Director | Writer
Jan Mikael Håfstrom, born 1 July 1960 in Lund, is a
Swedish director and screenwriter. Håfstrom studied film in Stockholm and New
York. After graduation, he worked as an assistant director on the Swedish
channel, SVT 1 and as a screenwriter. He was awarded a Guldbaggegatan 2002
screenplay "Leva Livet". Description above from the Wikipedia article Mikael
Håfström, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography - Directing
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Outside the Wire (2021)
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Anthony Mackie | Pilou Asbæk | Michael Kelly | Emily Beecham | Damson Idris
The Perfect Patient (2019)
The captivating story of Sweden's greatest judicial scandal ever, about one man who sacrificed everything in his hunt for the truth.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: David Dencik | Magnus Roosmann | Suzanne Reuter | Jonas Karlsson | Alba August
Shanghai (2015)
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Ken Watanabe | John Cusack | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Chow Yun-Fat | Gong Li
Escape Plan (2013)
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Jim Caviezel | Sylvester Stallone | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Faran Tahir
The Rite (2011)
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Alice Braga | Toby Jones | Ciarán Hinds | Anthony Hopkins | Colin O'Donoghue
1408 (2007)
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | John Cusack | Tony Shalhoub | Mary McCormack | Jasmine Jessica Anthony
Derailed (2005)
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Vincent Cassel | Jennifer Aniston | Clive Owen | Melissa George | Addison Timlin
Drowning Ghost (2004)
Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity. Sara, a student, is writting an essay based on the legend and uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows on the family name of one ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Rebecka Hemse | Jesper Salén | Peter Eggers | Jenny Ulving | Rebecca Ferguson
Evil (2003)
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. In fact already Erik frequently receives a ‘good’ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather – so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Andreas Wilson | Gustaf Skarsgård | Jesper Salén | Henrik Lundström | Linda Zilliacus
Leva livet (2001)
Vaccuum salesman Evert makes the rounds in a suburban Stockholm apartment building, getting brief glimpses of the various tenants' lives. During the course of the day, he meets an arguing married couple, a lonely older woman and a younger couple preparing an anxious dinner.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Kjell Bergqvist | Lia Boysen | Fares Fares | Staffan Kihlbom | Carina Johansson
Vendetta (1995)
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Ennio Fantastichini | Marika Lagercrantz | Stefan Sauk | Erland Josephson | Per Graffman
Hassel 09 - Botgörarna (1992)
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Allan Svensson | Lars-Erik Berenett | Leif Liljeroth | Björn Gedda | Robert Sjöblom
Hassel 07 - De giriga (1992)
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Allan Svensson | Lars-Erik Berenett | Leif Liljeroth | Björn Gedda | Robert Sjöblom
Hassel 05 - Terrorns Finger (1989)
The kidnapping of a DA's wife, the murder of several minor criminals and the police finding a large stash of weapons is all in a day's work for criminal detective Roland Hassel.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Allan Svensson | Lars-Erik Berenett | Leif Liljeroth | Björn Gedda | Robert Sjöblom