Mikael Håfström

Mikael Håfström

1960-07-01 Lund, Skåne län, Sweden 27 Credits

Biography

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". He is best known for the 2003 film Evil, and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story 1408.

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Slingshot

Slingshot

2024

Director

6.1
Directing

An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeu...

Stockholm Bloodbath

Stockholm Bloodbath

2024

Director, Executive Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Me...

King on Screen

King on Screen

2023

as Self

6.9
Acting

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Outside the Wire

Outside the Wire

2021

Director

6.4
Directing

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.

The Perfect Patient

The Perfect Patient

2019

Executive Producer, Director

6.4
Producing Directing

A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. H...

Escape Plan

Escape Plan

2013

Director

6.7
Directing

Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival...

The Rite

The Rite

2011

Director

6.1
Directing

Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduc...

Shanghai

Shanghai

2010

Director

6.1
Directing

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...

1408

1408

2007

Director

6.7
Directing

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts ...

The Making of Derailed

The Making of Derailed

2006

as Self

4.8
Acting

A documentary about the making of Derailed (2005).

The Making of Derailed

The Making of Derailed

2006

Thanks

4.8

A documentary about the making of Derailed (2005).

Derailed

Derailed

2005

Director

6.4
Directing

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 f...

Drowning Ghost

Drowning Ghost

2004

Director, Writer

4.6
Directing Writing

Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his b...

Evil

Evil

2003

Screenplay, Director

7.3
Writing Directing

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s re...

Kopps

Kopps

2003

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chas...

Days Like This

Days Like This

2001

Screenplay, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

Vaccuum salesman Evert makes the rounds in a suburban Stockholm apartment building, getting brief glimpses of the various tenants' lives. During the c...

Satans mördare

Satans mördare

1995

Director

Directing

A description of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme's political work and the murder of him on Sveavägen in Stockholm on February 28, 1986.

Vendetta

Vendetta

1995

Director

6.5
Directing

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 Gover...

Hassel - Botgörarna

Hassel - Botgörarna

1992

Writer, Director

4.5
Writing Directing

Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.

Hassel - De giriga

Hassel - De giriga

1992

Director, Writer

4.5
Directing Writing

Roland Hassel is chasing a criminal who deals with stolen luxury cars and narcotics.

Hassel - Offren

Hassel - Offren

1989

Assistant Director

5.0
Directing

Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murder...

Roland Hassel: Kidnapping

Roland Hassel: Kidnapping

1989

Director

5.5
Directing

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 crimin...

Hassel - Säkra papper

Hassel - Säkra papper

1989

Assistant Director

4.7
Directing

A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is ...

Hassel - Slavhandlarna

Hassel - Slavhandlarna

1989

Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

A criminal gang use illegal immigrants as labor on the black market.

Träff i Helfigur

Träff i Helfigur

1987

Assistant Director

1.0
Directing

On a shooting range outside of Stockholm in the raw September night something is not right. In the darkness of the marker the ground shows signs of bl...

Lysande landning

Lysande landning

1987

Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invite...

Idag Röd

Idag Röd

1987

Assistant Director

7.0
Directing

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.