Biography: Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 13, 1958
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
2023-01-29
Overview: As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead, her years as an absent mother come to the fore and the gap between mother and daughter are felt to be an abyss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-01-29
Popularity:
1999-05-19
Overview: Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-19
Popularity:
2002-05-15
Overview: Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy forever.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-15
Popularity:
1983-02-28
Overview: A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-02-28
Popularity:
1982-12-17
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
Popularity:
2003-11-14
Overview: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-11-14
Popularity:
2002-09-27
Overview:
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-09-27
Popularity:
2002-03-08
Overview: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-08
Popularity:
1992-05-24
Overview: In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-24
Popularity:
1981-09-04
Overview: In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-04
Popularity:
2009-09-09
Overview: Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend's wife. A smart, funny film made for adults. Nominated for Best Film at the 2009 Ghent International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-09-09
Popularity:
2007-03-21
Overview: Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy on her bedroom floor. She have no clue how he got there but soon convinces herself she caused his death and is imprisoned for the murder. Her brother Tommy refuses to believe she is guilty and starts to investigate the case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-03-21
Popularity:
1996-12-25
Overview: Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-12-25
Popularity:
2005-08-26
Overview: A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-08-26
Popularity:
1987-10-04
Overview: A fantasy about repression and hidden menace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-04
Popularity:
1998-10-01
Overview: Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-10-01
Popularity:
2001-01-09
Overview: Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor" mixed with interviews with family members and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Popularity:
1998-03-06
Overview: Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-03-06
Popularity:
2012-03-02
Overview: Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-03-02
Popularity:
2000-08-26
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
Popularity:
1975-11-16
Overview: In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called W), the female waiter Anna, and "the count", a self-invented nickname by a man cleaning plates. The count is skilled in making others do what he wants. Half a dozen of the personnel assist in a poorly planned and failed attempt to liberate a man whom the police move from one arrest to another. The event involves stealing a motorcycle and threatening policemen with a gun. Anna strongly tries to make contact with W. Finally it turns out that she need his help to break her sexual relation to the count, a relation that from her part is not motivated by positive feelings. W rejects her attempts. And then Anna has suddenly gone. She has got a pleasant job in another town. And then W's feelings awaken.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-11-16
Popularity:
1998-02-27
Overview: Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn enough money for his wife Sofia and the children. At a spring fair a distinguished gentleman arrives and buys all of Albert's glassware. After this nothing will be the same again. Klas and Klara are kidnapped and taken to a strange castle...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-02-27
Popularity:
2005-12-25
Overview: The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her father, Mats, is trying to figure out how to get her back before it's too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-12-25
Popularity:
2009-04-01
Overview: Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationship to his mother. In an effort to get reacquainted Kicki invites her son to join her on vacation in Taiwan. But her hidden agenda is that Taipei is also the home of the Taiwanese businessman with whom she has been conducting an Internet romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-04-01
Popularity:
2001-10-24
Overview: The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for clues that will lead them to the perpetrator but without any luck. As the Olympic Games draws near the situation becomes more desperate. Annika Bengtzon, a reporter for Kvällsposten, se a connection that no one else sees and without understanding it she starts a carousel that in the end will threaten her own life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-10-24
Popularity:
2003-10-10
Overview: 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. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-10-10
Popularity:
2012-11-09
Overview: Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-11-09
Popularity:
1986-12-25
Overview: A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-12-25
Popularity:
2012-12-07
Overview: Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-12-07
Popularity:
1999-11-14
Overview: Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-14
Popularity:
2006-10-20
Overview: We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to his older years as a national institution that tourists gathered to watch on their way to their very punctual, daily lunch at the Grand Café in Oslo.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-10-20
Popularity:
1996-09-06
Overview: Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-09-06
Popularity:
2000-12-24
Overview: A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-12-24
Popularity:
1989-04-01
Overview: A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-04-01
Popularity:
1999-10-14
Overview: "Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door and throws Michael and his family out on the street. He and his fiancee Catti resort to all means to save his life's work and they get unexpected help from the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-10-14
Popularity:
2000-03-23
Overview: Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-03-23
Popularity:
2001-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Popularity:
1997-01-02
Overview: "All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two men - a carpenter and a successful self-employed business owner - visit their wives, who both are patients in a mental hospital. Why has life become so unbearable for them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-01-02
Popularity:
2009-03-25
Overview: Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his desperate attempt in graduating he accidentally crashes on earth and discovers Pontus, an earthling who accidentally stumbled upon an intergalactic crystal which gave him inhuman strength. Now Kenny must save Pontus from Rutger Oversmart who wants the powers from the crystal for himself and Pontus must save Kennys faith from failing school and ending up as a hairdresser.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-03-25
Popularity:
2020-04-23
Overview: The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years, Scandinavia has managed to create a society based on solidarity, peace, tolerance and democracy. What is the secret of Scandinavian happiness?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-04-23
Popularity:
2014-12-05
Overview: Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-12-05
Popularity:
2015-10-30
Overview: The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-10-30
Popularity:
2006-09-08
Overview: Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that the more men she meets, the further from family happiness she finds herself. An absurdly realistic journey through the bright nights of the big city filled with friendship, love, sex and selfbetrayal!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-09-08
Popularity:
1983-12-07
Overview: A film about Alfred Nobel.
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-07
Popularity:
2003-05-01
Overview: Saint Birgitta is probably the strangest woman in Swedish history - mother of eight, prophet, politician and the only Swede canonized by the Pope. Historical documentary series with Pernilla August in the role of Birgitta.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-05-01
Popularity:
2001-10-16
Overview: The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-production, we get to see visual effects meetings, John Williams' music sessions, and even the storm that wiped out the pod-racers & props.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-16
Popularity:
2018-03-03
Overview: Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-03-03
Popularity:
2017-01-20
Overview: A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-20
Popularity:
1985-01-07
Overview: Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-01-07
Popularity:
1995-10-09
Overview: A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investigation. Gross' wife died in an accident and he is alone with his young daughter. He soon discovers that the woman was murdered by her husband, juror Ernst Ljungberg. Ljungberg is sentenced, but Gross soon discovers that the case wasn't that easy to solve...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-10-09
Popularity:
2004-12-13
Overview: Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-12-13
Popularity:
2013-08-28
Overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
Popularity:
2018-01-27
Overview: A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cropping, replicating and caricaturing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-01-27
Popularity:
2018-01-27
Overview: Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-01-27
Popularity:
2002-04-28
Overview: In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift end to the war. Along the way, he engages in a comic rivalry with Ernest Hemingway over the affections of a beautiful Italian girl. After being wounded in action, Indy is transferred to North Africa where he joins the French Foreign Legion. While trying to uncover the identity of a traitor in his own ranks, Indy battles hostile Berber tribesmen and engages in an innocent flirtation with author Edith Wharton.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-28
Popularity:
2000-09-19
Overview: First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-19
Popularity:
2000-11-10
Overview: A woman helps a prisoner free at Rome's airport and then falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2000-11-10
Popularity:
2018-05-11
Overview: The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-11
Popularity:
2018-07-12
Overview: The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-07-12
Popularity:
2019-12-21
Overview: As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman Revisited is a compilation of six very different films, spanning from Bergmanesque drama to animated critical satire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-12-21
Popularity:
2019-01-25
Overview: Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football team.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-01-25
Popularity:
2019-02-14
Overview: John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a war between their two families puts their love and loyalty to the test.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-02-14
Popularity:
2007-12-31
Overview: A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-12-31
Popularity:
2018-11-07
Overview: Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-07
Popularity:
2004-01-27
Overview: A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missing. She does not understand however, what is this Eiffel Tower of which he speaks?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-27
Popularity:
2005-09-16
Overview: Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she finds clipped obituaries of his colleagues, who all seem to have died prematurely. Sanna crosses one border after another, approaching a total collapse of her obsession with truth. In the end, she takes the law into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-09-16
Popularity:
2021-04-27
Overview: The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It soon becomes clear that they have more things in common than they initially thought. When they start becoming a family, Tord from the local authorities shows up and threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-04-27
Popularity:
2004-01-01
Overview: Satirical animation about Terrorman.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Popularity:
2004-08-06
Overview: Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-08-06
Popularity:
2016-10-16
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-10-16
Popularity:
1983-08-31
Overview: A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-31
Popularity: