Biography: Karl-Arne Holmsten was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Ragnar Arvedson's "Kustens glada kavaljerer" in 1938. Karl-Arne Holmsten portrayed the elegant detective John Hillman in five films by Arne Mattsson, based on Folke Mellvig's novels. He also played Maria Lang's detective Christer Wijk in two films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 14, 1911
Deathday: February 22, 1995
Popularity:
1954-11-29
Overview: The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-29
Popularity:
1959-10-16
Overview: When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-16
Popularity:
1954-08-09
Overview: Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-09
Popularity:
1950-03-06
Overview: A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-06
Popularity:
1952-11-03
Overview: Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-03
Popularity:
1958-10-13
Overview: Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-13
Popularity:
1960-12-26
Overview: Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-26
Popularity:
1955-07-22
Overview: The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-07-22
Popularity:
1952-11-17
Overview: Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-17
Popularity:
1958-02-01
Overview: The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-01
Popularity:
1958-12-19
Overview: A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-19
Popularity:
1963-06-29
Overview: On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-06-29
Popularity:
1962-07-02
Overview: A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-07-02
Popularity:
1940-12-26
Overview: Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
Popularity:
1940-05-06
Overview: Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-05-06
Popularity:
1942-09-03
Overview: A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-03
Popularity:
1943-01-25
Overview: The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-25
Popularity:
1959-03-08
Overview: Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-08
Popularity:
1958-08-25
Overview: A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-08-25
Popularity:
1951-06-25
Overview: Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-25
Popularity:
1948-02-16
Overview: A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-16
Popularity:
1961-08-17
Overview: Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-08-17
Popularity:
1965-03-03
Overview: The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-03-03
Popularity:
1951-03-05
Overview: Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-03-05
Popularity:
1956-07-22
Overview: Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-07-22
Popularity:
1953-12-19
Overview: The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-19
Popularity:
1949-02-28
Overview: A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
Popularity:
1947-11-03
Overview: It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-03
Popularity:
1957-08-02
Overview: Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-02
Popularity:
1947-10-19
Overview: Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a relationship advice column. They're also newlyweds. And they love each other and are very happy together. But Siska often works late. Which leaves Pelle home alone. And after a while he starts to feel neglected. So he writes a letter about his problem to Siska’s relationship column. And HILARITY ensues in this ZANY ROM-COM!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-19
Popularity:
1967-01-16
Overview: People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf. Things might get out of hand in this exciting thriller in true Hitchcockian style.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-01-16
Popularity:
1949-09-05
Overview: Doctor Karin Lange arrives at a hospital to begin work but faces opposition from the head of surgery who believes women are not suited to the medical profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-05
Popularity:
1944-07-31
Overview: Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-07-31
Popularity:
1944-09-09
Overview: Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-09
Popularity:
1956-11-19
Overview: The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-19
Popularity:
1942-04-04
Overview: The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-04-04
Popularity:
1964-09-21
Overview: What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be when the husband forbids her to go to the finals in Mallorca - but she is going anyway?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-21
Popularity:
1939-08-16
Overview: The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to sell his castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-16
Popularity:
1942-12-26
Overview: A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-26
Popularity:
1938-12-26
Overview: A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-12-26
Popularity:
1952-05-04
Overview: Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-04
Popularity:
1952-01-28
Overview: Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attention will disappear when they marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-28
Popularity:
1944-11-06
Overview: Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-06
Popularity:
1947-01-01
Overview: Documentary on workers with dangerous jobs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
Popularity:
1938-11-05
Overview: The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-11-05
Popularity:
1943-08-25
Overview: The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-25
Popularity:
1940-02-09
Overview: A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed to represent Norway in a competition for the "Nordic Venus".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
Popularity:
1941-09-29
Overview: The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-29
Popularity:
1947-06-01
Overview: Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-06-01
Popularity:
1952-06-09
Overview: A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-06-09
Popularity:
1954-11-15
Overview: A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of jewelry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-15
Popularity:
1945-10-23
Overview: "Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-23
Popularity:
1957-09-02
Overview: Biffen and Bananen compete in a walking race between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-02
Popularity:
1947-01-01
Overview: A rhapsody of music and images in Stockholm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
Popularity:
1954-02-16
Overview: When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-16
Popularity:
1959-09-07
Overview: While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-07
Popularity:
1955-12-26
Overview: A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
Popularity:
1945-08-07
Overview: Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-07
Popularity:
1939-12-26
Overview: Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-26
Popularity:
1949-10-29
Overview: it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-29
Popularity:
1947-03-24
Overview: The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-03-24
Popularity:
1963-02-04
Overview: "It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-04
Popularity:
1945-09-29
Overview: About hobbies. The Swedish King Gustaf V enjoys embroideres. The CEO Arvid Öhlin plays with his toy trains. The countess Ebba Bonde collects porcelain parrots, white the count Carl Bonde is fond of miniature books. And so on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-29
Popularity:
1956-10-21
Overview: About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further adventures and incidents occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-21
Popularity:
1941-04-07
Overview: Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-04-07
Popularity:
1944-12-26
Overview: The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
Popularity:
1960-09-25
Overview: Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-25
Popularity:
1952-08-25
Overview: About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-25
Popularity:
1943-11-01
Overview: Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-01
Popularity:
1954-12-26
Overview: Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
Popularity:
1944-08-21
Overview: "The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-21
Popularity:
1959-09-28
Overview: Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
Popularity:
1941-11-22
Overview: Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-22
Popularity:
1940-11-04
Overview: When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-04
Popularity:
1946-12-26
Overview: Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
Popularity:
1943-07-16
Overview: Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-07-16
Popularity:
1955-01-01
Overview: Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-01-01
Popularity:
1950-11-11
Overview: The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-11-11
Popularity:
1947-12-22
Overview: In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-22
Popularity:
1949-12-26
Overview: The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
Popularity:
1950-12-16
Overview: Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-16
Popularity:
1939-09-24
Overview: Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-09-24
Popularity:
1950-08-28
Overview: A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-08-28
Popularity: