Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 06, 1910
Deathday: June 28, 1993
Popularity:
1957-02-16
Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-16
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1952-05-12
Overview: A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-12
Popularity:
1960-02-08
Overview: Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-02-08
Popularity:
1973-01-01
Overview: Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
1966-12-26
Overview: A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
Popularity:
1940-04-03
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
Popularity:
1953-09-14
Overview: The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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:
1945-01-19
Overview: The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-19
Popularity:
1983-05-20
Overview: Satire ridicule the idyllic Christmas time. In theatrical tableaux, we meet a group of eccentric, Christmas celebrating people, including a manic-cleaning dwarf.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-05-20
Popularity:
1952-02-04
Overview: The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-02-04
Popularity:
1977-01-28
Overview: Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-28
Popularity:
1940-08-23
Overview: Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-23
Popularity:
1991-02-23
Overview: Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made for his hundredth birthday.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-02-23
Popularity:
1941-10-13
Overview: The Stockholm publisher Adam, a wealthy gentleman with a favorable appearance, has completely undeservedly gained a reputation for being a great Don Juan. Women of all ages are drawn to him and give him their invitations. To be at peace, Adam escapes on his sailboat out into the archipelago and settles down on a small islet. But the ladies follow him and in their footsteps follow jealous fiancés and angry courting cavaliers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-10-13
Popularity:
1984-08-17
Overview: The story of a wife who, due to an identity crisis, leaves home and man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-08-17
Popularity:
1968-11-08
Overview: A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother's house. He meets a number of women with whom he has sexual relations.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-08
Popularity:
1986-04-17
Overview: "The story of the little girl and the great love" - about a woman of short stature who is pondering the conditions of life when she meets a man who abandons her and their mutual child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-04-17
Popularity:
1957-12-26
Overview: A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-26
Popularity:
1945-02-05
Overview: An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his farm and he falls in love with Märit. He tells her of his feelings and Märit is torn between the security of her marriage and the feelings she has for Håkan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-02-05
Popularity:
1936-02-10
Overview: John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-10
Popularity:
1937-10-10
Overview: A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-10
Popularity:
1936-01-13
Overview: Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-01-13
Popularity:
1940-12-26
Overview: His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
Popularity:
1970-04-06
Overview: Jeanette is an inmate at a juvenile prison. She contemplates her life which has been miserable ever since birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-04-06
Popularity:
1949-02-12
Overview: Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-12
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:
1936-08-20
Overview: Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-08-20
Popularity:
1955-12-03
Overview: Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while looking for a home for Rasmus .
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-03
Popularity:
1947-08-30
Overview: Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena prefers to shirk her duties and read romance novels. She is being courted by the neighbour boy Per who covers for her whenever he can.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-30
Popularity:
1962-08-27
Overview: 16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-08-27
Popularity:
1966-04-25
Overview: During his military service, a man meets a woman who works in the kitchen at the camp and they start a relationship. When the man is out on combat exercises, he becomes a witness to his Sergeant being paralyzed by a snake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-04-25
Popularity:
1940-02-18
Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-18
Popularity:
1974-10-28
Overview: An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-10-28
Popularity:
1941-09-29
Overview: In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth). They tell of a series of events and conditions that the recipients thought was forgotten and buried long ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-29
Popularity:
1942-12-21
Overview: "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
Popularity:
1963-04-21
Overview: A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-04-21
Popularity:
1943-08-20
Overview: At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-20
Popularity:
1941-12-13
Overview: Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-13
Popularity:
1968-02-19
Overview: While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-19
Popularity:
1942-01-10
Overview: A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-10
Popularity:
1944-11-13
Overview: Axel is courting women in large quantities. He increasingly conscious and excessively uses his innate and viable charm, evolving into a pure Don Juan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-13
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