Sif Ruud
Also Known As: Siv Rud, Siv Ruud
Biography: Sif Einarsdotter Ruud was a Swedish stage and screen actress, and theatre pedagogue. She graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1937 and made her film debut in Sigurd Wallén's "Kloka gubben" (1938). Sif Ruud performed at severaltheatres before she was to become a member of the ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Over the years, she has received a substantial number of awards for her acting skills and knowledge of the world of theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: May 06, 1916
Deathday: August 15, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Love Wins Out
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
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Madam Sif
Overview: Documentary about actress Sif Ruud consisting of a long interview with her about her career with clips shown.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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Madicken of June Hill
Overview: A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-10-18
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You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken
Overview: Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily with her family, experiencing the world and making brave and crazy things.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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Dunderklumpen!
Overview: Dunderklumpen lives all alone in the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsummer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Music Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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The Best Intentions
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
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Face to Face
Overview: Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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To Steal a Thief
Overview: Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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To Joy
Overview: After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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Father Bom
Overview: Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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Children's Island
Overview: Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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When Darkness Falls
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
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Får jag låna din fru?
Overview: Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-06-22
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Like It Never Was Before
Overview: The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Swing it, fröken
Overview: There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-20
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Forelsket i København
Overview: Forelsket i København is a 1960 Danish romance film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Siw Malmkvist.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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The Lady in Black
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
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Moon Over Hellesta
Overview: Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-24
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Åsa-Nisse i popform
Overview: Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-08-28
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Försök inte med mej...
Overview: Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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Swinging at the Castle
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
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Overview: Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Little Fridolf and Me
Overview: Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Playing Truant
Overview: High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Overview: Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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Sceningång
Overview: A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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General von Döbeln
Overview: 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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The Secret
Overview: Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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How to Love
Overview: Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-10
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Gatan
Overview: Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-27
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Farlig vår
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
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Girls Without Rooms
Overview: Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-25
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Christmas Oratorio
Overview: The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-09-22
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A Handful of Love
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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Miss Chic
Overview: Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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Miss April
Overview: The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-06-08
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
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
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Kurragömma
Overview: An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-05
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Kristin Commands
Overview: Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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Summer Place Wanted
Overview: Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Lars Hård
Overview: Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-30
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You're Lying!
Overview: About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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Private Entrance
Overview: A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-02-20
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Storm over Tjurö
Overview: Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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Främlingen från skyn
Overview: Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-02-27
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You Are My Adventure
Overview: Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-24
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Försummad av sin fru
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
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Vagabond Blacksmiths
Overview: Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-07
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On These Shoulders
Overview: Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult
Overview: Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-16
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Swedish Portraits
Overview: The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-07
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One Way Ticket
Overview: Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Tinderbox
Overview: First Swedish puppet film. A witch offers a soldier a wealthy life if he retrieves a tinderbox from a hollow tree.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Children of the Night
Overview: A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-26
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Man glömmer ingenting
Overview: When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora. Nora begins her art studies to become a painter and gets to know the young Johan Manel, who falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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Tarp's Elin
Overview: Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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It Is Never Too Late
Overview: Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-17
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Swedenhielms
Overview: Swedish TV movie based on the Hjalmar Bergman play.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-16
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Säg det med blommor
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
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Mälarpirater
Overview: Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-12-26
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För vänskaps skull
Overview: A young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-03-01
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Den långa vägen
Overview: Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Som man bäddar...
Overview: Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Girl in Tails
Overview: The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Kloka gubben
Overview: In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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The Vicious Breed
Overview: About a man hunt when a man escapes from the prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Barabbas
Overview: The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-05
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Heaven and Pancakes
Overview: Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Hidden in the Fog
Overview: A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-02
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Trollsommar
Overview: Three city kids are taken somewhat reluctantly to a farm out in the forests of Sweden. There they meet the resident country kids who's rosy cheeks and youthful antics mirror the apathy and cynicism of the children grown up in the callous and barren streets of the city. In the country, strange and mysterious things are afoot. Sudden fires, cars braking down and enigmatic sightings point to there being more than the modern man fathoms in the woods. People talk of trolls and beings in the woods, guardians of the land, but the grown ups do not believe and the cynical city children say such talk is nonsense.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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Skandalskolan
Overview: TV play.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-09
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Wild Strawberries
Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Hällebäcks gård
Overview: Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Lady in White
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
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Jack of Hearts
Overview: Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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Summer Paradise
Overview: Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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The Die Is Cast
Overview: A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-02-15
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Send Me a Count
Overview: The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession". He bring him along one evening to the sculpture Ulla-Carin von Knaake's house to break in and steal from her safe. Complications arise when Ulla-Carin and some of her friends unexpectedly come home and she imagines that Carl Gustaf is a model she has hired from a model agency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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Guest of Reality
Overview: A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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Pärlemor
Overview: Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Två trappor över gården
Overview: The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-06
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Malin Goes Home
Overview: Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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The Disappearance of Finbar
Overview: A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-25
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The Lie
Overview: A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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My Love Is Like a Rose
Overview: A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Möte med livet
Overview: Gun and Robert are in love, but both are unfaithful during Robert's military service. For Gun, this results in her becoming pregnant and for Robert an infection of syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Sommar och syndare
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
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Taxi 13
Overview: A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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Hönssoppa med korngryn
Overview: The first play in a trilogy by Arnold Wesker. The Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Sarah Kahn firmly holds her family in London's East End. She is also the center of power for the socialist engagement of the family, which is being tested by the events of Eastern Europe after the war.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-12
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13 Chairs
Overview: Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun Svärdsjö.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Min älskade
Overview: "My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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Laila
Overview: Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Summer Nights on Planet Earth
Overview: A long flashback of an author and his relationship to an actress. Existential questions with no answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-04-13
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A Walk in the Sun
Overview: Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Idlaflickorna
Overview: A meeting between two old ladies on a tourist trip. Lillemor is polite and a bit naive, while Barbro is demanding and challenging.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-01-04
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Divorced
Overview: Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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Easter
Overview: A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Bröllopet
Overview: A comedy about a wedding with impediments.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-04-03
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Ticket to Paradise
Overview: A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian plan to take revenge on a fellow countryman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Overview: Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Only a Mother
Overview: A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-31
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Lyckodrömmen
Overview: The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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På farliga vägar
Overview: Martin and Märta live in a seemingly happy marriage, but Märta feels neglected. One evening she meets Martine's colleague, the Frenchman Barthou, famous for his success with the Stockholm ladies. He starts to flirt with Märta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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The First Squadron
Overview: The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-23
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Dynamite
Overview: Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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Woman Without a Face
Overview: Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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Oldsmobile
Overview: Old Siv has one dream left in life, to find her teenage sweetheart Albert who emigrated to the US 50 years ago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-11-22
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Pettersson i Annorlunda
Overview: Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Den kära leken
Overview: Lena and her husband Sven argues in a summer cabin by the sea. She runs away, leaving Sven with his friend Pelle. A travelling projectionist turns up in the evening and shows them some films of how a relationship can look like from different perspectives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-30
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It Rains on Our Love
Overview: Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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Thirst
Overview: A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Flickan från fjällbyn
Overview: Bad harvests and starvation makes northern Swedish farmers consider emigrating to the USA.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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Kuse och kaka, låt oss få smaka
Overview: Folk och Rackare play music; Ebbe Schön and Sif Ruud tell Christmas stories.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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