Rolf Lassgård
Also Known As: 롤프 라스가드, Rolf Holger Lassgård
Biography: Rolf Holger Lassgård, born March 29, 1955 in Östersund, Jämtland, is a Swedish actor. Lassgård has been nominated for Guldbaggen award six times, of which he won two; for My Big Fat Father and A man called Ove.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Östersund, Jämtland, Sverige
Birthday: March 29, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Second Act
Overview: The great star of the Royal Dramatic Theatre has fallen ill, and must be cared for at home by a talkative, insecure woman who, over time, finds it difficult to maintain the professional boundaries of the relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Surprise
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
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After the Wedding
Overview: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Chess Story
Overview: 1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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To Love Someone
Overview: Lena lives a safe and happy life with her husband Alf and together they run a fish shop. No one who sees her can imagine what kind of hell she has gone through with her former husband Hannes. One day, her life turns upside down as a random meeting with Hannes leads to an emotional chaos for her. She thinks he has changed, but no one else wants to believe that Hannes is a new and better person. At the same time, Alf can only look at how his beloved Lena is drawn to Hannes who's been hurting her so much before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Stockholm Marathon
Overview: A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Murder at the Savoy
Overview: A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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Roseanna
Overview: A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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Cop Killer
Overview: A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Storm
Overview: Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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The Slingshot
Overview: Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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So Different
Overview: Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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A Rational Solution
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
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The Potato Seller
Overview: In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-03-12
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared
Overview: A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-07-02
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The Hunters
Overview: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Angel
Overview: Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the spotlight – but to reach the top again she needs media attention, and the question is what price Angel is willing to pay to get back?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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The Man on the Balcony
Overview: A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin Beck believes that the robber may be an important witness. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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When in Rome
Overview: Gerda and Kristoffer are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in Rome, where Gerda used to study art when she was young. But the trip doesn't go quite as planned, when the couple run into Gerda's charismatic art teacher and former flame, Johannes. Kristoffer ends up on the sideline, while Gerda chases her youth through the streets and alleys of Rome, to confront the ghosts of the past.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Under the Sun
Overview: Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Three Suns
Overview: An epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years spent in the East during a long war. Hanna will find herself fighting for her love, her children and her life.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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False Trail
Overview: The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten. Torsten does not support Erik very much in his job and has, for some personal reasons, already arrested a suspected perpetrator. Eric takes great risks when he starts digging in the criminal material of the horrible murder case.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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My Big Fat Father
Overview: Summer of 1959. 11-year old Osvald spend his summer holiday with his parents in the countryside of Södermanland. His father has promised to play soccer with him and get some exercise. He also promised the locals to teach the church choir an Argentine mass. The father has a slight alcohol problem, so will he be able to do it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-11-23
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Family Secrets
Overview: Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Black Island Sisters
Overview: The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Overview: Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Such Is Life
Overview: Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Capricciosa
Overview: A Swedish drama by Reza Bagher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Quiet Freedom
Overview: Erik, recently retired, is looking forward to some post-work adventure and to enjoy his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh reality of his wife Juditha’s accelerating illness causes his own health to deteriorate. Juditha refuses to accept any outside help as Erik buckles under the pressure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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Fatal News
Overview: West Germany, 1987. The politician Uwe Barschel (1944-87), member of the Christian Democratic Union party and Minister-President of the Schleswig-Holstein region, is found dead in very sinister circumstances. Reporter David Burger pledges to find the truth behind one of the most important political scandals in German history, investigating countless speculations and conspiracy theories as he fights his own personal demons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-06-27
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Önskas
Overview: A forty something man, Bosse, perpetually down on his luck but always optimistic, hopes to impress his new girlfriend by accepting a job as headwaiter at a remote boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-07-12
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One Step Behind
Overview: Shortly after police discovers the murder of three friends, police inspector Wallander finds his friend and colleague Svedberg dead. First, it is believed that Svedberg killed himself but Wallander soon discovers links between Svedberg, the three friends and a fourth person, a young woman in a mental hospital.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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The White Lioness
Overview: In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Uferlos!
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-22
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Gossip
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
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Sommarmord
Overview: Sture is a rich alcoholic who has taken a trip to Mallorca to drink himself to death. But he meets Sylvia and they start a relationship. Sture moves in with her in a middle-class community. Sylvia has an eighteen year old daughter, Eva. She gets murdered on the night between Midsummer eve and Midsummer day, and to the police the primary suspect is Sture, who was so intoxicated that he can not say what he was doing during the night.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-10
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Where The Rainbow Ends
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
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
Overview: A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-03-04
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The Tears of Saint Peter
Overview: Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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The Dogs of Riga
Overview: A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-11-09
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Love Proof
Overview: Thomas and Marie are getting divorced and must meet one last weekend to empty and sell their summer house. Neither one of them knows the other's real intentions. A young woman suddenly appears, with a jealousy-driven agenda all of her own. What was supposed to be a civilized end to a long-standing marriage turns minute by minute into a shattering weekend that turns everything in their lives, upside down.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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The Pyramid
Overview: The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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Wallander: Firewall
Overview: Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder of the taxi driver, but does not tell where the body is. The day after a man is found lying dead at an ATM with the bank statement in his hand. Two seemingly different cases, or do they have anything to do with each other? Kurt Wallander is trying to find answers, but he does not recognize himself - he feels unwell, dizzy and is forced to go to hospital.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Miraklet i Viskan
Overview: Bjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money. Across the river lives Bjarnes father Halvar. The two have never pulled evenly, which stems from a 20-year conflict filled with idle words, grumpy pride and stubborn prestige. In order to rescue the firm Malin sees no alternative but to go across the river to ask Halvar to cater for the loan. A decision that will have unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-04-17
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A Man Called Ove
Overview: Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Limpan
Overview: Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the home, so he runs away. He misses the job and gets caught and is brought back, but they won't accept him, since it's after closing time. During a couple of days, he wanders back and forth between the home and the world, meeting several different people who all have their different problems, which Limpan confronts and all the time, there's the question of alcohol; to drink or not to drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Bamse and the Secret of The Sea
Overview: Bamse, Little Skutt and Skalman go out into open water and far down to the bottom of the sea. And Captain Buster is willing to do anything to earn the title of Terror of the Sea.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-12-19
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Bamse and the World's Smallest Adventure
Overview: Nalle-Maja is with the family on a picnic, but no one seems to want to play with her. When she drinks XYZ juice alone and becomes tiny, everything takes a new turn. Should the others find her and is it possible to make a difference if you are as small as an ant?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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The Story of the Father Who Baked Princesses
Overview: The father is sitting up in a skylift, and he is telling a fairy tale to his daughter. Wherever he moves during the day, in power stations, in old cafes, he tells, and what he tells takes shape!
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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Their Frozen Dream
Overview: Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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The Lion Woman
Overview: Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he hides her away from the world in their apartment. However, Eva’s nanny fights for her right to be treated like everyone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Downsizing
Overview: A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Kennedy's Brain
Overview: A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-04-03
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House of Fools
Overview: At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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The Swimmer
Overview: The story of an adrenaline junkie who travels the globe in search of the most tumultuous rivers to swim with no kayak, and no protection. But there's something deeper driving him to risk his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Winnerbäck - A Kind of Life
Overview: Lars Winnerbäck is one of Sweden's biggest artists for 15 years. At the same time he is one of those we know least about. Now Winnerbäck celebrates 20 years as an artist, despite barely filling 40. This documentary takes us closer to him than ever, while summarizing a musically unlikely career. But most of all, it gives an insight into an extremely complex human being, with all its weaknesses and characteristics reflecting an entire generation's feelings. In addition to Lars Winnerbäck is featured in the film Rolf Lassgård, Per Gessle and Melissa Horn. Director and producer are Øystein Karlsen, who is behind successes like Dag og Lilyhammer.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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The Spy
Overview: Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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My Father Marianne
Overview: Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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Kyrkkaffe
Overview: There are technical problems in the church and Mrs. Lindblom is the only one who has appeared at the mass, but the priest decides to carry out his sermon anyway.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-03-06
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Faceless Murderer
Overview: A farmer discovers that his neighbors have been murdered. Wallander get on the case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-03
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Ellas Geheimnis
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt
Overview: Portrait of one of Sweden's most popular actors; Rolf Lassgård. He is known for many of his roles in the Wallander films, The Hunters and My Big Fat Father, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-12-30
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Bamse and the Volcano Island
Overview: The classic trio in the Bamse universe; Bamse, Lille Skutt och Skalman, is going on a thrilling adventure to the centre of the earth. Their mission is to save the explorer Beanka, who has mysteriously disappeared and seems to be a longlost friend of Skalmans. They do not realize that they have a follower though; a smug cat named Kattja. She is determined to get to their destination - what she believes is a treasure - first. Their expedition include being chased by wolves, spending a night at a spooky hotel, climbing a volcano and finally, maybe finding what they all are searching for. However, the treasure is not always what it seems to be.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-12-22
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Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
Overview: The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-01-04
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