Börje Mellvig
Also Known As: Barry Melvin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: November 23, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 07, 1998
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Incorrigible
Overview: Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Overview: Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Peggy på vift
Overview: Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-06-08
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Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Overview: Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-27
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The Master Detective and Rasmus
Overview: Kalle Blomkvist and his friends intervene when a professor and his little son Rasmus are kidnapped.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-16
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En förtjusande fröken
Overview: Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Overview: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-30
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The Royal Rabble
Overview: The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Five to Twelve
Overview: A documentary on Vidkun Quisling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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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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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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New Order at Sjogarda
Overview: Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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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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Tull-Bom
Overview: Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-25
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När syrenerna blomma
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
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Pig Hunt
Overview: "Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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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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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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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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En sjöman i frack
Overview: First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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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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Nationalmonumentet
Overview: The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Slottstappning
Overview: About a man who takes advantage of his friends and one day comes across an extraordinary painting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Raskenstam
Overview: The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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The Right to Love
Overview: Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-02-27
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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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Skogen är vår arvedel
Overview: The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-12
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Dance, My Doll
Overview: In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-20
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Tre dar på luffen
Overview: A vagabond comes walking on a small Swedish country road in the middle of summer. Suddenly he finds himself employed at a nearby farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Flickor i hamn
Overview: Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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Pygmalion
Overview: Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-06-02
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När ängarna blommar
Overview: The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Overview: Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Young Summer
Overview: Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-27
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Gomorron Bill!
Overview: Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-14
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All this - and Iceland too
Overview: 1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1951-09-03
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Skipper Jansson
Overview: Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-24
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Ung dam med tur
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
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Bergslagsfolk
Overview: A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-25
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Lorden från gränden
Overview: Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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Moderskapets kval och lycka
Overview: Eva-Maria Dahl gets the news from a doctor that she's having a baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-19
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Trötte Teodor
Overview: Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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Det var en gång en sjöman
Overview: Shipmate Öman comes to the north-African city of Jazzablanca, a nest of sin with prostitution and organized crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-08-20
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Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Overview: Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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Där möllorna gå...
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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Blue sky
Overview: Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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What We Did
Overview: The Konsum cooperative strikes a blow for equality in a film directed by one of Sweden's few female film directors: Ingrid Luterkort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Gröna hissen
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
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Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?
Overview: A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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The Halo Is Slipping
Overview: A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Min vän Oscar
Overview: Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-01-20
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Narkos
Overview: A professor suffers an accident that disables him. He struggles to keep his courage, trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-07
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The Heavenly Play
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
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Blonde in Bondage
Overview: A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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Guldgrävarna
Overview: After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Overview: Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Den heliga lögnen
Overview: Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-23
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91:an Karlsson slår knockout
Overview: Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-11
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Söderkåkar
Overview: The story of two brothers, one rich and one poor living next to each other , struggling along with their families and daily lives in the south parts of Stockholm in the 1930's.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-11-06
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Love, Sunshine and Songs
Overview: Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-28
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A Man with a Maid
Overview: A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-02-17
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Marianne
Overview: Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-24
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En vår i vapen
Overview: During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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Ung och kär
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
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Så tuktas kärleken
Overview: Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Lev farligt
Overview: Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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Loving Couples
Overview: As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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Suss gott
Overview: The jack of all trades Pekka is having financial trouble and is being hunted by a debt collector.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-06
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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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Prison
Overview: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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A Dream Play
Overview: "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
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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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Skattefria Andersson
Overview: Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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While the City Sleeps
Overview: Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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I rök och dans
Overview: Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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