Hjördis Petterson
Also Known As: Hjördis Pettersson
Biography: Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish stage and screen actress, pedagogue and singer. She was educated at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, Stockholm, 1927-30, made her film debut in "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933). She has appeared in more than 140 feature films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Visby, Gotlands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 27, 1988
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Bara en kvinna
Overview: Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portrait and tells the story of how it came to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-15
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Under svällande segel
Overview: The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some of the students belongings disappear the suspicions are aimed at Olle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-03-03
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Alla tiders Karlsson
Overview: Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-07-31
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Ett dockhem
Overview: August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Passion of Anna
Overview: Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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The Pleasure Garden
Overview: A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-12-26
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Dance on Roses
Overview: Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-09
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Overview: Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-01-07
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Flyg-Bom
Overview: The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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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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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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Klasskamrater
Overview: Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-17
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Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
Overview: Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-08-30
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En karl i köket
Overview: Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay back 50,000 crowns in eight days. In order to pay the money he answers the ads in the newspaper looking for a maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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Landstormens lilla Lotta
Overview: It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-02
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The Cats
Overview: A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike. This leads to an explosive situation at the workplace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-02-15
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A Ship to India
Overview: Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-22
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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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Dumbom
Overview: Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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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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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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Fridolf sticker opp!
Overview: A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-08-25
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Fridolfs farliga ålder
Overview: Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her husband Fridolf is among those.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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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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Kiss Her!
Overview: Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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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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I, a Woman Part II
Overview: Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a diabolical secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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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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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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Gårdarna runt sjön
Overview: A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-17
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While the Door Was Locked
Overview: The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Sängkammartjuven
Overview: Rich socialite must deny persistent rumours that she has an affair with a poor author.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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We Three Debutantes
Overview: Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Resan till dej
Overview: The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-19
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Göingehövdingen
Overview: When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Enslingen Johannes
Overview: Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta Bernhard on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-21
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The Turnstile
Overview: The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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Rolling Sea
Overview: "Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
Overview: Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-08
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Little Martin Returns
Overview: Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-14
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Anderssonskans Kalle
Overview: Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Sin of Anna Lans
Overview: At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-20
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Kanske en diktare
Overview: Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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The Serious Game
Overview: Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-26
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Janssons frestelse
Overview: John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-10
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His Grace's Will
Overview: His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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We Home Toilers
Overview: The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Östermans testamente
Overview: The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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Roses Every Night
Overview: Birgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and address to find a partner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Overview: Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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Sången till henne
Overview: The opera singer Carlo Martin comes to the Royal Opera for a guest performance and the girls in the ballet immediately gets a crush on him. Martin courts one of them, Märta Holm, who is torn between Martin and her own fiancée Arne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-08
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Eva går ombord
Overview: Eva is an employee in a fashion store. One day she finds cruise tickets in the name of Bo Stensjö and boards the ship pretending to be his wife. Things get awkward when Stensjö eventually boards the boat himself and is informed that his "wife" is already aboard....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Stora famnen
Overview: In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-13
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I dag gifter sig min man
Overview: Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Stopp! Tänk på något annat
Overview: Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels to France and he goes after her. They get to know each other and become close.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-26
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Dirch Passer vælter byen
Overview: The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1954-03-22
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Resan bort
Overview: Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, and he has to pretend it was all a joke. Hjalmar asks him to spend the night at his home. He meets Ellen, now Hjalmar's wife. Bernt is still attracted to her and it was only a coincidence that it was Hjalmar who married her and not Bernt. When Hjalmar goes on a business trip, Bernt stays with Ellen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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Familjens hemlighet
Overview: Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-12-26
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Johansson och Vestman
Overview: Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Defiance
Overview: A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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Dolly tar chansen
Overview: Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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The Heist
Overview: Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Women in Captivity
Overview: A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Äventyret
Overview: At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about to marry the young lawyer Sebastian Lavenius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-10-05
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Stackars lilla Sven
Overview: Poppe plays Sven, an orphan who is being taken care of by the kind Mr. Carlsson. However, when Carlsson remarries a baroness, life becomes hard for Sven. The baroness and her two sons do all they can to make it so. The daughter (Anna-Lisa Ericsson) of their even richer neighbour is mistaken for the new house-maid and she helps Sven get ready for the ball that her father is having, while she and Sven secretly fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-24
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Pappas pojke
Overview: Manager Hellman has an extramarital child he pays for maintenance. Soon he discovers that there are more people than he who pays for the unknown son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-12-26
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Pettersson - Sverige
Overview: A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-19
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Flicka i kasern
Overview: They are currently developing a new type of mine at Fredrik's workplace. The head of the company is a young woman, Eva Seman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Morgondagens melodi
Overview: The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-23
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Fröken blir piga
Overview: A school kitchen teacher works on a farm under a fake name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-02
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Vår herre luggar Johansson
Overview: Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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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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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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Den underbara lögnen
Overview: The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-25
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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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Sadist
Overview: The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Friarannonsen
Overview: Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get any mail since the Post office refuse to hand it out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-05
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Web of Desire
Overview: Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Face of Fire
Overview: A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Det glada kalaset
Overview: Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Calle og Palle
Overview: Calle and Palle work as assistants at Circus Bollini.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Enslingen i blåsväder
Overview: The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-02-09
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Vara eller inte vara
Overview: "Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it forget the word "wholesale". Chaos arises until a newspaper editor remembers the word.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-06-18
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They Fought Their Way to Freedom
Overview: The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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SOPOR
Overview: One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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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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Löjtnantshjärtan
Overview: "Bleeding Hearts" - Comedy with charming hussar lieutenants, indulgent landlord daughters, wild rides and romantic mansion balls.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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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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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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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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Styrman Karlssons flammor
Overview: Kalle and his girlfriend Blenda is on his way home from Tivoli, when he says that he will be away for two years as mate on a sailing ship, but swears her eternal fidelity. During the trip takes on board Bessie that has wrecked his vessel, the Donald withstand the temptation of a beautiful woman on board while Blenda waiting at home?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-18
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Three Wishes
Overview: Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
Overview: After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-02-26
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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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Wandering with the Moon
Overview: Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-07
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Jacob's Ladder
Overview: A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-20
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Lärarinna på vift
Overview: Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.
Genres: Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-28
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
Overview: The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-03-24
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The lift that went down into hell
Overview: A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-02-09
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Eviga länkar
Overview: Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-04
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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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Sällskapslek
Overview: In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-16
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Count on Trouble
Overview: A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him away with the help of fictional ghosts and other pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-04
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Lidelse
Overview: An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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The Happy Shoemaker
Overview: Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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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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Sextuplets
Overview: A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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Synnöve Solbakken
Overview: Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-21
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Ä' vi gifta?
Overview: The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-09
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Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Overview: Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding between countries and people.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-13
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The Master Detective Lives Dangerously
Overview: When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later she finds Gren dead.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-07
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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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To Be a Millionaire
Overview: The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-05-17
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Enchanted Journey
Overview: A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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Lasse-Maja
Overview: About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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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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Sjösalavår
Overview: The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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Leva på 'Hoppet'
Overview: A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-04-11
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Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung
Overview: "Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by downsizing. The army chiefs begins to recreated the country's defense system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-10-28
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Duellantens ansikte
Overview: An old woman with unusual complaint visits a district medical officer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-04-16
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Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
Overview: Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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Lilla helgonet
Overview: Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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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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Love Goes Up and Down
Overview: Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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A Singing Girl
Overview: A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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Mask of Murder
Overview: In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim...
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-15
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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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Hemsöborna
Overview: The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-17
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Anderssonskans Kalle i busform
Overview: The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks and sneezing powder.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Striden går vidare
Overview: Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-10-20
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Lillebror och jag
Overview: Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-03-11
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Solkatten
Overview: The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-27
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Doktor Knock
Overview: Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-04-11
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Farliga vägar
Overview: A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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Appassionata
Overview: A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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Parisiennes
Overview: A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-01-23
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It Pays to Advertise!
Overview: Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-08-19
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En sån strålande dag
Overview: A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-08-28
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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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Face of Fire
Overview: A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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