Gunnar Björnstrand
Also Known As: Гуннар Бьёрнстранд
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gunnar Björnstrand (November 13, 1909 – May 26, 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer/director Ingmar Bergman. He was born in Stockholm. He appeared in over 120 films. Björnstrand at first had trouble finding work but got an engagement in Helsinki with his wife 1936-1938. Back in Stockholm he met Ingmar Bergman, at that time a mostly unknown theatre director. In the 1940s he got his first major film roles, making a breakthrough with the 1946 movie Kristin kommenderar. He was a versatile actor who could play tough and tender as well as comedy and tragedy. His daughter Veronica Björnstrand is also an actress. One of his most famous roles was as the worldly squire who makes such a contrast to his austere and spiritual master in Bergman's most famous film The Seventh Seal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gunnar Björnstrand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: November 13, 1909
Deathday: May 26, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Seventh Seal
Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-16
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Wild Strawberries
Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Persona
Overview: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-10-18
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Pälsen
Overview: Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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Fanny and Alexander
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Livat på luckan
Overview: Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-29
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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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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Overview: Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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Through a Glass Darkly
Overview: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Shame
Overview: In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-29
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Here Is Your Life
Overview: A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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Autumn Sonata
Overview: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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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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The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Face to Face
Overview: Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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Winter Light
Overview: A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-11
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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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A Lesson in Love
Overview: After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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June Night
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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The Rite
Overview: A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's widow. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, and growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-25
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The Devil's Eye
Overview: The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-10-17
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Father Bom
Overview: Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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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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Sawdust and Tinsel
Overview: The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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Music in Darkness
Overview: Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-17
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Torment
Overview: Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-02
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Gabrielle
Overview: While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Waiting Women
Overview: Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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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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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Hjältar i gult och blått
Overview: The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Barna Hedenhös
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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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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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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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Overview: The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-16
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Dreams
Overview: Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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En svensk tiger
Overview: Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Säg det med blommor
Overview: Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attention will disappear when they marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-28
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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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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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Playing Truant
Overview: High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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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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General von Döbeln
Overview: 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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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 Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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Tabu
Overview: Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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The Girls
Overview: A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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Private Bom
Overview: The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Karl för sin hatt
Overview: Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Jag dräpte
Overview: "I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Two Women
Overview: "Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-18
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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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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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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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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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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-06-11
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The White Cat
Overview: A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Summer Place Wanted
Overview: Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Snapphanar
Overview: In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Charlotte Löwensköld
Overview: 1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-10-30
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My Sister My Love
Overview: Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-02-28
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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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You Are My Adventure
Overview: Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-24
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The Ghost Reporter
Overview: Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Stimulantia
Overview: Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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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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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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Henpecked
Overview: An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-09-25
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The Red Mantle
Overview: Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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Mot nya tider
Overview: A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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Everybody at His Station
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-06
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It Is Never Too Late
Overview: Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-17
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Night Light
Overview: Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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The Dress
Overview: Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-10-05
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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Overview: The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-01-27
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Uppsagd
Overview: Björn Kraft is an office clerk and one day his boss installs a new accounting machine that can do three mans job. A couple of days later Björn gets the termination letter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-03-19
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One Fiancé at a Time
Overview: Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-04
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Krigsmans erinran
Overview: Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Mitt folk är icke ditt
Overview: The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-06-19
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Skorpan
Overview: Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Mälarpirater
Overview: Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-12-26
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold
Overview: A quirky, but happily in love young Italian couple fall in with an older, but distinctly reserved Swedish couple whilst on vacation on islands off the coast of Southern Italy. Eventually the couples seem to warm to each other as the infectious youths bring the standoffish couple out of their shells. But there is a sinister reason for the Swedish couple's cold behavior and it may spell doom for them all.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-29
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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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En äventyrare
Overview: A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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Daddy Wanted
Overview: Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Tunneln
Overview: "The Tunnel" - an expressionistic scene in the presence of personal tragedy and an accident. Two men reconnect. The fine gentleman all dressed up, hurt and somewhat dizzy. The other man responding, laughing sinister. They converse about a mutual acquaintance. A woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-09
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Klackarna i taket
Overview: A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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Seger i mörker
Overview: The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-16
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Crime in Paradise
Overview: While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-07
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The Glass Mountain
Overview: The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Each to His Own Way
Overview: A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-16
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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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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Overview: When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-17
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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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My Heart and Its Millions
Overview: Franck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing himself off as Guillaume Aribeau, his own secretary. Under the cover of this modest condition Franck can both lead a freewheeling life and find true love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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My Sister and I
Overview: The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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We Two
Overview: Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-03-16
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Stampen
Overview: Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-28
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Natt i hamn
Overview: Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Overview: A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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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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Lockfågeln
Overview: On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-11-24
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My Love Is Like a Rose
Overview: A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Midwinter Sacrifice
Overview: A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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Sussie
Overview: A self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called Sussie. The author has just divorced and now need a new house keeper. Sussie sees her chance to go undercover and takes the job with the intent to dig up some dirt. However, love intervenes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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The Farewell
Overview: Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-04-08
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Gustav III
Overview: Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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You Who Are About to Enter
Overview: Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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Flottans glada gossar
Overview: When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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National match
Overview: Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-03-29
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Overview: A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Här kommer vi ...
Overview: The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-18
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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Overview: Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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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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The Marriage Wrestler
Overview: Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-16
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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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The Ghost Sonata
Overview: The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-10-30
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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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Panik
Overview: About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Lyckodrömmen
Overview: The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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Kyssen på kryssen
Overview: Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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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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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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Fianceé for Hire
Overview: A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-08-28
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His Life's Match
Overview: Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-01-18
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The Making of Autumn Sonata
Overview: A behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect of the production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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