Tomas Alfredson
Also Known As: Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson
Biography: Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director who is best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and in 2008 for Let the Right One In. He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: April 01, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Marks
Overview: Director Jakob is in the middle of recording when he becomes obsessed with the authenticity of a cosmetic hickey. Despite repeating his mantra of assuming responsibility, he soon oversteps all boundaries and ends up in a pinch with his own self-image.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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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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P & B
Overview: Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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The Simple-Minded Murderer
Overview: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Trespassing Bergman
Overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Scenes in the Night
Overview: Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Bert: The Last Virgin
Overview: The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-12-25
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Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Overview: Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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The Apple War
Overview: A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Jag är Klimpen, motherfucker!
Overview: 'Klimpen' was the beloved antagonist of the classic 90s adolescent comedy series "Bert". Two decades later, Martin - who played Klimpen - is newly divorced, depressed, alcoholic and homeless. This documentary follows Martin over three years as he finds new love, and tries to get his life back on track.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-08-05
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Alfons bit för bit - En film om Gunilla Bergström
Overview: A documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alfons Åberg, the main character in a children's book series by Swedish author and illustrator Gunilla Bergström. We'll get to see how the characters and illustrations was made.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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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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Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
Overview: The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-01-04
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