Jakob Eklund
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Biography: Jakob Anders Eklund (born 21 February 1962) is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He portrayed the fictional police officer Johan Falk in 20 movies. His wife, Marie Richardson, played his on-screen girlfriend in the trilogy of films The Third Wave, Executive Protection and Zero Tolerance, as well as in the other 17 films about Johan Falk, released between 2009 and 2015.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Sweden
Birthday: February 21, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Executive Protection
Overview: After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-08-17
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The Third Wave
Overview: Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-10-15
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Zero Tolerance
Overview: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser
Overview: Johan works in tandem with the GSI organized crime unit to bring in a cadre of armored car robbers
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Johan Falk: Leo Gaut
Overview: A car explodes in front of a primary school where GSI boss Patrick Agrell has just left his children. The event reunites Johan Falk with Leo Gaut, a former criminal restaurant owner who Johan put behind bars a decade ago.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Johan Falk: National Target
Overview: Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-10-06
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Johan Falk: Vapenbröder
Overview: John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles and thus get them off the street. But suddenly everything changes when a new unknown player suddenly and immediately wants to buy not only those weapons but even more, including armor-piercing shells. GSI realizes that this can not be any ordinary robbers. Someone will start a war on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time as the situation gets more and more complicated for John Falk's infiltrator Frank Wagner when the leader of the gang he infiltrated realize that one of his own leaking to the police.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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Johan Falk: The Outlaws
Overview: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Johan Falk: Operation Näktergal
Overview: Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-03
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Daybreak
Overview: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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House of Angels
Overview: In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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To Steal a Thief
Overview: Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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Solstorm
Overview: While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Like It Never Was Before
Overview: The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Run for Your Life
Overview: After giving birth to a son, Catti and her husband Mikael get entangled in an organization that hides illegal immigrants in Sweden. They slowly realize that their picture perfect country in reality is built on police brutality, state coercion and inhuman immigration policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
Overview: A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-12-25
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Out of Bounds
Overview: A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit Stella's father Nathan who lives alone with his labrador. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to having a baby, but Oskar appears to have doubts. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan's provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable, and Stella is caught in between.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Black Island Sisters
Overview: The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Pillertrillaren
Overview: David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Johan Falk: Kodnamn: Lisa
Overview: Five men break into Frank Wagner's apartment. Frank is able to escape and seeks out the help of Johan Falk. Has someone leaked that Frank is working with the police? Frank and John don't know who knows what and whom to trust.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Such Is Life
Overview: Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Deadly Drift
Overview: A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Johan Falk: Spelets regler
Overview: It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the big difference that this time it's personal for Frank.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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Johan Falk: Alla råns moder
Overview: GSI second in command, Sophie Nordh, flips gangster leader Seth Rydell and convinces him to infiltrate a rogue military group. For the first time GSI Chief Patrick Agrell realizes that he is using a ruthless psychopath as an infiltrator. Can Seth be trusted or does he have his own agenda?
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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Pariserhjulet
Overview: Their dream of happiness and the perfect caper became a dizzying adventure, full of excitement, humor, passion and great adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna
Overview: It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows rapidly to involve several gangs from Gothenburg underworld. GSI switched to try to identify a new thread which proves to be both larger and better armed than any other. The only clue is a tattoo on one of the killed gang members.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-10-09
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Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan
Overview: Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören
Overview: A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who can clean the money of the dye pack that exploded while Johan Falk, and his colleagues at GSI, accelerate their hunt.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie
Overview: They've had enough and know what has to be done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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The Birthday
Overview: Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-03-23
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Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
Overview: The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Johan Falk: Slutet var bara början
Overview: After the book became a success, the creator confirmed that there will be a movie out of it.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
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Johan Falk: From the Ashes into the Fire
Overview: Falk is blackmailed into smuggling a truckload of guns from Latvia.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-06-29
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Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds
Overview: GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-07-27
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Johan Falk: Silent Diplomacy
Overview: When Johan and his colleagues are watching Seth and his gang member Jack, they stumble on a larger case than they expected. Seth is selling arms to terrorists, but without Jack's knowledge, in a car where Johan's old colleague Pernilla mysterious appears. While Johan begin researching what Pernilla and SÄPO is doing, Jack suspects that everything is not right with Seth and that he's working with the police.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-07-13
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Johan Falk: Lockdown
Overview: The police station is locked down. A snitch is compromised. Drastic and unexpected events take place. Both inside and outside the police station.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-10
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Johan Falk: The End
Overview: The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and trying to kill his wife could be the biggest mistake the organization has ever made. GSI closes up around Johan's family and the final battle begins ...
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-24
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Grown Ups
Overview: Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Wallander: The Joker
Overview: When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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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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Susanne Goes Single
Overview: Susanne happens to drive over her husband on a camping site. This is the start of a very intensive day where she gets perspective over her life. A black comedy with much depth and a woman who bears a little too much.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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My Life as a Comedian
Overview: Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Overview: Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Heaven's Heart
Overview: Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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En uppgörelse i den undre världen
Overview: The leader of a small crime syndicate meets, for the first time in years, with his teenage son in a Chinese Restaurant. Slightly awkwardly, he explains that he hopes his son to take over his business.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Brothers: The Return
Overview: Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder for him to meet his family again. Meantime back in Sweden his family is struggling with difficulties which they don't know how to solve. The time is running out and things don't look good at all.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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