Signe Hasso
Also Known As: Signe Larsson, Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso
Biography: Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso (née Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress, writer, and composer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: August 15, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 07, 2002
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Code Name: Heraclitus
Overview: A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Strange Triangle
Overview: In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
Overview: An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Pappa är död
Overview: Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was. The practical arrangements for a funeral are often of a tragicomic nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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A Double Life
Overview: A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Johnny Angel
Overview: George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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The House on 92nd Street
Overview: The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-10
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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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This Can't Happen Here
Overview: Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Where There's Life
Overview: In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Heaven Can Wait
Overview: Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-05
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Crisis
Overview: An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Outside the Wall
Overview: Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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The Seventh Cross
Overview: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-24
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On Cukor
Overview: Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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A Reflection of Fear
Overview: A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-12
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Dangerous Partners
Overview: A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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A Scandal in Paris
Overview: A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Genres: Crime Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-19
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Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Evita Peron
Overview: Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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The Black Bird
Overview: The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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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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Die Sonne von St. Moritz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-03-26
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Geld fällt vom Himmel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Picture Mommy Dead
Overview: Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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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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Witches' Night
Overview: The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the students, Majken, misses him sincerely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Bastard
Overview: Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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I sista minuten
Overview: Carlo is looking for a apartment and finds the perfect one. Renata is being shown the apartment at the same time. They both decide to get it but bump into each other with their realtor's and a conflict arises.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-03-10
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Än en gång Gösta Ekman
Overview: Hellert, a middle-aged man, lawyer and well-established, make the acquaintance of kindergarten teacher Birgit Steen. He falls in love with her and discovers that his son Göran has done so too. Leading actor Gösta Ekman died during production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-05-14
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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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Pengar från skyn
Overview: Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-12-26
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Skansen
Overview: Signe Hasso talks (in English) about Skansen, the museum/zoo of Stockholm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Vi tre
Overview: Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina gets lonesome and starts to get take an interest in Sture's Norwegian architect colleague, Arne Ranck.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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The Magician
Overview: Bill Bixby stars in this NBC pilot movie as a famous stage magician and escape artist who solves crimes.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-17
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Emelie Högqvist
Overview: Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-26
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Steel
Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-18
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Den ljusnande framtid
Overview: Birgit Norén is the new teacher at a small town school and falls in love with the principal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-10
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Mirrors
Overview: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-16
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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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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Tystnadens hus
Overview: "House of Silence" - A banker and his old housekeeper are brutally assassinated by a gangster called Smith. The murders are arranged so that they may look like a showdown between two victims. The police force are divided on the murders. Susanna Braun, an old acquaintance of the banker, claims that he could not have murdered his housekeeper. A baron who owns a night club is in need of money. He does business with gangsters. The baron involves Smith in the kidnapping of Susanna Braun.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-11-06
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Career
Overview: One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Shell Game
Overview: A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-09
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Overview: A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-14
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