A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, English
Director
Niels Arden Oplev
Writer
Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg, Stieg Larsson
Cast
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fraaling
Plot
Influential industrialist Vanger's niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjaarnstrand, Max von Sydow
Plot
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along t...
Reidar Jaansson, Lasse Hallstraam, Brasse Bra¤nnstraam
Cast
Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Braamssen, Anki Liden
Plot
In the late '50s, young Ingemar learns a lot about life and himself when he is sent away from his sick mother to live with his aunt and uncle in a town full of eccentrics.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
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 thei...
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, Persian
Director
Hannes Holm
Writer
Hannes Holm, Fredrik Backman
Cast
Rolf Lassga¥rd, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
Plot
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
When Prince Wilhelm transfers to a prestigious boarding school, he finally gets to explore his true self. But when he unexpectedly becomes next in line for the throne, he has to make a choice: love or duty.
Movie | Drama | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, Finnish
Director
Mikael Ha¥fstraam
Writer
Jan Guillou, Mikael Ha¥fstraam, Hans Gunnarsson
Cast
Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundstraam, Gustaf Skarsga¥rd
Plot
A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, English
Director
Ruben a–stlund
Writer
Ruben a–stlund
Cast
Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West
Plot
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen i...
Movie | Adventure, Drama | Sweden, Norway | Swedish, English
Director
Tage Danielsson
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Hanna Zetterberg, Lena Nyman, Baarje Ahlstedt
Plot
Ronja, the only child of robber chief Mattis must learn to survive the dangers of her local wilderness. In secret she also befriends Birk, the son of a rivaling robber Borka.
A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
Movie | Action, Crime | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, Italian
Director
Daniel Alfredson
Writer
Jonas Frykberg, Stieg Larsson
Cast
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
Plot
As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
A famous international conductor returns to his small childhood town in Sweden for early retirement. He's asked to help with the church choir. He affects the lives of all in the choir.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, English
Director
Ali Abbasi
Writer
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklaaf
Cast
Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jaargen Thorsson
Plot
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
Movie | Drama, Music | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, English
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Baarje Ahlstedt
Plot
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
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Movie | Comedy | Sweden | Swedish, Norwegian
Director
Lasse a…berg
Writer
Lasse a…berg, Bo Jonsson
Cast
Lasse a…berg, Lottie Ejebrant, Jon Skolmen
Plot
Despite a harrowing fear of flying Stig-Helmer decides to go to the Canary Islands. On the plane, he meets the boasting Norwegian Ole and a load of Swedes on their way to holiday where they will meet a lot of difficulties and situ...
Movie | Drama, Romance | Sweden | Swedish, Spanish
Director
Roy Andersson
Writer
Roy Andersson
Cast
Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom
Plot
Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
TV | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Cast
Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg, Allan Edwall
Plot
The series tells stories from the childhood of a sometimes naughty, but very lovable and kindhearted young boy growing up on a farm in southern Sweden in the early 20th century.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pa¤r Sundberg
Plot
Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's house Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic European TV series.
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Torsten Lilliecrona, Louise Edlind, Bjaarn Saaderba¤ck
Plot
The Melkersson family decides to leave the city for the summer to rent a house in the Stockholm archipelago. They come to enjoy the simple life there and all adventures that come their way together with resident family, the Grankv...
Percy Nilegård has gotten in to the commercial radio business. The radio station rents premises of the fire station and its chief, the self willed Greger who's in charge of six well built firemen. One of them gets a presentation f...
Movie | Biography, Drama | Sweden | Swedish, Danish
Director
Bo Widerberg
Writer
Bo Widerberg, Johan Lindstraam Saxon
Cast
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Plot
The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.
EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best ...
Movie | Drama, History | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, Finnish
Director
Jan Troell
Writer
Niklas Ra¥dstraam, Jan Troell, Agneta Ulfsa¤ter-Troell
Cast
Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
Plot
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg
Plot
When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.
A theatre troupe is called to court because of obscene performance material and an interrogation ensues, which causes them to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Croatia | Swedish, German
Director
Felix Herngren
Writer
Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson
Cast
Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg
Plot
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Movie | Documentary | Sweden, Denmark | Swedish, English
Director
Simon Klose
Cast
Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij
Plot
An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg, Allan Edwall
Plot
An 8 y.o. Swedish boy always gets into trouble despite good intentions and afterwards ends locked up in a shed. He lives on a farm (before electricity and cars) with his mom, dad, sister, maid, best friend the farmhand and an old ...
When you are all alone in a small dark room, what do you fear the most? Is it the temporary blindness or is it the uneasy deep feeling that someone, or rather something, is observing your every move?
A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
Stig Helmer takes another vacation with his Norwegian friend Ole, this time a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig has never learned downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. The two men also manage to charm two women ...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, German
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pa¤r Sundberg
Plot
The further adventures of super-strong girl Pippi Longstocking and her friends Tommy and Annika in this sequel compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series.
Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden, Germany | Swedish, English
Director
Roy Andersson
Writer
Roy Andersson
Cast
Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg
Plot
Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
Movie | Biography, Comedy | Sweden | Swedish, German
Director
Tage Danielsson
Writer
Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson, Gaasta Ekman
Cast
Gaasta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook
Plot
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.
Movie | Drama, History | Sweden, Norway | Swedish, Saami
Director
Amanda Kernell
Writer
Amanda Kernell
Cast
Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, anne Biret Somby
Plot
A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Sweden, Germany | Swedish
Director
Olle Hellbom
Writer
Fred Ladd, Astrid Lindgren
Cast
Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pa¤r Sundberg
Plot
With the help of her friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi Longstocking ventures to the South Pacific island Porto Piluse to rescue her father, who was captured by ruthless pirates.
Tora Nordstraam-Bonnier, Ragnar Hylten-Cavallius, Per Lindberg
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Gunnar Sjaaberg, Olof Widgren
Plot
When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life.
