Thor Modéen: Strålande tider, härliga tider!
Nov 22, 1992Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.
Documentary
Thor Modéen
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Janne Modig
Aug 20, 1923
Livat på luckan
Oct 29, 1951Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Comedy
Minns ni?
Oct 24, 1993A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Documentary
Springpojkar är vi allihopa
Jan 04, 1941Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order
Comedy
Oss baroner emellan
Dec 26, 1939Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Hjältar i gult och blått
Feb 16, 1940The 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.
Comedy
Landstormens lilla Lotta
Oct 02, 1939It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.
Comedy
Livet på Forsbyholm
Jan 19, 1948At Forsbyholm's boarding school, the problem-maker Rutger Von Hake reads. In order for the school to receive government funding, a new teacher comes to the school to solve the problem.
Comedy
Kungen kommer
Mar 23, 1936A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Drama
En stilla flirt
Jan 29, 1934Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.
Comedy
65, 66 och jag
Nov 23, 1936Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.
Comedy
Kyss henne!
May 17, 1940Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
À l’auberge du paradis
Feb 08, 1937Les résidents d'un gîte attendent avec impatience l'arrivée d'un célèbre chanteur d'opéra argentin, mais font erreur sur la personne.
Comedy
Augustas lilla felsteg
Jan 29, 1933Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
Comedy
Snurriga familjen
Aug 18, 1940Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.
Comedy
O, en så'n natt!
Aug 30, 1937Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Med dej i mina armar
Nov 09, 1940Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
Comedy
Spökreportern
Aug 09, 1941Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Comedy
Så tuktas en äkta man
Apr 10, 1941
I natt - eller aldrig
Jun 04, 1941A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.
Comedy
Thor Modéen - ett personligt porträtt av Ulf Larsson
Jun 20, 2000Thor Modéen (1898-1950) was one of our great Swedish film actors and comedians. Cicerone Ulf Larsson accompanies us through Modéen's life, with the help of interviews with friends, acquaintances and colleagues and with clips from feature films, magazine films and commercials.
Documentary
Stjärnbilder
Sep 10, 1995A 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.
Documentary
Fram för lilla Märta eller På livets ödesvägar
Sep 29, 1945An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Comedy
Anderssonskans Kalle
Jan 01, 1934Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.
Comedy
Det var en gång...
Dec 15, 1945A peddler visiting a small cottage in the winter. He tells some strange tales for the family living there.
Adventure
Mot nya tider
Nov 06, 1939A 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.
Drama
Swing it, magistern
Dec 21, 1940
Uppsagd
Mar 19, 1934Björn 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.
Drama
Spökbaronen
Oct 17, 1927
Åke klarar biffen
Mar 24, 1952Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
Comedy
Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
Sep 19, 1932A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.
Comedy
Tåget går klockan 9
Nov 15, 1941Stockholm Central station. The loudspeaker announces that the train 7.03 is delayed and arrives at 7.30. The troubled brothers Oskar and Fredrik Reyner await attorney Thomas Linder.
Comedy
Bomans pojke
Mar 13, 1933
Lyckans gullgossar
Dec 26, 1932A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horseshoe a couple of gentlemen find in the street.
Comedy
Kustens glada kavaljerer
Nov 05, 1938The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
Comedy
Kärlek efter noter
Sep 02, 1935The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.
Comedy
33.333
Mar 02, 1936A young worker has decided he must get to buy a lottery ticket with the number 33.333. He manage to get the ticket. This leads to a long series of complicated developments.
Drama
Pettersson - Sverige
Nov 19, 1934A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.
Comedy
Jolanta - den gäckande suggan
Nov 12, 1945The Skåne farmer Jeppsson has a tax debt and gets into trouble when he refuses to pay.
Comedy
Två man om en änka
Dec 26, 1933Ludwig Karlsson works for the cavalry captain Paul Rosencrona at the horse guard in Stockholm.
Comedy
Hin och smålänningen
Nov 14, 1927Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
Drama
En äventyrare
Sep 11, 1942
Nattvaktens hustru
Oct 20, 1947Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Drama
Pappa sökes
Jun 01, 1947Holger 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.
Comedy
Herr Collins äventyr
Aug 27, 1943Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.
Drama
Ett skepp kommer lastat
Mar 05, 1932
Kronans glada gossar
Jan 14, 1952
Kungliga Johansson
Sep 23, 1934Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
Comedy
Svensson ordnar allt!
Jan 31, 1938Butcher Charles Svensson (Thor Modéen) bets on the horses and wins the jackpot. He finds high society is not immediately appreciative of the newly rich.
Comedy
Kronblom
Aug 18, 1947A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
Comedy
Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
Feb 26, 1945After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933.
Annonsera!
Aug 19, 1936Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.
Comedy
Klart till drabbning
May 31, 1937Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.
Comedy
Stiliga Augusta
Nov 04, 1946The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
Comedy
Smålänningar
Oct 28, 1935Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.
Comedy
Odygdens belöning
Jul 29, 1937Bicycle factory director Wallensjö regularly fires his bookkeeper Gunnar, who has taken a liking to Wallensjös daughter Maj, and uses a baby left on hos brother's doorstep to trick Wallensjö into believing they've become parents.
Drama
Fattiga riddare
Dec 26, 1944Marianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two older gentlemen decide to help her avoid the dangers of the city.
Comedy
Rena rama sanningen
May 22, 1939Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Fröken Julia jubilerar
Aug 13, 1938Julia works as a cashier at a piano factory in Stockholm. She and a couple friend go on a ski vacation to northern Sweden, while her boss at the piano factory notices there a money missing in cash register. He suspects Julia who have to prove her innocence.
Comedy
Stackars Ferdinand
Dec 27, 1941Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
Comedy
Sexlingar
Jun 08, 1942A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.
Comedy
Chère famille
Nov 06, 1933La relation entre un riche grossiste et ses trois filles est mise à l'épreuve alors qu'ils jonglent avec les affaires et les difficultés financières.
Comedy
91:an Karlsson
Sep 02, 1946The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.
Comedy
Valse d'été à Roslagen
Aug 20, 1945Alors qu'il rentre chez lui pour retrouver sa fiancée, un marin s'éprend d'une autre femme qu'il rencontre au bal. Un film inspiré des chansons d'Evert Taube.
Music
91:an Karlssons permis
Dec 22, 1947
Hans majestäts rival
Nov 02, 1943"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.
Music
Han, hon och pengarna
Oct 19, 1936Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.
Comedy
Magistrarna på sommarlov
Nov 22, 1941Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.
Comedy
Lilla helgonet
Aug 01, 1944Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche").
Comedy
...och alla dessa kvinnor
Nov 13, 1944Axel is courting women in large quantities. He increasingly conscious and excessively uses his innate and viable charm, evolving into a pure Don Juan.
Drama
Kärlek och störtlopp
Aug 30, 1946Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.
Comedy
Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström
Sep 01, 1923Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström goes out for a long walk with Stockholm as a goal. On the way they buy a lottery ticket and wins a lot of money.
Drama
Ödets man
Dec 08, 1924A man loses his memory after a suicide attempt and falls for his nurse. He recovers physically but does not regain his memory. He takes a new name and begins work at a mill.
Drama
Efterlyst
Feb 13, 1939A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police.
Drama
Släkten är värst
Jul 27, 1936A bachelor in Stockholm must invent a family to be able to get financial support from his aunt Anna. Everything is going well until she arrives on an unexpected visit.
Comedy
Hotell Kåkbrinken
Dec 26, 1946Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Comedy
Livet på en pinne
Sep 28, 1942
Lillebror och jag
Mar 11, 1940Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.
Lille Napoleon
May 31, 1943Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
Comedy
Kärlek och kassabrist
Aug 01, 1932Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is a member of the Embezzler's Club. Margit decides to help the senior accountant.
Comedy
Révélation par K.O.
Mar 06, 1943Remarqué par un entraîneur de boxe alors qu'il tente d'effrayer des voyous à coups de crochet, un futur prêtre monte sur le ring pour financer un centre de jeunesse.
Comedy
...som en tjuv om natten
Mar 18, 1940Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
Comedy
Dårskapens hus
Sep 21, 1951In 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
Comedy
Harald Handfaste
Dec 26, 1946Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Action
Två konungar
Nov 09, 1925The young adventurer Signature Hjelm meets one day a runaway carriage, and succeeds by a resourceful and daring intervention to avert an accident. The rig belongs to Gustav III's favorite, Baron Armfelt, and as a reward for his feat will Ture service of the king's guard. Conspirators trying maple certainly entice him over to the king's enemies, but Ture reports Gustaf receiving a grim and determined expression on his face: "Spies even here!" His confidence Signature increases.
Drama
Fänrik Ståls sägner
Nov 01, 1926Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
War
Fiancée à louer
Aug 28, 1950Une jeune secrétaire qui vient d'apprendre que son patron, un avocat véreux, vient d'être arrêté, décide de convertir le cabinet en agence de services en tout genre. Entre les premières missions de promeneurs de chiens, de lecteur de livres coquins pour vieilles dames libres d'esprit et de nounous pour enfants gâtés, la jeune directrice doit faire face à une nouvelle demande étonnante de la part d'un jeune homme qui cherche à louer une fiancée...
Comedy
Det går som en dans...
Sep 15, 1943Short comedy about an author named Viktor Mattson (Nils Poppe) whose publisher tells him that his latest book is bad. To make money, Mattson becomes a door salesman for the publisher and goes to Nyköping to sell books. After a few ifs and buts, Mattson meets Ingrid Bergsjö (Britta Brunius) whom he falls in love with.
Comedy
Simon i Backabo
Oct 22, 1934Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Comedy
Rattens musketörer
Oct 29, 1945Three cab drivers win a big sum of money and try to adjust to their new lifestyles.
Comedy
Gevalia: Byta varor
Nov 25, 1938The director of a department store sits in his office, when the telephones start ringing. Customers are complaining about various products, which they want to replace by something better. Then a string of shop assistants approach him with similar complaints from customers in the store. The director becomes increasingly stressed. He starts to mix up words in his replies, so they come in a wrong order, thereby causing a comic effect. He also makes deliberate jokes in some of his comments. At last one of his assistants arrives with a cup of Gevalia coffee. The director brightens, and says that this at least is a product which no one wants to replace by something else.
Comedy
Augustas lilla felsteg
Jan 29, 1933Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
Comedy
Augustas lilla felsteg
Jan 29, 1933Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
Comedy
Fattiga riddare
Dec 26, 1944Marianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two older gentlemen decide to help her avoid the dangers of the city.
Comedy
Fattiga riddare
Dec 26, 1944Marianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two older gentlemen decide to help her avoid the dangers of the city.
Comedy
Påhittiga Johansson
Sep 04, 1950Handyman "Inventive Johansson" from the popular swedish comics is now live in his own movie and can handle an oil can and a screwdriver as inventive as brushes and eggs.
Comedy
