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Ett dockhem
1

Ett dockhem

Jan 01, 1956
August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
Drama
När kärleken kom till byn
1
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
Drama
Brödernas kvinna
5

Brödernas kvinna

Nov 22, 1943
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Romance
Kejsarn av Portugallien
6.3
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Drama
I brist på bevis
4

I brist på bevis

Jan 12, 1943
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
Drama
Vi på Väddö
4

Vi på Väddö

Oct 13, 1958
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Drama
Älskling på vågen
5

Älskling på vågen

Jul 22, 1955
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Kajan går till sjöss
4
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Family
Elle n'a dansé qu'un seul été
6.5
Deux jeunes gens, Goran et Kerstin, s'éprennent l'un de l'autre lors de vacances d'été à la campagne. Leur amour se heurte à une partie du village aux mœurs puritaines, notamment à un pasteur rigoriste, celui-là même qui interdit à la jeunesse du village la répétition d'une pièce.
Drama
När seklet var ungt
5

När seklet var ungt

Dec 26, 1944
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Den glade skräddaren
4

Den glade skräddaren

Dec 26, 1945
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
Comedy
Rospiggar
5

Rospiggar

Sep 03, 1942
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Comedy
Hennes lilla Majestät
5
Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?
Comedy
Herr Arnes penningar
6

Herr Arnes penningar

Dec 16, 1954
Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Drama
Vårat gäng
5

Vårat gäng

Feb 02, 1942
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Comedy
Maria på Kvarngården
5
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
Drama
Livet i finnskogarna
3

Livet i finnskogarna

Aug 22, 1947
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Drama
Lars Hård
4

Lars Hård

Aug 30, 1948
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Drama
Den store amatören
1

Den store amatören

Jun 22, 1958
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
Comedy
Spökreportern
4

Spökreportern

Aug 09, 1941
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Comedy
Smeder på luffen
1

Smeder på luffen

Feb 07, 1949
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Drama
Havets son
1

Havets son

Oct 12, 1949
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.
Drama
Chevauchée nocturne
5.4

Chevauchée nocturne

Nov 24, 1942
Un fermier refuse de payer des taxes, déclenchant l'insurrection de paysans opprimés par les propriétaires terriens dans cette adaptation du roman de Vilhelm Moberg.
History
I dag börjar livet
4

I dag börjar livet

Aug 15, 1939
Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Comedy
Prins Gustaf
1

Prins Gustaf

Nov 29, 1944
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
Drama
Karusellen i fjällen
3

Karusellen i fjällen

Mar 15, 1955
The porter of the hotel is trying to keep his sanity when two guests who share both looks and name check in. He's also unaware that his new bell boy is actually the owner's daughter in disguise.
Comedy
Mot nya tider
1

Mot nya tider

Nov 06, 1939
A 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
Hotell Kåkbrinken
1

Hotell Kåkbrinken

Dec 26, 1946
Laban 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
Oväder
5.8

Oväder

Jan 22, 1960
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
Drama
Järnets män
1

Järnets män

Sep 18, 1935
A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.
Drama
Kärlek
1

Kärlek

Dec 22, 1952
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
Drama
Dollar
4.5

Dollar

Sep 05, 1938
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
Comedy
Sven Tusan
1

Sven Tusan

Feb 12, 1949
Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
Drama
Begär
1

Begär

Sep 02, 1946
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease.
Drama
Mot framtiden
1

Mot framtiden

Aug 01, 1952
A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.
Drama
Kloka gubben
1

Kloka gubben

Oct 30, 1938
In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.
Drama
Jagad
1

Jagad

Aug 27, 1945
A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.
Drama
Kulla-Gulla
1

Kulla-Gulla

Aug 27, 1956
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Family
Min syster och jag
5

Min syster och jag

Jan 26, 1950
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Comedy
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
6

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

Oct 29, 1949
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Drama
Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen
7
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
Drama
Kanske en gentleman
5

Kanske en gentleman

Aug 24, 1935
Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.
Comedy
Guldgrävarna
1

Guldgrävarna

Jan 26, 1959
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Comedy
Bodakungen
5.5

Bodakungen

Nov 01, 1920
It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.
Drama
Tattarblod
1

Tattarblod

Feb 08, 1954
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
Drama
Johan på Snippen
1

Johan på Snippen

Nov 12, 1956
In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
Comedy
Hård klang
4.3

Hård klang

Sep 15, 1952
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Drama
Lille Napoleon
1

Lille Napoleon

May 31, 1943
Office 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
Johan Ulfstjerna
5

Johan Ulfstjerna

Dec 02, 1923
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Drama
Ingmarsarvet
7.2

Ingmarsarvet

Dec 26, 1925
Lorsque ses ancêtres semblent apparaître dans les nuages lors d’une tempête aux proportions bibliques, le jeune Ingmar décide d’abandonner sa carrière d’enseignant du village et de récupérer les terres et la ferme de ses pères. La même nuit d’orage, le charismatique prédicateur Helgum arrive dans le village pour faire connaître les promesses de la Terre Sainte, qui montent les parents et les enfants, les hommes et les femmes, les frères et les sœurs, les uns contre les autres. Ingmar est déchiré entre son amour pour Gertrud, la fille du directeur, qui est sous le charme du prédicateur, et la perspective d’épouser Barbro, la fille du juge, afin de garder la ferme.
Drama
Vi två
4

Vi två

Mar 16, 1939
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.
Drama
Rallare
1

Rallare

Dec 26, 1947
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Drama
Les Sept Orphelins
5.4

Les Sept Orphelins

Sep 18, 1945
Inspiré d'un conte traditionnel, ce film retrace l'épopée à travers les montagnes de sept frères et sœurs orphelins en quête d'une nouvelle famille, et de leur chèvre.
Family