Mia, who’s living in Stockholm, comes home to her small childhood town to celebrate her father’s birthday. Read More »
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Come on Roland! AKA Heja Roland! (1966) Bo Widerberg, Thommy Berggren, Mona Malm, Ulf Palme
Young Roland wants to write. In desperate need of money, he takes job at an advertising agency. Read More »
Jerusalem (1996) Bille August, Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. Read More »
Aniara (1960) Arne Arnbom, Margareta Hallin, Elisabeth Söderström, Erik Sædén
Aniara is one of the spaceships used for transporting Earth’s population to their new home-planet Mars. Read More »
The Man Who Quit Smoking AKA Mannen som slutade röka (1972) Tage Danielsson, Gösta Ekman, Grynet Molvig, Toivo Pawlo
Young Dante Alighieri inherits 17 million from his father the sausage maker on one condition – he has to give up smoking in 14 days. Read More »
The Adventures of Picasso AKA Picassos äventyr (1978) Tage Danielsson, Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. Read More »
Flocking (2015) Beata Gårdeler, Fatime Azemi, John Risto, Eva Melander
A small Swedish community which seems idyllic on the surface. But when 15-year-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by a schoolmate, everything changes. Read More »
Two People (1945) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Georg Rydeberg, Wanda Rothgardt, Gabriel Alw
When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell ends the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm Read More »
The Trap (1975) Peter Watkins, Karl Lennart Sandquist, Bo Melander, Anita Kronevi
Set in the underground living quarters of a scientist working at an international nuclear waste station near the west coast of Sweden. Read More »
A Frozen Dream (1997) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Samuel Fröler, Rolf Lassgård
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée (1897) which Troell had dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982). Read More »
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft Read More »
The Devil’s Eye (1960) Ingmar Bergman, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Järrel
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar’s daughter. Read More »
You’re Lying! (1969) Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt, Stig Engström, Sif Ruud
The film is a portrayal of the Swedish Prison Service, told by an inmate Lasse and art teacher Björn, who will do anything to help him. Read More »
Vaxdockan (1962) Arne Mattsson, Per Oscarsson, Gio Petré, Tor Isedal
A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store’s mannequins. Read More »
A Song for Martin (2001) Bille August, Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson
Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. Read More »