On a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sweden
A Handful of Love / En handfull kärlek (1974) Vilgot Sjöman
Set in 1909: A working-class girl is refused marriage by her politically committed boyfriend. Read More »
The Hunters / Jägarna (1996) Kjell Sundvall, Rolf Lassgård
A policeman from Stockholm comes up to Norrland in Sweden to join his brother, now that their parents are dead. Read More »
The Devil’s Plaything / Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern (1973) Joseph W. Sarno, Nadia Henkowa, Anke Syring, Ulrike Butz
Three women head home to collect their inheritance, but they stumble upon a group of witches trying to bring their vampire leader back to life. Read More »
Mouth to Mouth (2005) Mun mot mun
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home Read More »
Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf (1968) Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman’s only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. Read More »
Farlig frihet / No Time for Shame (1954) Arne Ragneborn, Maj-Britt Lindholm, Carl-Olof Alm
A young man escapes from a detention center. He is committing several new crimes. Read More »
Stimulantia (1967) Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Harriet Andersson
8 episodes, ranging from experimental to documentary to conventional narrative cinema Read More »
The Investigator / A nyomozó (2008) Attila Gigor, Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó
Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition Read More »
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia / Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004) Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict Read More »