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 »
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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 »
It Rains on Our Love (1946) Ingmar Bergman, Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Read More »
A Woman’s Face (1938) Gustaf Molander, Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson
When she was a child, Anna Holm burned her face. This destroyed her looks, and she has become a mean and bitter woman. Read More »