Young Kerstin Norbäck lives in a small town. She has a relationship with a sailor, but when she tries to leave him, he shoots her. Read More »
Tag Archives: swedish
The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Drama, History
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America Read More »
Sommarens tolv månader / The Twelve Months of Summer (1988) Richard Hobert, Hans Mosesson, Bergljót Arnadóttir, Victoria Möllerström-Hjelm, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Roger and Lars are family men who live a life as a traveling construction workers on large sites worldwide. Read More »
Thriller A Cruel Picture (1973) Bo Arne Vibenius, Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius, Solveig Andersson, Action, Horror, Thriller, Erotic
A young woman, muted after a sexual assault , is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute. Read More »
Tystnaden / The Silence (1963) Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
“The Silence” is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. Read More »
Exponerad / Exposed / The Depraved (1971) Gustav Wiklund, Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Björn Adelly, Drama, Thriller, Erotic
Lena is alone in the city when her parents are on vacation. She’s torn between her innocent boyfriend and the older, more experienced, and sadistic sociopath Helge. Read More »
Man from Majorca (1984)
In Stockholm, on St. Lucy’s feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Read More »
Between Two Fires (2010) Agnieszka Lukasiak, Magdalena Poplawska, Simon Kassianides, Kamila Nowysz, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. Read More »
Tic Tac (1997) Daniel Alfredson, Oliver Loftéen, Tuva Novotny, Jacob Nordenson, Drama, Thriller
The lives of various Swedes intersect in this drama, which takes place over the course of one day and night. As despondent schoolboy Micke (Oliver Lofteen) plans to set his school on fire, young thugs Jorma (Mats Helin) and Lasse (Emil Forselius) while their time away at a bar. Read More »
Mig äger ingen / Nobody owns me (2013) Kjell-Åke Andersson, Mikael Persbrandt, Hanna Alström, Ida Engvoll, Drama
The story about 5-year-old Lisa’s unconditional love for her alcoholic father. There is also a depiction of Sweden in the 70’s and working class fading ideals. The mother leaves the family and Lisa struggling to maintain the image of the hero father. In the end, Lisa is facing a life-changing choice. Based on true events.
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