Gösta Ekman
Hans Gösta Gustav Ekman, also known as Gösta Ekman the Younger, born July 28, 1939 in Stockholm, died April 1, 2017 in the same city, was a Swedish actor and director. He was the son of the director Hasse Ekman and the artist Agneta Wrangel, as well as the grandson of the... Read full bio →
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Bergman - ett år, ett liv
Bergman: A Year in a Life focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal & Wild Strawberries), produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang
Three days of the wacky lives of an unemployed but competitive man, his son and father who thinks he has a new profession every day.
La marche de l'empereur
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills.
Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig
A story of three sisters and parenthood.
Ogifta par ...en film som skiljer sig
Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.
En på miljonen
Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbors before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But one day he is fired from his work after twenty years of loyal service.
Stockholm Marathon
The gardener decides to avenge the death of his mentally disturbed wife by killing the men he considers responsible. One of them is a pop star that takes part in a great marathon race in Stockholm.
Polismördaren
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only criminal inspector Martin Beck believe they are innocent.
Roseanna
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him.
Polis polis potatismos
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in the city of Malmö. Police inspector Martin Beck from the city of Stockholm gets the case. The suspects lead to people involved in illegal arms deals. But who was the biggest criminal, the murderer or the industrialist?
Mannen på balkongen
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the public parks of Stockholm. The police has trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin Beck believes that the robber may be an important witness.
Brandbilen som försvann
A house is under surveillance when a violent explosion occurs. Forensic investigations show that the explosion was intentional and Police Commissioner Beck is put on the case. Soon the clues lead to an international drug gang.
Jönssonligan på Mallorca
Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted.
Jönssonligan dyker upp igen
As always, Sickan has come up with a new plan. This time he wants to rob the IKEA furniture store. During their nightly break-in Sickan discovers that the store is used as a secret smuggling central for sending American computers to the Soviet Union. The computers are picked up by Soviet submarines sneaking into the Swedish archipelago.
Dödspolare
A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life.
Jönssonligan får guldfeber
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip.
P & B
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
Kalabaliken i Bender
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish Sultan to help him defeat his arch enemy, the Czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses.
Skulden
About Rune Strand a journalist, married, with children and a semi-detached house in a suburb of Stockholm. Rune is financially in trouble..
Jönssonligan & DynamitHarry
Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room.
Den enfaldige mördaren
A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.
Varn!ng för Jönssonligan
A botched burglary leads to the arrest of the Jönsson gang’s leader, Sickan. After serving ten months in prison, he is released and unexpectedly recruited by the enigmatic banker Wall-Enberg Jr. to steal the legendary Bedford Diamonds in Switzerland. Though Sickan successfully carries out the heist, he is betrayed and nearly captured.
Sällskapsresan eller Finns det svenskt kaffe på grisfesten
Antihjälten Stig-Helmer Olsson och hans vänner åker på charterresa till den fiktiva orten Nueva Estocolmo ("Nya Stockholm") på Gran Canaria. Stig-Helmer och norrmannen Ole Bramserud blir semestervänner och träffar under deras korta tid tillsammans i Gran Canaria en mängd underliga karaktärer.
Mannen som blev miljonär
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.
En kärleks sommar
The middle-aged married scientist David falls in love head over heels with the teenage girl Eva.
Picassos äventyr
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
En vandring i solen
Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
Ansikte mot ansikte
A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears.
Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår!
Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison.
Dunderklumpen!
Dunderklumpen lives all alone in a the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsommer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.
Mannen som slutade röka
The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead.
Äppelkriget
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
Duett för kannibaler
About a secretary who is subjected to a power game by his new employer, an exiled former revolutionary leader and his wife.
Yngsjömordet
In 1889 Sweden, young Per Nilsson has a very domineering mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago. Per and his mother have for a long time had an incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money. Per's mother is evilly mean to her, and Per refuses to have sex with her.
Att angöra en brygga
A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
Äktenskapsbrottaren
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Chans
16-year-old Marie has been released from a juvenile detention school. She is sent to Skåne to get as far as possible from Stockholm, where she previously lived. She is unhappy, runs away and hitchhike back to Stockholm.
Swing it, fröken
There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her.
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.