Per Oscarsson
Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 – 31 December 2010) was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film Hunger, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Per Oscarsson, licensed... Read full bio →
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Luftslottet som sprängdes
The final movie covering Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy ties all the pieces together and explains the deeper reasons for Lisbeth Salanders unreasonable treatment by society.
Flickan som lekte med elden
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a journalist and a young female hacker.
Manden bag døren
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness.
Herr von Hancken
Life has not been fair to the egocentric Captain von Hancken. Together with his family, he goes to the Iglinge health well to get relief from his ailments.
Den sidste viking
The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population.
Harry & Sonja
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.
Ti kniver i hjertet
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60s Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Änglagård
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
Fasadklättraren
Phillip, an 18 year old boy knows only one thing. How to climb...
Nattseilere
The body of a 14 year old girl is washed ashore on the island Senja. This is the mini-series version of the movie Nattseilere (1986)
Ronja Rövardotter
Born on a stormy night Ronja begins her life as the heir to the leader of a gang of thieves deep in the Swedish woods. There is a lot of things to beware of in the forest not least other gangs. But as it turns out they are not all bad.
Nattseilere
On the island of Senja in Northern Norway in 1877, Båremor, a 14-year-old girl is washed ashore almost dead. No-one knows her and she remembers nothing of her past. A poor family of fishermen take care of her, but she never feels at home among these coastal people. Soon she meets infamous Bårr.
Hud
In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.
Ronja Rövardotter
Ronja, since 1984 Ronja Rövardotter has been known as a classic children’s film. A Swedish film base on a book by Astrid Lindgren.
Montenegro
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing.
Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?
En stenrik arab vill lägga en stororder på 1.000 svenska motorbåtar. Dock lider han av beslutsångest, och utlyser en tävling mellan två båtar genom Göta Kanal. Den båt som kommer först till Göteborg får kontraktet, en vansinnig jakt genom Göta Kanal påbörjas.
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.
Chez Nous
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
Uppdraget
A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.
Dagny
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress.
Bröderna Lejonhjärta
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.
Traumstadt
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
The Blockhouse
During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
Nybyggarna
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
Endless Night
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride.
The Night Visitor
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
The Last Valley
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
Miss and Mrs Sweden
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.
An-Magritt
In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.
Vindingevals
When a clan of gypsies arrive in the village of Vindinge plenty of action arise. Drinking, love making and summer nonsense under the scorching sun.
Ole dole doff
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Doktor Glas
Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.
A Dandy in Aspic
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Syskonbädd 1782
Jacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken between them.
Svält
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
Myten
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.
Här har du ditt liv
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Fröken April
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
Karin Månsdotter
The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karin's rise and fall. The rest is normal B&W movie. Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden.
Vi tre debutera
Three debuting poets, Lo, Ludvig and Lillebror merge when a collection of poems with their works is published. But the trio's time together is short. Love gets in the way.
Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was chosen to take his place.
Kristin kommenderar
Marianne and Harald are busy with their jobs and three children. They are lucky to find a mysterious house maid to employ who have her own reasons for helping them.
Den allvarsamma leken
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Örnungar
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.