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Lukas Moodysson
Writer 57 years old

Lukas Moodysson

Lund, Skåne County, Sweden

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson (born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish author and film director. First appearing in public as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big public, and international, breakthrough directing the 1998 romance film Show Me Love. He has since directed a... Read full bio →

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Tillsammans 99

Tillsammans 99

Lukas Moodysson 2023 1h 55m

A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends.

Vi är bäst!

Vi är bäst!

Lukas Moodysson 2013 1h 42m 6.0

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

Mammoth

Mammoth

Lukas Moodysson 2009 2h 5m 6.5

While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.

Container

Container

Lukas Moodysson 2006 1h 12m 8.0

Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."

Ett hål i mitt hjärta

Ett hål i mitt hjärta

Lukas Moodysson 2004 1h 38m 5.7

In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.

Lilja 4-ever

Lilja 4-ever

Lukas Moodysson 2002 1h 49m 8.2

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Tillsammans

Tillsammans

Lukas Moodysson 2000 1h 46m 8.0

Elisabeths husband is on the verge of leaving after she and her son move into the alternative hippie apartment of her brother. She learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives in this important comedy film from Swedish director Moodysson.

Fucking Åmål

Fucking Åmål

Lukas Moodysson 1998 1h 29m 8.6

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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