Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the...

A young medical student falls in love with her professor. To pay for her studies, she works extra nights and performs as a popular singer at a dance...

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.

The bank employee Bertil falls in love with Margot. He does not know she is the bank director's daughter.

"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the...

A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic...

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the...

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she...

When Halfdan’s old flame, Karina, comes to town, the reaction of his jealous wife Märthe begins to concern him. But Halfdan has no clue...

Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she...

Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife,...

The famous lawyer Juhani Leno lives in a gloomy castle far into the dark forests. As a son of a fool and an anonymous gentleman he had a bleak...

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its...

Eva Cullberg (Annalisa Ericson) wants to sing in a cabaret the local military company are arranging. But her mother (Tollie Zellman) and father...

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters,...

A guest house in Stockholm. A group of music students hang out. Everyone is supposed to contribute with a composition. The comrades try to force Inga...

Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory....