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Swedish
see all genres ›With its frequently close ties between stage and film worlds, the films of Sweden have been notable for powerful directorial sensibilities and forceful acting since the earliest days of cinema, specifically in the work of actor/director Victor Sjöström (alias Victor Seastrom). From the early-1950s onward, Ingmar Bergman helped shape the audience for international cinema worldwide, while encouraging subsequent major talents from Jan Troell to Lukas Moodysson.
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Anita
A young girl named Anita (Christina Lindberg) suffers from psychological problems and sexual promiscuity due to her troubled childhood and uncaring parents. She meets Erik (Stellan Skarsgard), a student at a local university, who tries to help her through her troubles by analyzing her past relationships. After revealing her...Start your free trial to watch
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As It Is in Heaven
Nominated for "Best Foreign Film" at the 2005 Academy Awards®, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN is the story of Daniel, a successful international conductor who returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't refuse, and nothing in the...Start your free trial to watch
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Filmmaker Michal Leszcylowski was editor for Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, THE SACRIFICE. During the time they spent together, their relationship grew into an enduring friendship. DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY is an homage, a fluid and captivating documentary that presents the brooding as well as the more...Start your free trial to watch
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Erotikon
Labeled an "insolent romp" by the Village Voice and praised for its "risqué wit and cheerful amorality" in John Wakeman's "World Film Directors," EROTIKON is quite possibly the cinematic granddaddy of all sophisticated comedies and one of the finest achievements of Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. EROTIKON surely pushed the...Start your free trial to watch
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Exposed
Lena (Christina Lindberg) is a young teen in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic party-goer Helge, Lena’s life turns upside-down when Helge takes some nude photographs of her. These photos can destroy her life and Lena must do anything to get them. Even...Start your free trial to watch
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The Freethinker
Peter Watkins' innovative biopic THE FREETHINKER explores in rich detail the life of author August Strindberg and his troubled relationship with Siri von Essen, Strindberg's first wife. Assembled over a two-year period at the Nordens Folk High School near Stockholm as part of a class that the filmmaker taught in the early...Start your free trial to watch
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The Girls
Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of "Lysistrata," Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious (even tragic) after all....Start your free trial to watch
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In Search of Dracula
Moving easily between history, myth and fiction, IN SEARCH OF DRACULA turns up a trove of vampire lore. We get a taste for Transylvanian folkways, vampire bats, Vlad the Impaler’s bloody exploits, Greek Orthodox rites and, of course, Bram Stoker’s composition of the original novel. Here too are some of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Ingeborg Holm
This heartbreaking drama traces the desperate journey of a widowed young mother who finds herself at the mercy of an apathetic social system which is all too willing to separate her from her children. The first significant work by Victor Sjöström, INGEBORG HOLM establishes the director as an artist eager to test the visual...Start your free trial to watch
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The Inheritance
The owner of a successful bistro in Stockholm suddenly faces a difficult life decision with consequences that threaten all he holds dear. Ulrich Thomsen, the star of Thomas Vinterberg's Dogma classic THE CELEBRATION, gives a heartbreaking performance as Christoffer, the son who must answer the towering call of family...Start your free trial to watch
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Light Year
The heart of the film is a sun-drenched kitchen garden: towards the street in the west are dense lilac bushes; on the northern side, a half-timbered house; a raspberry thicket serves as a border to the southern neighbour and a lush honeysuckle grows on the fence to the parkland in the east. There are out-houses, a chicken...Start your free trial to watch
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Loving Couples
For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna's controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, "The Misses von Pahlen," an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different...Start your free trial to watch
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Maid in Sweden
Country milk maid Inga (Christina Lindberg in her debut starring role) longs for a trip to Stockholm, the Swedish capital. Leaving her rural home for a weekend in the big city, Inga soon discovers her beauty gets her into a bit of trouble! Deserting her country life sensibilities for a slice of urban values, Inga’s romantic...Start your free trial to watch
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A Man There Was
Based on an epic poem by Henrik Ibsen, A MAN THERE WAS is commonly cited as the film that launched Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it tells the story of a fisherman so desperate to obtain food for his starving family that he tries to break through a British blockade, only to find...Start your free trial to watch
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Mother of Mine
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. MOTHER OF MINE, the latest from the award-winning Klaus Haro, tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of nine year old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet...Start your free trial to watch
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The Night Visitor
A powerful Gothic suspense tale of a man wrongly accused of murder who is committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While imprisoned, he makes a series of incredible escapes to methodically wreak vengeance on those responsible for putting him there.Start your free trial to watch
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No Matter What
One day Han Bing, a young girl from the countryside, decides that she has had enough. She packs her bag and takes the train to Shanghai to pursue her dream to become a pop star. She moves in with her uncle who is not at all happy with his niece getting into the competitive music industry. But Han Bing can't resist the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Outlaw and His Wife
A masterpiece of Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström's THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE is a film of remarkable psychological complexity which bore a profound influence on the work of Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer. When a mysterious stranger (played by Sjöström) is hired on at a farm by its widowed...Start your free trial to watch