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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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish...Watch Movie
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Hamsun
In this epic story of love and treason, screen legend Max von Sydow (THE EXORCIST, MINORITY REPORT, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, THE SEVENTH SEAL) gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate. Hamsun is his country’s most beloved writer. But with the shadow...Watch Movie
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Sebastian
Sebastian is a typical teenager. He hangs out with this friends, goes to the movies, buys hip clothes and attends school. Typical, that is, until a chance stolen kiss changes everything. Sebastian is just figuring out what almost everyone else around him already knows, he is gay. The kiss is...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
In this last installment of Steig Larsson's "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers,...Watch Movie
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The Last Sentence
Academy Award®-nominated director Jan Troell, one of Sweden's most acclaimed filmmakers, directs the biopic THE LAST SENTENCE. Set against the backdrop of WWII, THE LAST SENTENCE is based on the life of crusading journalist Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of one of Sweden's...Watch Movie
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon....Watch Movie
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside...Watch Movie
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
Here she comes, right from the pages of the best selling book! The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to...Watch Movie
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Concerning Violence
From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched...Watch Movie
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The Inheritance
Ulrich Thomsen (of the festival hit CELEBRATION) stars in this absorbing, Dogma-like look at family loyalties, personal responsibility and class distinctions, made under the mantle of Zentropa Entertainments, Lars von Trier's production company. Thomsen is Christoffer, a Dane living abroad in...Watch Movie
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Terror of Frankenstein
Two years after directing an unusual documentary investigation into the vampire legend, monster maven Calvin Floyd tried his hand at traditional adaptation with the Frankenstein story. While TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN lacks IN SEARCH OF DRACULA’s secondary interpretations, Floyd's...Watch Movie
