Films in the Swedish language
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Certification18 Our Rating
Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire crew. But when an apparently routine call takes them to a rundown apartment block the easy going banter is soon lost. Police officers have already arrived at the scene in response to reports of screaming from one of the flats, what they discover is an initially unknown infection that is not only killing the residents but sending them into a murderous psychosis before they die. As if t find out more...
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SARABAND (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A sequel to 1973's award-winning Scenes From A Marriage, Bergman again follows the relationship between Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson), who meet again, after thirty years without contact, when she decides to visit him at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating

While traveling in caravan through the country of Sweden, one member of the decadent Alberti Circus tells the owner and ringmaster Albert Johansson a sad story about the clown Frost: seven years ago, his wife Alma was surprised by him bathing naked in a lake with a regiment. When the circus arrives in the town where Albert's wife Agda and sons live, he decides to pay a vis find out more...

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Certification15 Our Rating
Pared down from a 295 minute mini-series, 'Scenes From A Marriage' tells the story of Marianne and the doubt, despair, confusion and loneliness experienced when she learns that her fickle husband is having an affair. A superb, stark study find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating
Elin is the most popular girl in school, pretty and charming she is a world away from Agnes, the class nerd who's as appreciated as spots by her fellow pupils. But one night the two girls strike up conversation and their lives change for ever. Show Me Love is a delightful and perceptive comedy about the joys and agonies of first love and the struggle for individuality. find out more...
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CertificationPG Our Rating
Desiree, an actress, and her ageing mother are giving a party. Two of the invited guests, Count Malcolm and Fredrik Egerman, a middle-aged lawyer, are romantically involved with Desiree, a cause for murderous jealousy between them. Meanwhile, Egerman's youthful wife, Anne, who has thus far repulsed all sexual advances on her husband's part, is showing a considerable interest in her stepson. During the course of the evening, various alliances are formed and dissolved, partners are switched, libid find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating
An immigrant is violently attacked on the streets, a clerk is degraded before being summarily sacked and a magician's act goes unpleasantly awry. The new millennium is here, but instead of creating an electronic shutdown it's causing a mental melt down and in the midst of this anarchy stands Karl, a man who has just realised the insanity of humanity. "Songs From The Second Floor" is a superbly original black comedy and was winner of the jury prize at Cannes 2000. find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating

While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm, where she recalls her first love Henrik. Thirteen years ago, while traveling to spend her summer vacation with her aunt Elisabeth and her uncle Erland, Marie meets Henrik in th find out more...

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CertificationPG Our Rating
Monika is a reckless free spirit when she meets Harry, together they spark immediately and their relationship swiftly blossoms into fully consummated love. An idyllic summer spent cruising the rivers on a boat is brought to a harsh conclusion when Monika discovers she is pregnant. Agreeing to marry the couple settle down to bring up their child, but what should have been a distant but warmly remembered first love deteriorates into a world of domestic drudgery and Monica reaches breaking point wh find out more...
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CertificationPG Our Rating
Written by Ingmar Bergman, and relating the fiercely opposed courtship and marriage of his own parents. Opening in the strike-hit Sweden of 1909, with the penniless young Henrik falling for upper-class Anna, and spanning ten years until the imminent arrival of Bergman himself. Weighty and wordy. find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating
Computer hacker and all-round ‘can do’ lady Salander disappears after being framed for the murder of two researchers during an expose of the Swedish sex trade. Convinced that Salander is the victim of a set-up her friend Blomkvist sets out to investigate and clear her name, but he soon uncovers a grim conspiracy and some ugly truths that lead him unnervingly close to home.
The second instalment of the trilogy of films based on the bestselling Millennium novels by Stieg Larsson is not as find out more...
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Certification18 Our Rating

'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' (skillfully adapted from the book of the same name) is a modest but thoroughly engaging thriller. Set in a gloomy modern Sweden, the atmosphere is tense, the characters authentic, whilst the mood is sombre and slightly dreamlike. Don't be fooled though, this is a psychologically brutal film addressing themes such as incest, sadism and violence, particularly against women.
Although the inevitable twist dosn't quite think outside the box, it's an exhilar find out more...

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Certification15 Our Rating

Despite having reached his 100th birthday, Allan Karlsson still has a sharp mind. Keen to avoid the party that his retirement home have organised for him, Allan climbs out of his bedroom window and begins an escapade that reflects on the pervious adventures of his epic life. Based on Jonas Jonasson's bestselling novel.

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Certification15 Our Rating

When a young woman and her parents are murdered, the detective in charge of the case consults with a famous psychiatrist in an attempt to understand why the killer targeted the whole family, with only the son managing to escape. As the psychiatrist reveals his unconventional methods of hypnotism he places the comatose son into a trance in the hopes find out more...

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Certification15 Our Rating
Set in the 1920s at the Swedish film studios where the great silent film director Victor Sjöström is finishing shooting 'The Phantom Carriage' and has invited author Selma Lagerlöf, actress Tora Teje and film photographer Julius Jaenzon to view the rushes. But, when both actress and writer claim to know the story and the characters best, a psychological battle arises which threatens to destabilise the whole project. find out more...
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Certification18 Our Rating
12-year-old Sophie can't wait to grow-up, gushing to her mates about future sex, duly getting drunk at a party, passing out and getting uncompromisingly photographed. Now known as the school whore she finds herself virtually friendless and seriously down the school-pecking order. Although the film is a little histrionic at times, and the characters underdeveloped, there is an acute understanding of some of the social problems that children have to cope with, like who they sit next to at lunch an find out more...
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CertificationPG Our Rating
The enigmatic Dr Vogler is a charlatan magician, on the run from debts and charges of blasphemy, who runs "Vogler's Magnetic Health Theatre". When his travelling show arrives in town, the police commissioner, a civil servant and, especially, the cynical rationalist Dr Vergerus conspire to put his supernatural powers to the test and expose him as the fraud that he is. Mocked and enraged by his hosts Dr Vogler enacts the ultimate revenge during the grand finale of his ‘performance sensation'. Sens find out more...
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Certification15 Our Rating unrated

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.

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THE OX (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Nykvist, so long Bergman's cameraman, here makes a passionate and touching directorial debut. Set during the Swedish famine of the 1860's, a young couple are forced to slaughter their bosses ox, so as to eat. However, the consequences of their actions are far-reaching and split the community. find out more...
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THE RITE (1969)
Certification15 Our Rating

A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's wife. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently find out more...