Comedy
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The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes
Alex is an inveterate loafer with dreams of being in the theatre, who takes no responsibility for himself or those closest to him, and his life is anything but under control. When his girlfriend Lisa eventually gets fed up and chucks him out onto the street, Alex is forced to look for a job in order to survive. All of a sudd...- Genre: Comedy/Drama
- Director: Lena Koppel
- Cast: Sverrir Gudnason, Vanna Rosenberg, cast from the ...
- First Release: March 18, 2011
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 35mm 1:2,35 cinemascope
- Duration: 100 min
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Simple Simon
“I’m Simon. I have Asperger’s syndrome. I like space, circles and my brother Sam who always looks after me. I dislike feelings, other people, changes and romantic comedies with Hugh Grant.” “Simple Simon” is the story of 18 year-old Simon, a boy with Asperger’s syndrome whose life is turned upside-down when his brother Sa...- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Andreas Öhman
- Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, Cecilia Forss, ...
- First Release: September 3, 2010
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 35mm 1:1,85
- Duration: approx. 90 min
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Upperdog
The half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway as young children and are separated on arrival. They grow up in opposite parts of Oslo, he in a wealthy west-side family and she in an average home on the east side, without knowing the other’s fate. Yanne remembers their arrival and keeps a picture of her little broth...- Genre: Comedy/Drama
- Director: Sara Johnsen
- Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Hermann Sabado, Bang Chau, ...
- First Release: 28 Augusti 2009
- Language: Norwegian
- Format: 35 mm
- Duration: 100 min
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Starring Maja
In a hopelessly small town somewhere in long and narrow Sweden, lives Maja, 18 years old. Her life’s dream is to become an actress. She wants to be the centre of attention, she wants everyone to see her, wants them to see the beautiful human being she is on the inside. Only it’s a little hard to see. Heavily overweight, c...- Genre: Comedy/Drama
- Director: Teresa Fabik
- Cast: Zandra Andersson, Moa Silén, Maria Lundqvist, Ana...
- First Release: Fall 2009
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1, 85
- Duration: 91 min
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Patrik, Age 1.5
No family could be happier! A perfect house in the nice suburbs, a solid relationship, a home full of love and warmth. The Skoogh-family have been approved for adoption. Patrik, age 1.5, is on his way! Goran and Sven could not ask for anything more… if it wasn’t for the little mistake someone at the adoption agency had made....- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Ella Lemhagen
- Cast: Gustaf Skarsgård, Torkel Petersson, Tom Ljun...
- First Release: September 12, 2008
- Format: 2.35:1
- Duration: 1 h 38 min
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Gone with the Woman
"That was when she started coming around more often. In the evenings, right before I turned in for the night. She would sit down and talk. Talk about how much she loved silence, and how great it was to spend time alone. Talk and talk and never stop." (Erlend Loe) Gone with the Woman is a film about a young man’s encounter wi...- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Petter Næss
- Cast: Trond Fausa Aurvag, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Pet...
- First Release: September 7, 2007
- Language: Norwegian
- Format: 1:2,35
- Duration: 92 min
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Mind the Gap
”MIND THE GAP” is a warm, loving story about alienation and friendship, pride and prejudice, about two bright girls with a promising future ahead of them. Two girls in their twenties. So different and so yet so alike. Elin, the daughter of a self-centred criminal professor and Yasmin, the daughter of a Turkish heart surgeon ...- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Helena Bergström
- Cast: Rakel Wärmländer, Nina Zanjani, Korhan Abay, Zina...
- First Release: 2007
- Format: 1.1:85
- Duration: 102 min
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Heartbreak Hotel
Whoever wrote the words for the wedding ceremony had a wicked sense of humour or an evil streak. “Till Death Us Do Part” could just as easily have been “Till You Reach 40” or “Till I reach 50”, “Till The Kids Leave Home”, “Till I Meet Somebody Else” or “Till We’ve Been Together Long Enough For Me To Discover Who You Really Ar...- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Colin Nutley
- Cast: Helena Bergström, Maria Lundqvist, Claes Månsson...
- First Release: 2006
- Format: 1:185
- Duration: 1 h 38 min
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Let's Play House
Can true love be built, just the way we’d like it? Let’s Play House, a drama comedy celebrating the ecstatic unpredictability of love, tells the story of Jonny, a road worker and contented father and husband who, during paternity leave with his half-year-old son Lucas, carefully plans to build a dream house for his family on ...- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Kjell-Åke Andersson
- Cast: Torkel Petersson Maria Bonnevie Åsa Persson Sv...
- First Release: October 31, 2003
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1,85
- Duration: 102 minutes
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Father to Be
Bosse works as a copywriter, but dreams of becoming a novelist. He takes a sabbatical to work on his writing but ends up falling in love with Lena and the result of his time off is not a book, but a baby.- Genre: Comedy
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Cast: Magnus Härenstam, Anki Lidén, Micha Gabay, Ulf Br...
- First Release: 1979
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 107 minutes