Drama
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Raven´s End
Young Anders dreams of becoming a writer but is trapped in a squalid working class neighbourhood with his unemployed alcoholic father, laundress mother and pregnant girlfriend. Drowning in his family’s misery, Anders flees, leaving everything and everyone behind...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Bo Widerberg
- Cast: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm, Christina...
- First Release: 1963
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 100 minutes
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Music for Weddings and Funerals
In a Europe spilling across new borders nothing can be hidden, nothing can be covered up. Walled up in the sterile modernism of her architect ex-husband’s immaculately designed mansion, bereaved writer Sara struggles to come to terms with divorce and the harrowing death of her only child. With the success of her latest aut...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Unni Straume
- Cast: Lena Endre, Bjørn Floberg, Rebecca Hemse, Goran B...
- First Release: 2002
- Language: Norwegian
- Format: 1:2,35 DigitalScope
- Duration: 97 minutes
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Expectations
It’s the story of a man who wanted to commit suicide, a farmer who shelters a young couple from eastern Europe, a gentle gigolo who finally finds love and a little girl whose dad is always very busy. A slice of life, a kaleidoscope of themes and characters, a portrait of modern society.- Genre: Drama
- Director: Daniel Bergman
- Cast: Lena Endre, Hans Klinga, Gunnel Lindblom, Anki Li...
- First Release: 1997
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 95 minutes
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Decent Life, A
Ten years have passed. And what you suspected at the end of They Call Us Misfits has become reality: Stoffe didn´t make it; during the shooting of the film he takes his final overdose of heroin. It was a hard blow for Stefan Jarl, who was making this film primarily to try to save Stoffe´s life. If They Call Us Misfits was a ...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Kenneth Gustafsson, Eva Blondin, Patric Gustafsso...
- First Release: 1979
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
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Nature´s Revenge
This film is Stefan Jarl´s most uncompromising contribution to environmental issues. It depicts mankind´s self-assumed role as groundskeeper. It´s about what man is doing with nature, and what nature is doing with us. Nature´s Revenge shows no mercy. Nature´s Revenge is also a very personal film to Jarl as he intercuts short...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Nils Nilsson, Kjell-Åke Persson, Gun Persson
- First Release: 1983
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 76 minutes
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Black Jack
Like many other people in her small town, Inger’s social life revolves around Saturday nights at the dance hall, swinging to the music of the local dance band, Blackjack. Every weekend brings its usual round of flirting and dancing, love and betrayal ...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Colin Nutley
- Cast: Helena Bergström, Jan Mybrand, Johannes Brost
- First Release: 1990
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 111 minutes
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Gossip
An actor without a part is like a bird without wings. In a business still driven by men we look into the hopes and fears, the emotion and insecurity of ten actresses during one day of their life –they are loving but competitive. On this day one of them expects to be given the part of Queen Christina in an American remake of ...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Colin Nutley
- Cast: Pernilla August, Helena Bergström, Stina Ekblad, ...
- First Release: 2000
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.85
- Duration: 134 minutes
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The Pram
A pregnant working class girl hesitates between the father of her child, a plumber who dreams of being a rock star, and a young man from a middle class background.- Genre: Drama
- Director: Bo Widerberg
- Cast: Inger Taube, Thommy Berggren, Lars Passgård, Ulla...
- First Release: 1963
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 95 minutes
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Where the Rainbow Ends
Mikael has been preoccupied with his life’s work: a bold and grandiose musical drama, which has unfortunately brought him and his family into an acute financial crisis. When they are brutally forced to abandon their home, his wife decides to contact his former best friend and manager – turning the financial crisis into a hu...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Richard Hobert
- Cast: Göran Stangertz, Camilla Lundén, Pernilla August,...
- First Release: 1999
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.85
- Duration: 111 minutes
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491
Cast almost entirely with amateurs, 491 is an extremely realistic story of six young boys who belong in prison. Instead, they live in a derelict old house in central Stockholm under the supervision of a social worker.- Genre: Drama
- Director: Vilgot Sjöman
- Cast: Lars Lind, Leif Nymark, Stig Törnblom, Lars Hanso...
- First Release: 1964
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.33
- Duration: 101 minutes