Drama
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The Scam
Reality imitates art imitating crime in this wry caper from the 1980’s. A Swedish trucker happens on a lucrative scam selling knock-off pallets. Having to explain the vast amounts of money in his bank account when he’s suspected, he hits on the greatest scam of all: art. Unfortunately for him his pictures turn out to be popu...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Jan Halldoff
- Cast: Pierre Lindstedt, Kjell Bergqvist, Svante Thuress...
- First Release: 1982
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 97 minutes
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Natures Warrior
A resistance film for children. A film that emphasizes that the salvation of the world lies in the wilderness. A young boy, Kim, is dubbed Nature´s Knight by an Indian. But while Viggo in Good People doesn´t want to grow up, Kim is not satisfied with that. He is Nature´s Warrior. He fights alone against a world that has comp...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Robin Milldoff, John Belindo, Jan Malmsjö, Mikael...
- First Release: 1997
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
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Time Has No Name
Taking its stylistic inspiration from Rembrandt, the film captures the lives of an elderly farmer couple, Teodor and Asta Svensson, who are the last of their breed. Inspired by Peter Watkin´s comment that no shot on American TV lasts longer than seven seconds, Jarl decided to make a film where no shot lasts less then seven s...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Teodor Svensson, Asta Svensson
- First Release: 1989
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
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Family Secrets
It is the fall of ‘78 in a small town in central Sweden. Tennis star Björn Borg is a national hero and nuclear power is a hot topic. There has also been some worrying news about Punks coming from England. Meanwhile, we meet the Bendricks. They are a middle class family including Bosse, Mona and their three children Ola ...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Kjell-Åke Andersson
- Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Maria Lundqvist, Erik Johansson, E...
- First Release: 2001
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.85
- Duration: 102 minutes
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The Ådalen Riots
A glimpse of the Swedish labour movement through the eyes of young Kjell who is more preoccupied with the charms of the factory director’s daughter than with the mounting tension between the striking workers and the factory’s stubborn management.- Genre: Drama
- Director: Bo Widerberg
- Cast: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund, ...
- First Release: 1969
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:2.35
- Duration: 114 minutes
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Misfits to Yuppies
This third film was never planned; it was never thought that there would be a third Misfits film. But then something happened. Kenta and his girlfriend Eva broke away from the city life, and their son Patrik turned out to be - something entirely different. A yuppie. So a third part was made, which was illuminating and proved...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Stefan Jarl, Kenneth Gustafsson Eva Blondin, Pati...
- First Release: 1993
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
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Threat/uhkkádus
In early May 1986, Jarl and his crew traveled to Lapland to scout locations for Good People, his fiction debut. Following on the heels of th Chernobyl disaster, Jarl temporarily abandoned his fictional film in favor of filming the effects of the radioactive fallout on the Lapp people. The original title, Uhkkáus, in Lapp mea...- Genre: Drama
- Cast: Lars Jon Allas, Lillemor Baer, Johannes Svonni
- First Release: 1987
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 72 minutes
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The Serpent´s Way
A widow and her two children lead wretched lives as tenant farmers in the north of Sweden during the 19th century. To pay their debts to the landlord, the woman and her daughter are reduced to prostitution.- Genre: Drama
- Director: Bo Widerberg
- Cast: Stina Ekblad, Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August,...
- First Release: 1986
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.66
- Duration: 112 minutes
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They Call Us Misfits
It is a hard kick from the bottom up. A film where the very parliament of the street smashes the display window of the welfare state. A film about the rebels Kenta and Stoffe, to all apperances happy and carefree. They chase girls, drink and smoke hash. And they amuse themselves by making fun of the white-collar workers on t...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Stefan Jarl, Jan Lindqvist
- Cast: Kenneth Gustavsson, Christer Svensson
- First Release: 1968
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.33 black & white
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The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls
The Queen of Sheba is a glittering slice of magical realism, a meditation on the cycle of life and the mysteries of eternal recurrence Set in the heady post-war England of the 1950s, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Jack following the haunting death of his beloved mother Emily in the War. On the day of Jack’s 16th B...- Genre: Drama
- Director: Colin Nutley
- Cast: Eileen Atkins, Helena Bergström, Tim Dutton,...
- First Release: December 25, 2004
- Language: English
- Format: Cinemascope
- Duration: 132 minutes