Sweden

  • Olle Hellbom – Raggare! (1959)

    Olle Hellbom1951-1960ClassicsDramaSweden
    Raggare! (1959)
    Raggare! (1959)

    Young greasers, known as “raggare” in Sweden, gather at a café outside of Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser. He kidnaps his own girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse.Read More »

  • Göran Olsson – That Summer (2017)

    Göran Olsson2011-2020DocumentarySweden
    That Summer (2017)
    That Summer (2017)

    The art scene of the New York of the 70’s captured through unpublished scenes of the filming of the classic documentary “Grey Gardens” with Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas or Truman Capote.

    The summer of 1972, Lee Radziwill, the little sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, decides to make a film with the photographer Peter Beard about her childhood in Long Island. When Albert and David Maysles join the team, soon the film goes on to focus on Radziwill’s cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith Ewing Bouvier.Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Young Playthings (1972)

    Joseph W. Sarno1971-1980EroticaSweden

    Gunilla and her friend Nora move in together.They are planning a threesome with Nora’s boyfriend. Downstairs lives Britt.She is renovating antique toys.Read More »

  • Mauritz Stiller – Herr Arnes pengar aka Sir Arne’s Treasure (1919)

    Mauritz Stiller1911-1920Scandinavian Silent CinemaSilentSweden
    Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
    Herr Arnes pengar (1919)

    In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar’s family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen in ice.Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Någon att älska AKA The Seduction of Inga (1971)

    Joseph W. Sarno1971-1980DramaEroticaSweden

    971 Swedish erotica from Sarno starring the lovely Marie Liljedahl. Sequel to Inga (1968).

    This is the Grindhouse cut.

    After her boyfriend leaves her alone and penniless, Inga can only long for the love of another man devoted to satisfying her body and soul. Rolf, a young pop singer and musician, tries his best to seduce her, but she ultimately falls for Stig – a dashing older man and writer. Stig owns a beautiful villa, and Inga gladly becomes his personal secretary – and lover. When business takes Stig away, Inga’s loneliness and unfulfilled sensual desires lead her straight into the arms and bed of Rolf. Inga’s life is further complicated by the arrival of the young and beautiful Greta Tillstrom (Inger Sundh) who admits to an on-going affair with Stig and professes a blossoming attraction for Inga herself. As passions surge and forbidden lust is embraced, Inga will be forced to confront a shocking secret and reconcile an aching heart with a tireless young body that can’t say no.Read More »

  • Ruben Östlund – De ofrivilliga AKA Involuntary (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaRuben ÖstlundSweden

    PLOT: In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.Read More »

  • Alf Sjöberg – Fröken Julie AKA Miss Julie (1951)

    Alf Sjöberg1951-1960ArthouseDramaSweden

    Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg’s renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage’s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman’s daughter (Anita Björk, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father’s bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Sjöberg’s film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.Read More »

  • Jack Ersgard – Besökarna aka The Visitors (1988)

    1981-1990HorrorJack ErsgardMysterySweden

    STORY
    Frank and Sara moves into their new house on the countryside and they simply love it. But soon Frank starts to hear strange sounds coming from within the house along with that he finds the door to the attic always being open, even though he keeps closing it. He contacts a ghost-hunter named Allan who comes over to check things out, and they find that there are supernaturals elements within the house, but it also gets Allan killed. With his wife not believing him, Frank has to try and find out the truth of what’s inside the house and its attic by himself.Read More »

  • Alf Sjöberg – Himlaspelet AKA The Road To Heaven (1942)

    1941-1950Alf SjöbergDramaSweden

    Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.Read More »

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