Erik Nordgren

A tenacious lover and his reticent boyfriend are forced to push the limits of their long distance relationship.

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.

A flute playing. A couple enters a floor with large round spots of light, similar to the large round skylights available at Filmhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a short golden dress. He has a long black cape. Both are wearing masks. More instruments make up the music and now a blazing flame dances instead and we see the woman's face, in extreme close-up. The man caressing her gently. A match burns and fades out. More close-ups of the young woman. Two matches meet and flares up. Later we see the man and the woman again, it is outdoors, the city's water. They look tired and bored, as if the low born during the dance now have relentlessly extinguished. Premiered as a short prelude to Ingmar Bergman's "Persona".

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.

Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by famous Swedish author Eyvind Johnson.

Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.

O pretensioso crítico Cornelius está a escrever uma biografia sobre um violoncelista famoso e para fazer essa pesquisa, ele fica na casa do violoncelista por alguns dias. Ele não consegue uma entrevista com o homem, mas falando com todas as mulheres que moram com ele, aprende muito sobre a vida privada do músico. Cornelius então decide usar essa informação e tenta chantagear o violoncelista para que faça uma composição que ele, Cornelius, escreveu.

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?

Harriet Andersson é a frágil Karin. Afetada por crises de loucura, ela entra em conflito com seus familiares durante as férias de verão numa ilha remota. Um drama psicológico intenso em que Bergman disseca o processo de degradação de uma família.

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...

O Diabo fica intrigado com um terçol que subitamente aparece em seu olho. Seus conselheiros mais capazes informam que o motivo da moléstia é uma jovem que se casará virgem, dando uma vitória sem precedentes ao Céu e trazendo vergonha ao Inferno. O Diabo ainda tem alguns dias para tentar contornar o problema, e usará a arma secreta que tem nas mãos, Don Juan, que será mandado de volta à vida para tentar seduzir a jovem.

Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.

Cristãos fervorosos, os pais de uma menina de 15 anos a encarregam de levar velas à igreja do vilarejo. No caminho, abordada por dois pastores, a menina é estuprada e morta. Por ironia, ao cair da noite, seus assassinos vão buscar abrigo na casa de seus pais que, ao descobrirem o triste destino da filha, só pensam em vingança.

While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

O rabugento médico aposentado Isak Borg viaja de Estocolmo para Lund, na Suécia, com sua nora grávida e infeliz, Marianne, para receber um diploma honorário da universidade onde estudou. Ao longo do caminho, eles cruzam com uma série de caroneiros, cada um deles fazendo com que o médico idoso reflita sobre os prazeres e as falhas de sua própria vida, incluindo a vivaz jovem Sara, que se parece muito com o próprio primeiro amor do médico.

O rabugento médico aposentado Isak Borg viaja de Estocolmo para Lund, na Suécia, com sua nora grávida e infeliz, Marianne, para receber um diploma honorário da universidade onde estudou. Ao longo do caminho, eles cruzam com uma série de caroneiros, cada um deles fazendo com que o médico idoso reflita sobre os prazeres e as falhas de sua própria vida, incluindo a vivaz jovem Sara, que se parece muito com o próprio primeiro amor do médico.

Após dez anos, um cavaleiro retorna das Cruzadas e encontra o país devastado pela Peste Negra. Sua fé em Deus é sensivelmente abalada e, enquanto reflete sobre o significado da vida, a Morte surge à sua frente querendo levá-lo, pois chegou sua hora. Objetivando ganhar tempo, convida-a para um jogo de xadrez que decidirá se ele parte com ela ou não. Tudo depende da sua vitória no jogo e a Morte concorda com o desafio, já que não perde nunca.

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police

Harry Lund tem 19 anos de idade e trabalha numa loja de porcelanas. Quase vizinho a ele, na loja de verduras, trabalha Monika, uma simpática e alegre garota de 17 anos. Assim que eles se conhecem a paixão explode. Mas por causa da idade deles, os dois sofrem com a intereferência dos mais velhos. Monika briga com os pais e decide sair de casa. Harry discute com o chefe e pede demissão. Sem mais nada que os prendem na cidade, os jovem decidem fugir de barco para uma ilha e passar algumas semanas juntos.

Rakel, Marta, Karin e Annette são casadas com quatro irmãos. Enquanto esperam numa cabana de verão para que seus maridos voltem para casa, elas contam histórias umas as outras sobre os seus casamentos. Rakel fala sobre o tempo que ela teve um caso e confrontou o marido com isso. A história de Marta é sobre como ela a princípio se recusou a casar e teve seu filho sozinha. Karin fala sobre o que aconteceu quando uma vez ela e o seu marido ficaram presos num elevador. Enquanto as mulheres contam as suas histórias, a irmã mais nova de Marta, Maj, está a planear fugir.

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.

Uma mulher solitária recorda seu primeiro amor treze anos antes durante umas breves férias de verão. Enquanto espera pelo ensaio noturno do balé Lago do Cisne, a solitária bailarina de vinte e oito anos, Marie, recebe um diário pelo correio. Ela viaja de balsa para uma ilha próxima a Estocolmo, onde se lembra de seu primeiro amor, Henrik. Treze anos atrás, enquanto viajava para passar suas férias de verão com sua tia Elisabeth e seu tio Erland, Marie encontra Henrik na balsa e, mais cedo, eles se apaixonam um pelo outro. Eles passam férias de verão juntos quando uma tragédia os separa e Marie constrói uma parede afetando sua vida sentimental.

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952.

Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.

A documentary about the fishing industry on the west coast of Sweden.

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

A married priest woos a seamstress.

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...