Per Oscarsson
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1927-01-28
Locus Natus: Stockholm, Sweden
Et ut: Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness,...
release : 1984.12.14popularis : 12.941
Twelfth Night
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
release : 1967.01.05popularis : 1.184
Terror of Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 2.756
Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna
Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm.
release : 1998.12.31popularis : 1.66
The Brothers Lionheart
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the...
release : 1977.09.23popularis : 17.528
Göta Canal
To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to...
release : 1981.12.18popularis : 3.198
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures....
release : 2009.09.18popularis : 14.522
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual...
release : 2009.11.27popularis : 14.941
Ebon Lundin
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 1.576
The Bouncer
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost...
release : 2003.08.15popularis : 1.299
Here Is Your Life
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
release : 1966.12.26popularis : 3.032
House of Angels
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown...
release : 1992.02.21popularis : 8.523
Endless Night
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a...
release : 1972.10.05popularis : 3.566
Outrage
Sweden in 1990. Eight years of ongoing Civil war. Three men are holding several people hostage in an apartment.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 0.322
The New Land
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war,...
release : 1972.02.26popularis : 5.801
The Last Valley
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of...
release : 1971.01.28popularis : 5.845
Rika barn leka bäst
Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise.
release : 1997.10.10popularis : 0.998
Midsummer
It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is...
release : 2003.02.07popularis : 11.915
The Last Viking
The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against...
release : 1997.01.17popularis : 4.645
The Adventures of Picasso
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live...
release : 1978.05.20popularis : 9.854
White Water Fury
Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet...
release : 2000.04.07popularis : 2.016
Fasadklättraren
Phillip, an 18 year old boy knows only one thing. How to climb...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 0.843
Heja Sverige!
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style.
release : 1979.11.09popularis : 1.134
Montenegro
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk...
release : 1981.10.09popularis : 8.73
The Night Visitor
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
release : 1971.02.10popularis : 6.968
Kan du vissla Johanna?
Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't...
release : 1994.12.24popularis : 1.543
Hunger
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is...
release : 1966.08.19popularis : 5.901
Storm
A gentleman, who likes to tell himself that he lives a life of quiet calm and resignation, gets a visit from his brother one day and mysterious...
release : 1988.10.09popularis : 0.462
No Robbers in the Woods
A short movie based on a script written by children's author Astrid Lindgren.
release : 1988.01.01popularis : 0.77
An-Magritt
In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.
release : 1969.02.06popularis : 2.117
My Sister My Love
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is...
release : 1966.02.28popularis : 4.711
The Quiet Game
Three women inherit a manor from a lady called Dolores whom none of them knows. The women are complete strangers to each other, so they meet up at...
release : 2011.12.02popularis : 1.197
Who Saw Him Die?
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is...
release : 1968.03.18popularis : 1.855
Dreaming of Rita
When Bob's wife dies, he's determined to find Sabine, a woman he loved 30 years before. Even though he's had little to do with his daughter Rita, he...
release : 1993.01.22popularis : 1.074
The Doll
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home,...
release : 1962.07.30popularis : 2.149
Vad händer…?
Short film commissioned by the Swedish Association of Civil Engineers.
release : 1979.01.01popularis : 1.645
Karin Månsdotter
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled...
release : 1954.11.01popularis : 3.883
Gatan
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic...
release : 1949.02.27popularis : 2.377
Henrietta
Pettersson is a hard working director in the porn industry with two strippers and a naked gay in his shows. One day, after a little bridge accident,...
release : 1983.12.16popularis : 1.109
1939
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black...
release : 1989.12.23popularis : 2.474
Christmas Oratorio
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to...
release : 1996.09.22popularis : 2.376
Doctor Glas
Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway...
release : 1968.06.12popularis : 2.771
Miss April
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with...
release : 1958.06.08popularis : 1.28
Sverige åt svenskarna
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are...
release : 1980.07.31popularis : 2.276
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
release : 1961.08.17popularis : 1.464
Secrets
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
release : 1971.09.21popularis : 2.34
Kristin Commands
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as...
release : 1946.09.02popularis : 2.994
Harry & Sonja
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.
release : 1996.02.08popularis : 1.009
A Dandy in Aspic
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is...
release : 1968.04.02popularis : 11.731
Dream City
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
release : 1973.11.15popularis : 1.733
The Headsman and the Harlot
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both...
release : 1986.12.29popularis : 1.028
Honeycomb
Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into...
release : 1969.07.14popularis : 3.051
Son of the Sea
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son...
release : 1949.10.12popularis : 0.588
Vilde, the Wild One
In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them...
release : 1986.10.08popularis : 0.842
Kurt Olsson - filmen om mitt liv som mej själv
Hur blev Kurt den han blev? Varför blev han aldrig vald till klassens ordningsman? När kom Arne in bilden? Och vad hände när...
release : 1990.02.09popularis : 1.557
Young Andersen
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian...
release : 2005.03.11popularis : 2.351
Prince Gustaf
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love...
release : 1944.11.29popularis : 1.88
Ungdom i fara
A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on...
release : 1946.11.11popularis : 1.008
The Serious Game
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come...
release : 1945.11.26popularis : 0.474
Flickor i hamn
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 1.506
Noon Wine
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah...
release : 1966.11.23popularis : 2.114
Defiance
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...
release : 1952.09.15popularis : 0.83
Vi flyger på Rio
When the airline captain Curt Åhs comes home one day he discovers that his wife is unfaithful. Later he and the flight attendant Berit shares...
release : 1949.10.26popularis : 0.437
Det vackraste på jorden
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose...
release : 1947.09.15popularis : 0.32
The Sleep of Death
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into...
release : 1980.11.01popularis : 1.446
Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
release : 1953.05.05popularis : 3.55
Vi tre debutera
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
release : 1953.09.07popularis : 0.97
The Blockhouse
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 5.051
Waltz of Sex
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by...
release : 1968.09.22popularis : 2.225
Charlotte Löwensköld
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte...
release : 1979.10.30popularis : 0.869
Germans
A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion.
release : 1997.05.09popularis : 1.491
Venus 90
A film crew travels out in a future Europe to make a documentary about the birds and threats to the ecological contexts. The motto of the film has...
release : 1988.11.04popularis : 0.387
A Stranger Came by Train
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of...
release : 1974.10.28popularis : 1.225
Patrasket
A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
release : 1966.11.13popularis : 0.759
Miss and Mrs Sweden
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is...
release : 1969.12.21popularis : 3.671
Between Us
A man lives with his family in a small community. He is seen as a deviant, abnormal person by society.
release : 1969.05.16popularis : 1.921
Bödeln
"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the...
release : 1965.09.19popularis : 0.865
Det är hos mig han har varit
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that...
release : 1963.02.04popularis : 0.949
Det är hos mig han har varit
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that...
release : 1963.02.04popularis : 0.949
The Metamorphosis
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.
release : 1976.01.12popularis : 0.522
Tvingad att leva
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman.
release : 1980.01.28popularis : 0.548
Möte med livet
Gun and Robert are in love, but both are unfaithful during Robert's military service. For Gun, this results in her becoming pregnant and for Robert...
release : 1953.11.23popularis : 1.456
Stormen
Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using...
release : 1998.10.07popularis : 1.238
Inferno
August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and...
release : 1973.04.01popularis : 1.25
Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding...
release : 1981.09.13popularis : 1.136
Vildfåglar
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief...
release : 1955.08.21popularis : 0.421
Vargen
The Wolf family reflects the crisis the country is in after suffering war and occupation. A resistance movement takes power after a foreign...
release : 1984.02.27popularis : 0.878
Adam och Eva
Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.
release : 1963.09.02popularis : 1.175
Ondskans år
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look...
release : 1987.02.18popularis : 1.228
Kristoffers hus
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to...
release : 1979.09.19popularis : 1.74
Dagny
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than...
release : 1977.01.26popularis : 1.331
Bulan
"The Bump" - A factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily...
release : 1990.03.23popularis : 1.429
Kärlek på turné
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
release : 1955.11.28popularis : 1.106
Leva på 'Hoppet'
A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.
release : 1951.04.11popularis : 0.619
Story of Small and Large Rabbit
The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 0.872
Chez Nous
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and...
release : 1978.08.28popularis : 1.922
The D.T.'s
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum...
release : 1966.06.27popularis : 0.639
En lek på blodigt allvar
Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46,...
release : 1999.09.04popularis : 0.641
Young Eagles
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.
release : 1944.10.09popularis : 2.416
Ticket to Paradise
A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian...
release : 1962.03.30popularis : 2.387
Forbudt for børn
The second film of the trilogy, "It is forbidden for children". The family is pushed into depression and the heavy drinking mother Skrubsak does not...
release : 1998.03.26popularis : 2.435
Doktor Knock
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
release : 1966.04.11popularis : 1.702
Are You Crazy?
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with...
release : 1965.07.22popularis : 0.912
The Assignment
A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups.
release : 1977.07.11popularis : 0.754
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life.
release : 1994.08.05popularis : 3.077
Da Capo
Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not...
release : 1985.08.16popularis : 6.65
Love Is War
In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered...
release : 1970.12.26popularis : 0.325
The Director Who Disappeared: The Story of The Ninja Mission
Documentary about Swedish director, Mats Helge Olsson, an illiterate Swedish director most noted in his home country for debuting with the first...
release : 2013.01.01popularis : 0.934