Movies: Pernilla August

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called W), the female waiter Anna, and "the count", a self-invented...

Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend's wife. A smart, funny film made for adults. Nominated for Best ...

Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that the more men she meets, the further from family happiness she finds herself. An absurdly realistic journey through the bright nights of t...

A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border....

A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cropping, replicating and caricaturing....

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat th...

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget....

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstruct...

A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missing. She does not understand however, what is this Eiffel Tower of which he speaks?...

"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door...

We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to his older years as a national institution that tourists gathered to watch on their way to their very ...

Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy on her bedroom floor. She have no clue how he got there but soon convinces herself she caused his death and is imprisoned for the murder. ...

A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival....

A fantasy about repression and hidden menace....

Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's....

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The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years, Scandinavia has managed to create a society based on solidarity, peace, tolerance and democracy. What...

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead, her years as an absent mother come to the fore and the gap between mother and daughter are felt to ...

A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström....

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football tea...