Movies: Åke Fridell
- 1957
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal8.21957HD
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on...
- 1957
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wild Strawberries8.11957HD
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, eac...
- 1953
Summer with Monika (1953)
Summer with Monika7.31953HD
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat....
- 1971
The Emigrants (1971)
The Emigrants7.41971HD
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the ...
- 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night7.41955HD
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 fl...
- 1951
Miss Julie (1951)
Miss Julie6.51951HD
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant....
- 1958
The Magician (1958)
The Magician7.31958HD
Dr. Vogler's, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions, magic is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus....
- 1966
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Here Is Your Life7.01966HD
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future....
- 1946
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
It Rains on Our Love6.91946HD
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have...
- 1947
A Ship to India (1947)
A Ship to India6.51947HD
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live wi...
- 1974
Wide Open (1974)
Wide Open3.31974HD
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers....
- 1962
Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1962)
Wonderful Adventures of Nils5.71962HD
A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose f...
- 1949
Prison (1949)
Prison7.21949HD
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitut...
- 1958
Rabies (1958)
Rabies6.31958HD
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else....
- 1949
Gatan (1949)
Gatan51949HD
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 takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the...
- 1953
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel7.31953HD
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover....
- 1970
The Lustful Vicar (1970)
The Lustful Vicar3.91970HD
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline th...
- 1956
Children of the Night (1956)
Children of the Night01956HD
A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman....
- 1969
Mig og dig (1969)
Mig og dig51969HD
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- 1951
Starkare än lagen (1951)
Starkare än lagen01951HD
About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive....