The Best Swedish movies ever
Here's a list of the absolutely best Swedish movies ever
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- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
- DirectorTage DanielssonStarsGösta EkmanGrynet MolvigToivo PawloYoung Dante Alighieri inherits 17 million from his father the sausage maker on one condition - he has to give up smoking in 14 days. But the days go on and he simply can't quit. He hires a detective agency to physically stop him. He has an uncle, who inherits the money if Dante fails, and the uncle tries to keep him smoking.
- DirectorGösta EkmanStarsGösta EkmanMargaretha KrookLena NymanLife isn't easy for the indecisive 40 year old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
- DirectorTage DanielssonStarsBrasse BrännströmGrynet MolvigLena NymanRoyal family held hostage by children.
- DirectorTage DanielssonStarsLena NymanTage DanielssonGeorg ÅrlinSmall and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.
- DirectorTage DanielssonStarsMonica ZetterlundLars EkborgBirgitta AnderssonA group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
- DirectorThomas SamuelssonStarsLena NilssonJohn Patrick StenmanRobert JelinekTwo boys and a girl spend their last summer holiday biking on an island. But the holiday doesn't turn out to be as they expected. A movie about teenagers growing up and the problems involved.
- DirectorStaffan HildebrandStarsIzabella ScorupcoHåkan LindbergAnki LidénAnneli is soon to be 17 years old. She lives alone with her mother and can barely remember her father who left the family 10 years ago. One day she receive a letter from her father, who is a helicopter pilot up north. Anneli decides to visit him, but on her way up, she meets Johnny and falls in love.
- DirectorMåns HerngrenHannes HolmStarsTomas von BrömssenUlla SkoogGösta EkmanTorsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbors before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But one day he is fired from his work after twenty years of loyal service. Now he is prepared to do anything to get it back...
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsAnton GlanzeliusTomas von BrömssenAnki LidénIn the late '50s, young Ingemar learns a lot about life and himself when he is sent away from his sick mother to live with his aunt and uncle in a town full of eccentrics.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan WiderbergMarika LagercrantzTomas von BrömssenStig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsOksana AkinshinaArtyom BogucharskiyPavel PonomaryovSixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorUlf MalmrosStarsTuva NovotnyJonas RimeikaBjörn A. LingA young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsOliver LoftéenTuva NovotnyJacob NordensonIn a single night the paths of a random few cross, which inevitably seals their respective destinies. By dawn the city of Stockholm, though seemingly unchanged, to some is very different--if they live to see it.
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRikard WolffSven WollterA rural village is divided when an extraordinary couple move into a mansion.
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRikard WolffErnst GüntherFanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergLottie EjebrantJon SkolmenSwedes travel to the Canary Islands on a package trip.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenCecilia WaltonStig Helmer takes another vacation with his Norwegian friend Ole, this time a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig has never learned downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. The two men also manage to charm two women who are also vacationing. The other Swedish tourists are a diverse group that includes the choleric Mr. Jönsson and his family, and two men trying to sell kick-sleds.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenBirgitte SöndergaardThe landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive to an island in the archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich people, their champagne parties, their summer houses and the annual yacht race.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenAnna NorbergStig-Helmer has returned to Sweden after the divorce from Fiona, and lives a sad and stagnant life in front of the television. As usual his enthusiastic and energetic friend Ole knows how to get his pal out of the boring existence he finds himself in. The eccentric Rebekka is a whole new acquaintance, who radically is going to change Stig-Helmer's life.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsJanne CarlssonLasse ÅbergTed ÅströmJonsson is called back for refresher training. He meets Lövgren, Larsson and others who aren't very serious but instead, see it as an opportunity to have fun for a month away from work.
- DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenIda HögbergStories of his youth told to Ole Bramserud as they attempt to track down his first love. Showing the origins of his obsessive interest in trains, his Romeo and Juliet love-story as well as the days being bullied by Biffen.
- DirectorAndreas ÖhmanStarsBill SkarsgårdMartin WallströmCecilia ForssA younger brother with Aspergers syndrome helps his older brother find a girlfriend.
- DirectorSusanne CederbergStarsSusanne CederbergTed GärdestadSara ZachariasDocumentary about Swedish singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad. He wrote numerous hits in the 1970s and up to his death in 1997. In this program artists remember Ted as does his text writing brother Kenneth and Ted's daughter Sara Zacharias.