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Criterion Channel
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8.1
/70948/
77
/957/
77
/850/
4.4
/70857/
100
/46/
94
/1019/
100
/8/
cc age 17+

Fanny and Alexander (1982)
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
poster
77
59
7.7
/3717/
76
/65/
70
/71/
3.8
/1745/
81
/16/
87
/14/
77
/20/

The Best Intentions (1992)
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
poster
64
50
6.4
/5766/
63
/74/
57
/63/
3.4
/2192/
70
/24/

House of Angels (1992)
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
poster
67
49
6.9
/2888/
64
/41/
64
/46/
3.6
/2276/

The Man from Majorca (1984)
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials.
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69
38
6.5
/2347/
60
/45/
59
/38/
3.4
/544/
100
/7/
67
/1/

The Slingshot (1993)
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.
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70
34
7.3
/1553/
69
/31/
68
/31/
3.6
/997/

The Journey to Melonia (1989)
When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
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53
27
5.5
/2505/
52
/37/
44
/37/
3.2
/675/

House of Angels: The Second Summer (1994)
Fanny 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.
poster
62
15
6.1
/849/
62
/14/
61
/16/
3.3
/397/

In the Name of the Law (1986)
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...
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60
14
6.3
/722/
54
/12/
56
/14/
3.4
/445/

The Serpent's Way (1986)
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
poster
44
9
5.1
/863/
46
/15/
49
/14/
3.1
/232/
12
/1/

The Last Dance (1993)
Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.
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7.3
/15/
10
/1/

En ros av kött (1985)
Daniel, a visual artist, mourns the loss of his daughter Johanna. The intense emotions lead him into a crisis and an estrangement from his wife Sonja.
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7.3
/8/
10
/1/

Living pictures (1973)
A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
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6.1
/8/
10
/1/

Ängslans boningar (1987)
A sick man asks his friend to help him dig a pit.
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6.3
/39/
80
/1/

The Metamorphosis (1976)
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.
poster
?
6.7
/35/

Mondays with Fanny (1977)
Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he meets the orderly Fanny.
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10
/1/

Pelikanen (1982)
It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe, awakening and liberation.
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?
7.0
/26/

I huvet på Per Åhlin (2019)
A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation. Meet the man who created The Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Christmas Eve, Dunderklumpen, Resan till Melonia and Hundhotellet, and who for decades had a close collaboration with Hasse & Tage.
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6.7
/12/
10
/1/

Maskeraden (1992)
On March 16, 1792, the king of Sweden Gustav III was shot at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. The play portrays the king's last hours before the attack.
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10
/1/

Svidande affärer eller Historien om de fuktskadade gitarrerna (1991)
A young man has big dreams and hurry to realize them. Obviously, he is willing to take risks in both business and love to reach where he wants.
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5.1
/30/
10
/1/

Det var en mörk och stormig natt (1995)
When darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.
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?
5.5
/48/
20
/2/
30
/1/

Good People (1990)
A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird.
poster
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4.6
/42/
39
/5/

Walk On Water If You Can (1979)
Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
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5.9
/10/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Hans Christian and the Geographic Society (1981)
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 between countries and people.
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10
/1/

Audiens (1981)
After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery.
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4.5
/32/
10
/1/

Hjälten (1990)
Seventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van.
poster
?
5.5
/45/
10
/1/
50
/1/

A Stranger Came by Train (1974)
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 televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
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5.1
/52/
35
/2/
35
/2/

Som natt och dag (1969)
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
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25
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3.7
/177/
10
/4/
27
/3/

Sverige åt svenskarna (1980)
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
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6.4
/34/
55
/2/
50
/3/

We Have Many Names (1976)
A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?
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5.6
/90/
20
/2/

Chez Nous (1978)
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
poster
Cultpix
49
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5.1
/480/
44
/14/
50
/18/

Dog Days (1970)
Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella. Out of the blue his wife comes back after five years of absence. She starts up a brothel in their bath house with Anna-Bella as the main attraction, a brothel that attracts various men from all over. The browbeaten Assar starts to make arrangements for his wife's permanent absence.
poster
49
?
4.8
/292/
48
/8/
52
/6/

The Smuggler King (1985)
It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The smugglers who work for him don't get to keep much of the profit themselves, but if they don't work for him, they get in trouble, which his henchmen make sure. However, Albert Jansson arrives in town and starts taking up the competition with the smuggler king. Meanwhile, the police, together the customs office, try to catch the smugglers.
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7.3
/84/
36
/3/
60
/1/

Exit (1990)
Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.
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3.0
/100/
22
/5/
18
/5/

Sköna juveler (1984)
In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.
poster
42
?
5.6
/110/
35
/2/
60
/1/

Broken Sky (1982)
Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.
poster
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6.9
/33/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Sova Räv (1982)
About four young individuals that has been let down by their parents. They live an extroverted life together, searching for their identity, in constant defiance of the adult world.
poster
47
?
6.0
/146/
38
/6/
46
/6/

A Handful of Love (1974)
Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
poster
59
?
6.5
/413/
51
/8/
60
/14/

Åke and His World (1984)
Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie.
poster
47
?
6.0
/113/
30
/2/
52
/4/

Love Me! (1986)
Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new family, the Lindgren's who live in a large house by the sea.
poster
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6.0
/97/
35
/4/

Games of Love and Loneliness (1977)
Arvid falls in love with Lydia but puts the budding romance on hold to pursue a career and material wealth. Lydia is willing to wait for Arvid, until her father dies, leaving her finances in a dire state.
poster
52
?
6.0
/163/
47
/4/
52
/7/

Out of an Old Man's Head (1968)
After being admitted to a residential home starts the retired bricklayer Johan to dream back to his childhood - the safe upbringing with his parents, the first love, and how he with a broken heart ran away from home, and was forced to fend for himself. How he got married, had a son, barely managed to scrape together enough money for food and shelter, the son ran away from home and his wife died.
poster
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7.5
/60/
10
/1/
80
/1/

The Father (1988)
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
poster
60
?
6.5
/424/
51
/14/
67
/9/

Badjävlar (1971)
Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
poster
47
?
5.7
/681/
56
/16/
50
/9/
27
/3/

The White Lioness (1996)
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
poster
56
?
5.5
/887/
56
/23/
58
/11/

The Dogs of Riga (1995)
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
poster
?
6.5
/10/

Ungkarlshotellet (1975)
Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.
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Rikedom (1978)
Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...
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During the Journey to Melonia (1989)
Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia


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