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7.5
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4.0
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/18/

Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
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5.9
/44/
50
/1/

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (1947)
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
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7.4
/7/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Cabarét Canalhumorn (1969)
In 1969 Swedish television was split into two channels and to celebrate this satirical revue was made.
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5.3
/73/
30
/2/
40
/3/

Heaven and Pancakes (1959)
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
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10
/1/

De sista entusiasterna (1969)
N/A
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8.2
/6/
10
/1/

KaRamellodier (1972)
Povel Ramel jubilee show played at Berns in Stockholm in 1972.
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5.9
/65/
30
/2/
42
/5/

Private Entrance (1956)
A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.
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4.8
/32/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Decimals of Love (1960)
Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
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5.4
/53/
10
/1/

The Great Amateur (1958)
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
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7.8
/11/
10
/1/

Funny Boy (1961)
Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.
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5.6
/75/
60
/1/

Each to His Own Way (1948)
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
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6.1
/108/
53
/3/

Meeting in the Night (1946)
A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
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62
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6.2
/246/
54
/7/
72
/3/

Jazz Boy (1958)
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
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45
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5.2
/122/
40
/2/
37
/5/

Summer Place Wanted (1957)
Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
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59
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6.2
/195/
45
/5/
63
/6/
3.3
/277/

The White Cat (1950)
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
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46
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6.1
/212/
30
/2/
44
/5/

Seventh Heaven (1956)
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
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5.8
/96/
50
/1/
60
/3/

A Day Will Dawn (1944)
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
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60
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6.3
/220/
60
/7/
59
/9/

The Staffan Stolle Story (1956)
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
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57
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5.3
/107/
80
/1/
40
/2/

Interlude (1946)
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrives in Lugano in Switzerland, close to Italy, for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering from terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence.
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40
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5.6
/200/
32
/7/
43
/9/

Miss Chic (1959)
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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4.4
/100/
10
/1/
42
/4/

The Nuthouse (1951)
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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5.3
/80/
10
/1/
35
/2/

Jack of Hearts (1950)
Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.
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5.0
/8/

A Profession for Men (1944)
A propaganda film for the Swedish professional military made during the Second World War.
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67
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7.0
/277/
67
/7/
61
/10/
3.4
/218/

While the Door Was Locked (1946)
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
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44
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6.5
/107/
25
/2/
44
/7/

On a Bench in a Park (1960)
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
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44
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5.9
/139/
30
/1/
45
/2/

Changing Trains (1943)
Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
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69
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7.2
/325/
70
/3/
59
/7/
3.6
/247/

The Girl from the Third Row (1949)
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
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58
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6.2
/246/
60
/5/
53
/7/

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It (1945)
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
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5.3
/103/
50
/1/

Like Everyone Else (1944)
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
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55
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6.3
/157/
50
/2/
55
/2/

Flames in the Dark (1942)
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
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62
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6.9
/239/
60
/6/
59
/10/

The Banquet (1948)
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
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41
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6.0
/132/
10
/1/
56
/4/

The Heist (1961)
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
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37
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5.7
/106/
10
/1/
45
/4/

The Halo Is Slipping (1957)
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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65
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6.6
/184/
65
/2/
66
/5/

The Royal Rabble (1945)
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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4.9
/97/
40
/2/
40
/3/

The Firebird (1952)
Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.
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5.2
/89/
50
/1/

His Excellency (1944)
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
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51
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4.7
/105/
55
/8/

Little Martin Returns (1948)
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
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4.4
/28/
10
/1/
40
/1/

My Love Is Like a Rose (1963)
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
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5.7
/49/
43
/3/
70
/2/

We Three Debutantes (1953)
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
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6.9
/94/
10
/1/
50
/3/

Gabrielle (1954)
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
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61
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6.1
/150/
70
/1/
55
/4/

With You in My Arms (1940)
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
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5.2
/64/
50
/2/

The Sixth Shot (1943)
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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5.2
/94/
55
/2/
60
/2/

Happiness Is on Its Way (1942)
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
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52
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5.5
/185/
45
/7/
62
/4/

The First Squadron (1941)
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
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6.3
/96/
60
/1/
65
/2/

Wandering with the Moon (1945)
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
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5.0
/29/
10
/1/
30
/1/

The Marriage Wrestler (1964)
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.


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