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Criterion Channel
89
8.1
/70961/
77
/962/
77
/854/
4.4
/71164/
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
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.8
/238607/
77
/5789/
75
/3164/
4.0
/229558/
98
/193/
90
/9768/
82
/30/
cc age 17+

Let the Right One In (2008)
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
poster
82
7.5
/9022/
74
/115/
72
/123/
3.9
/9424/
91
/85/
87
/174/
80
/29/

Saraband (2003)
A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
poster
82
7.4
/16912/
73
/303/
71
/255/
4.0
/18300/
98
/42/
80
/548/
81
/15/

You, the Living (2007)
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
poster
MUBI
82
8.0
/100009/
78
/1368/
77
/1214/
4.3
/133440/
91
/47/
94
/1113/
82
/7/

The Celebration (1998)
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.7
/475/
75
/31/
75
/2/
3.7
/815/
91
/35/
78
/2/
93
/4/

President (2023)
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they interpret principles of democracy in discourse and in practice?
poster
MUBI
81
7.4
/6326/
73
/198/
75
/88/
4.0
/43514/
97
/66/
84
/9/
83
/17/

Crossing (2024)
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
poster
81
7.5
/6158/
72
/103/
73
/78/
3.8
/2690/
90
/105/
84
/198/
80
/24/

Everlasting Moments (2008)
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/54783/
77
/998/
76
/638/
4.2
/200881/
84
/70/
91
/884/
83
/27/

Lilya 4-ever (2002)
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.7
/73996/
78
/2631/
76
/1268/
3.9
/53303/
91
/119/
88
/235/
70
/21/
cc age 13+

A Man Called Ove (2015)
Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.8
/229691/
78
/6711/
75
/3148/
3.8
/79128/
85
/186/
87
/6163/
76
/36/
cc age 18+

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.6
/15548/
76
/487/
72
/247/
4.1
/51559/
94
/93/
95
/2/
68
/20/

And Then We Danced (2019)
Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.3
/2042/
73
/105/
72
/49/
3.7
/2702/
96
/55/
82
/15/
90
/20/

I Called Him Morgan (2016)
Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the tragic story of the magnificently talented trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.4
/25447/
72
/325/
69
/263/
3.9
/14826/
90
/81/
89
/409/
84
/29/

Together (2000)
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.5
/110927/
75
/2864/
72
/1323/
3.7
/34280/
93
/97/
85
/1109/
72
/26/

Headhunters (2011)
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.3
/1832/
70
/67/
73
/33/
3.7
/5004/
100
/52/
80
/10/
84
/13/
cc age 11+

Writing with Fire (2021)
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
78
7.6
/39020/
75
/540/
71
/471/
3.8
/17097/
87
/102/
87
/1570/
78
/29/

After the Wedding (2006)
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.5
/53739/
74
/1164/
74
/924/
3.7
/35164/
90
/110/
82
/503/
73
/27/
cc age 16+

A Royal Affair (2012)
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
poster
78
7.4
/385/
81
/15/
68
/13/
3.6
/328/
100
/23/
69
/3/
88
/8/

Democrats (2014)
An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe's dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.3
/8704/
73
/193/
73
/145/
3.7
/8590/
97
/31/
85
/12/
79
/7/

Sami Blood (2016)
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
poster
77
7.5
/57788/
73
/908/
71
/574/
3.8
/63695/
91
/44/
86
/656/
73
/17/
cc age 15+

Show Me Love (1998)
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.5
/2963/
73
/126/
68
/44/
3.6
/3688/
83
/69/
75
/15/
76
/23/

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
poster
Kanopy
77
74
7.5
/19164/
73
/246/
71
/183/
3.7
/5048/
83
/6/
91
/1000/

As It Is in Heaven (2004)
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.9
/20416/
68
/528/
68
/483/
3.8
/34258/
90
/100/
66
/76/
81
/24/

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
poster
MUBI
73
8.0
/167469/
76
/3002/
78
/2616/
4.2
/187170/
70
/163/
89
/3415/
61
/39/

Dogville (2003)
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
poster
73
7.2
/522/
65
/7/
58
/14/
3.5
/243/
82
/17/
83
/2/

Private Confessions (1996)
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
73
7.1
/10141/
73
/289/
71
/177/
3.6
/6308/
96
/24/
77
/122/
72
/9/

Sound of Noise (2010)
A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.
poster
77
72
8.2
/6179/
77
/280/
71
/113/
3.9
/6073/

The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020)
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.8
/2242/
66
/76/
74
/55/
3.5
/7397/
78
/54/
75
/3/
73
/10/

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.
poster
75
72
7.3
/12915/
71
/278/
70
/193/
3.8
/7803/
88
/108/

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.
poster
Kanopy
72
7.5
/900/
75
/34/
70
/19/
4.1
/3835/
90
/30/
72
/6/
80
/12/

Concerning Violence (2014)
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
poster
Hulu
71
7.2
/212734/
69
/8217/
70
/2727/
3.7
/855325/
72
/285/
80
/71/
63
/47/
cc age 15+

Triangle of Sadness (2022)
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.0
/37082/
67
/1623/
66
/901/
3.6
/66515/
97
/130/
76
/144/
75
/25/

Border (2018)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
poster
71
7.4
/14179/
74
/1216/
72
/347/
3.5
/3579/
68
/43/

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard (2013)
TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.1
/101547/
74
/3684/
69
/1756/
3.5
/33116/
69
/159/
68
/2639/
66
/35/
cc age 18+

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
poster
78
70
7.4
/5752/
73
/96/
67
/54/
3.6
/1970/
90
/51/
87
/275/
84
/18/

Darwin's Nightmare (2005)
Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of many native species. Its meat is exported everywhere in exchange for weapons, creating a globalized evil alliance on the lake shores. An infernal nightmare in the real world that wipes out Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
poster
Kanopy
74
70
7.0
/16776/
67
/698/
69
/357/
3.6
/15370/
97
/30/
80
/22/
67
/7/

Queen of Hearts (2019)
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.3
/25966/
60
/1950/
62
/753/
3.4
/86492/
88
/123/
60
/52/
75
/24/

Pleasure (2021)
19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
poster
69
6.8
/3214/
63
/54/
59
/37/
3.3
/757/
73
/33/
78
/30/
60
/18/

Under the Sun (1998)
Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.
poster
Hulu
68
7.1
/82295/
68
/2348/
67
/1693/
3.6
/138903/
85
/216/
71
/165/
73
/33/
cc age 16+

The Square (2017)
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
poster
Netflix
68
6.9
/36109/
69
/1768/
69
/1190/
3.5
/28121/
84
/146/
74
/103/
63
/30/
cc age 16+

Borg vs McEnroe (2017)
The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.
poster
Kanopy
68
6.8
/655/
71
/37/
56
/22/
3.6
/1500/
86
/28/
50
/9/
73
/11/

Kiki (2016)
25 years after Paris is Burning, we dive back into the fierce world of voguing battles in the Kiki scene of New York City, where competition between Houses demands leadership, painstaking practice, and performances on point. A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we’re granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC. The new generation of ballroom youth use the motto, “Not About us Without Us”. Twiggy and Sara’s insider-outsider approach to their stories breathes fresh life into the representation of a marginalized community who demand visibility and real political power.
poster
AMC+
80
68
7.6
/2591/
78
/99/
75
/42/
4.0
/7715/
92
/53/
86
/71/
73
/15/
cc age 16+

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.
poster
70
67
6.9
/10725/
73
/268/
68
/113/
3.5
/3831/
72
/18/
73
/194/
65
/9/

Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.
poster
74
67
7.5
/12332/
73
/173/
70
/170/
3.8
/8235/
79
/71/

Submarino (2010)
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
7.3
/77216/
75
/3024/
70
/1448/
3.5
/27711/
53
/134/
66
/1943/
60
/31/
cc age 18+

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
poster
Hulu
66
7.5
/8569/
62
/263/
58
/125/
3.5
/6121/
77
/84/
43
/58/
69
/20/
cc age 10+

I Am Greta (2020)
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
66
6.1
/6892/
65
/531/
67
/435/
3.0
/4321/
100
/7/
50
/31/

Breaking Surface (2020)
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.


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