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The Best Swedish movies ever

by kaijzer • Created 5 years ago • Modified 3 years ago
Here's a list of the absolutely best Swedish movies ever
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  • Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard in Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

    1. Pelle the Conqueror

    19872h 37mPG-13
    7.7 (12K)
    When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
    DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik Paaske
  • Mannen som slutade röka (1972)

    2. Mannen som slutade röka

    19721h 44m
    6.5 (1.6K)
    Young Dante inherits $17M if he quits smoking for 14 days. He hires detectives to stop him while his uncle sabotages his efforts to keep inheritance. Struggle between quitting addiction and greed ensues.
    DirectorTage DanielssonStarsGösta EkmanGrynet MolvigToivo Pawlo
  • Morrhår & ärtor (1986)

    3. Morrhår & ärtor

    19861h 41m
    6.0 (1.6K)
    Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40 year old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
    DirectorGösta EkmanStarsGösta EkmanMargaretha KrookLena Nyman
  • SOPOR (1981)

    4. SOPOR

    19811h 36m
    5.3 (670)
    Royal family held hostage by children.
    DirectorTage DanielssonStarsBrasse BrännströmGrynet MolvigLena Nyman
  • Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår! (1975)

    5. Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår!

    19751h 37m
    6.2 (1.4K)
    Small 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 DanielssonStarsLena NymanTage DanielssonGeorg Årlin
  • Att angöra en brygga (1965)

    6. Att angöra en brygga

    19651h 41m
    6.7 (2.8K)
    A 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.
    DirectorTage DanielssonStarsMonica ZetterlundLars EkborgBirgitta Andersson
  • PS sista sommaren (1988)

    7. PS sista sommaren

    19881h 31m
    4.4 (342)
    Two 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.
    DirectorThomas SamuelssonStarsLena NilssonJohn Patrick StenmanRobert Jelinek
  • Ingen kan älska som vi (1988)

    8. Ingen kan älska som vi

    19881h 41m
    4.4 (423)
    Anneli 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.
    DirectorStaffan HildebrandStarsIzabella ScorupcoHåkan LindbergAnki Lidén
  • En på miljonen (1995)

    9. En på miljonen

    19951h 27m
    5.3 (1K)
    Torsten 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...
    DirectorsMåns HerngrenHannes HolmStarsTomas von BrömssenUlla SkoogGösta Ekman
  • My Life as a Dog (1985)

    10. My Life as a Dog

    19851h 41mUnrated82Metascore
    7.6 (23K)
    In 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.
    DirectorLasse HallströmStarsAnton GlanzeliusTomas von BrömssenAnki Lidén
  • All Things Fair (1995)

    11. All Things Fair

    19952h 10mUnrated
    6.8 (8.2K)
    Stig, 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.
    DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan WiderbergMarika LagercrantzTomas von Brömssen
  • Oksana Akinshina in Lilya 4-Ever (2002)

    12. Lilya 4-Ever

    20021h 49mR83Metascore
    7.8 (53K)
    Sixteen-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 MoodyssonStarsOksana AkinshinaArtyom BogucharskiyPavel Ponomaryov
  • Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecka Liljeberg in Show Me Love (1998)

    13. Show Me Love

    19981h 29mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.5 (57K)
    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.
    DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica Carlson
  • Slim Susie (2003)

    14. Slim Susie

    20031h 37mNot Rated
    6.9 (11K)
    A young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.
    DirectorUlf MalmrosStarsTuva NovotnyJonas RimeikaBjörn A. Ling
  • Tic Tac (1997)

    15. Tic Tac

    19971h 36m
    6.7 (1.6K)
    In 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.
    DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsOliver LoftéenTuva NovotnyJacob Nordenson
  • House of Angels (1992)

    16. House of Angels

    19922h 7mR
    6.4 (5.6K)
    A rural village is divided when an extraordinary couple move into a mansion.
    DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRikard WolffSven Wollter
  • Helena Bergström and Rikard Wolff in House of Angels: The Second Summer (1994)

    17. House of Angels: The Second Summer

    19942h 17m
    5.5 (2.5K)
    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.
    DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRikard WolffErnst Günther
  • Lasse Åberg in Sällskapsresan (1980)

    18. Sällskapsresan

    19801h 47m
    7.2 (9.6K)
    Despite a harrowing fear of flying Stig-Helmer decides to go to the Canary Islands. On the plane, he meets the boasting Norwegian Ole and a load of Swedes on their way to holiday where they will meet a lot of difficulties and situations.
    DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergLottie EjebrantJon Skolmen
  • Snowroller - Sällskapsresan II (1985)

    19. Snowroller - Sällskapsresan II

    19851h 31m
    6.6 (7.7K)
    Stig 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. They also manage to charm two vacationing women.
    DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergCecilia WaltonJon Skolmen
  • SOS (1988)

    20. SOS

    19881h 44m
    6.2 (5.8K)
    The 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 ÅbergBirgitte SöndergaardJon Skolmen
  • The Health Journey (1999)

    21. The Health Journey

    19991h 45m
    4.3 (4K)
    Stig-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 ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergAnna NorbergJon Skolmen
  • Janne Carlsson, Lasse Haldenberg, Weiron Holmberg, Lennart Skoogh, Lasse Åberg, and Ted Åström in Repmånad eller Hur man gör pojkar av män (1979)

    22. Repmånad eller Hur man gör pojkar av män

    19791h 25m
    6.5 (4.3K)
    Jonsson 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 ÅbergStarsJanne CarlssonLasse ÅbergTed Åström
  • Jon Skolmen and Lasse Åberg in The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)

    23. The Stig-Helmer Story

    20111h 40m
    4.6 (2.1K)
    Stories 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.
    DirectorLasse ÅbergStarsLasse ÅbergJon SkolmenIda Högberg
  • Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, and Cecilia Forss in Simple Simon (2010)

    24. Simple Simon

    20101h 25m
    7.0 (11K)
    A younger brother with Aspergers syndrome helps his older brother find a girlfriend.
    DirectorAndreas ÖhmanStarsBill SkarsgårdMartin WallströmCecilia Forss
  • Ted Gärdestad - För kärlekens skull (2016)

    25. Ted Gärdestad - För kärlekens skull

    201644mTV Movie
    7.4 (243)
    Documentary 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.
    DirectorSusanne CederbergStarsSusanne CederbergTed GärdestadSara Zacharias

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