Really Good Scandinavian Movies

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.

Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.

An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.

A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

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 finds out that their support has a price.

The first entry in a series of films about the lives of social misfits Kenneth 'Kenta' Gustafsson and Gustav 'Stoffe' Svensson.

Humankind's greatness, baseness, joy, sorrow, self-confidence, anxiety, desire to love and be loved.

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Swedish composer/conductor Martin and concertmaster Barbara fall in love. After their divorces, they're happily married. While composing an opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It slowly changes him.

The follow-up to "They call us misfits". More then 10 years later, we still follow the ups and increasing downs of vagabonds Kenta and Stoffe.

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.

Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.

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.

A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.

Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with Måns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.

In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.

Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

A vendetta between Egon Lundin and the Swedish National Road Administration concerning one, in their opinion, illegally built milk pallet.

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.