My Favorite Swedish Films (Ingmar Bergman not included)
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- DirectorMai ZetterlingStarsBibi AnderssonHarriet AnderssonGunnel LindblomThree Swedish stage actresses give differing interpretations of the classic Aristophanes play "Lysistrata."
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- DirectorSusan SontagStarsAdriana AstiLars EkborgGösta EkmanAbout a secretary who is subjected to a power game by his new employer, an exiled former revolutionary leader and his wife.
- DirectorKjell GredeStarsFredrik BecklénMarie ÖhmanBeppe WolgersJosefin is a six-year-old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener they make up fun things to do.
- DirectorArne SucksdorffStarsAnders NohrborgKjell SucksdorffArne SucksdorffA year in the lives of the animals living near a small Swedish farm.
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsVictor SjöströmHolger LöwenadlerRune LindströmA drama about mental disease, faith, and doubt.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsKeve HjelmAnn-Marie GyllenspetzInger TaubeA film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
- DirectorArne SucksdorffStarsChendruGinjoMartin HeldA documentary about the muria people of the Bastar jungle in central India.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHildur CarlbergEinar RödGreta AlmrothA newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
- DirectorPeter NestlerOne of Peter and Zsóka Nestler's most important works, the film confronts the persecution of the Roma and Sinti in Germany under Nazism and its persistence after the war.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsUlf PalmeInge WærnOlof WidgrenThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was chosen to take his place.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsEddie AxbergGudrun BrostUlla AkselsonA working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.
- DirectorGöran Hugo OlssonStarsAngela DavisStokely CarmichaelBobby SealeFootage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsJohannes KuhnkeLisa Loven KongsliClara WettergrenA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
