Country: Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 4 Episodes. The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents are both involved in theater and are happily...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Bibi Andersson · Margaretha Krook · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Bibi Andersson · Jan Malmsjö

Synopsis TV Miniseries (1973). 6 Episodes. Follows the relationship of Marianne and Johan as they separate, engage in extramarital affairs, bond, re-bond and eventually divorce. Their relationship continues after the divorce, it seems this is a couple that can't stay away...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Victor Sjöström · Bibi Andersson · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive an honorary award after 50 years of medical practice, he...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Bibi Andersson · Jan Malmsjö

Synopsis Follows the relationship of Marianne and Johan as they separate, engage in extramarital affairs, bond, re-bond and eventually divorce. Their relationship continues after the divorce, it seems this is a couple that can't stay away from each other, though they...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Gunnar Björnstrand · Nils Poppe · Bibi Andersson

Synopsis The Seventh Seal (1957) follows a disillusioned knight, Antonius Block, returning from the Crusades to a plague-ridden medieval Sweden. As death personified challenges him to a chess game for his life, Block seeks meaning in a world filled with suffering...

Direction Malik Bendjelloul

Cast Sixto Rodríguez

Synopsis Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is a captivating documentary about two South African fans who embark on a quest to uncover the mysterious fate of Rodriguez, a forgotten 1970s American musician. Despite his albums flopping in the U.S., Rodriguez became...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Max von Sydow · Gunnar Björnstrand · Gunnel Lindblom

Synopsis This is the second in Bergman's trilogy that explores religious faith and doubts in a visceral, visual, and provocative manner. On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church, Tomas Ericsson, performs service for a tiny congregation;...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Synopsis Fanny & Alexander (1982) follows the lives of the Ekdahl siblings, Fanny and Alexander, as they navigate a year of profound change in early 20th-century Sweden. The story begins during a joyous Christmas celebration in their warm, vibrant family home....

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Victor Sjöström · Hilda Borgström · Tore Svennberg · Astrid Holm

Synopsis It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Birgitta Valberg · Gunnel Lindblom · Birgitta Pettersson

Synopsis Set in 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Max von Sydow · Sigge Fürst · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis 'Shame' probes the atrocities of war -both internal and external- as a young couple struggles to survive while the world around them crumbles into chaos.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Kari Sylwan · Ingrid Thulin · Liv Ullmann

Synopsis Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters' concerns reminiscing moments of her life.

Direction Hans Rosenfeldt · Henrik Georgsson · Morten Arnfred · Charlotte Sieling

Cast Sofia Helin · Kim Bodnia · Thure Lindhardt · Dag Malmberg

Synopsis The Bridge (TV Series) (2011) follows Danish detective Saga Norén and Swedish counterpart Martin Rohde as they investigate a grisly crime: a body found precisely on the border between Denmark and Sweden. The victim is revealed to be two halves...

Direction Bille August

Cast Pernilla August · Samuel Froler · Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby

Synopsis It is based on the story of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin (whose fictional names are Henrik and Anna). Henrik, a humble theology student, meets Anna, a girl from a wealthy family. They will have a long love affair while...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Erland Josephson · Susan Fleetwood · Valérie Mairesse · Allan Edwall

Synopsis In The Sacrifice (1986), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, a retired intellectual named Alexander celebrates his birthday with family and friends at his remote island home. Amidst the festivities, news breaks of an impending nuclear catastrophe, plunging everyone into existential dread....

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Gunnel Lindblom · Jörgen Lindström · Haakan Jahnberg

Synopsis The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about faith and redemption (with 'Through a Glass Darkly' and 'Winter Light'). Two sisters - the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna - travel by train with Anna’s young son Johan...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Gunnar Björnstrand · Max von Sydow · Lars Passgard

Synopsis A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband (Max von Sydow). They are joined...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Bibi Andersson · Erland Josephson

Synopsis Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Börje Ahlstedt · Julia Dufvenius

Synopsis Saraband (TV) (2003) is a poignant drama directed by Ingmar Bergman. The story revisits the characters from his earlier film "Scenes from a Marriage," focusing on Marianne and Johan, who reconnect after 30 years. Marianne visits Johan's remote countryside home,...