Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Magician

1958 · Movie · 102 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Ake Fridell

Plot When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Hour of the Wolf

1968 · Movie · 88 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Gertrud Fridh

Plot This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann...

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

Face to Face

1976 · Movie · 136 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Aino Taube · Gunnar Björnstrand

Plot A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullman) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955 · Movie · 109 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Ulla Jacobsson · Harriet Andersson · Margit Carlqvist

Plot Distinguished lawyer Frederik Egerman lives with Anne, his picturesque, young wife, his son Henrik, a forlorn student of the cloth, and Petra, the flirtatious yet sensible maid. One summer evening...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Summer Interlude

1951 · Movie · 96 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Maj-Britt Nilsson · Birger Malmsten · Alf Kjellin · Mimi Pollak

Plot While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Magic Flute (TV)

1975 · Movie · 135 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Josef Kostlinger · Irma Urrila · Hakan Hagegard · Elisabeth Erikson

Plot Ingmar Bergman has stated that THE MAGIC FLUTE had long since been an inspiration to him by the time he directed this movie version of an actual staging of Mozart’s...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Making of Fanny and Alexander

1984 · Documentary · 110 min. · Sweden

7.2

142 votes

7.2

142 votes

The Naked Night

1953 · Movie · 93 min. · Sweden

Max

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

In the Presence of a Clown (TV)

1997 · Movie · 119 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Börje Ahlstedt · Marie Richardson · Erland Josephson · Peter Stormare

Plot Inventor Carl Åkerblom is 54, as rosy-cheeked as a child, an admirer of Franz Schubert--and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala. He has attempted to...

7.1

499 votes

7.1

499 votes

The Rite (TV)

1969 · Movie · 72 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Anders Ek · Erik Hell

Plot A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated:...

Max

7.1

943 votes

7.1

943 votes

To Joy

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Maj-Britt Nilsson · Stig Olin · Victor Sjöström · Birger Malmsten

Plot This relatively minor film by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman examines the progress of the marriage of two violinists. The film's title, To Joy, refers to the last movement of Beethoven's...

7.1

514 votes

7.1

514 votes

The Serpent's Egg

1977 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast David Carradine · Liv Ullmann · Gert Fröbe · Heinz Bennent

Plot In November of 1923, in a Berlin where a pack of cigarettes costs four million marks and people has lost faith in the present and future days, the alcoholic and...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Devil's Eye

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Jarl Kulle · Bibi Andersson · Nils Poppe · Gunnar Björnstrand

Plot The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce...

7.0

911 votes

7.0

911 votes

After the Rehearsal (TV)

1984 · Movie · 70 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Erland Josephson · Ingrid Thulin · Lena Olin · Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss

Plot Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the...

7.0

629 votes

7.0

629 votes

Brink of Life

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Ingrid Thulin · Bibi Andersson · Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Plot Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together, where they face the choice of keeping their babies...

7.0

676 votes

7.0

676 votes

Torment

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · Sweden

7.0

362 votes

7.0

362 votes

A Lesson in Love

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Gunnar Björnstrand · Yvonne Lombard · Harriet Andersson

Plot En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to...

6.9

489 votes

6.9

489 votes

Faro Document 1979 (TV)

1979 · Documentary · 103 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Annelie Nyström

Plot In 1969, Bergman made a surprisingly direct and political document about Fårö's importance. Ten years later, he decided to take a second look at situation. The update is surprisingly optimistic,...

6.8

51 votes

6.8

51 votes

Dreams

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Harriet Andersson · Gunnar Björnstrand · Ulf Palme

Plot Susanne is the owner of a model agency in Stockholm. Doris, her most popular model, has an argument with her fiancé, Palle, just before she goes with Susanne to Gothenburg...

6.8

871 votes

6.8

871 votes

Woman Without a Face

1947 · Movie · 102 min. · Sweden

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes