Screenplay: August Strindberg

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


Miss Julie

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · Sweden

Direction Alf Sjöberg

Cast Anita Björk · Ulf Palme · Märta Dorff · Lissi Alandh

Synopsis While never as highly regarded as those illustrious filmmakers who surrounded him, the early films of director Alf Sjöberg helped Swedish cinema thrive during its transition from silent to sound films. For his work as a director of the Royal...

6.7

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6.7

233 votes

Miss Julie

1999 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mike Figgis

Cast Saffron Burrows · Peter Mullan · Maria Doyle Kennedy · Tam Dean Burn

Synopsis A footman seduces a count's daughter.

6.2

250 votes

6.2

250 votes

Miss Julie

2014 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Liv Ullmann

Cast Jessica Chastain · Colin Farrell · Samantha Morton · Nora McMenamy

Synopsis Miss Julie (Jessica Chastain) has recently broken her engagement to her wealthy fiancé. On Midsummer night eve, with her father out of town, Miss Julie and her best friend Viola throw a party for their friends; on the same day,...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Padre

1912 · Movie · 30 min. · Italy

Direction Dante Testa · Gino Zaccaria

Cast Ermete Zacconi · Lidia Quaranta · Dante Testa · Giovanni Casaleggio

Synopsis Evariste Marny, a business rival of Andrew Vivanti, is threatened with ruin, and to eliminate competition hires a town vagabond, Tonio, to fire the factory of Vivanti.

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La danse de mort

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

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Julie

2011 · Movie · 80 min. · Denmark

Direction Linda Wendel

Cast Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Rolf Hansen · Trine Appel · Jesper Christensen

Synopsis Julie, a young passionate tennis star, falls in love with her trainer. She longs for love and affirmation, but also to be able to free herself from the demands of her ambitious and bankrupt father. It all turns into a...

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The Dance of Death

1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Giles

Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye

Synopsis An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military...

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Creditors

1988 · Movie · 118 min. · Sweden

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Giftas

1955 · Movie · 74 min. · Sweden

Direction Anders Henrikson

Cast Anita Björk · Anders Henrikson · Elsa Carlsson · Edvin Adolphson

Synopsis The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he...

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Karin Månsdotter

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · Sweden

Direction Alf Sjöberg

Cast Ulla Jacobsson · Jarl Kulle · Ulf Palme · Olof Widgren

Synopsis Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in...

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A Dream Play (TV)

1963 · Movie · 113 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Uno Henning · Allan Edwall · Olof Widgren

Synopsis The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel".

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The Stronger (S)

2007 · Movie · 10 min. · United Kingdom

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El pecado de Julia

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · Argentina

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La danse de mort

1982 · Movie · 123 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Michel Bouquet · Juliette Carré · Niels Arestrup · Madeleine Marie

Synopsis Alice and Edgar, nicknamed "The Captain", lead a rather miserable existence. They are embittered by life and reject each other's failures. As they approach their 25th wedding anniversary, they are tired and weary of their old daily perfidies that have...

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Pelícano

2019 · Movie · 90 min. · Chile

Direction Gustavo Letelier

Cast Silvia Novak · Mario Olivares · Benjamin Gorroño · Paula Edwards

Synopsis A greedy unscrupulous mother pushes her family to live on the verge of total collapse in a Chilean town in the coast. Set in 2008, this story of damnation can be described as 'today's wrath of the Gods'

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Storm Weather (TV)

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Uno Henning · Ingvar Kjellson · Gunnel Broström · Mona Malm

Synopsis An elderly gentleman is trying to find peace and quiet in a fashionable residential house. He pass the time by chatting a local confectioner and by playing chess with his brother. The tranquility is disturbed by a singer moving in...

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