Viveca Lindfors

Viveca Lindfors
Date of Birth: 29 Dec 1920
Country: Sweden
Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor)
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Stargate
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra (imdb)
Last Summer in the Hamptons
It concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances have forced them to put on the market.
Creepshow
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. (imdb)
The Sure Thing
A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally... (imdb)
The Way We Were
Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart. (imdb)
The Hand
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident... (imdb)
King of Kings
When the Romans under General Pompey conquer Judea in 63 BC, an era of despair and fear begins for the Jewish people. In the trials and persecutions that the Jews suffer under the Romans and under King Herod, they take hope in the promise that the Messiah someday would come... (imdb)
Moonfleet
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. The boy discovers that Fox is both a former lover of his mother and the leader of a gang of buccaneers. A strange friendship grows as their adventures go on. (imdb)
Dark City
Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his...then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience. (imdb)
Brainstorm
A young scientist saves an attractive married woman from a suicide attempt, becomes romantically involved with her, plots to kill her husband, and then fakes insanity to escape the murder charge. (imdb)
Adventures of Don Juan
The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen. (IMDb)
Girlfriends
A movie about women's relationships with their friends and how relationships with men can change their relationships with each other. (imdb)
A Bell from Hell
A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance. (imdb)
These Are the Damned
When an American on vacation falls afoul of a gang of Teddy Boys in London, he tries to escape by breaking into a top secret installation that is performing secret experiments on a group of children.
No Exit
A servant escorts a man and two women into a sparsely-furnished room, and it's understood that they'll be staying indefinitely. These three people don't know each other, and don't want to get to know each other, but circumstances require some acquaintance. (imdb)
Zandalee
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair. (imdb)
Run for Cover
Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (James Cagney) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with (John Derek) Cagney clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman (Viveca Lindfors) and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own. (imdb)
Backfire
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson who has fallen for Corey. (Answers.com)
Playing for Time
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors. (imdb)
Cauldron of Blood
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target. (imdb)
Weddings and Babies
Photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately. (imdb)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
The Story of Ruth
Ruth becomes the favorite of a pagan king but eventually flees to Israel. (TCM.com)
No Sad Songs for Me
A terminally ill woman struggles to leave her husband and child taken care of before she dies. (TCM.com)
Silent Madness
A homicidal maniac is accidentally released from a hospital because of a computer error and heads to the site (a sorority) of his past murders to continue his penchant for mayhem. Dr. Joan Gilmore takes off after him while the hospital administrators cover up the mistake and send some staff thugs out to get both the doctor and the escaped lunatic. (imdb)
Exiled in America
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him. (imdb)
I Accuse!
The famous "Dreyfus Case" where a Jewish captain in the French Army is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island. When the real traitor is found the French Army tries to hide the truth. (imdb)
The Halliday Brand
As a man returns home to see his dying father, the story of the alienation between father and son is told in flashback. Purposely letting his daughter's lover get lynched, shooting the lynched man's father when he threatens him with a gun, and the bullying tactics used by him as a Sheriff causes the son to leave. The son now plans to ruin his father and get his Sheriff's badge removed. (imdb)
Night Unto Night
Stars Ronald Reagan as John, a young scientist suffering from epilepsy. Viveca Lindfors co-stars as Ann, who is recovering from the loss of her husband. Both John and Ann head to the coast of Florida for rest and relaxation, and it is here that they fall in love. While John and Ann contend with their individual afflictions and private demons, their mutual friend Shawn (Broderick Crawford) dispenses philosophical advice. (allmovie.com)
Shag-O-Rama
Two disgruntled restaurant employees (David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette) decide to rob their employers (Buck Henry, Andre Gregory). (imdb)
Sylvia
Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Summers, a man who always fears he is being loved for his money, decides to make a small check on his prospective bride. The results of this check completely shock him. Not one fact matches 'his' Sylvia. Intregued and bewildered, Summers hires detective Alan Maklin and has him make a thorough investigation on 'Who Is Sylvia.' (imdb)
Welcome to L.A.
The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles. (imdb)
The Tenth Level
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazi's, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science." (imdb)
Tempest
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. (imdb)
This Side of the Law
David Cummings, a vagrant, is bailed out of jail by Philip Cagle, an attorney, who hires him to impersonate a missing millionaire, whose presence is necessary in order to distribute a $3,000,000 estate. Cummings' masquerade involves fooling the missing man's wife, his brother and the brother's wife. Cagle, desiring to be rid of Cummings, sets actions in play which ends in murder, attempted murder and the entombment of Cummings. Can he dig his way out and set things right? (imdb)
The Raiders
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife. (imdb)
The Flying Missile
Fictional account of the role played by a somewhat impetuous US Naval commander in developing the first means of launching missiles from submarines. (imdb)
Journey Into Light
A minister embittered by his wife's suicide turns away from God. He ends up among the bums of skid row before he finds meaning again through the love of a missionary's blind daughter. (imdb)
Divorce Wars
High-powered Seattle divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is failing and must juggle his own domestic conflicts with his clients' problems. (imdb)
Marilyn: The Untold Story
The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known. (imdb)
A Doctor\
A physician (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
An Affair of the Skin
This episodic drama is set in New York and chronicles the sexual lives and difficulties of three people as they describe their romantic woes. One is an aging fashion model who clings to her young lover because she knows that she will never have another. Two others are married, unhappy, and totally neurotic. (allmovie.com)
Four in a Jeep
In post-war Vienna, occupied by the Allies, four sergeants representing each of the occupying nations (USA, England, France, Soviet Union)patrol in the same Jeep. One day they are given the mission to capture and arrest a prisoner who has run away from a Soviet war prisoner camp. But when they learn the truth about Karl, the runaway, and Franziska, his wife, they decide to help him instead. The trouble is that the Soviet sergeant is held on a short leash by his superiors. (imdb)
Going Undercover
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not. (imdb)
Gula kliniken
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the priest, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
To the Victor
After serving bravely in WWII, American Paul remains in France and becomes a black marketeer. He meets Christine, an attractive French girl whose husband is in jail for collaborating with the Nazis, and they fall in love. But before they can make a life together, they must confront the "demons" that keep them apart. (imdb)
Morgondagens melodi
The young Maj-Lis Wassberg, daughter of a bank director and raised in a rich home on Strandvägen in Stockholm, is studying at Stockholm University College and enlisted at home. Through a study mate, Emmy, she is told about working conditions at the big department store "Vidi", and in a sudden impulse she decides to anonymously seek work there as an expedit. This would provide an interesting background to her theoretical studies at the Social Policy Institute.
Dies rigorose Leben
Story of the traumas and problems of two immigrant German families who live in a remote area of south west USA. (imdb)
Appassionata
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Rachel River
Comedy drama about a young journalist (Pamela Reed) who, upon returning to her Minnesota home town, begins to examine her life.
Snurriga familjen
The Bloom family is considered by most as totally dizzy. They have plenty of money and freedom. But grim times arrives, when both parents and children must prove that they can support themselves on honest work. (imdb)
Den allvarsamma leken
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man. (imdb)
I dödens väntrum
Swedish man is admitted to a Swiss clinic for terminally sick people. (imdb)
Singoalla
In 14th Century Sweden, when Lord Erland Maneskold marries Singoalla, a gypsy, he abandons his worldly possessions. The gypsies, who meanwhile have stolen the Maneskold treasure, want the couple to join their caravan to escape detection. A jealous suitor makes Erland think Singoalla has betrayed him, and he returns to his castle, where a battle between the gypsies and the landed-gentry ensues. Ten years later, Sorgbarn, the son born to Singoalla from the marriage sets out to find his father.
Brödernas kvinna
The poor young girl Emma marry the farmer Nicklas Botvide and his life will never be the same. (imdb)
Maria på Kvarngården
Maria is on trial for the murder of her husband. The story of how she met Birger and came to his family estate Kvarngården is told.
Frankenstein\
Aunt Frankenstein arrives to her nephew's castle to set things right and to clean the family name. Could she hope to work out the consensus between the angry villagers and the castle's supernatural inhabitants? (imdb)