Åke Fridell

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (imdb)

A small town at the turn of the century. Lawer Fredrik Egerman has an ingénue-wife, Anne, and a grown-up son, Henrik, from an earlier marriage. His wife is still untouched, and instead he meets his former mistress Desiree after her performance at the theatre. They leave the theatre together and Egerman falls in one of the puddles. Desiree takes him to her home and Egerman changes into a night-shirt, owned by count Malcolm, Desirees present lover... (imdb)

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports... (imdb)

Harry Lund, 19 years old, works at a stock-room for glass and porcelain. In the vicinity works 17 year old Monika at a stock-room for vegetables. Monika is a cheerful and happy young woman and when she sees Harry at a cafe she starts to talk with him. They fall in love with each other... (imdb)

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough... (imdb)

Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken up her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling memories and their dreams to each other. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland. (imdb)

Young Karl-Bertil dreams of becoming a modern-day Robin Hood. He spends the Christmas holiday working at the Post Office and makes sure that some of the Christmas gifts to the wealthy people are distributed to the less fortunate of the society. (imdb)

The crew of a Swedish ship finds itself in a foreign port amongst people of a multitude of nationalities in the years before WWII.

Bara en Mor takes place in a Statare, a farming community where the workers and their families were reduced to virtual serfdom by the landowners. Rya-Rya, the central character played by Eva Dahlbeck, is the mother of a large and ever-expanding brood. Rya-Rya must not only worry about putting food in the mouths of her children, but also reaching the inevitable day when she will have outgrown her usefulness to the landlords -- and must face the loss of her home and land. (allmovie.com)

A 1966 Swedish drama film directed by Jan Troell, based on the second of Eyvind Johnson's semi-autobiographical series of four novels Romanen om Olof, about a working-class boy growing up in northern Sweden. (en.wikipedia.org)

A young woman is hit by a car and needs surgery. While the anesthesia takes hold, the events that led to the accident are revealed. (imdb)

Invading summer guests clash with the locals.

Bombi Bitt is a wild rascal in the 1930's in Southern Sweden. Eli, the proper son of the station master, becomes his admiring partner. (imdb)

Rasmus runs away from the orphanage where he lives, to try to find new parents. He meets Paradise-Oskar, and together they try to find a new home for Rasmus.

A relay race of "scenes from human life". The recurring theme is how mankind's worst qualities spread like a disease: the person who gets rejected/humiliated/downtrodden takes it out on someone else. What goes around... (ingmarbergman.se)

Lieutenant Canitz only interests in life are women and horses. Soon, he has wasted his inheritance, and when he learns that his brother leave home to meet with an old flame, he tries to seduce his wife. (imdb)

Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost and the two trade places. (imdb)

16-year-old Marie has been released from a juvenile detention school. She is sent to Skåne to get as far as possible from Stockholm, where she previously lived. She is unhappy, runs away and hitchhike back to Stockholm. (imdb)

Valentin Skog is the grocery owner grocery in the small town of Fagersund. The three brothers Grym are about to do anything to get hold of his shop. (imdb)

Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.