8 Films & TV Shows Set In Sweden During The 1970s
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Stockholm
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1970sBased on an absurd but true story — Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
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Ted - Show Me Love
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sChronicling the beautiful and tragic life and career of Ted Gärdestad, this biopic tells the story of the great highs and lows of one of Sweden's most loved artists.
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Borg vs McEnroe
New York England 🇸🇪 Sweden The 1980s The 1970sSome stars shine forever — The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.
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Gentlemen
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1970s The 1960sBeaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
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Call Girl
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1970sYouth is seductive. Power is corrupt. — Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇯🇴 Jordan The 1970s The 1960s'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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Ganes
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland The 1970s The 1960sRemu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
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The Boys from Brazil
Pennsylvania 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇾 Paraguay The 1970sIf they survive … will we? — Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
