167 Films & TV Shows Set In Sweden
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The Sacrifice
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1980sAlexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
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My Life as a Dog
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1950sA boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
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The Charter Trip
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇪🇸 Spain Atlantic OceanStig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
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Children's Island
🇸🇪 SwedenBased on the 1976 popular children’s Novel “Children’s Island” by P.C.Jersilds — Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
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The Call-up
🇸🇪 SwedenIt's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Autumn Sonata
🇸🇪 SwedenAfter a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
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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.
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Dagny
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇴 Norway The 19th CenturyDagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
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Thunderclump
🇸🇪 SwedenDunderklumpen lives all alone in the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsummer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.
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Cries and Whispers
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1890sFour women dressed in white in a mansion painted red...haunted by whispers and cries. — As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's attempted suicide, caused by his discovery of her extramarital affair. The self-loathing, suicidal Karin seems to regard her sister with revulsion. Only Anna, the deeply religious maid who lost her young child, seems able to offer Agnes solace and empathy.
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Emil in Lonneberga
🇸🇪 SwedenEmil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
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The Emigrants
Minnesota 🇸🇪 Sweden Atlantic Ocean The 1840sa new land...a new hope...a new dream — A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
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Pippi on the Run
🇸🇪 SwedenFed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
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Pippi in the South Seas
🇸🇪 SwedenPippi in the South Seas (original title is Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series. Pippi, with friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on the South Seas to hunt for her father, who has been kidnapped by pirates.
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The Buttercup Chain
England 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇪🇸 SpainWhen two people are in love they're a couple. When four people are in love they're the Buttercup Chain. — Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
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Pippi Longstocking
🇸🇪 SwedenThe most famous children's book of the last decade - Now a motion picture! — Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series.
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Pippi Goes on Board
🇸🇪 SwedenPippi Longstocking's third great adventure! — This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi Långstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a king in the Southern Seas. Brother & sister Tommy and Annika become her friends and the 13 episodes detail their adventures together. Pippi Goes on Board is the USA title, with the original title being "Here Comes Pippi Longstocking!" (Här kommer Pippi Långstrump).
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Adalen 31
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1930sA 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen, killing five people, including a young girl.
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The Dance of Death
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1900sAn 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 life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizoid who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.
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The Dance of Death
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1900sAn adaptation of the play by August Strindberg.
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I Am Curious (Blue)
🇸🇪 SwedenLook who's flying into the blue! — The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
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Sweden: Heaven and Hell
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1960sSweden... where the facts of life are stranger than fiction! — Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.
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Fanny Hill
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1960sI'm there with sex and love all the way! — The classic tale of a young woman's erotic awakening is transplanted to swinging '60s Stockholm...
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Out of an Old Man's Head
🇸🇪 SwedenAfter being admitted to a residential home starts the retired bricklayer Johan to dream back to his childhood - the safe upbringing with his parents, the first love, and how he with a broken heart ran away from home, and was forced to fend for himself. How he got married, had a son, barely managed to scrape together enough money for food and shelter, the son ran away from home and his wife died.
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
🇸🇪 SwedenLena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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