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Series
Criterion collection volume 134
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Description
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen₂s legendary silent film anticipates gothic horror, documentary re-creation, and the essay film, making for an experience unlike anything else in cinema.
2) Shelley
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a couple living in a remote area arranges for their maid to be their surrogate mother, the maid becomes more ill as the pregnancy progresses and they start to worry about what's growing inside of her.
4) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema₂s most influential ideas.
5) Together
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Swedish
Description
Stockholm, 1975. Fleeing her drunken husband Rolf, Elisabeth leaves along with their two children and takes shelter in the "sharehome commune" where her brother Gr̲an lives. Their arrival unexpectedly sets off a chain of events where the commune's residents soon find their ideals clashing with their heart's desires.
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Swedish
Description
An opera by Mozart, in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer.
7) Mammoth
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Leo is a successful web entrepreneur in New York, married to emergency room surgeon Ellen. When Leo is suddenly sent to Thailand on a business trip, Ellen finds herself clashing with their daughter Jackie's nanny Gloria, who has two children of her own living in the Phillipines.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Swedish
Description
Awkward teenager Agnes has recently moved with her family to the small rural town of Åmål, and has a secret: she's head over heels in love with one of the popular girls at her school, the impulsive and restless Elin. When a doomed birthday party leads to a chance encounter between the pair, an unexpected romance blossoms that might be the most exciting thing to happen in Åmål in years.
9) Lilya 4-ever
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Russian
Description
In the Soviet Union, teenage girl Lilya finds herself with nowhere left to turn when she is abandoned by her mother and neglected by her aunt. Vulnerable to exploitation and rejected by the local community, Lilya thinks her luck has changed when she meets the charming Andrei, who tells her to move to Sweden- however, the worst is yet to come.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom every body avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.
11) Shelley
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Louise and Kasper, a Danish couple, live in an isolated villa in the middle of the forest away from modern life. Louise's biggest dream is to become a mother but she is unable to have children. She finally decides, out of desperation, to seal a pact with her maid, Elena. Elena accepts to bear Louise's child as a surrogate mother in exchange for a large amount of money. The life growing inside of her is taking shape too fast, affecting the lives of...
12) Shame
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
An examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist₂s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
"Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture"--IMDb.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate--with...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the suspicion of assassination.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg, forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Swedish
Description
A Hole in My Heart (2004, 98 min.): Two men and one woman attempt to film an amateur porn video in a squallid flat, all while the teenage son of one of the men watches from outside. As the claustrophobic filming continues, more is exposed on camera than their bodies as the group begins to unravel. Container (2006, 74 min.): Partially filmed in Chernobyl, a stream-of-consciousness voiceover accompanies a gritty, hypnotic flurry of images where a man...
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
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