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Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited on e last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Swedish
Description
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
5) 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.
6) 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.
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Swedish
Description
Adrian and Hampus have been living together for three years, and are engaged to be married. But their relationship has gone down an increasingly destructive relationship with Adrian, but the latter is devastated and heartbroken. Will he be able to survive without the love of his life, or is there a possible way of somehow getting him back?
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
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
19) We Are the Best!
Series
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
We Are the Best! is a story of three young misfit girls growing up in the early '80s Stockholm. Pixieish, mohawk-sporting Klara and her best friend Bobo are 13-year-old rebels looking for a cause. Despite having no instruments-or discernible musical talent-the two put all their energy into forming an all-girl punk band, recruiting their shy, classical guitar-playing schoolmate Hedwig as a third wheel. With tender affection for its young characters,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Swedish
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
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