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Heremias Book One: The Legend of The Lizard Princess
2006
A small group travels by caravan and cow along country roads. One of its members, the middle-aged man Heremias, suddenly decides that he wants to live on his own. The film then follows him as he attempts to begin a new life as a community of one, entering into dialogue both with his fellow men and...
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The Face of Time
2000
Reflections upon aging and changes in life.
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The Great Adventure
1953
The fox’ life in the forest, as well as the lives of the birds, the otters and the two young boys who lives nearby. It starts innocently enough on a beautiful summer`s day, with a fox playing and looking for food. But things soon get darker.
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The Great Bridge
2001
A child plays the violin while the most extensive orchard of pears in Sweden is destroyed to make room for a giant bridge for cars. Contemporary man worships development, but is still in a state of fright when it comes knocking at the door.
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The Hour of the Wolf
1968
Johan Borg is a painter who lives with his wife, Alma, on a island, where they have a summer cottage. One day Baron von Merkens, the owner of the island, invites them to his castle. At the dinner, Borg is mocked and intimidated by his hosts. Meanwhile, Alma has discovered a diary of Johan’s, in...
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Girl With Hyacinths
1950
A woman leaves a party, goes home, and is found dead the next day, killed by her own hand. Why did she want to die? Flashbacks show who she was and the people she met. Will her secret die with her?
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The New Land
1972
A sequence for The Emigrants (1971). Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. The winters and summers are more extreme than in the Old World. But the immigrants are rewarded for their hard work. They now live a better life than they did in Sweden. Bad times also come,...
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A Passion
1969
Andreas Winkelmann, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna Fromm, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith...
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Balletprimadonnan
1916
A gipsy dancer is discovered by a violin player in an orchestra and is admitted to a ballet-dance academy. This is only a fragment of the film that was lost in the archives of the film producers. The end of the film shows a performance by the ballerina.
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The Atonement of Gösta Berling
1924
An adaptation by Stiller and Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius of the book of the same name by Selma Lagerlöf. The film launched Greta Garbo who was only nineteen years old. This is a long and turbulent tale about a priest who renounces priesthood and starts a search for the values of morals and redemption...
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Gunnar Hede`s Saga
1923
Young Gunnar Hede inherits a flock of sheep from his grandfather in the northern reaches of the country. The grandfather was both shepherd and pioneer, a violinist, and Gunnar is fascinated to the point he wishes to follow in his footsteps. However, his mother is oppressive, and his relatives will...
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As It Is in Heaven
2004
Daniel Dareus is a conductor of international renown. In private, however, he feels lonely, miserable, and weary from the demands his lifestyle makes on him. Some time later, he undergoes a psychological and emotional shock such that he abruptly interrupts his career and returns to his own country,...
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Voice of Ludmila
2001
In April, 1986, Ljudmila Ignatenko is 23 years old. She is five months pregnant and deeply in love with her husband, fireman Vasili. The place where they live can hardly be described as pleasant: Pripyat, in Ucrania, a city built in the vicinity of Chernobyl. At dawn, on the 26th of that same...
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Alexander the Great
1917
A subtle comedy of manners on the upper class in a small urban city where the majority of events take place in a hotel that is run by the well-meaning chef in the restaurant, known as Alexander the Great. Consisting of a series of short, amusing stories : invariably involving romance, encounters,...
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Daybreak
2003
One day in the life of a group of people. Some know each other, others not, but at the end of these 24 hours, none will be able to continue living exactly as before. Rickard is a successful surgeon who is sure of a promotion until he was barred for having placed the lives of some of his patients at...
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Love and Journalism
1916
An explorer returns to his country after years exploring inhospitable places, but refuses to tell of the dangers he faced. A reporter then secures a job in his house to obtain details of his voyage. The bumbling housemaid and her escapades lend themselves to the director?s purpose in resorting to...
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Wandering With the Moon
1945
A travelling theatre company stops in a little town. A young man happens to be passing by their bus, and one of the actresses follows him on a walk. They fall in love and, whilst the theatre company is in town, we follow their love affair and the affairs of the rest of the theater company.
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Instead of Abracadabra
2008
Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option. Bengt, his father, just wants him to grow up and get a proper job. At dad’ birthday party, Tomas gives his parents, the birthday guests and first and foremost...
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The Jordbro Children
1996
Esta série de cinco documentários foi rodada com espantosa regularidade ao longo de 23 anos, em Jordbro, subúrbio de Estocolmo. Seu elenco constituiu-se dos 25 alunos de uma classe de primeira série primária, escolhida ao acaso. O grupo foi filmado ano após ano, acompanhando-se sua...
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Back to Ararat
1988
Esse documentário reconstitui a Diáspora Armênia, marcada, em 1915, pelo genocídio de grande parte dos habitantes de seu antigo território. Um tema que comprometeu a segurança da equipe de filmagem, perseguida pela polícia secreta turca na tentativa de roubar os negativos. O roteiro reúne...
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Bananas!
2009
The world’s biggest fruit company - Dole Food Company - is on trial in the USA by the accusation of poisoning their workers. For the first time in history, a small US law firm represents Nicaraguan workers, who claim to be infertile because of the toxic pesticides the fruit-corporation used on...
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Bastards in Paradise
2000
A group of youngsters of different ethnic origins goes through misadventures in the suburbs of Stockholm, in Sweden. Each is all of the time obliged to face up to a society that does not look on immigrants with favorable eyes, an attitude that augments the abyss and strengthens the dividing line...
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Beleza Sueca
2000
The summer of 1968. Anders and Börje are friends in a small city in up-country Sweden, where practically nothing ever happens. Expectations girate around an icecream in the city square or in outings with Billy and his gang. Summer does not seem that inspiring. Until a bus arrives and from it, in...
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Beyond
2010
A morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her...