Hjördis Petterson Movies

Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portrait and tells the story of how it came to be.

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Cast: Karin Ekelund

The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michael Fant

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sigurd Wallén

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Fant

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max von Sydow

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Börje Ahlstedt

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gösta Ekman

The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nils Poppe

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Karl-Arne Holmsten

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Babs

Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Elfström

Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herman Ahlsell

It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Dahlbeck

Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Holger Löwenadler

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Åke Söderblom

Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nils Poppe

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Babs

Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Håge

A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Håge

Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Håge

Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Håge

Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thor Modéen

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomas Fryk

Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation before discovering that her husband harbors a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gio Petré

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenne Fant

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand

Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Karl-Arne Holmsten

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Carlqvist

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tollie Zellman

Rich socialite must deny persistent rumours that she has an affair with a poor author.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jarl Kulle

Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson

The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alice Babs

When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Edvin Adolphson

Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta Bernhard on the radio.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stig Järrel

"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alf Kjellin

The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lauritz Falk

Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid...

Genre: Family

Cast: Eskil Dalenius

Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stig Järrel

Mrs. Andersson’s Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thor Modéen

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees people as the clothes he has in his wardrobe. On one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gösta Ekman

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sigurd Wallén

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dagmar Ebbesen

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olof Sandborg

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolf Jahr

Birgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and address to find a partner.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Hansen

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isa Quensel

Eva is an employee in a fashion store. One day she finds cruise tickets in the name of Bo Stensjö and boards the ship pretending to be his wife....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Astrid Marmstedt

In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olof Molander

The opera singer Carlo Martin comes to the Royal Opera for a guest performance and the girls in the ballet immediately gets a crush on him. Martin...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Viby

Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels to France and he goes after her. They get to know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hasse Ekman

The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirch Passer

Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Holger Löwenadler

Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, and he has to pretend it was all a joke. Hjalmar...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunn Wållgren

Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg -...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Olof Winnerstrand

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anders Henrikson

Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Viby

Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunnar Hellström

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunnar Sjöberg

At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karin Swanström

A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thor Modéen

Poppe plays Sven, an orphan who is being taken care of by the kind Mr. Carlsson. However, when Carlsson remarries a baroness, life becomes hard for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nils Poppe

Manager Hellman has an extramarital child he pays for maintenance. Soon he discovers that there are more people than he who pays for the unknown son.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erik 'Bullen' Berglund

They are currently developing a new type of mine at Fredrik's workplace. The head of the company is a young woman, Eva Seman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Stjernquist

The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viveca Lindfors

A school kitchen teacher works on a farm under a fake name.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugo Björne

The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Wigert

Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sigurd Wallén

The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Signe Hasso

The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand

Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nils Poppe

Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolf Jahr

The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stig Järrel

Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen...

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Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Calle and Palle work as assistants at Circus Bollini.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carl Reinholdz

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Whitmore

Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arne Ragneborn

"Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it forget the word "wholesale". Chaos arises until a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stig Järrel

The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Åke Grönberg

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brasse Brännström

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson

"Bleeding Hearts" - Comedy with charming hussar lieutenants, indulgent landlord daughters, wild rides and romantic mansion balls.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hasse Ekman

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police, all the while her family and friends discuss the possible motive.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eva Henning

Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sickan Carlsson

Kalle and his girlfriend Blenda is on his way home from Tivoli, when he says that he will be away for two years as mate on a sailing ship, but swears...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anders Henrikson

Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Brodin

After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up...

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Cast: Thor Modéen

A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nils Asther

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Henning

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sture Lagerwall

Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star...

Genre: Music

Cast: Karin Ekelund

The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Annalisa Ericson

A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harriet Andersson

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annalisa Ericson

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martin Ljung

A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him away with the help of fictional ghosts and other...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arne Källerud

In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stig Järrel

An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georg Rydeberg

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Fischer

A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elof Ahrle

A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thor Modéen

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until...

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Cast: Adolf Jahr

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ulla Wessman

Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst-Hugo Järegård

When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later...

Genre: Family

Cast: Leif Nilsson

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Åke Söderblom

The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gösta Ekman

A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Folke Sundquist

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sture Lagerwall

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbro Kollberg

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven...

Genre: Music

Cast: Evert Taube

"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lissi Alandh

A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ingrid Thulin

An old woman with unusual complaint visits a district medical officer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hjördis Petterson

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nils Poppe

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Viby

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Inga Tidblad

Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sture Lagerwall

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

Genre: Music

Cast: Alice Babs

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rod Taylor

A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christina Schollin

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.

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Cast: Erik Strandmark

The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks and sneezing powder.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tord Tjädersten

Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Victor Sjöström

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.

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Cast: Elof Ahrle

The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annalisa Ericson

Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernst-Hugo Järegård

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karin Ekelund

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Georg Rydeberg

A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margit Manstad

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thor Modéen

A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thore Skogman

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gösta Ekman

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Whitmore