Carl Barcklind

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Violet, employed as a maid of Count Berkow, is wrongly accused of burglary of the Count. After an unjust prison sentence Violet travels to America.

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best friends.

A combination of comedy and romance revolving around the many part-time jobs held by a girl before she acquires a full-time job as a wife.

Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

Jean Bazard and the lawyer Alphonse Car are rivals of the beautiful Rose Legrange, but Bazard wins her love. Carrel is more successful in his shameful economic speculations together with banker Leroux, who is Roses's uncle.

Awa, the daughter of a lighthose keeper, marries the wealthy Frank Helmer. But urban life proves difficult for Awa, and when a woman from Frank’s past reappears in his life, Awa’s life goes from bad to worse.

Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?

The notary Georg Edfeldt is in love with Dagny Anderberg. Dagny's father is the lawyer Harry Anderberg, who refuses to give his consent to Georg's marriage to Dagny.

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

Calle Lundgren is a shop assistant and spends most days as errand boy for Nisse and flirting with the ladies, especially a girl called Amanda. One day Calle read in the newspaper that he is the sole heir to a Swedish American millionaire who has just died.

Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt receives her orphaned niece Marianne to bring her up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Marianne is a spirited and vibrant young girl who is also an aspiring actress. The Countess is dismayed by her uneducated behavior and treats her severely.

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

The waitress Inga is pregnant and the father, the sailor Edvin, tells her to find someone who can handle the child instead of him.

Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).

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

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 family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.

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 boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.

Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.

A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.

Torsten and Sven are in love with Inger, who prefers Sven. Due to jealousy, Torsten destroys the radio system aboard the fishing boat as Sven will release the following morning. During the fishing season it blows up, but as the radio is not working, the crew does not know anything about the danger.

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 him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.

A couple of Swedish men do business across the border involving both Russians and Poles.

Homeowner Edlund is forced to borrow money from Mauritz Berg, the local sawmill owner, but soon finds it is not an end to his problems or his dealings with Berg.