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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
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.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. In Episode 8 "Sleepwalker," Maria heads the investigation into a murder that occurred close to the place where she was assaulted. When more bodies turn up, Maria and her team try to discover if the incidents could be related. In Episode 9 "Not until the giver is dead," a series of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 828
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Swedish
Description
Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift...
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Swedish
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes director approved special edition features.
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson wins a camera in a lottery and finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
When Allan lands in a nursing home, he refuses to celebrate his 100th birthday and instead escapes out a window to embark on a journey that involves a suitcase of cash and a gang of criminals. Flashbacks reveal that Allan played a key role in 20th century history when he was pals with U.S. presidents and Russian tyrants.
10) Border
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
A BORDER guard with the special ability to smell human emotions meets a mysterious man that confounds her detection, forcing her to confront disturbing insights about herself. Nominated for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Britt-Marie is a 63-year-old housewife who has just left a 40-year marriage. The small town of Borg has lost its pride, except for the young soccer team, which Britt-Marie now has to coach. This journey will be filled with struggles and challenges, but also warmth and love.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Swedish
Description
12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Following a mental breakdown, Detective Peter Wendel is tasked with creating an elite team of investigators to crack cold cases. When the police find a note on a dead body that claims Sweden's most notorious serial killer is a fraud, Wendel gets a chance to redeem himself, but only the dregs of the force are available to work the case. Under pressure to mobilize quickly, Wendel is forced to hire two cops who hate each other, plus a forthright woman...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
In a time of brave knights, powerful queens and treacherous kings, Arn, a skilled swordsman, is sent to war as a Knight Templar as a penance for his sins. Separated from his one true love by a jealous nobleman, Arn must battle a cruel and violent world to survive.
15) Force majeure
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Swedish
Description
An idyllic family skiing vacation takes a stunning turn when an avalanche threatens the ski lodge restaurant, sending people fleeing and demanding quick decisions that change the course of the family's dynamics and trust.
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