Top 20 Greatest Swedish Movies of All Time

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1. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

Director: Roy Andersson

A man with soot on his face is standing in a tube car. He is holding a plastic bag filled with paperwork and remains of them, in his right hand. A man is holding tenaciously to the employer who just fired him in a hallway.

“I’ve been here for thirty years!” he yells. Someone is waiting for his father in a coffee shop after his father just burned down his furniture business to get insurance money.

Amid congested streets and self-pitying stock traders, an economist looking for a solution to the issue of work being unaffordable peers into a scryer’s crystal ball. While each character has a destination, it changes throughout the narrative. – Swedish Movies

2. A Hole in My Heart (2004)

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Eric, a teenager, shares a rundown flat with his father, Rickard. Eric spends the majority of his time isolated in his room, blasting industrial music to block out the noise from the world.

He has good reason to be a little uneasy about his surroundings — Rickard has taken over the living room, where his mentally troubled friend Geko and a blank young woman named Tess are “starring” in his most recent movie.

Rickard is an amateur filmmaker who specializes in wild sex videos. Over several days of filming, Rickard and his cast lose sight of the outside world and get more and more numb to their decadence. Eric is compelled to step in as the sexual play escalates and threatens to turn violent. – Swedish Movies

3. Daybreak (2003)

Director: Björn Runge

In the movie about a small Swedish village, three loosely connected tales of treachery and human frailty occur. Christmas in Sweden. Because of his drug addiction, surgeon Rickard is informed that the position he was hoping for would go to a Dane. It’s too late to change the date of his in-laws’ dinner.

The visiting couple declares that their in-vitro was successful. Then Richard’s spouse finds out that he had an affair with Sofie. To buy a taser her ex, Olaf, and his former physical therapist, ugly hag Anita swaps narcotics. Infuriated by his grieve-deranged customer Knut’s scheme, workaholic builder Anders resolves to prioritize his family over money. – Swedish Movies

4. Private Confessions (1996)

Director: Liv Ullmann

This film, which Ingmar Bergman wrote about his parents, is structured around five dialogues about a damaged marriage. The guilty wife Anna tells her uncle Jacob, a priest, about an adulterous relationship. She is compelled to tell her spouse, Henrik, about her transgressions.

The idea of truth is put to the test as the movie jumps around in time. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will discover that Anna’s confessions can cause even more suffering and do not exonerate anyone. – Swedish Movies

5. As It Is in Heaven (2004)

Director: Kay Pollak

Daniel, a well-known conductor, had a difficult upbringing in his hometown of Sweden. Daniel was ridiculed by his classmates there as he worked with his mother to launch a musical career. Daniel is currently a very temperamental conductor who is very unforgiving of his musicians.

Additionally, he suffers from an odd illness that causes him to bleed from the nose. He suffers a heart attack following a concert. Despite having worked following eight years, he chooses to go back to Sweden and take an indefinite retirement.

Daniel makes a home in the dilapidated primary school in his hometown. The local reverend asks Daniel to serve as the conductor of the church choir, which is made up of a variety of locals and has a variety of issues. The choir members must first learn how to identify their unique voice tone and the musical foundation from Daniel. Daniel is immediately drawn to the attractive female Lena.

However, Daniel will also have to deal with prejudice from some choir members who believe that Daniel is more interested in Lena than the choir, as well as other issues like a woman who is battered by her alcoholic husband. The jealous reverend, on the other hand, starts to feel devalued by Daniel and takes the allegations against him and Lena seriously. – Swedish Movies

6. Evil (2003)

Director: Mikael Håfström

A teen boy who had been expelled from school for fighting decides to fight back when he enrolls at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is promoted as a way to preserve order. Due to his violence, Erik is expelled from school.

He eventually enrolls in a private boarding school where older students have authority over younger ones. The flatmate of Erik, Pierre, becomes a friend. Erik, the protagonist, only wants to graduate and be left alone. The elders don’t like it when he doesn’t listen to what they have to say. – Swedish Movies

7. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)

Director: Tony Stone

A Viking expedition makes landfall in the New World in the year 1007 and makes its way south in quest of the fabled Vinland. Two men who had gone ahead to explore the interior are left behind, presumed dead when their company is assaulted by “Skraelings” and must flee for safety.

The two, who are still alive despite being stuck on the rocky shore, travel north to find their fellow compatriots. The difficulties of a foreign environment are met by the Norsemen in quite diverse ways because they are plagued by memories and visions of the Old World.

They are not the only ones in the woods, even though the area appears to be densely forested and uninhabited; Irish monks and Indians both play a role in their epic journey through the Americas. – Swedish Movies

8. You, the Living (2007)

Director: Roy Andersson

The movie You, the Living is about people and how magnificent and base they can be, how happy and sad they can be, how confident and uneasy they may be, and how they want to love and be loved.

A collection of scenes that concentrate especially on a specific concept, feeling, or behavior. This movie can take one major effect and inflate it to outrageous and amusing levels in the absence of interfering qualities.

Each scene offers us a continuous look at some of the less desirable qualities that ultimately shape who we are, both as unique beings and as a thread in the tapestry of the collective psyche of humans. – Swedish Movies

9. Sound of Noise (2010)

Director: Ola Simonsson

The story centers on tone-deaf police officer Amadeus Warnebring, a member of a prominent musical family, and his efforts to find a group of six guerilla percussionists who are terrorizing the city with their anarchic public concerts.

The drum set components match avant-garde music with four movements that are delightfully named. The movie lets the six drummers loose on the municipal and cultural institutions of an unnamed city, in contrast to the short where they creatively used common flat furnishings as their instruments.

In contrast to the monotonous, repetitive sounds of daily life, the movie delivers a delight for the sights and ears by providing hilarious backstories for each of the soberly attired drummers as well as their adversary, the music-hating investigator Warnebring. – Swedish Movies

10. A Song for Martin (2001)

Director: Bille August

Martin, a Swedish composer and conductor, and Barbara, a concertmaster, fall in love. They got divorced and are now happily married. Martin receives an Alzheimer’s diagnosis when he is writing an opera.

It gradually alters him. At one of his performances, renowned composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara, and the two become romantically involved. Martin and Barbara got married and have a lovely life together after being divorced from their marriages.

Martin is given an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis five years later when the duo is working on a new opera. The pair struggles to hold onto the love that originally brought them together as Martin’s illness deteriorates and his personality alters. – Swedish Movies

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11. Aniara (2018)

Director: Pella Kagerman

After a global apocalypse, inhabitants are transported to Mars via a spacecraft. The consumption-obsessed passengers are forced to reflect on their place in the universe when it deviates from its route. – Swedish Movies

12. Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)

Director: Ella Lemhagen

Dr. Göran and his partner live in a suburb of Sweden when they get a letter telling them they can finally adopt Patrik 1,5. They set up a room for Patrik knowing that he is a one-and-a-half-year-old infant, but there is a mistake. Patrick is a homophobic fifteen-year-old with a criminal history.

Although it is Friday afternoon and they have to wait until Tuesday to contact the Social Service, the gay couple assumes there has been a mix-up. Sven and the teenager clash during the weekend, but Göran makes friends with Patrik and learns that he’s a skilled gardener.

Sven departs from Göran after a dispute between the two men regarding Patrik. When Göran finds out that Patrik has been abandoned by families for ten years, he decides to adopt him. However, since Patrik is now alone, his original adoption process is no longer legal, therefore he must create a new application. – Swedish Movies

13. The Last Sentence (2012)

Director: Jan Troell

A fictional account of journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who in the 1930s warned the Swedish people about the dangers of fascism. In the 20th century, Torgny Segerstedt was a prominent journalist in Sweden.

Until he died in 1945, he fought a one-man war against Hitler and the Nazi dictatorship, and throughout these turbulent years, his private life was marked by a world in disarray as he fell in love with his friend’s wife while still married.

A psychological love story that also depicts the political predicament that Sweden was in during the Second World War. A compelling, dramatic, and poetic story about an unstoppable guy. – Swedish Movies

14. Becoming Astrid (2018)

Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen

From the age of sixteen onward, Astrid Lindgren’s upbringing on their farm in the Swedish countryside near Vimmerby is depicted. She attends church, dances, and helps out on the farm. After her essay is published by the neighborhood newspaper, she is given the chance to intern there.

She has a relationship with the older, unhappy-married newspaper editor. He sends her to a secretarial school in Stockholm when she gets pregnant. To help him avoid the problems of a divorce, she gives birth in Denmark, but ultimately she decides not to wed him.

Over her decision to keep her child and not give him to his foster mother, she has a falling out with her family. She keeps working as a secretary in a car club in Stockholm and can now afford her flat. Her son is already quite elderly when he finally moves home with her. In the end, she makes amends with her relatives, who then receive their grandson back home. – Swedish Movies

15. Simon & the Oaks (2011)

Director: Lisa Ohlin

During World War II, two boys in Sweden reach adulthood. An epic tale of two families in Sweden’s Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s.

And their relationship and shared fate and told from the viewpoint of young Simon Larsson, who finds out that his German Jewish father adopted him and that he is an adopted child.

Simon sets out to discover his family history after World War II, a trip that reveals the fundamental riddles of human existence. Immediately following Marianne Fredriksson’s most popular book. – Swedish Movies

16. Sunday’s Children (1992)

Director: Daniel Bergman

The movie alternates between Pu’s summertime activities in Norrland, Sweden, and the adult Pu’s visit to his father, who resides in an old people’s home. Little Pu and his entire family spend a summer in Norrland in the 1920s. He and his brother are allowed to hear the tale of the watchmaker who hanged himself, learn how to shoot a bow, and ride bikes with their father. – Swedish Movies

17. Show Me Love (1998)

Director: Lukas Moodysson

In a little Swedish town, two teenage females. Elin is attractive, well-liked, and dissatisfied with life. Agnes lacks friends, is depressed, and has a crush on Elin. The latest trends are outdated when they arrive in the small, unimportant town of ml, where nothing ever happens.

Although Elin is young and has a somewhat negative reputation when it comes to men, the truth is that she lacks experience in that area. Agnes, a different student at her school, has a crush on her but is too hesitant to act. Elin finds herself attending Agnes’ birthday party alone for a variety of reasons.

After their night out, Elin furiously avoids Agnes, unwilling to even think about dating her. Following their girls’ night out, Elin avoids Agnes like the plague, unwilling to even acknowledge how she feels about Agnes. – Swedish Movies

18. We Are the Best! (2013)

Director: Lukas Moodysson

Even though they don’t have any instruments and are constantly being informed that punk is dead, three females in 1980s Stockholm decide to start a punk band.

In Stockholm in the early 1980s, thirteen-year-old Bobo, a typical student who lives with her divorced mother, draws inspiration from groups like KSMB and Ebba Grön and rejects the notion that punk music is no longer relevant.

Together with her classmate Klara, who has similar musical tastes, and with the assistance of the skilled but reserved eighth-grader Hedvig, the girls decide to form a band, picking up musical instruments for the first time. But strangely, what began as a joke will soon become a reality for this aspiring punk band, which is propelled by teenage defiance, and they already have a song in their possession. – Swedish Movies

19. Easy Money (2010)

Director: Daniel Espinosa

JW’s fate is linked to two other men when he turns to drug trafficking to continue his double life: Jorge, a man who is on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is looking for Jorge. – Swedish Movies

20. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

Director: Roy Andersson

A series of absurdist episodes follow the adventures of Sam and Jonathan, two hapless novelty merchants, as they travel through reality and fiction to explore the human condition. A pair of inept novelty salesmen named Sam and Jonathan takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the human condition that plays out in absurdist episodes. These episodes include a sing-along in a 1940s beer hall, a shady flamenco teacher, a thirsty King Charles XII of Sweden on his way to battle, and other bits of fact and fantasy. – Swedish Movies

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