Top 30 Greatest Swedish Movies of All Time. A list of best Swedish Movies. You should check out these Swedish Movies. These Swedish Movies will give you a lot of fun and practice.
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1. Call Girl (2012)
Director: Mikael Marcimain
A young girl from the lowest social strata is recruited into a brutal world where having power may gain you anything. The late 1970s, when Call Girl is set, were a moment of social security, the sexual revolution, Swedish neutrality, and women’s emancipation. The movie takes us on a journey through glitz and glamour, dark alleyways, the very bottom of society, and secret labyrinthine power corridors. The political scandal in Sweden known as Bordellhärvan, which connected child prostitution with influential clients allegedly from society’s highest echelons, served as the basis for the plot.
2. The Emigrants (1971)
Director: Jan Troell
Kristina and Karl-Oskar are living in a little rural village in Smaaland in the middle of the 19th century. They are married and endeavor to support themselves on a small plot of land. It is challenging, though, because of the small amount of their land, the barren soil, and a few poor harvests. Even one of their kids dies from starvation. As a result, they decide to immigrate to the United States. They encounter a group of farmers and their families who are preparing to emigrate under the direction of an outlawed priest. They liquidate everything and leave for America. The voyage aboard the sailing ship is arduous and protracted. The New World will never be reached by some of the emigrants.
3. The Square (2017)
Director: Ruben Östlund
The well-liked curator of a museum of modern art, Christian is a divorced but dedicated father of two who drives an electric car and donates to charitable organizations. The Square, his upcoming exhibition, serves as an invitation to charity and serves as a reminder of the obligations that come with being a responsible member of society. However, there are moments when it might be challenging to uphold your standards: Christian’s careless reaction to the loss of his phone forces him into embarrassing circumstances. The museum’s PR firm has launched an unexpected campaign for “The Square” in the meanwhile. The overstated response plunges the museum and Christian into existential turmoil.
4. Show Me Love (1998)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
The latest trends are outdated when they arrive in the small, unimportant town of ml, where nothing ever happens.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. Following their girls’ night out, Elin avoids Agnes like the plague, unwilling to even acknowledge how she feels about Agnes.
5. Persona (1966)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
A work of visual poetry that raises Bergman to a new professional level. One of the most significant works of this director is the bond that develops between the female characters in this movie, where there is a spiritual and emotional connection. This movie has a lot of psychological depth because of the contrasted imagery and dreamy lighting. Elisabeth Vogler seemed to have it all: she is a well-known actress, a contented wife, and a young mother. She spends three months in the hospital after becoming paralyzed one evening in the middle of a presentation, and her disease is never identified. Following this time, she spends her days in a vacation home close to the Baltic Sea where the nurse, Alma, helps her heal.
6. Sami Blood (2016)
Director: Amanda Kernell
Elle Marja, a 14-year-old indigenous Sámi girl, leaves her family’s reindeer camp and her untamed ancestral lands in 1930s Lapland to enroll with her younger sister Njenna in a far-off draconian boarding school. However, a painful visit by a team of anthropologists coupled with a traumatic experience will be the harsh reminders of an ever-present brutal prejudice and deep-seated racism as the bright rural student pursues an education and an opportunity that has been denied to her, desiring to integrate herself into the modern Swedish society. Elle Marja will need to make more of a sacrifice than just altering her name to pass as a typical Swedish adolescent in the thriving city of Uppsala.
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
On the island that belonged to and was populated by the powerful Vanger dynasty, Harriet Vanger vanished after a family gathering forty years ago. Even though her body was never discovered, her uncle believes that she was murdered and that the perpetrator was a member of his own close-knit but dysfunctional family. To conduct his investigation, he hires the discredited financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, cunning computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist and Salander begin to piece together a dark and horrifying family history when they connect Harriet’s disappearance to several grisly murders that occurred nearly forty years ago; however, the Vangers are a reclusive family, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they will go to protect themselves.
8. The Hunters (1996)
Director: Kjell Sundvall
A Stockholm police officer returns to live with his brother close to Norway and Finland. He looks into unchecked deer poaching. He seizes firearms without a warrant. Everyone is against him, even his brother and the local police. Things become worse. Since their parents have passed away, a police officer from Stockholm travels up to Norrland in Sweden to join his brother. While there, he begins to investigate a long-running poaching case involving deer and quickly learns that his brother is involved.
9. The Best Intentions (1992)
Director: Bille August
Henrik develops feelings for Anna, the astute daughter of a wealthy Uppsala family. Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden after getting married. Anna, who is urbane and restless, detests living in the county. the parent’s tale of Ingmar Bergman. Henrik Bergman, a poor, idealistic theology student from Uppsala, falls in love with Anna Kerbloom, the well-educated, bright daughter of a wealthy family, in 1909. Henrik becomes a priest in the northern part of Sweden after their wedding. After a while, Anna finds it difficult to tolerate the vulgar residents of the rural country. Henrik stays in the north while she heads back to Uppsala.
10. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
The children of the energetic and vibrant Ekdahl family, who lived in a Swedish town at the turn of the 20th century, are the titular characters. The local theatre company’s director and leading lady are their parents, Oscar and Emilie. Its principal supporters are Oscar’s mother and brother. After Oscar’s untimely passing, his widow weds the bishop and relocates to his stern and intimidating chancery with her kids. The kids are immediately unhappy. These conflicts are dramatized and addressed in the movie. Isak, a Jewish local businessman who is in love with their grandmother and whose strange home serves as a haven for the kids, is the subject of a side story.
11. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Lisbeth Salander returns to Sweden after a year abroad. She makes a personal appeal to her court-appointed guardian to remind him of his obligation to provide thorough reports on her behavior. In his ongoing role as editor of Millenium magazine, Mikael Blomkvist is now working on a significant piece about women in Eastern Europe who have been forced into prostitution and sex trafficking. Lisbeth is named as the police’s top suspect after the investigative journalist working on that topic is killed. Working independently, Lisbeth and Mikael look for the murderer. They discover the perpetrators’ identities in addition to some of Lisbeth’s family’s secrets.
12. Zero Tolerance (1999)
Director: Anders Nilsson
Johan, a two-handed police officer from Gothenburg, gets involved in a shootout with jewel burglars. One robber, who was shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander are dead after the smoke clears. Three witnesses, including Helen, say that the dead crook’s gun-toting associate was Leo Gaut, the world’s greatest thug. The three witnesses are soon in danger from Gaut, and only the hero with the badge can save them.
13. Docking the Boat (1965)
Director: Tage Danielsson
On a little island in the Stockholm Archipelago, a group of pals will celebrate the end of the school year. The menu calls for drinking snaps and eating crayfish, two distinctly Swedish customs. The remainder of the gang comes by boat, but they have a lot of trouble trying to get ashore because several are already inside the island home. It doesn’t help that their crazy, Hollywood-obsessed hermit neighbor is the only neighbor they have on the island.
14. Pure (2010)
Director: Lisa Langseth
Katarina is 20 years old. Her life appears to be predetermined because of her unhappy history and dull suburban neighborhood—that is until she discovers music. She attends a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, which sends her reeling and reveals a stunning new universe, and everything changes. She believes that to escape her unpleasant reality, she must change her life. But the road she must take turns out to be hazardous, paved with deceit, betrayal, and a risky relationship with married conductor Adam. However, Katarina will stop at nothing to acquire her new identity.
15. Summer with Monika (1953)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Teenagers who meet one summer day begin a rash relationship and flee their homes to be with one another. Harry Lund, a 19-year-old guy, falls in love with Monika, a romantic, heedless, and disobedient 17-year-old. Harry borrows his father’s boat, and they spend the summer together on a remote island after leaving their families and occupations in their little town. When Monika becomes pregnant, Harry chooses to wed her. While Monika only wants to have fun, he grows up, obtains a job, and then goes back to school to better their life and raise their daughter June.
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16. My Life as a Dog (1985)
Director: Lasse Hallström
A boy named Ingemar resides with his ailing mother and older brother. He adores dogs and is especially concerned about Laika, the Russian dog flown into space who passes away a few days later when the food supply runs out. With just a friend and his beloved female dog, the child leads a typical existence, but he doesn’t get along well with his brother, who frequently plays practical jokes on him and mocks the unfortunate Ingemar. The children’s antics, which include fighting and raising her mother’s ire all day, have worn on their mother, who is sick of putting up with them. For the benefit of their sick mother, Ingemar, and his brother are one day separated. Ingemar travels with his uncle, who has a wife and lives in a small town. There, Ingemar will run into unusual individuals like an elderly man who has a specific preoccupation with lingerie advertisements, glass workers in a workshop, or a lovely girl who disguises herself as a male to play football.
17. I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Twenty-year-old Lena is curious about everything there is to know about life and reality. She amasses data on everyone and everything, keeping her findings in a sizable repository. Relationships, political action, and meditation are all things she experiments with. In the meantime, a comical parallel plot concerning the film’s production and the performers, director, and crew members’ reactions to the plot and one another is shown. This movie was not allowed to be screened in the US because of its nastiness, explicit sex, and contentious politics while the Customs seizure was being challenged.
18. Let the Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
A neglected and tormented youngster named Oskar finds love and justice via Eli, a stunning but odd girl. Bullied 12-year-old Oskar longs for retaliation. He develops feelings for Eli, a strange girl. She can’t tolerate the heat or food, and she needs to be invited into a room before she enters. Oskar has the strength to fight back against Eli, but when he learns that Eli must consume human blood to survive, he is left with a difficult decision.
19. Play (2011)
Director: Ruben Östlund
Five African boys between the ages of twelve and fourteen come up with a complex plan to plunder another set of lads. a sharp observation based on actual bullying incidents. Between 2006 and 2008, a group of youngsters, aged 12 to 14, robbed other kids roughly 40 times in central Gothenburg, Sweden. Instead of using physical force, the robbers employed a complex strategy known as the “brother trick” or “little brother number,” which involved sophisticated role-playing and gang language.
20. We Are the Best! (2013)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
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.
21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Lisbeth Salander, who is recovering from her injuries in a hospital, is also being held by police. She will at least be charged with attempted murder, but it quickly becomes clear that the same powers who had Lisbeth confined to a mental institution at age 12 want her to remain there permanently. In the interim, Mikael Blomkvist is putting the finishing touches on a special edition of his publication, Millennium, devoted to calling for justice for Lisbeth. He sets out to expose the criminals who are willing to do whatever to keep Lisbeth silent and bury their secret forever.
22. Easy Money (2010)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Johan is a young man who attends the Stockholm School of Economics and lives in Stockholm. JW is originally from the Norrland region of Sweden, where his mother works for an employment agency, and his father, who has a small drinking issue, works in a sawmill. The four-year-old absence of JW’s sister Camilla has devastated him. JW poses as a stekare—a lifestyle centered on showcasing one’s seeming wealth—while actually maintaining a double life and operating a taxi business illegally to support his pricey lifestyle on Stureplan. He is drawn into the realm of organized crime by his passion for the upper-class female Sophie. He is drawn into the realm of organized crime by his passion for the upper-class female Sophie. Abdulkarim, who owns the cab company, offers JW a job in exchange for assistance in starting his cocaine operation.
23. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Director: Peter Flinth
Son of the mighty Folkung dynasty in the middle of the 12th century, Arn Magnusson. The brother Guilbert, a former Knight Templar, instructs him in archery, swordsmanship, and horseback as he grows up at a Cistercian monastery. Arn’s ambidexterity is also discovered. He comes upon three men trying to force a young girl into marriage one day while walking the woods. Arn is attacked by two of the men when the girl begs for assistance; in self-defense, he murders them. The monks doubt Guilbert’s decision to train Arn as a warrior even if they assure him that he did nothing wrong. Arn’s destiny is to serve God as a soldier, Guilbert responds, not as a monk.
24. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Swedish knight Antonius Block and his squire Jöns discover a plague-ravaged world upon their return from the Crusades. According to Block, everyone is living in fear because they think it is God’s wrath and that the end is near. When Death arrives for Block, who has lost faith and is seeking explanations, the knight challenges him to a game of chess. Many people look for solutions in the desolate countryside, but they don’t seem to be discovered. Block arrives at his house and thinks he has the advantage, but Death will prevail.
25. A Man Called Ove (2015)
Director: Hannes Holm
Ove, a 59-year-old gruff man on the block, was removed from his position as the condominium association’s president several years ago, but he could give a damn about it and continues to rule the neighborhood with an iron grip. When Parvaneh, who is pregnant, and her family move into the terraced house across the street and unintentionally back into Ove’s mailbox, an unexpected friendship develops. A dramatic comedy about unexpected friendship, love, and the value of having the right tools around you.
26. Force Majeure (2014)
Director: Ruben Östlund
A Swedish family makes the trip to the French Alps to go skiing for a few days. While having lunch at a mountaintop restaurant, an avalanche upends everything while the sun is shining and the slopes are breathtaking. Mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to safeguard their children while diners run away in all directions. Tomas, in contrast, is escaping for his life. Although the predicted catastrophe did not materialize, the family’s world was nonetheless completely upended, with a question mark hovering over their father in particular. As Tomas urgently tries to restore his position as the family patriarch, the future of Tomas and Ebba’s marriage is now in jeopardy.
27. Wild Strawberries (1957)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Dr. Isak Borg, who is now 78 years old, is driving to Lund to attend the cathedral there to receive an honorary degree. He is on the road with his son Evald’s wife, Marianne, who is also his daughter-in-law. Isak admits that some of his current loneliness is a result of his deliberate withdrawal from most social interactions. He makes a pit break at the family vacation home, where he spent his first 20 years of life. It’s the location of the wild strawberries, and he thinks of his lovely cousin Sara, with whom he had a secret engagement before his brother Sigfrid abducted her. Along the trip, they provide rides to several individuals, including a girl, also named Sara, and her two companions as well as a married couple who nearly ran them off the road. Borg is saddened by his memories and unsettling dreams as he mulls over some of the choices he has made in life.
28. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Director: Victor Sjöström
A Salvation Army sister who has tuberculosis, requests on New Year’s Eve that her mother and Maria phone David Holm to come to see her as she lies dying. In the meantime, David, an alcoholic, is telling two other inebriated people in the cemetery the legend of “The Phantom Coach and His Coachmen.” The last sinner to pass away at the start of the New Year is said to become the soul collector, who travels around collecting souls in his coach. David’s friends argue with him, they fight, and David dies as a result of his refusal to go see Edit. The coachman recognizes his friend Georges, who passed away at the end of the previous year, as he arrives.
29. Involuntary (2008)
Director: Ruben Östlund
The effects of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are investigated in several unrelated situations. In Sweden, where summer is almost here, there are several instances of petty misconduct. Leffe enjoys pulling sleazy pranks on his buddies, especially after a few drinks. An upright elementary school teacher, meanwhile, is unsure of where to draw the line and maintains that other teachers could use some guidance. Then there are the two beautiful adolescent females who enjoy taking seductive pictures and going out, but one night in a park, a total stranger discovers one of them unconscious and intoxicated.
30. Raven’s End (1963)
Director: Bo Widerberg
Anders has an ambition of becoming a writer in the middle of the 1930s. Sixten, a friend of his, fantasizes about playing football so he can visit Paris and encounter prostitutes dressed in fur. Elsie, Anders’ girlfriend, and his parents encourage him to pursue his goals. While his father is unemployed and struggles with gambling and alcohol, his mother supports the family by doing laundry. Anders sends a manuscript for a book he has written to a publisher in Stockholm about the neighborhood where they reside. His father is delighted when he receives an invitation to visit Stockholm and discuss the book. However, the publisher is unwilling to release the book, and when Anders returns, everyone is extremely upset.
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