Movies: Åke Fridell
- 1957
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal8.11957HD
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on...
- 1971
The Emigrants (1971)
The Emigrants7.51971HD
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the ...
- 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night7.41955HD
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old fl...
- 1957
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wild Strawberries8.11957HD
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, eac...
- 1953
Summer with Monika (1953)
Summer with Monika7.31953HD
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat....
- 1966
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Here Is Your Life7.11966HD
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future....
- 1958
The Magician (1958)
The Magician7.31958HD
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical e...
- 1946
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
It Rains on Our Love6.91946HD
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have...
- 1953
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel7.31953HD
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover....
- 1949
Prison (1949)
Prison7.11949HD
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitut...
- 1970
The Lustful Vicar (1970)
The Lustful Vicar3.91970HD
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline th...
- 1951
Miss Julie (1951)
Miss Julie6.51951HD
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant....
- 1947
A Ship to India (1947)
A Ship to India6.71947HD
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live wi...
- 1951
The Nuthouse (1951)
The Nuthouse4.21951HD
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is beli...
- 1974
Wide Open (1974)
Wide Open3.61974HD
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers....
- 1944
The Girl and the Devil (1944)
The Girl and the Devil61944HD
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear tha...
- 1950
Jack of Hearts (1950)
Jack of Hearts3.51950HD
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 engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in....
- 1958
Rabies (1958)
Rabies7.51958HD
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else....
- 1975
Christopher's Christmas Mission (1975)
Christopher's Christmas Mission7.81975HD
"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve....
- 1950
Regementets ros (1950)
Regementets ros31950HD
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, sw...