Top 200 Scandinavian Films

A young girl reads an ad in the newspaper and enthusiastically shows it to a young man, who cares for her. She leaves on the train; the young man gives her a carrier pigeon. At the end of the journey, she meets with a lady, who takes her to her house. The girl is given an evening dress and taken to a salon filled with bachantians.

Das Schicksal einer jungen Frau, die in einem Pfarrhaus als Erzieherin angestellt ist. Als ein Zirkus in das Dorf kommt, erliegt sie dem Zauber dieser fremden Welt und schließt sich dem fahrenden Volk an. Aber schließlich zerbricht sie doch daran, ihren vertrauten Lebensbereich verloren zu haben.

Financial struggles separate a single mother from her children.

On the brink of war, Lt. van Hauen is summoned to take command of the cruiser, but due to unforeseen events, he is wrongfully convicted as a traitor.

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Ejvind and his family are in need of food. So Ejvind seeks help from the rich priest next door. He refuses to help. Ejvind then steals a sheep from the priest, he is caught. But he escapes from prison, and becomes an outlaw.

In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen in ice.

EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting unusually close with his own niece. Stiller obviously delights in teasing his audience with each scandalous plot twist and every salacious leer, and the result is a deliciously subversive comedy that was very much ahead of its time.

A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.

In der Silvesternacht zwingt der Fahrer einer geisterhaften Kutsche einen Betrunkenen, über sein egoistisches, verschwendetes Leben nachzudenken.

Fiktionalisierter Dokumentarfilm, der die Entwicklung der Hexerei von ihren heidnischen Wurzeln bis zu ihrer Verwechslung mit der Hysterie in Osteuropa zeigt.

Gunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selling reindeer. He doesn't like the business and isn't suited for it, but he gives in and takes over. However, when he is badly injured one day in an accident while driving the herd over the frozen Arctic and sustains some serious head trauma, his family fears that he may be permanently mentally damaged and they may lose both Gunnar and the family business.

A drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity.

When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.

Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.

A drama about mental disease, faith, and doubt.

An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.

The memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German wartime prison.

Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarizing the work of an old professor. Later, he will be blamed for the professor's murder.

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Depicts the suggestive empathy the Old Norse blood sacrifice.

Ditte grows up with her grandparents. When the mother moves with Lars Peter, Ditte is taken home to take care of her siblings. She comes to work at Bakkegården, but is thrown out as she awaits children.

A short impression of Stockholm.