Victor Sjöström

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. (imdb)

Stig and Marta are a young married couple who play together in the same Swedish orchestra. He is ambitious and idealistic, but she is more somber and contemplative (imdb)

It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight... (imdb)

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Thomas Graal finally has a child with his beloved, but they soon find out that they have vastly different ideas on how to raise it.

A screenwriter tries to find success in the film business while courting an heiress.

Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Swedish: Karin Ingmarsdotter) is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. (Wikipedia)

Master Samuel Eneman, pejoratively referred to as "Masterman" by the townspeople, is a stingy and wealthy pawnbroker who, against his better business sense, finds himself in possession of pledge no. 1313--a beautiful young woman who indentures herself as a housekeeper until her fiancé can repay his loan. She is able to turn the tables on the old miser, however, by redefining economies of exchange and power "in her own way," eventually changing him into a new man. (BAM/PFA)

A prologue shows lumbering, somewhat thick-headed Ingmar climbing a ladder to heaven, where generations of Ingmars sit in dignity around a massive meeting-room. There his father tells him that he must find a wife. But Ingmar then explains that he once took a wife, with unhappy results. Some long flashbacks ensue, showing Ingmar forcing a young woman to marry him. The plot takes some doleful turns, with the result that the woman is sent to prison. (davidbordwell.net)

This behind-the-scenes footage from the shooting of Wild Strawberries was captured by Bergman himself on 16mm. The film was shot on location in Gränna and Lund, and in the Råsunda studios in 1957. (Karagarga)

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion. (imdb)

The Gardener is a 1912 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is mostly known for being the first film to ever be banned by the Swedish censor system.

Two families rivalizing for religious issues find a new problem between them when their son and daughter are getting married.

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel.

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.

A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to a girl, Klara Gulla. At first he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power to provide for her. But when she leaves home as an adult, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

In a small Swedish town during the aftermath of World War 1, an accountant and his two journalist friends enter the stock market but the results are not as good as expected.

In an unnamed country, the greatest supporter of the National Theatre and its actors is a diplomat from a foreign country, Ernst Lemmering. Lemmering is also in a relationship with the theatre's star actress Harriet Brandt. After a late night rehearsal he has invited the actors to his home when the news comes through that the country has been occupied by the military of Lemmering's home country.

Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga, but he also finds himself drawn to the nurse Maria.

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case (tmdb)

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.