Gunnar Björnstrand

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

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

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.

Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

A small-town priest struggles with his faith.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of thei...

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

A blind musician falls in love with a kindhearted girl.

Three Swedish stage actresses give differing interpretations of the classic Aristophanes play "Lysistrata."

Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.

Jacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken betwee...

The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks M...