Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

July 14, 1918 · 108 years old

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Bergman directed more t…

Known For

40 titles
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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

1957 · 1h 36m · Movie

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.

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Persona

Persona

1966 · 1h 23m · Movie

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

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3
Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

1957 · 1h 32m · Movie

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

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Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

1982 · 3h 8m · Movie

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

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Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata

1978 · 1h 39m · Movie

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

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Cries & Whispers

Cries & Whispers

1972 · 1h 32m · Movie

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

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7
The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring

1960 · 1h 29m · Movie

In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along t...

8.0
8
Through a Glass Darkly

Through a Glass Darkly

1961 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

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Winter Light

Winter Light

1963 · 1h 21m · Movie

A small-town priest struggles with his faith.

8.0
10
Hour of the Wolf

Hour of the Wolf

1968 · 1h 28m · Movie

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

7.5
11
The Silence

The Silence

1963 · 1h 36m · Movie

Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.

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12
Summer with Monika

Summer with Monika

1953 · 1h 36m · Movie

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

7.5
13
Shame

Shame

1968 · 1h 43m · Movie

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...

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Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955 · 1h 49m · Movie

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.

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15
The Magician

The Magician

1958 · 1h 41m · Movie

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.

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16
The Passion of Anna

The Passion of Anna

1969 · 1h 41m · Movie

A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.

7.6
17
Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage

1974 · 2h 49m · Movie

Chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.

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18
Saraband

Saraband

2003 · 1h 47m · Movie

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.

7.5
19
Sawdust and Tinsel

Sawdust and Tinsel

1953 · 1h 33m · Movie

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

7.4
20
Summer Interlude

Summer Interlude

1951 · 1h 36m · Movie

A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.

7.5
21
The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg

1977 · 1h 59m · Movie

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

6.6
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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

1975 · 2h 15m · Movie

The story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.

7.4
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The Devil's Eye

The Devil's Eye

1960 · 1h 27m · Movie

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.

7.1
24
A Lesson in Love

A Lesson in Love

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

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

7.0
25
Faithless

Faithless

2000 · 2h 22m · Movie

An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

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26
Crisis

Crisis

1946 · 1h 33m · Movie

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.

6.4
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The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

1992 · 3h 2m · Movie

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

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To Joy

To Joy

1950 · 1h 38m · Movie

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.

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Brink of Life

Brink of Life

1958 · 1h 24m · Movie

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

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After the Rehearsal

After the Rehearsal

1984 · 1h 10m · Movie

As an aging playwright interacts with the young lead in his play after everybody's gone home, he reminisces about her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.

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Secrets of Women

Secrets of Women

1952 · 1h 47m · Movie

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

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Port of Call

Port of Call

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

6.6
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Thirst

Thirst

1949 · 1h 23m · Movie

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

6.5
34
All These Women

All These Women

1964 · 1h 20m · Movie

A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.

5.4
35
A Ship to India

A Ship to India

1947 · 1h 38m · Movie

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

6.4
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Liv & Ingmar

Liv & Ingmar

2012 · 1h 29m · Movie

The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

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