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- When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- In this obvious forerunner to Torment (1944), Stig Järrel plays mentally-disturbed Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school in the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
- A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
- A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
- A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
- St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.
- After a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.
- A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.
- Madame Bovary is a 1937 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian. It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.
- A blind musician falls in love with a kindhearted girl.
- An out-of-work musician (Järrel) is desperate for work and when his best friend (Ekman) sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
- In 14th Century Sweden, when Lorld Erland Maneskold marries Singoalla, a gypsy, he abandons his worldly possessions. The gypsies, who meanwhile have stolen the Maneskold treasure, want the couple to join their caravan to escape detection. A jealous suitor makes Erland think Singoalla has betrayed him, and he returns to his castle, where a battle between the gypsies and the landed-gentry ensues. Ten years later, Sorgbarn, the son born to Singoalla from the brief marriage sets out to find his father Erland. He does and tries to bring his parents together. He succeeds briefly, but is hurt in an accident and dies. Erland's mind snaps when Singoalla is killed by a vindictive gypsy and he retires to his castle, demented and alone.
- The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
- 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
- The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since they got rich family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has received. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. Before the trial period is over they want to return home again, then it shows their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are about to get evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
- Story of two dancing school owners who had been rivals and are now competing against each other.
- In Germany before World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
- Dostoyevsky's novel is one of world literature's most filmed works. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
- After having spent six years in an asylum, Harry returns home. He soon remembers what happened six years ago. He had five of his friends over and one of them, Raoul, was murdered. In order to find out which of them is the murderer, he invites them over to reconstruct the crime. It seems that everybody, including himself (as his doctor points out), had a motive, so it will not be easy to discover whodunit.
- Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
- The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
- Jacob Cotten is a rich banker quickly approaching his 60th birthday. He is concerned that neither of his sons are willing or able to be in charge of the bank. One is a spoiled parasite unable to do an honest day's work; the other has devoted his life to the communist youth club. Meanwhile, his beloved daughter Vica is unable to divorce her masochistic husband and gets herself a lover, an idealistic young medical student.
- In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
- A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, an honest young woman gone wrong.
- Lapland, Sweden. The Sami Arvi wants to marry young Aino but her mother will not give her permission as long as Arvi does not have a herd of 400 reindeer. The only one who has reindeer to sell is the rich Oula, but he wants to marry Aino as well. The only way for Arvi to get the animals is buying them from Norway - but this is highly illegal...
- The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the border. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Force Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
- Is man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies, and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
- Karin (Gunn Wallgren) is a young servant girl on a Swedish farm. She has a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality: her better side enjoys all the human emotions of love, kindness, and romance, while the evil being within her is controlled by the Devil (Stig Jarrel) to bring revenge and destruction upon a farmer and his family.
- Italian opera singer visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and falls in love with the prima ballerina.
- During excavations in Stockholm in 2248, old film footage from the 1940s is found. The Research Group for Ancient Films tries to arrange the finds into a movie, while guessing the original director's intentions.
- A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita. However, he discovers that she is dead by suicide and when he soon finds Brita, he starts wondering if Maria really did commit suicide or if she was murdered. When a private detective, who was contacted by Maria, contacts him but is later murdered, he starts looking deeper into the affairs of "Sjöbjörnarna". He discovers that the accident last summer, in which one memeber of the group was killed, was not an accident and his search even takes him to Paris and back. Meanwhile, he and Brita, who once were lovers, start discovering each other again.
- Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
- A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. The clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons.
- The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into the Soviet Union. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at their hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
- Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.
- The ups and downs of three generations of an acting family.
- Millionaire Christer Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
- Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
- Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...
- A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anti cartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.
- Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take the task of saving secret documents from Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture has the role of Miss Märta Letterström.
- Swedish man is admitted to a Swiss clinic for terminally sick people.
- Opposites attract between spoiled girl and elderly vicar.
- The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
- Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.
- Set deep in the heart of Belgian Congo, a local witch doctor decides the only way to stop a rampaging gorilla from terrorizing his people is to sacrifice a new-born baby. Meanwhile a local game warden and a journalist team up to stop the crazed simian.
- A day at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden. Famous actors, theatre staff, pupils and Shakespeare's "King Lear".
- An actress is in desperate need of work. She is looking up a director. When he rejects her, she collapses on the sidewalk outside the theatre.
- A professor suffers an accident that disable him. He struggle to keep his courage and trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.