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- 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?
- Bank janitor play the stock market and compete with the bank.
- The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
- An heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
- After graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl.
- A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
- A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.
- Two different women - a young photo model and her boss - dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.
- When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a competition on the Göta Canal, where the winner gets the lap.
- Model at prestigious fashion house murdered. Blackmail revealed as motive. Kajsa Hillman, employed there, uncovers potential killers. More deaths follow as culprit covers tracks.
- After a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.
- Young love confronts stupidity and boredom of society.
- Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
- Smuggler's daughter fall in love with the son of a customs inspector.
- At school, a music teacher is testing the pupil's ability to sing. The 16-year old Inga Danell starts to sing a song so catchy that everybody in the classroom starts to sing. The singing is interrupted by the principal, who thinks that jazz and swing dancing is awful. Inga then starts performing at a nightclub, where her music teacher happens to be the pianist.
- Private detectives Mr and Mrs John Hillman visits a friend in the country. While there they track down a murderer who is disguised as a ghost.
- When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
- Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
- 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.
- Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in an aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
- The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karin's rise and fall. The rest is normal B&W movie. Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
- 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.
- Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.
- Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
- The newly engaged Margareta Snellman is going together with her fiancée to the family-estate Hellesta, to meet his closest relatives. When she finds out that her fiancée's former partner died under mysterious circumstances, she decides to investigate what happened. Soon strange and gloomy things starts to happen the way Gunvor died.
- Northern Sweden in the middle of the 19th century. Seven children lose their parents, and to avoid the poor-house, they start on a long trek over the mountains to find a better life. 12-year old Ante has promised their mother to take care of his brothers and sisters and with the help of the milk from their goat Gullspira... Will they make it ?
- 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.
- Summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home village. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead - she is a *real* woman, not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
- 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.
- In Stockholm, the unemployed musician Nisse, is trying to sell songs to music publishers.
- Lars Landgren, called Lång-Lasse, is the new vicar in Delsbo, Hälsingland, Sweden. He has been called there by parents who are worried about the moral decay in the parish.
- Orphan girl Gunilla(nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their 5 children. Karlberg rents his house from Squire Sylvester and has to do some work for him as well. One day Sylvester lays his eyes on Gunilla, and starts taking an interest in her, but why?
- A young criminal is paroled from prison. Although he's got a good job, he is lured into new crimes in the underworld of Stockholm.
- The mayor of Bomsta, the efficient but insensitive Fabian Bom, has remade his town into a social-engineer's dream. The only inefficient thing left is the old farm Rosengård. The farm has recently been inherited by Camilla, a childhood friend of Fabian Bom. Bomsta is visited by a circus where Fabian Bom's long lost twin brother, Dumbom, is the clown. Unlike his brother, Dumbom only cares about life and beauty.
- 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.
- Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
- The two brothers Kalle and Per each win, without the other's knowledge, money on state bonds. Per opens up a small shop in Stockholm and his brother Kalle helps him. The wholesaler Ivar Olsson tries to swindle them.
- Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.
- Knut is visiting Synnöves parents to ask her to marry him. She isn't home but her parents approve of Knut.
- In 1906 Heikki seduces the young women of a rural parish one by one for revenge.
- The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned many years ago. But he lets his assistant Loffe to do it for him. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a clear case of mistaken-identity. Besides that, Tosse is his platoon commander.
- Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
- During the latter half of the 1800s, one million people from Sweden emigrated to Northamerica.
- A plane crashes near a village in Northern Sweden. Some of the wounded are taken care of. But a stranger has also landed in the woods with a parachute. A young girl, known for her wild imagination, is the only one who have seen the stranger. But nobody believes her.
- The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. After paying all his unpaid bills in the morning, he has no money left for a ticket to Buenos Aires.