The Girl King

The Girl King 2015

6.20

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

2015

Tuesday Club

Tuesday Club 2022

5.80

A sudden change forces Karin to re-evaluate her life. With the help of friends, food and passion she refuses to accept that life has an expiration date and takes the second chance she is given.

2022

Tove

Tove 2020

6.90

Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.

2020

Lapland Odyssey

Lapland Odyssey 2010

6.50

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

2010

The Eternal Road

The Eternal Road 2017

6.90

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

2017

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir 2012

6.50

An interview with film director Roman Polanski conducted during his period of house arrest, discussing his life and work.

2012

The Adventures of Halvdan Viking

The Adventures of Halvdan Viking 2018

4.68

Halvdan is not a proper Viking. He's having a limp and is regarded by the other kids as a strange loner with no friends, except for the village blacksmith Björn who's taken care of him since Halvdan's father left on a plundering trip. Across the mighty river there's an enemy village that has been in a feud with Halvdan's tribe for as long as anyone can remember. One day during Halvdan's lonely excursions to the river he encounters Meia, the daughter of the enemy village ruler. A heart-warming and funny family adventure about bridging differences and forbidden friendship unfolds

2018

The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies

The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies 2013

6.40

A love story about the legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his loyal wife and business partner Peggy. The film relates their part in the history of sex film, their lives between New York and Sweden, and their struggle to produce one last erotic film.

2013

Life's a Breeze

Life's a Breeze 2013

6.20

An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.

2013

Satisfaction 1720

Satisfaction 1720 2016

5.20

Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride.

2016

Four More Years

Four More Years 2010

6.30

The Swedish Liberal party leader David Holst is in crisis. Just recently, he was Sweden’s hottest politician. Stylish, funny, popular and the obvious candidate as the country’s next Prime Minister. Now, two years and a disappointing election defeat later, he finds himself in free fall. The voters have deserted him, the party is in uproar and he can hardly manage to get out of bed. It gets no better when he falls head over heels in love with party general secretary Martin, the last person on earth he can fall in love with. A man. A Social Democrat.

2010

My Life as a Comedian

My Life as a Comedian 2019

5.00

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

2019

Underdog

Underdog 2015

6.50

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.

2015

The Arbiter

The Arbiter 2013

5.00

A brilliant but misguided man feels that he has the right to decide who is worth their place on earth.

2013

From the Depths of My Heart

From the Depths of My Heart 2015

1

Four friends are fatefully thrown into a veritable hell in this ambient and sometimes truly poetic Swedish genre drama.

2015

Reliance

Reliance 2013

5.10

A girl, Selinda, runs into her parents' bedroom in the middle of the night, claiming that a strange man just climbed through her window. The event causes a commotion in the entire residential area where they live. Some immediately assume that the outsider running the convenience store is the perpetrator. Others doubt the girl's story. In the midst of this drama, middle-aged Paul is trying to find his way back to his daughter, who is growing up, and away from him.

2013

On Suffocation

On Suffocation 2013

5.00

A dialogue-free film about an execution described in two scenes.

2013

The Nurse

The Nurse 2014

3.00

The Nurse is a story about the need for closeness, warmth and security. It's a story about being lost and about adult bullying. But above all it is a love story.

2014

KK

KK 2013

6.30

A film about young love and the first confusing steps towards a sexual identity.

2013

My World in Yours

My World in Yours 2019

1

Shams and Stella are in love and the relationship sprouts. But Shams has not told Stella that she is paperless and seeking asylum.

2019