Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magic Flute (1975), The Conqueror Worm (1968), Faithless (2000), Light Keeps Me Company (2000), Autumn Sonata (1978), Private Confessions (1996), The Seventh Seal (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ingmar Bergman movies.
Storyline: During civil war, two musicians retreat to a rural island to farm. They are apolitical; a neighbor sometimes gives them a fish; wine is a luxury. They love each other, but there are problems: the war upsets Jan, he is weepy, too sensitive; Eva wants children, he does not. The war suddenly arrives: rebels attack, neighbors die. When the other side restores order, Jan and Eva are arrested as collaborators. After frightening and roughing them up, the local colonel releases them; then he begins appearing at their farmhouse: to talk or to pursue Eva? He gives her money. The rebels return; chaos ensues. Jan becomes violent and murderous; they flee. Can they escape? If so, to what?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, swedish, black and white, psychological, loneliness, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, black and white, swedish film, psychological drama, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he meets the psychologist Lilith Ritter and he finds that she tapes the sessions with her clients from the high-society. The trickster Stan envisions a scheme to raise a high amount of money swindling rich people. But his ambition brings him back to the life in the sideshow.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, film noir, swedish film, 1940s, classic, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few years Anna can't stand living in the rural county with the uncouth people. She returns to Uppsala, Henrik stays in the north.—Robert Stroetgen <stroetgen@rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, biography, romance, marriage, sweden, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's late nineteenth century Sweden. Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman's two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. Fredrik wants to give Anne as much time as she needs to feel comfortable before losing her virginity. Although she loved Fredrik when they got married, Anne realizes she is attracted to Fredrik's adult son, Henrik Egerman, a brooding seminary student who is home following his most recent exams. Also a virgin, Henrik has been in an awkward flirtation with the Egermans' sexually experienced maid, Petra, in an effort to lose his virginity. When she first sees actress Desirée Armfeldt, Anne, without Fredrik telling her, knows that Desirée and Fredrik used to be lovers, the two who still have feelings for each other. Desirée currently is having an affair with married Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm. While he is jealous of any man who Desirée shows any attention to such as Fredrik, he is not the same with his young wife, the ...
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, love, swedish film, classic, drama, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.—Nancy Dowling <nad@skypoint.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, marriage, loneliness, pain, faith, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, surrealism, horror, art film, black and white, nightmare, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harry Lund is a nineteen-year-old man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen-year-old, and they fall in love. They leave their families and jobs in their small town, Harry gets his father's boat and they spend the summer together in an isolated island. Monika gets pregnant, and Harry decides to marry her. He grows up, gets a job and returns to his studies, trying to improve their lives and raise their daughter June, while Monika just wants to have fun.
Plot Keywords: romance, youth, rebellion, summer, escape from reality, freedom, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A businessman (Robert Atzorn) wants to kill his wife (Christine Buchegger) but instead ravishes and kills a prostitute.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, crime, murder, marital crisis, psychoanalysis, dreams, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman's life and work and explores his film legacy with Bergman's closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers. The documentary presents key scenes, recurring themes in his films and his life, and journeys to the places at the center of Bergman's creative achievement and the focal points of his life such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, locations and landscapes from his masterpieces, and the stations from his career in Sweden, France and Germany. Explore the many layers of Bergman's work and life with INGMAR BERGMAN - LEGACY OF A DEFINING GENIUS.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, film history, biography, filmmaking, art film, classic cinema, film criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small Swedish town, physician Andreas Vergerus and his wife Karin Vergarus have a loving yet somewhat pedestrian fifteen year marriage which has spawned two now early teen children. They befriend visiting Jewish-American archaeologist David Kovac who is working on a dig of an old church site. Admitting to her that he fell in love with her the first time he laid eyes on her at the hospital on the day that her mother passed away, Karin easily succumbs to David's advances, she never having cheated on Andreas before. Although David transforms, having a passive-aggressive nature in their relationship including bouts of physical violence against her, Karin ends up falling in what she believes is love with David in he representing what is missing with Andreas, while she still remains loyal to Andreas and their marriage. Andreas is aware of something concerning David which may provide some answers as to David's behavior toward Karin, which become a little more clear when Karin meets Sara.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, swedish film, 1970s, emotional conflict, marital crisis, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a doctor has a summer affair with a young woman, his wife decides to return to her former lover.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, swedish film, black and white, drama, middle class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man, his former mistress, his indifferent wife and a jealous suitor engage in a weekend of mate-swapping.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, swedish film, 1950s, european cinema, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A circus owner (Åke Grönberg) leaves his mistress (Harriet Andersson) for his wife, and an actor (Anders Ek) seduces the mistress.
Plot Keywords: drama, sweden, black and white, circus, romance, tragedy, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Swedish ballerina (Maj-Britt Nilsson) reads a diary of her teenage love (Birger Malmsten), then gives it to her present suitor (Alf Kjellin).
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, swedish film, black and white, coming of age, memory, dance ...
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