Brita Appelgren Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

During a night at the big department store a gang of thieves are active, while the CMO is staging a pr coup to increase sales of swimsuits. The clerk Ann Marie and CEO's son Erik, manages to catch the thieves and then spend the night in the store dining and dancing.

When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.

Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the flirtatious Inez Maria, when the "friend" shows up and interferes with his own and successful pre-man manners.

Mr Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.

Ragnhild is a girl who enjoys dancing. Her school teacher forbids her to go to the dance hall. She rebels against the ban by setting the hall on fire. The outbreak of fire becomes extremely violent.

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

Documentary about the prolific Swedish director Gustaf Edgren.

London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad...

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

Max Mattsson gets stranded on a remote island in the archipelago together with four other people and a dog.

Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.

A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.

A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.

Lisa, Pontus and Herman has formed a small artists’ collective in Stockholm. The successes are rare and occasionally this sets off an irritated mood.

In the cellar Tuppen in Stockholms Old Town the troubadour Bellman sits with his drinking buddies Fredman, Mollberg, Mowitz and Father Berg.