Kult Korner - Swedish Cult Canon
Min personliga uppfattning om en kanon för svenska kultfilmer. Föreslå gärna filmer du tycker borde läggas till eller tas bort. Definitionen är ganska svajig; en kultfilm på den här listan kan vara antingen en film som inte är en bred klassiker men ändå har en hängiven beundrarskara, eller en film med allmänt stört innehåll, möjligtvis också med galna historier från inspelningen. Miniserier är tillåtna. Titlarna är listade efter utgivningsår.
My subjective idea of a Swedish cult film canon. Feel free to suggest movies you think should be added or removed. The definition is pretty inconsistent; a cult film on this list could be either a film that is not a mainstream classic but still has a devoted fan base, or a film with generally subversive content, potentially also with outrageous stories from behind the scenes. Mini-series are allowed. Titles are listed chronologically.
Hedersomnämnanden: Jag är nyfiken-filmerna (för erkända), Spermaharen-DVD:n (inte en film), dokumentären som inspirerade Torsk på Tallinn (kunde inte hitta namnet), Kapten Grogg och Kalle på negerbal (inte tillgänglig), pilsnerfilm i allmänhet (för svepande), Getaway in Stockholm och Ghost Rider (saknas på IMDb)
My subjective idea of a Swedish cult film canon. Feel free to suggest movies you think should be added or removed. The definition is pretty inconsistent; a cult film on this list could be either a film that is not a mainstream classic but still has a devoted fan base, or a film with generally subversive content, potentially also with outrageous stories from behind the scenes. Mini-series are allowed. Titles are listed chronologically.
Hedersomnämnanden: Jag är nyfiken-filmerna (för erkända), Spermaharen-DVD:n (inte en film), dokumentären som inspirerade Torsk på Tallinn (kunde inte hitta namnet), Kapten Grogg och Kalle på negerbal (inte tillgänglig), pilsnerfilm i allmänhet (för svepande), Getaway in Stockholm och Ghost Rider (saknas på IMDb)
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- DirectorVictor BergdahlKapten Groggs and his companion Kalle sail to foreign shores, encountering wild animals, stormy weather, and friendly villains.
- DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren PedersenFictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorStig AlmqvistErik AsklundEyvind JohnsonStarsErik AsklundJosef KjellgrenAn avant-garde portrait of Stockholm created by the members of the literary group "Fem Unga". In the contemporary culture criticism, the film was blamed for oblique angles and for being pro-USSR.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsDoris SvedlundBirger MalmstenEva HenningA film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsAnita BjörkLillebil IbsenNils HallbergModel at prestigious fashion house murdered. Blackmail revealed as motive. Kajsa Hillman, employed there, uncovers potential killers. More deaths follow as culprit covers tracks.
- DirectorPeter WeissStarsStaffan LammGunilla Palmstierna-WeissBirger ÅsanderA young man comes to Stockholm City and experiences several bizarre situations.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsBarbara WilsonSten GesterRobert BurtonAliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists.
- DirectorRagnar FriskStarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdJan-Olof StrandbergMaude AdelsonA group of Swedish hot-rod teenagers meet every night in a local café. Berra and Kritan are the bad guys, always messing things up for themselves and everyone else.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLars LindLeif NymarkStig TörnblomSix youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment, named "Guesthouse Objectivity" (Pensionatet Sakligheten), where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsKeve HjelmAnn-Marie GyllenspetzInger TaubeA film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
- DirectorRolf ClemensPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtMaunu KurkvaaraStarsNiels BarfoedChristoffer BroRobert BrobergFour short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland."Uppehåll i myrlandet"
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsBibi AnderssonPer OscarssonJarl KulleJacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken between them.
- DirectorRalph Lundsten
- DirectorMai ZetterlingStarsBibi AnderssonHarriet AnderssonGunnel LindblomThree Swedish stage actresses give differing interpretations of the classic Aristophanes play "Lysistrata."
- DirectorTage DanielssonPer ÅhlinStarsHans AlfredsonFatima EkmanMonica NielsenAn old man at a retirement home remembers his childhood. Made in a blend of feature and animation film.
- DirectorLars-Magnus LindgrenStarsMax von SydowBibi AnderssonToralv MaurstadA young Finnish woman is searching for the sailor Colett, who rescued her once from drowning. She arrives to a small port of Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonKalle BomanLena EwertStarsMatts CarlgrenRune JohanssonHerman KlingCollective documentary about the riots at Sweden's Davis Cup tennis match against Rhodesia in Båstad, 1968.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsInge HegelerSten HegelerMaj-Brith Bergström-WalanA modern advanced film about sexual education an behaviour based on the clinical research made by famous American and Swedish doctors. The film centres around a panel; Inge and Sten Hegeler, Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan and Sture Cullhed, all well known, reputable experts, who have devoted their scientific studies to the various fields of sexual life. The film deals with all kinds of problems connected with the sexual relationship of people. Whilst every question is discussed by the panel., the film illustrates; the difference between male and female sexual organs and their functions, positions, and authentic coition whereby a split screen system is used enabling us to see the various reactions in different parts of the body. In connection with this as well as in other parts of the film, diagrams and animations are used to simplify the understanding of the complicated reactions which occur when a person is under sexual stimulus. The panel also discusses the role of sex in society, the question of prejudices and taboos, sex in clothes, sex in art, etc. etc.
- DirectorTorbjörn AxelmanCharlie WallaceStarsLee HazlewoodNina LizellSuzi Jane HokomLee Hazlewood's album "Cowboy in Sweden" presented as a series of dreams, the movie alternates between absurdist skits and songs given totally incongruous visual settings.
- DirectorJan HalldoffStarsUlla SjöblomCarl-Gustaf LindstedtChristina LindbergSomewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella. Out of the blue his wife comes back after five years of absence. She starts up a brothel in their bath house with the girl as the main attraction, a brothel that attracts various men from all over. The browbeaten Assar starts to make arrangements for his wife's permanent absence.
- CreatorHåkan AlexanderssonCarl Johan De GeerStarsJan LööfKrister BrobergMats G. BengtssonThree sailors, Janos, Frasse and Hilding, going ashore after many years at sea. They take over a bakery. But it is not always that easy to become bakers. Many difficulties and challenges await them in their new profession.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsChristina LindbergStellan SkarsgårdDanièle VlaminckAnita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a kindly college student.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiKarl KossmayerPierre BrammaTwo children go behind the scenes of a small circus.
- DirectorBo Arne VibeniusStarsChristina LindbergHeinz HopfDespina TomazaniA young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsThommy BerggrenMona SeilitzWillie AndréasonA man arrives in a Swedish port city to work as a waiter at the Hotel Busarewski. The man befriends two co-workers: the talkative Gustav "The Count" Svensson and the beautiful waitress Anna. Anna says that she is only there working temporarily, just like the man himself, and that she will soon move on to work at a seaside hotel. The Count, who is skilled in making others do what he wants, reveals to the man a plan he has that would bring them both lots of money and convinces him to assist in a poorly planned and failed attempt to free a friend of The Count who is in jail.
- DirectorStellan OlssonStarsHenric HolmbergEva RemaeusJan LindellSweden 1958. In a small provincial town there is a band who plays dance music twice every week. All decisions are made by Sven Klang, the undisputed leader of the band. A new member joins them, saxophone player Lasse. He starts to criticize Sven's decisions, questions the way they divide the money and he also wants them to be more of a jazz band.
- DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsLeenaAnneTomas
- DirectorAnders LönnbroStarsAnders LönnbroBodil MårtenssonRoland JanssonKennet, an incompetent thief and incorrigible petty criminal, longs to even 'the score,' which is not in his favor.
- DirectorStefan JarlStarsKenneth 'Kenta' GustafssonGustav 'Stoffe' SvenssonEva BlondinAbout a couple of friends in Stockholms drug world.
- DirectorKay PollakStarsTomas FrykAnita EkströmIngvar HirdwallReine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
- DirectorJohan HagelbäckStarsPeter LundbladAgneta OlssonLasse TennanderKnyttet feels alone and scared.
- DirectorStaffan HildebrandStarsJoakim SchröderSebastian HåkanssonNiclas WahlgrenThree friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also get a bit of experience of the world: Robban becomes a full-time drug addict, Alexander plays in a rock band but leaves it and Kim is desperate to get the girl of his dreams.
- DirectorMats Helge OlssonStarsKrzysztof KolbergerHanna BieniuszewiczBo F. MuntheSwedish scientist named Karl Markov is taken hostage by the KGB. After his daughter Nadia is also kidnapped and brought deep into the heart of Russia, a group of highly trained ninjas, led by American CIA agent Mason, is ordered to get them out.
- StarsChrister BoustedtSven LindbergHelge SkoogSkrotnisse and his son Kalle work in a junk yard, situated in the middle of a small town. Skrotnisse has a childhood friend, the inventor and hermit Bertil Enstöring. He has written down all his fabulous inventions in a small book. A lot of people would like to get their hands on this book. One of them is engineer Björkman, who also wants to get rid of the junk yard from the town.
- DirectorHans AlfredsonStarsJohan ÅkerblomEwa FrölingJan MalmsjöYoung Jim's father dies but he comes back to Earth time and time again to tell Jim of his adventures. Jim's mother is left to take care of him, while working as a waitress. The little town he lives in is something of a bore, but using his imagination, life can be fun.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonAnne TubinLennart BjörklundAn educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.
- DirectorStaffan HildebrandStarsPaolo RobertoVincenzo RobertoEllen RobertoPaolo Roberto and his friends are always looking for trouble. Beating and assaulting people and robbing them is their usual evening. But when police and judges are getting their hands of Paolo things aint so funny any more.
- DirectorJack ErsgardStarsKjell BergqvistLena EndreJohannes BrostFrank, Sara and their two children have recently moved into the house of their dreams on the countryside. Frank is disturbed by mysterious sounds and somebody tears down the wallpaper from the walls. He contacts a ghost-hunter, Allan. While conducting an experiment, Allan is killed, and Frank has to find out the truth himself. What's so special with the mysterious room in the attic?
- DirectorJan TroellStarsIngvar CarlssonTage ErlanderRollo MayWhen the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
- DirectorRichard HobertStarsHans MosessonBergljót ArnadóttirVictoria Möllerström-HjelmTwo construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don't know where they're going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer.
- DirectorStig LarssonStarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdJohan LindellHelena BergströmErnst-Hugo Järegård plays an MD who, uninvited, goes home to one of his workers and humiliates him and his girlfriend.
- DirectorStig LarssonStarsBörje AhlstedtLeif AndréeStina EkbladAn investigative reporter is doing a story of a serial rapist, called "The rabbit man" When the reporter is given a police sketch of the rapist, he is struck by how the image resembles his own son.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMaria HeiskanenAntti ReiniBerto MarklundA Finnish couple murders a young boy and his parents when they prevent the theft of their son's bicycle.
- DirectorPeter CartriersDaniel FridellStarsLiam NorbergRay Jones IVThorsten FlinckConvicts return to life of crime after release from prison.
- DirectorAnders JacobssonStarsMichael KallaanvaaraOlof RhodinHans WilhelmssonA mild-mannered film editor is assigned to cut a series of infamous slasher films and is driven murderously insane by the miles of extremely violent footage he edits.
- DirectorNina HedeniusA documentary about Ragnar in Kestina and his everyday life as a retired forest worker in the Finnish forests of Dalarna. We get to follow Ragnar all year round and take part in a lifestyle that was common not so long ago.
- DirectorDavid FlamholcStarsJonte HalldénChristian MoscosoJenny LindrothA young racist man has been stabbed and inspector Falk gets the dirty job of solving the murder.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsPeter HaberStina RautelinMikael PersbrandtA serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.
- DirectorGöran Hugo OlssonStarsLeila K.Lutricia McNealCharlotte PerrelliIn 1996, the artist Leila K was nominated for the best album award, for her album "Manic Panic", in the Swedish Grammis Gallan. She ultimately lost the award to Dilba, and didn't take it very well. The day after, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a story about Leila K peeing on the floor at the award ceremony. Leila K filed a lawsuit against them, and was offered a chance to redeem herself. The documentary also covers how Leila K built her career and stardom, from the beginning with Rob'n'Raz and their world wide mega hit "Got To Get" in 1989, up to her second album of her solo career.
- DirectorArn-Henrik BlomqvistTorbjörn EhrnvallLars NorénStarsPeter AnderssonGöran RagnerstamAnna PetterssonA lot of hell and very little heaven heaven among homeless and damaged characters in Stockholm. The young heroin-addicted couple, the slippery pimp, a mentally ill poet, are some of the personalities that we are being served.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsJohan RheborgRobert GustafssonJonas IndeA 1985 Bruce Springsteen concert is the beginning of a beautiful male friendship.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsRobert GustafssonJohan RheborgHenrik SchyffertA film critic is being harassed.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsJohan RheborgJonas IndeRobert GustafssonWhen a department manager at Swedish Television threatens to relocate one of the less talented documentary filmmakers, the filmmaker puts forward the idea to film his dying father.
- DirectorRichard HolmStarsMike BeckJohan HolmZara ZetterqvistMicke is a total film nerd, who would be rather sitting home watching violent action movies than to be outside drinking and hanging out with friends. One night Micke has prepared to have an orgy of violent movies, but something rather strange interrupts his plans. While watching "Die Hard", one of the German terrorists from the film comes out of the television, and this launches a night of violence filled with known characters.
- DirectorUlf MalmrosStarsTuva NovotnyJonas RimeikaBjörn A. LingA young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsThorsten FlinckBjörn AlmrothSanna BrådingIn a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsErik RutströmBritt-Marie AnderssonMikael AlluA 12 year old boy making basic punk songs, grown up men playing with guns, a neurotic woman with euphoric happiness targeting self destruction. A Swedish everyday life you've never seen before.