The best Håkan Westergren’s drama movies

Håkan Westergren

Håkan Westergren

29/04/1899- 15/10/1981
Today we present the best Håkan Westergren’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Håkan Westergren’s movies.

Waiting Women

Waiting Women
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/11/1952
  • Character: Paul Lobelius
Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.

Exposed

Exposed
5/10
Young Lena is trapped in a complex situation of sex and lies.

Swedenhielms

Swedenhielms
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/04/1935
  • Character: Lieutenant Bo Swedenhielm
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?

Gårdarna runt sjön

Gårdarna runt sjön
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/02/1957
  • Character: Fredrik-Adolf Riddercrona
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Giftas

Giftas
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1955
  • Character: Associate Prof.
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".

Kungen kommer

Kungen kommer
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/03/1936
  • Character: Charles-Emile Spaak
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

His English Wife

His English Wife
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/01/1927
  • Character: Bruce Brock
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 business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.

Landskamp

Landskamp
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/03/1932
  • Character: Otto Andelius
Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.

A Crime

A Crime
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/08/1940
  • Character: Bror Risberg
"A Crime" - A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

His Excellency

His Excellency
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/1944
  • Character: Police officer
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

Den osynliga muren

Den osynliga muren
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 21/08/1944
  • Character: Paul Brandt
"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

Three Sons

Three Sons
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/1945
  • Character: Pappan - Familjen Hallman
Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Unga hjärtan

Unga hjärtan
4.6/10
16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.

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