The best Jan Molander’s movies

Jan Molander

Jan Molander

02/04/1920- 30/06/2009
We present our ranking of the best Jan Molander’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jan Molander.
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Torment

Torment
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/10/1944
  • Character: Pettersson
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Tull-Bom

Tull-Bom
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/06/1951
  • Character: Urban Karlsson
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

A Ship to India

A Ship to India
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1947
  • Character: Crew
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.

Playing Truant

Playing Truant
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/08/1949
  • Character: Hjalmar Hammarlund
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.

Strange Harbor

Strange Harbor
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/10/1948
"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

Älskling på vågen

Älskling på vågen
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/07/1955
  • Character: Fred Lindberg
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Lorden från gränden

Lorden från gränden
5.9/10
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.

Klasskamrater

Klasskamrater
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/11/1952
  • Character: Sixten Törnqvist
Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.

Puck heter jag

Puck heter jag
5.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 05/03/1951
  • Character: Stellan Nilsson-Brosk
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.

Lille Fridolf Och Jag

Lille Fridolf Och Jag
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1956
  • Character: disponent Grillhagen
Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.

The Banquet

The Banquet
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1948
  • Character: Sixten
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons are capable of running his company.

Fianceé for Hire

Fianceé for Hire
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/08/1950
  • Character: Mårtensson
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

Fridolfs Farliga Ålder

Fridolfs Farliga Ålder
5.2/10
  • Release: 28/09/1959
  • Character: disponent Grillhagen

The lord from the alley

The lord from the alley
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1949
  • Character: Count Harry af Silfverbåge
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbaage. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja. A film version of "Me and my gal" staged in the Old Town of Stockholm.

Crime in the Sun

Crime in the Sun
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1947
  • Character: Georg
Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Inventive Johansson

Inventive Johansson
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/09/1950
  • Character: Sixten von Bryngel
Handyman "Inventive Johansson" from the popular swedish comics is now live in his own movie and can handle an oil can and a screwdriver as inventive as brushes and eggs.

Solkatten

Solkatten
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1948
  • Character: Metusalem
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.

Jungfrun på Jungfrusund

Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1949
  • Character: Esse Frykman
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.

Ung och kär

Ung och kär
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/11/1950
  • Character: Rutger af Utterfeldt
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.

Kyssen på kryssen

Kyssen på kryssen
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1950
  • Character: Josef
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

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