The best John Ekman’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best John Ekman’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 John Ekman.
The Phantom Carriage
8/10
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.
To Joy
7.2/10
After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were starting out as violinists together in an orchestra overseen by conductor Sonderby.
A Man There Was
7.3/10
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
The Outlaw and His Wife
7.2/10
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
General von Döbeln
4.5/10
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Synnöve Solbakken
4.9/10
Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.
Children of the Streets
Den allvarsamma leken
5/10
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
The Norrtull Gang
6.5/10
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
Fredlös
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
5.3/10
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Song of the Scarlet Flower
6.8/10
The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Svarte Rudolf
Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
The Sea Vultures
5.9/10
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
Kungen kommer
4.8/10
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.
Räkna de lyckliga stunderna blott
5.5/10
The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Johan Ulfstjerna
6.3/10
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
The Price of Betrayal
6.9/10
An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.
The Secret of Hotel Paradise
The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a shipwrecked sailor shows up with a chest full of money. In despair the Schultze couple murders the sailor.
Familjens traditioner
"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
