The best Karl-Arne Holmsten’s comedy movies

Karl-Arne Holmsten

Karl-Arne Holmsten

14/08/1911- 22/02/1995
Today we present the best Karl-Arne Holmsten’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 Karl-Arne Holmsten’s movies.
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Waiting Women

Waiting Women
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/11/1952
  • Character: Eugen 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.

Gröna hissen

Gröna hissen
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/07/1944
  • Character: Peter, Lillans man
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.

Tull-Bom

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

We Home Toilers

We Home Toilers
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1942
  • Character: Gunnar Andersson
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.

Blåjackor

Blåjackor
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/10/1945
  • Character: Klas Bergsten
"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Rospiggar

Rospiggar
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1942
  • Character: Karl-Erik Olovsson
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1959
  • Character: Conke Lundberg
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Pappa sökes

Pappa sökes
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1947
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

Fianceé for Hire

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

Just a Waiter

Just a Waiter
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/09/1959
  • Character: Birger Norberg
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Hotell Kåkbrinken

Hotell Kåkbrinken
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1946
  • Character: Åke Lundström
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.

Sommar och syndare

Sommar och syndare
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1960
  • Character: Emil
Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.

Kyssen på kryssen

Kyssen på kryssen
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1950
  • Character: James Deckert
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.

Two Vikings

Two Vikings
2.4/10
The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.

Dance on Roses

Dance on Roses
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1954
  • Character: Stig Broman
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.

To Help the Lady of the House

To Help the Lady of the House
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/09/1939
  • Character: Åke Willman
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaid and gets herself a job as one at the home of the John Willman and family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.

Älskling på vågen

Älskling på vågen
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/07/1955
  • Character: Jack Harris
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.

Fröken Kyrkråtta

Fröken Kyrkråtta
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/04/1941
  • Character: Lasse Berg
Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.

Ljuset från Lund

Ljuset från Lund
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1955
  • Character: Bengt Lundberg
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.

Sju vackra flickor

Sju vackra flickor
3.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/07/1956
  • Character: Stig Lindberg
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!

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