The best Åke Fridell’s movies

Åke Fridell

Åke Fridell

23/06/1919- 26/08/1985
We present our ranking of the best Åke Fridell’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 Åke Fridell.
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The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal
8.1/10
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night
7.7/10
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

Summer with Monika

Summer with Monika
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1953
  • Character: Monika's father
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1957
  • Character: Karin's Lover
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

A Ship to India

A Ship to India
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1947
  • Character: Variety Hall Manager
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.

The Emigrants

The Emigrants
8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/03/1971
  • Character: Aron på Nybacken
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

Sawdust and Tinsel

Sawdust and Tinsel
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1953
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

The Magician

The Magician
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1958
  • Character: Tubal
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

It Rains on Our Love

It Rains on Our Love
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/11/1946
  • Character: Reverend Berg
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

Prison

Prison
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/03/1949
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.

Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1966
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Miss Julie

Miss Julie
7.2/10
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

The Lustful Vicar

The Lustful Vicar
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1970
  • Character: Mr. Paular
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
6.6/10
  • Release: 07/01/1985
  • Character: Gravedigger
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

Badjävlar

Badjävlar
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1971
In proper Swedish you say summer residents. But if you are a resident on the island you say bathe-fucks.

Christopher's Christmas Mission

Christopher's Christmas Mission
8/10
"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

Dreamboy

Dreamboy
5.6/10
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 12/10/1964
  • Character: Pettersson
Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.

Wide Open

Wide Open
3.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1974
  • Character: Ollie, Paul's alcoholic father
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Wonderful Adventures of Nils
6.4/10
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.

Only a Mother

Only a Mother
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1949
  • Character: Inspector
About serf wife Maria, called Rya-Rya, her life from a young beautiful girl with dreams of love to a worn-out mother, who only lives for her children.

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