The best Åke Grönberg’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Åke Grönberg’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 Grönberg.
Sawdust and Tinsel
7.4/10
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Terror in the Midnight Sun
3.7/10
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
Summer with Monika
7.5/10
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.
Linje sex
3.6/10
In Gothenburg. Louise is out walking at night - and witness an assault. She knows the attackers well. It is her sister Berit with boyfriend Ernie. Louise is told to be quiet of what she has seen. She moves to Stockholm.
Loving Couples
6.6/10
For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna's controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, "The Misses von Pahlen," an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.
Our Gang
5.3/10
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Beredskapspojkar
5.3/10
Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.
The Sin of Anna Lans
5.6/10
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
A Lesson in Love
7/10
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.
Railroad Workers
5.6/10
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Ungt blod
4.8/10
Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships.
Inventive Johansson
4.3/10
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.
Gula kliniken
4.8/10
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Simon the Sinner
6.6/10
After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
Barabbas
6.3/10
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Woman Without a Face
6.5/10
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Stiliga Augusta
4/10
The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
Rospiggar
5/10
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.
Sonja
5.7/10
Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). But what he doesn't know is that Sonja has a dark secret of the past; she is a former prostitute. When suddenly Sonja's former, sleazy pimp Nick (Sture Lagerwall) shows up, he blackmails her into giving him money and letting him stay at their home. Otherwise he will tell Kurt about Sonja past. Sonja comply, but when Nick starts a relationship with Kurt's young and innocent sister Maj, Sonja has to act so Maj doesn't make the same mistake she did.
491
5.8/10
A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys are being supervised by two forgiving and uneasy social workers. Their need to continue to commit petty crimes escalates out of boredom with the situation. One night they run into a young girl in trouble.
