The best Lena Nyman’s drama movies

Lena Nyman

Lena Nyman

23/05/1944- 04/02/2011
We present our ranking of the best Lena Nyman’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 Lena Nyman.

Ronia, The Robber's Daughter

Ronia, The Robber's Daughter
7.3/10
Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.

Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/10/1978
  • Character: Helena
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

The School of Wives

The School of Wives
5.8/10
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?

I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow)
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1967
  • Character: Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman / Lena
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

Rasmus and the Vagabond

Rasmus and the Vagabond
6.8/10
9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place.

The Simple-Minded Murderer

The Simple-Minded Murderer
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/02/1982
  • Character: Woman Without Legs
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

P & B

P & B
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/12/1983
  • Character: Mia Edling / Ingegerd Borglind
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.

I Am Curious (Blue)

I Am Curious (Blue)
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/03/1968
  • Character: Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman / Lena
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.

The Porridge Faggot

The Porridge Faggot
6.3/10
Asker is always aftemoney and everybody knows he doesn't have any scruples. He gets accused of stealing a lottery ticket from the mentally-handicapped Musse. Simultaneously he meets a man at a café named Claes Douglas who promises to pay Asker if he does a favour for him.

491

491
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/03/1964
  • Character: Steva
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.

Min älskade

Min älskade
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1979
  • Character: Sonja
"My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers.

Such Is Life

Such Is Life
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/10/1996
  • Character: Siv Matsson
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relation gone stale. Still her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self certain Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.

Uppfinnaren

Uppfinnaren
"The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a banknote counter that made confetti out of money.

Det är hos mig han har varit

Det är hos mig han har varit
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/02/1963
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.

Walk On Water If You Can

Walk On Water If You Can
4.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1979
  • Character: Orlanda
Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.

Guest of Reality

Guest of Reality
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/11/1961
  • Character: Signe
A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.

Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena

Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/10/1990
  • Character: Ellen, the daughter
During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.

Cheek to Cheek

Cheek to Cheek
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/12/1997
  • Character: Margaretha
The faded dragshow entertainer Ragnar Rönn is both broke and lonely. He is becoming extremely unpopular. Noone comes to his shows. Perhaps it might have to do with the fact that he is completely unruly and bitter. One day he runs into the middle-aged funeral entrepreneur Margaretha.

The White Wall

The White Wall
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/03/1975
  • Character: Berit
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.

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