The best Mimi Nelson’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mimi Nelson’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Mimi Nelson.
The Girl from the Third Row
7.2/10
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Port of Call
6.6/10
A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Thirst
6.5/10
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
You Are My Adventure
5.1/10
Two journalists marry each other but Tore is unhappy that his wife is ambitious in her career instead of their household.
Sjätte skottet
5.1/10
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa
5.8/10
Lisa is a Stockholm fashion designer who leaves the big city to rent a country home for the summer. The landlords have a beautiful 17-year-old daughter Ingrid, and at summer's end Lisa agrees to take Ingrid back to the city to give her a job as a model. When Lisa sets Ingrid up with a date, the teenage temptress wears out her date then bounces from bed to bed in her amorous pursuits of love and freedom. Ingrid invites Lisa over for dinner where they also end up in bed together in this erotic exploitation feature.
Två kvinnor
5/10
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Kungsgatan
5.7/10
Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Three Wishes
5.6/10
Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.
When Darkness Falls
5.8/10
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
Hidden in the Fog
6.2/10
A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police
Maria
5/10
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as an actress.
Lev farligt
5.1/10
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
The lord from the alley
5.2/10
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbaage. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja. A film version of "Me and my gal" staged in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Lorden från gränden
5.9/10
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.
Huset nr 17
The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.
Ung och kär
5.1/10
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.
Restaurant Intim
4.1/10
A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
Ungdom i fara
5.2/10
A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life - until a criminal friend shows up.
