The best Stig Järrel’s drama movies

Stig Järrel

Stig Järrel

08/02/1910- 01/07/1998
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stig Järrel’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 Stig Järrel.
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The Devil's Eye

The Devil's Eye
7.1/10
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.

Torment

Torment
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/10/1944
  • Character: Caligula
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Dårskapens hus

Dårskapens hus
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1951
  • Character: Birger Sjögren
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

Gatan

Gatan
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1949
  • Character: Sven Andreasson
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.

Easter

Easter
  • Genre: Drama
  • Character: Lindqvist
A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter

While the Door Was Locked

While the Door Was Locked
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1946
  • Character: En kund hos Bojan
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night
6/10
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.

Lev farligt

Lev farligt
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/04/1944
  • Character: Otto Frank
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 Royal Rabble

The Royal Rabble
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1945
  • Character: Stridström
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

Three Wishes

Three Wishes
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/01/1960
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.

Wandering with the Moon

Wandering with the Moon
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1945
  • Character: The Vagabonde
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

The Right to Love

The Right to Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1956
  • Character: Bernhard Borg
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.

Sällskapslek

Sällskapslek
4.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/12/1963
  • Character: Carl Stjernesten
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.

Sjösalavår

Sjösalavår
5.4/10
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...

The First Squadron

The First Squadron
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 23/09/1941
  • Character: Lieutenant Sperling
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

Vi två

Vi två
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/03/1939
  • Character: Baltzar Ekberg
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

Blonde in Bondage

Blonde in Bondage
4.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/11/1957
  • Character: Kreuger - Drug Lord
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.

Simon the Sinner

Simon the Sinner
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/11/1954
  • Character: Reverend Rickman
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.

Strange Harbor

Strange Harbor
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/10/1948
  • Character: The man in the fur coat
"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

Herre med portfölj

Herre med portfölj
4.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1943
  • Character: Manager Bexell
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.

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