The best Ulf Palme’s drama movies

Ulf Palme

Ulf Palme

18/10/1920- 12/05/1993
Today we present the best Ulf Palme’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ulf Palme’s movies.
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Doctor Glas

Doctor Glas
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/06/1968
  • Character: Rev. Gregorius, Helga's husband
Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 novel by author Hjalmar Söderberg but is updated to the time of the release of the film in 1968.

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 Girls

The Girls
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1968
  • Character: Director
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.

Dreams

Dreams
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/08/1955
  • Character: Henrik Lobelius
Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship.

Girl with Hyacinths

Girl with Hyacinths
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/03/1950
  • Character: Anders Wikner (author)
Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl's reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar's friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out.

The Counterfeit Traitor

The Counterfeit Traitor
7.5/10
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Bang!

Bang!
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/1977
  • Character: Johnny
A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.

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.

The Blonde Witch

The Blonde Witch
6.6/10
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Bärande hav

Bärande hav
3.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1951
  • Character: Bo Winner
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.

Dog Days

Dog Days
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1970
  • Character: Rickard
Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella...

This Can't Happen Here

This Can't Happen Here
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/10/1950
  • Character: Atkä Natas
Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.

Vildfåglar

Vildfåglar
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/08/1955
  • Character: Harry
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.

Den allvarsamma leken

Den allvarsamma leken
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/11/1945
  • Character: Ture Törne
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Judge

The Judge
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1960
  • Character: Psychiatrist
Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.

Realm of man

Realm of man
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1949
  • Character: Kjell Arvid Loväng
A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.

Marmalade Revolution

Marmalade Revolution
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/1980
  • Character: Per Hugo
A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.

Barabbas

Barabbas
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/06/1953
  • Character: Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Sunshine Follows Rain

Sunshine Follows Rain
6.5/10
The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.

Only a Mother

Only a Mother
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1949
  • Character: Hammar
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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