Movies and TV shows set in stockholm sweden – page 3

List of movies set in stockholm sweden

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Watch Out for the Jönsson Gang (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to ...
Plot: heist, released from prison, criminality, poison gas, retirement home, fireball, theft, letter, heist gone wrong, security guard, warehouse, attic ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden, finland, helsinki finland
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Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 283 min.
TV show
Story: Ten years of Marianne and Johan's relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married - unlike their friends Katarina and Peter ...
Style: psychological, dramatic, cerebral, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, couples, infidelity, dysfunctional family, relationships, crumbling marriage, loneliness, adultery, minimalism, retreat, modernism ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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The Man from Majorca (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were the first to the crime scene, pursue all leads and ...
Style: neo noir, poliziottesco, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, heist, post office, investigation, corruption, robbery, chase, car chase, murder, nordic, secret police, actress playing herself ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century, year 1984
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Together (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hippie, commune, lesbian, lgbt, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, loneliness, ideology, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Gentlemen (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot: espionage, state affairs, undercover, political conspiracy, dishonesty, love and romance, friendship, danger, brothers, aspiring writer, conspiracy, writer's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Tommy (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, couples, danger, rivalry, nordic, violent content, strong female presence, criminal heroes, heist
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden
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Naked Again (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Anders wakes up on his wedding day, he finds himself naked in an elevator, only remembering some of what happened.
Style: captivating, exciting, light, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: time loop, male nudity, wedding, wedding day, best friend, repeated event, alternate reality, awkward situation, deja vu, hot guys, naked in public, european ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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The Return of the Jonsson League (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Criminal trio strike at furniture store, discover a secret network for shipping computers to the Soviet Union.
Style: not serious, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: heist, partner, disorder, criminal heroes, dishonesty, master criminal, farce, cons and scams, silly humor, secret, security guard, burglary ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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In the Name of the Law (1986)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny ...
Style: action thriller, eighties
Plot: police brutality, police procedural, police
Place: stockholm sweden
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Karlsson on the Roof (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
Style: humorous, touching, stylized
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: nordic, european, working class, friends, imaginary, supernatural ability, youth, family relations, mistrust, brother, little boy, friendship ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Love Mates (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose ...
Plot: banking, sports car, real estate, bank, summer, true love, archipelago
Place: stockholm sweden
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The Square (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A satirical drama reflecting our times — about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Style: surreal, art house, satirical, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Plot: modern art, art, social satire, society, sex scene, painting, art exhibition, nordic, hypocrisy, museum, trust, ape man ...
Time: year 2017, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Anita: Swedish Nymphet (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless. Her relationship the her parents and her friends is very poor and she is regarded with contempt by the ...
Style: sensual, sexual, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot: nymphet, nymphomania, coming of age, scandinavian girl, nymphomaniac, erotica, voyeur, sexploitation, sexuality, female masturbation, teenage girl, real sex ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe
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Stockholm (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages ...
Style: dark comedy, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, hostage, bank, bank robber, hostage situation, criminal as protagonist, negotiation, criminal, ransom, american abroad, husband wife relationship, chief of police ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1973
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Attack on Finland (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: hostage, hostage situation, violence, danger, hacking, group of criminals, vengeance, master criminal, society, independence day, terrorist attack, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, balkan, serbia, stockholm sweden, st. petersburg russia ...
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Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, ...
Style: psychotronic, apocalyptic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: dystopia, distopia, propaganda, dystopian future, injustice, pregnancy, catholic priest, fascism, social decay, legal action, against the rules, legal ...
Time: year 1992, future, 2040s, near future
Place: usa, stockholm sweden, new york state
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Blinded (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An ambitious financial reporter Bea receives an anonymous tip about irregularities at a Swedish major bank. Bea weathered a scoop, but the review is made more difficult by her love affair with the bank's married CEO, Peder. Based on Carolina ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, romantic
Plot: journalist, banker, bank, extramarital affair, couple relations, secret identity, suspicion, relationship vs career, undercover, twists and turns, top secret, double life ...
Time: 2010s
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Borg vs. McEnroe (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of the world's greatest tennis icons – Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe – and their legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, exciting, art house ...
Plot: tennis player, tennis, rivalry, coach, father son relationship, biopic, professional sports, arrogance, male objectification, nightclub, fiance fiancee relationship, american abroad ...
Time: year 1980, year 2017, 80s, year 1978, year 1979 ...
Place: monte carlo, eastern europe, stockholm sweden, new york, monaco
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Hella W (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, factual
Plot: playwright, spy, women in society, power, writers, politics, prisoner, world war two, stage play, business, interrogation, jail ...
Time: 1940s, year 1936, year 1942, year 1941, year 1943 ...
Place: finland, soviet union, helsinki finland, stockholm sweden
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Vox Lux (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. ...
Style: exciting, inspirational, suspense, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: pop star, transformation, female singer, mother daughter relationship, illness, friendship, parents and children, hopes, family relations, greed, music, adaptation ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, year 1999, year 2017, 2000s ...
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, eastern europe, stockholm sweden ...
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The Inside Man (1984)
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. ...
Style: political thriller, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, law enforcement, spy, secret agent, espionage, working undercover, heist, political conspiracy, missing person, rivalry, criminal heroes, state affairs ...
Time: 80s
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Why (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man WHY?
Plot: bureaucracy, prison, nazi, police officer, gulag, injustice, victimization, innocence, satire, vacation gone wrong, psychiatric hospital, immigrant ...
Time: 60s
Place: stockholm sweden, italy
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Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The great Diana Sands stars as a African American pop star with few political ideas, and no need for black-activist war deserters who want her voice for their cause--much to the dismay of the quietly seething white-hating Minnie Gentry. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, black, blaxploitation, love, interracial, defector, veteran, interracial relations, impotence, singer, airport, strangulation ...
Time: year 1972
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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The King of Kungsan (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 50 min.
Story: The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italian roots, Paolo is dealing with an identity crisis. With an admiration of kung fu films and with his teenage aggressions, ...
Style: psychotronic, cult classic
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, police, drug, troubled teen, violence, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, breakdance, graffiti, fight, family business, young love ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Hassel 01 - Anmäld försvunnen (1986)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Valentin Karlberg is reported missing in Stockholm and Detective Roland Hassel must find him before it's too late.
Plot: police procedural, illegal gambling, crime investigation, missing person, divorced man, hiding, swedish police, murder, police corruption, phone booth, porn magazine, excavator ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Between Summers (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief ...
Plot: brother in law sister in law relationship, summer, aunt nephew relationship, grief, death of son, sea, tragedy, death of child, mourning, family relations, beach, husband wife relationship ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden, denmark
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Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Micke is a total film nerd, who would be rather sitting home watching violent action movies than to be outside drinking and hanging out with friends. One night Micke has prepared to have an orgy of violent movies, but something rather strange ...
Style: spoof
Plot: supernatural being, insanity, fight, alien, prostitute, violence, hallucination, blood, insane asylum, gore, severed arm, gun
Time: year 2000, 2000s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc. (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Known to her clients as Dagmar, she's a classy Swedish call girl in Copenhagen. After two years, she's ready quit, and we follow her on what she hopes is her last day in the trade. She wakes at 9 AM, gets her first call and a marriage ...
Style: erotic, sex comedy, independent film
Plot: call girl, erotica, prostitute, see through clothes, seduction, marriage proposal, motorcycle, peeping tom, female nudity, blonde, woman on top, bare breasts ...
Place: eastern europe, copenhagen, stockholm sweden
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Smugglarkungen (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The ...
Plot: bootlegging, banker, smuggling, smuggler, fisherman, femme fatale, customs officer, male female relationship, henchman, singing, love, prohibition ...
Time: 1920s
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Hassel 03 - Slavhandlarna (1989)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A criminal gang use illegal immigrants as labor on the black market.
Plot: warehouse, cobra, police procedural, forced labor, murder, hospital, illegal immigrant, drugged drink, answering machine
Place: stockholm sweden
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