Best Swedish Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Swedish Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, touching, art house, thought provoking, dark comedy and inspirational. Plot: nordic, european, family relations, death, father son relationship, female nudity, husband wife relationship, sex, couples and bare chested male. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Romance. Country: Sweden, USA and Denmark.
Best Swedish Movies
Best Swedish Movies
TOP Movies: A Man Called Ove (2015), Let the Right One In (2008), Another Round (2020), The Hunt (2012), Queen of Hearts (2019), Border (2018), Midsommar (2019), Persona (1966), The Wife (2017), Swiss Army Man (2016), The Best Man's Wedding (2000), In a Better World (2010), My Dad Marianne (2020), The Emigrants (1971), A Christmas Tale (2021), Fanny and Alexander (1982), In Bed with Santa (1999), Holy Mess (2015), Kan du vissla Johanna? (1994), The Children of Noisy Village (1986).

List of Best Movies

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A Man Called Ove (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she ...
Style: touching, ironic, emotional, feel good, scenic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: unlikely friendships, suicide attempt, love, aging, swedish, mentor, life & death, pregnant woman, cancer, friendship, destiny, adaptation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: spain, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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 7.7
 192K
Another Round (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
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 8.3
 361K
The Hunt (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: injustice, life turned upside down, child abuse, false accusation, divorce, social injustice, social relations, pedophile, parents and children, teacher, church, punched in the face ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark
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Queen of Hearts (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged ...
Style: thought provoking, sexy, emotional, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, incest, older woman younger man sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, sex with stepson, adultery, sex with stepmother, older woman teenage boy sex, cheating wife, sex with a minor, sexually dissatisfied wife ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: denmark
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 7.0
 34K
Border (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Style: art house, bleak, surreal, rough, neurotic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: customs officer, father daughter relationship, troll, border guard, sadistic psychopath, sexuality, norse mythology, baby, sex scene, forest, supernatural horror, child molestation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: central europe, scandinavia, finland, eastern europe
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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft ...
Style: humorous, satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: old man, escapades, satire, travel, american abroad, elderly man, senior citizen, nordic, cold war, flashback, oval office, englishman abroad ...
Time: year 2017
Place: washington d.c., eastern europe, berlin germany, moscow russia
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 8.1
 130K
Persona (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style: minimal cast, psychological, surreal, sexual, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, surrealism, medical, actress, mute character, dream, patient, silence, art, insanity, alienation, nurse ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 7.2
 43K
The Wife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, serious, sad ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, love affair, award ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 2010s, year 1992 ...
Place: stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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 6.9
 133K
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new ...
Style: surreal, buddy comedy, touching, mindfuck, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, corpse, survival, hallucination, friendship, loneliness, forest, imagination, dead body, dark humor, life & death, island ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 90s
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The Best Man's Wedding (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Roro and Måns who are best friends, work at the park management and get to do all the shit jobs - clean up duck ponds and pick up dog poop. Roro's Swedish girlfriend Lisa wants to be introduced to his family but he refuses for a long time ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, impotence, culture clash, couples, friends, love triangle, sexual dysfunction, nothing goes right, understanding, proposal, sexual relations, family values ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: lebanon, europe, eastern europe
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In a Better World (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Style: thought provoking, touching, bleak, harsh, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, bullying, father son relationship, friendship, revenge, divorce, loneliness, childhood, youth, parenthood, society, alienation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
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My Dad Marianne (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, captivating
Plot: lgbt, father daughter relationship, cross dressing, journalist, homecoming, husband wife relationship, family relations, getting home, lgbtqi, male to female cross dressing, family problems, parents and children ...
Place: eastern europe
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The Emigrants (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
Style: epic, romantic, inspirational, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: immigrant, journey, immigration, religious persecution, emigration, sea voyage, farm hand, starvation, refugee, nordic, boat, death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1840s, 1850s
Place: minnesota, america, europe, eastern europe
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A Christmas Tale (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A tale of a boy from a wealthy family who during his work at the post office steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm.
Plot: european, storytelling, christmas dinner, comic book, orphan, husband wife relationship, good samaritan, christmas present, post office, father son relationship, charity, voice over narration ...
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Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style: disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, ghost, christmas, children, coming of age, grief, brother sister relationship, child abuse, christmas eve, abusive stepfather, marriage as hell, boy ...
Time: turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Croatia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Style: black comedy, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: retirement home, deadpan, aging, cold war, brutality, storytelling, escapades, comedy of errors, runaway, chase, wanted, old age ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: soviet union, eastern europe, scandinavia, spain, russia
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In Bed with Santa (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Bed with Santa (Swedish: Tomten är far till alla barnen) is a 1999 Swedish comedy film directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made under the tiltle Meine schöne Bescherung.
Style: funny, hilarious, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, european, lgbt, xmas, family relations, pregnancy, santa claus, couples, love and romance, couple relations, family gatherings, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 90s
Place: eastern europe
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, passion, adultery, photography, waitress, female nudity, love triangle, menage a trois, sexual promiscuity, voyeurism, existentialism ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, switzerland, california ...
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 5.5
 3K
Holy Mess (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, christmas, gay couple, family secret, father son relationship, family dinner, gay slur, lgbtq, mother son relationship, glbt, lgbtqi ...
Place: eastern europe
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Kan du vissla Johanna? (1994)
Genre: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't have a grandfather, but he wants one that's nice to him and who can teach him to whistle. ...
Style: feel good
Plot: european, birthday party, grandfather grandson relationship, schoolboy, kite, best friend, old man, childhood, senior citizen, loneliness, grandson, retirement home ...
Time: 1950s
Place: eastern europe
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Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton (1975)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 23 min.
Story: 1975 Swedish animated short film directed by Per Åhlin, adapted from Tage Danielsson's short story of the same name, telling the tale of a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm while working in ...
Style: teen, philosophical, political
Audience: teens
Plot: robin hood, christmas, european, xmas, court, post office, good deed, teenage boy, poor, christmas present, rich, morality ...
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The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alex's high opinion of himself isn't backed up by reality as he is unemployed and having trouble with his girlfriend. When he finally gets a job with the local council/municipality of Hudiksvall his life is about to change. Suddenly Alex ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: down syndrome, chance, against the odds, disability, misfit, mentally challenged, self confidence, personal growth, theatre group, group of friends, loss of friend, european ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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The Children of Noisy Village (1986)
Genre: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Children of Noisy Village (Swedish: Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn) is a 1986 film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on books by Astrid Lindgren. The movie starred Anna Sahlin and premiered in December 6, 1986 ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: nordic, heartwarming, friendship, youth, escapades, friends, disorder, village life, village, girl, friend, boy ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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Bamse and the Thief City (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Sweden's most popular comic book character - the bear Bamse - will now get his first own feature film. In "Bamse and the city of thieves" the strongest bear in the world and his two friends Little Hopp and Shellman show that the best ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, suspense, captivating, anime
Audience: toddlers, family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: friendship, friends, robbery, outlaw gang, gang, missing person, abduction, train robbery, superpower, troll, anthropomorphic bear, falling from height ...
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Bamse and the Witch's Daughter (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 65 min.
Story: In Bamse and the Witch’s daughter Croesus Vole finds gold in the beavers' dam. To demolish the dam and get the gold he tricks the witch's daughter Lova to enchant Bamse. With Bamse gone, it's up to the children to help each other to ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, anime
Audience: family outing
Plot: friends, magic, anthropomorphic animal, animal, talking animal, save the day, friendship, animal protagonist, teamwork, bear, daughter, anthropomorphic bear ...
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: When a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, they dispatch Kora, a young woman with a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a ...
Style: psychotronic, epic fantasy, epic
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, violence, bare chested male, female warrior, distopia, planet, asian woman, heroine, murder, fight, space wars, space adventure ...
Time: future
Place: space western
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 205K
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: spy, cold war, assassin, female killer, lgbt, female assassin, woman fights a man, female warrior, lesbian, rogue agent, female agent, female spy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1989, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, eastern europe, europe ...
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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
Style: horror comedy, scary, dark comedy, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: zombie, epidemic, virus, undead, zombie apocalypse, small town, police station, zombie attack, decapitation, dark humor, supernatural, living dead ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania
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