The 40 most popular 1990s swedish movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


All Things Fair
1995 · 2h 5m
country: Denmark
In 1943 Malmö, 15-year-old Stig is attracted to his teacher Viola, 22 years his senior, who, drawn to his youth and innocence, believes the lad is a God-sent relief from her miserable marriage to a drunken, unfaithful lout.


Pippi Longstocking
1997 · 1h 16m
country: Canada
Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sails the seven seas. Pippi's irrepressibly fun nature makes her easy to befriend, as neighbors Tommy and Annika find, but can also earn ire, especially from social worker Mrs. Prysselius.


The Lake
1999 · 1h 31m
country: Sweden
A thriller set in a Swedish village. Lisa comes back from London to sell a house left to her by her father. He mysteriously disappeared in the forest in the winter and is presumed dead in an accident. Lisa suspects there is more to the story as her father was disliked in the village. The old hunting lodge by the lake hides a secret. When Lisa starts her search for the truth painful facts about her father, herself and the village will be revealed.


Önskas
1991 · 1h 14m
country: Sweden
A forty something man, Bosse, perpetually down on his luck but always optimistic, hopes to impress his new girlfriend by accepting a job as headwaiter at a remote boardinghouse.


Duoddara árbi
1994 · 1h 22m
country: Finland
There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.


Teatermakaren
1991 · 2h
country: Sweden
"The Theater-creaters" - About the actor Bruscon, who stops in the small village of Utzbach on tour and tries to successfully bring his play "Das Rad der Geschichte/The Wheel of History" on stage. His whole family - the wife, son and daughter - are involved as actors.


Adventure Pizza
1996 · 5m
country: Sweden
A pizza baker bakes a huge horror pizza and the ingredients come to life.


The Tears of Saint Peter
1995 · 1h 40m
country: Denmark
Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.


Show Me Love
1998 · 1h 29m
country: Denmark
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.


Rosenbaum - Bländverk
1993 · 1h 30m
country: Sweden
At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.


Dreamplay
1994 · 1h 28m
country: Norway
Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men.


The Blow
1998 · 51m
country: Sweden
One of those days when you may all of a sudden become a murderer.


Evil Ed
1995 · 1h 33m
country: Sweden
Edward is a friendly, harmless film editor in the splatter and gore department of a horror film company. Ed is assigned to work on the new Loose Limbs series of horror films after the previous editor killed himself with a hand grenade. Later his reality begins to twist and distort into a horrifying world where nothing is as it seems. Soon enough this turns Ed into Evil Ed!


The Blue Angel
1996 · 2h
country: Sweden
When the old University Professor discovers that some of his pupils often sneak into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola, he comes there to confront them. But instead he is attracted to Lola. He returns the next night to The Blue Angel to spend time with Lola and stays overnight. This causes problems at his work and his life takes a steep downward spiral.


The Slingshot
1993 · 1h 42m
country: Denmark
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.


Saltkråkan
1995 · 1h 18m
country: Sweden
Theatre production of Astrid Lindgren's Saltkråkan recorded for television.


The Best Intentions
1992 · 3h 2m
country: Denmark
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.


True Women
1991 · 1h 25m
country: Sweden
The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her. Written by Anne Charlotte Leffler (1883), one of the preeminent authors of modernism’s breakthrough


Lotta Leaves Home
1993 · 1h 19m
country: Sweden
A feisty five-year-old girl Lotta decides to move away from home. And no, she doesn't want to put on the stupid sweater.


Kronofogden kommer
1993 · 1h 4m
country: Sweden
In the unemployed Vimmerby there is one who does not need to be afraid of losing the job. On the contrary, he has never had so much to do before. Tom Alandh follows the crown bailiff Bror Carlsson as he treads away on his bicycle with the document portfolio on the package holder.
Påklädningen
Påklädningen
1993 · 13m
country: Sweden
The film depicts a young woman's first task as a homemade. The task is to help a disabled man with a toilet and dressing


Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously
1996 · 1h 21m
country: Sweden
The story is about a boy named Kalle Blomkvist who with his friends solves crimes. But also play the battle between the red rose and the white rose with his rival friends. But everything changes when Kalle Blomkvists friend finds a dead man in a cabin and then must his friends and he find the murdurer.


In the Presence of a Clown
1998 · 1h 59m
country: Denmark
In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.


Dog Walk
1996 · 16m
country: Sweden
A man with a mission climbs the stairs of a haunted apartment building.


Subterranian Secrets
1991 · 1h 22m
country: Sweden
The ten year old Nisse suffers from acute asthma and is rushed to the hospital. There he meets Lelle who is a bitter, lonely and seriously ill twelve-year-old. Lelle, who never gets any visits treats Nisse kindly. Lelle inaugurates Nisse in his secret plan to build a giant Zeppelin and steal the food available in the hospital's underground reserves.


Cornelis - Dokumentären
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Sweden
A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk.


Happy End
1999 · 1h 39m
country: Sweden
Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn...


The Last Gasp
1995 · 1h
country: Sweden
Set in the offices of the Swedish film industry, this television drama stages a fictional encounter between Georg af Klercker, a marginalized silent-film director, and Charles Magnusson, the producer who once controlled his fate. Through their conversation, memories of early Scandinavian cinema and unresolved professional grievances resurface as af Klercker seeks the possibility of returning to filmmaking.


Carola: Julkonsert
1999 · 39m
country: Sweden
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Under the Sun
1998 · 2h 10m
country: Sweden
Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.


The Polar Bear King
1991 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen.


The Ebro Runs Dry
1991 · 1h 26m
country: Spain
Sture Lundblad was a Swedish volunteer fighter in the Spanish civil war. Sture is now dead. His son Michael has inherited a house in Spain and decides to follow the trail of his father.


Blankt vapen
1990 · 1h 26m
country: Sweden
Rickard, a young man, helps to illegally transport a medieval icon from Germany to Sweden. The icon possesses remarkable forces. Strange things happen. Rickard returns to his brothers empty apartment. He finds a film projector, a telescope and some drawings. A tape recorder is playing. A voice is heard. Rickard starts the film projector. Parts of his childhood is shown. He contacts his girlfriend. She informs Rickard that his mother is in hospital.


Apricots
1996 · 12m
country: Sweden
"Apricots" (Aprikoser) is an animated children film about a boy that spends the day at the seaside with his uncle. During the adventurous games he learns the power of nature.
Barnens Detektivbyrå
Barnens Detektivbyrå
1991
country: Sweden
Theo, Siri and Wilma form a detective club in a suburban cellar. Robert, whose father owns the place , joins the three in trying to solve a series of mysterious events in the neighborhood.


Kalle Blomkvist and Rasmus
1997 · 1h 18m
country: Sweden
An engineer and his 5-year old son Rasmus are kidnapped by a group who wants to get their hands on the engineer's latest invention. Three kids become witnesses to the kidnapping and decide to follow the kidnappers to an island and attempt to make a rescue.


Lotta on Rascal Street
1992 · 1h 14m
country: Sweden
Lotta is a five old girl living in Sweden with her mother, father, brother and sister. She is living the very normal life of all children of her age...


Vildängel
1997
country: Sweden
Jim, a boy from Stockholm, arrives at a foster home in Luleå. He is placed in a special class that is putting on a musical under the guidance of an anarchistic and committed teacher. The class consists of young people who are more or less scarred by life and therefore considered incapable of participating in regular school education. For Jim and his classmates, working on the musical becomes a journey filled with conflict, but also a search for validation and self-confidence.


Cop Killer
1994 · 1h 37m
country: Germany
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.


The Dancer
1994 · 1h 40m
country: Sweden
The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
The 1990s were the independent film decade, when Sundance and Miramax pushed low-budget American filmmaking into the mainstream. It's also when Hong Kong action, Japanese animation, and Iranian art cinema found large Western audiences.
Swedish cinema is inseparable from Ingmar Bergman, whose chamber dramas set an international benchmark for psychological seriousness. The country also anchors the Nordic noir tradition that reshaped European crime storytelling.