Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
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 different perspectives.
Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger.
The film’s story revolves around Karin Stolpe’s complex relationship with her husband Sven Stolpe and her passionate love affair with Olof Lagercrantz which starts in the 1930s. It shows the impact of passion, jealousy and anger across 70 years, involving different generations.
The film is about the health resort Granhedsgården in Dalarna, Sweden, and they have a problem. They don't have many guests at all and something must be done. At the same time, Stig-Helmer is a little depressed after his girlfriend has left him, and so he lives on junk food. His best friend Ole invites him to come along to the health resort Granhedsgården. Now, the craziness begins.
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried of Death, he is more afraid of door-to-door sellers, but first he has something vital to deal with. It will be the beginning of a walk with Death by his side, which continues in an old rusty Volvo 240.
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.
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
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.
A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his colleagues recognize that there are interests in the business community who are involved in the scandal, people who don't shy away from clearing away cumbersome barriers to safeguard their economic power.
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?
The Swedish Liberal party leader David Holst is in crisis. Just recently, he was Sweden’s hottest politician. Stylish, funny, popular and the obvious candidate as the country’s next Prime Minister. Now, two years and a disappointing election defeat later, he finds himself in free fall. The voters have deserted him, the party is in uproar and he can hardly manage to get out of bed. It gets no better when he falls head over heels in love with party general secretary Martin, the last person on earth he can fall in love with. A man. A Social Democrat.
Eager to spend the summer at camp, the young Jönsson gang finds itself instead at a punitive, hardscrabble institution run by their archenemy.
Pirko lives in Gothenburg but gets kicked out of his pregnant girlfriend. He seeks his roots in northern Sweden. Pirko discovers karaoke.
Three middle aged brothers is living home in a Godforsaken skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden and sees their life change when their father dies, and the mother going off on a holiday to Spain.
Roger is a failed petty criminal living in Stockholm who falls in love with the cute Susanna
A few conscripts realise that the army has vast resources that don't get used as much as they could. Using army material, they start to do services for people in the neighbourhood. More and more money is exchanged, more and more people gets involved, but when will someone reveal the truth to someoney who they can't pay?
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life.
The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive at an archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich boat people, their yachts and summer houses.
Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
David has just started working for a large pharmaceutical company and falls madly in love with a young and very beautiful colleague, Angelica.
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...
A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse...
Swedish painter Anders Zorn gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time when Zorn, already respected for his art, was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Swedish king. Though an excellent painter, Zorn's personal life is dreadful. A boozer and a womanizer who frequently cheats on his wife, Zorn constantly seeks approval for his art. When he travels to the U.S. for a tour he meets Emilie Bartlett the wife of sculptor Paul W. Bartlett with whom he begins a sporadic affair. After Paul commits suicide, Zorn and Emilie move to Sweden. Zorn disregards his wife's feelings and openly displays his affections for Emilie.
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a competition on the Göta Canal, where the winner gets the boatyard.
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden.
The pig Desmond and his friends are haunted by the terrible monster Träskpatraske. Granted, they are not sure he even exists, but who else could have snatched evil Wille's electric guitar, Sebastian Hare's boxing gloves and Bittan Cow's stock of makeup?
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...
The Defence Minister Sven Cedevall, a popular politician and happily married family father, isn't the kind of man who should risk what he got for a temporary relation. But when he by chance meets the Polish waitress Anja there is no turning back. Against his will and sense he's drawn to her. What begins with love develops later to a violent end.
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends.
A gunman has taken residency on an uninhabited island and a local man has to deescalate the situation without getting the police involved.
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
Greger Olsson and his wife are expecting their first child and she wants to buy a stroller, but Greger has other plans.
Peter and his friend Göran are both students, aged 21. Eight years ago Peter had a girlfriend, Ellinor, whom he has not seen since. One day he gets an invitation to Ellinor's marriage. After a brief meeting Peter decides that he must use any means possible to stop Ellinor from marrying her boring yuppie boyfriend.
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead actor is Anders Olofsson. Olofsson is entirely responsible for the financing of the project and the casting.
A man wakes up in his apartment after a wild party. His best buddy comes by. They find a woman on the couch showing no signs of life.
The story of Raymond Olsson, unemployed cook, 40-years-old and living with his mother.
Siblings Lisa and Daniel gear up for the Vätternrundan cycling race, where unexpected detours, old flames and marriage problems test their resolve.
Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a success at his new job, while Lena is struggling with annoying colleagues and a demanding boss.
Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity.
2060 is an absurd, love story, a kind of prison drama in an elderly care home environment, set in a future dystopia. Upper-class woman Amanda is forced to move to a poorhouse and decides to take her own life. A film about realizing what's important in life before it's too late.
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar, due to the book's endless "Satanic" parade of rape, murder, sacrilege.
During a family weekend in the Swedish wilderness, 17-year-old Victor draws closer to his beautiful, cancer-ill aunt, but fails to notice the wary eyes with which the rest of the family watches her.
Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members.
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
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.
K-G has lost his foothold in life. He has no energy, doesn't know what he wants, and cannot work anymore. His wife Birgitta doesn't understand him.
A manager visits his anorexia daughter on the laser and talks with a problematic employee at the office. Through these two conversations we meet a man who, despite all the difficulties, just tries to make progress here in life.
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers.
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.
Recently retired Tord have had enough. He is convinced that there is no love in our society anymore. No solidarity. He decides to gas himself to death a day when his wife, as usual, goes to work without even saying goodbye. However everything changes when Tord finds out about the new neighbor.
Sima, a ten-year-old immigrant girl, is on her way home from school. In the thick fog she comes across an injured postman, who desperately wants her to help him. The girl goes for help in a village she has never before been to...
Two inmates escape from prison. The escape affects not only the two runaways but also their relatives.
Susanne happens to drive over her husband on a camping site. This is the start of a very intensive day where she gets perspective over her life. A black comedy with much depth and a woman who bears a little too much.
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.
Kennet, an incompetent thief and incorrigible petty criminal, longs to even 'the score,' which is not in his favor.
A man arrives at the hospital to see his father on his deathbed. He would like to have a last good time with him, but the father worries above all about knowing what to do with two jars of mustard that have been started.
A gentleman joins two alcoholics on a bench.
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?
Actor and director Ulf Friberg has filmed August Strindberg's play "Leka med elden". Or at least almost. The story of a middle-aged couple and their summer guests slides almost unnoticed into the story of the relationship between the actors and the director. The result is an airy, summery metafilm of both classic and innovative cuts.
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
Directly from Borgeby Castle in Skåne, the fast-paced story Röde Orm is told by Frans G. Bengtsson. Among others, Sten Ljunggren, Angela Kovacs and Martin E-type Eriksson read the humorous story about the young Viking's travels out into the world.
In the small kingdom, snow is falling from a bright sky and the whole town is getting ready for the big winter wedding between Queen Lovisa and the fool Amir. Then, suddenly, the old tyrant's mother Amalia appears with her soldiers in tow. She is determined that the throne will return to her own family. The young crown prince Ville will now become king, just as he always dreamed of. But is he really up to the task - and what are his grandmother's motives?
The successful detective writer, Erica Falck, is thinking that her next book should be based on a true mysterious event from her childhood. When she was only 13 years old one of her dear friends and classmate Peter boarded a bus and then disappeared. Erica has been unable to let go of the tragic event and her first meeting with a real mystery. As she starts digging deeper into what really happened to Peter it seems as if she has awakened a sleeping beast. When Erica's only connection to Peter, his brother Ivan, who is on his way to see her, gets stabbed and murdered her mission becomes not only to solve the mystery about Peter but also to find out who killed Ivan. During a high school reunion party the heat builds up when Tina, Peter and Ivan's enigmatic sister, unexpectedly shows up and later at the party another murder is committed that leads Erica closer to the truth about what actually happened to the missing Peter.
Stig works at a factory and loves painting. When the factory shuts down Stig enters the abandoned building and starts to paint a brick wall.
In the harsh midwinter. A frozen marriage in a remote cabin. A man from the past returns to seek revenge, and long lost feelings come alive. A wordless battle begins and the eternal triangle finally comes to an end.
Harry and Elisabeth invites home a young couple. At first they are having a good time, but the tensions grows with the drinking. Soon they all are nasty, rude and outspoken to each other.
See behind the scenes of the Jönssonligan films in this anniversary documentary where we get to hear the story behind the comedy classics and take part in exclusive background material from the recordings. In new interviews, actors, directors and screenwriters talk about how the films were once created. We also get to hear some of today's most popular comedians and artists talk about their obsession with Jönssonligan.