Victor Sjöström Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she...

Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother...

After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected...

Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best...

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children,...

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick,...

The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage...

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...

Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie...

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his...

Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's...

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her lover.

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the...

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films....

Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.