The Devil's Eye 1960  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Jarrel, Nils Poppe, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Stur Lagerwall, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Funkquist, Gunnar Sjoberg, Torsen Winge, Axel Duberg, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall
Satan recruits Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) and sends him on a mission of seducing the beautiful virgin, Britt Marie (Bibi Andersson).
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Fanny and Alexander 1982  R, 200 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Mystery
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Gunn Wallgren, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Borje Ahlstedt, Christina Schollin, Allan Edwall, Jarl Kulle, Mona Malm, Pernilla Wahlgren, Jan Malmsjo, Kerstin Tidelius
Oscar (Allan Edwall)and Emilie (Ewa Froling) are successful entertainers, until Oscar dies leaving widowed Emilie to raise their two children, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve). Emilie remarries, and she and the children move into the austere home of her new husband, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Lacking the comforts that Fanny and Alexander had known, the children are very unhappy–until their grandmother (Gunn Wallgren) takes them into her home and showers them with affection. Now, at last, the children find refuge. This film won four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Film. Ingmar Bergman was also nominated for Best Director.
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Loving Couples 1964  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Mai Zetterling
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petre, Anita Bjork, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Inga Landgre, Eva Dahlbeck, Jan Malmsjo, Frank Sundstrom, Bengt Brunskog, Ake Gronberg, Margit Carlqvist
Set during 1915 in a Scandinavian hospital, this story reveals the pasts of three pregnant women when each is about to give birth.
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The Magician 1958 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Bengt Ekerot, Gertrud Fridh, Lars Ekborg, Sif Ruud
Set in the 19th century, magician Vogler (Max von Sydow) is detained at a country manor where his illusions are pitted against those of a rational scientist.
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Music in Darkness 1948 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Night Is My Future
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olaf Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Hilda Borgstrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bengt Eklund, Bibi Skoglund, Douglas Hage, Ake Claesson
Blind pianist Bengt Vyidecke (Birger Malmsten) finds love and happiness with his former friend Ingrid (Mai Zetterling) and eventually marries her.
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The Naked Night 1953 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sawdust and Tinsel
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ake Gronberg, Harriet Andersson, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Hasse Ekman, Annika Tretow, Kiki, Erik Strandmark, Ake Fridell
The circus owner (Ake Gronberg) of a struggling circus troupe leaves his mistress (Harriet Andersson) to go back to his wife (Annika Tretow), but she rejects his offer of reconciliation. Returning to his ex-mistress, he finds she has found another lover.
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Secrets of Women 1952 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Waiting Women
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Anita Bjork, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Karl Arne Homsten, Birger Malmsten, Ingmar Bergman, Jarl Kulle, Naima Wifstrand, Aino Taube, Hakan Westergren
Women at a summer house share stories about their sexual relationships in this comedy that was written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
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 The Seventh Seal 1957  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Anders Ek, Inga Landgre, Gudrun Brost, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson, Bertil Anderberg, Ake Fridell, Gunnar Olsson, Erick Strandmark
Existentialism is the theme for this Ingmar Bergman film about Death (Bengt Ekerot) claiming a 14th-century knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), who is returning to Sweden after spending 10 years in the Crusades. The Crusades have left Antonius cynical about the existence of God, and he challenges Death to a game of chess to gain time before passing on. Sweden is engulfed in a plague, and, with turmoil surrounding them, Death and Antonius discuss whether or not there is a God as they play the chess game.
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Shame 1968 R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Birgitta Valberg, Sigge Furst, Vilgot Sjoman, Hans Alfredson, Ingvar Kjellson, Frank Sundstrom, Ulf Johansson, Bengt Eklund, Gosta Pruzelius, Raymond Lundberg, Willy Peters, Axel Duberg
Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva Rosenberg (Liv Ullmann) are a middle-class couple who flee the perils of war as their civilized society crumbles. Both are former concert violinists but now settle on an island off the coast of their country where they work on their island farm selling lingonberries. Invasion is imminent. After a military plane crashes on their island, soldiers land, and the war is in their backyard. Eva and Jan are arrested, but Col. Jacobi (Gunnar Bjorstrand) offers to have them released if Eva will have sex with him. Eva obliges, but more traumas and shame follow until Eva and Jan leave their home hoping for shelter on another island nearby.
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Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Romance
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Margit Carlqvist, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Naima Wifstrand, Birgitta Valberg, Ake Fridell
This story was the seed for Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music." It is the tale of the love affairs of a middle-aged lawyer (Gunnar Bjornstrand), his young wife (Ulla Jacobsson), and his mistress (Eva Dahlbeck) and is among the greatest of romantic comedies made to date. Woody Allen's "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" is also a take-off.
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Through a Glass Darkly 1961 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Lars Passgard
Without a doubt this winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film is one of Ingmar Bergman's best efforts. As the first entry in a trilogy of films, the story centers on Karin (Harriet Andersson) who is newly released from a mental hospital but cannot escape her mental illness.
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Torment 1944 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Frenzy
Director: Alf Sjoberg
Cast: Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Gosta Cederlund, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Olaf Winnerstrand, Hugo Bjorne, Stig Olin, Olav Riego, Marta Arbin
A young couple, Jan Erik (Alf Kjellin) and Bertha (Mai Zetterling), is hassled by stern Latin teacher Caligula (Stig Jarrel) in this story about adolescents finding their way in the cold, cruel world.
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Wild Strawberries 1957 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Folke Sundquist, Naima Wifstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Sif Ruud, Gertrud Fridh, Bjorn Bjelfvenstam, Gunnel Brostrom, Gunnar Sjoberg, Ake Fridell, Julian Kindahl
Elderly Professor Isak Borg (Victor Sjostrom) travels from Stockholm to Lund University where he is to accept an honorary degree. His daughter-in-law Marianne (Ingrid Thulin) accompanies him, and they stop along the way at Isak's childhood home. Through flashbacks, Isak remembers his girlfriend Sara (Bibi Andersson). Then, a teenager Sara (also played by Andersson) asks for a ride, and she joins Isak and Marianne along with a crotchety couple. Through his new acquaintances, Isak reflects on his own disappointments in life. A Bergman classic.
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| 1. Autumn Sonata (1978)
2. The Devil's Eye (1960)
3. Dreams (1955)
aka: Journey Into Autumn
4. Face to Face (1976)
5. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
6. A Lesson in Love (1954)
7. Loving Couples (1964)
8. The Magician (1958)
9. Music in Darkness (1948)
aka: Night Is My Future
10. The Naked Night (1953)
aka: Sawdust and Tinsel
11. Persona (1966)
12. Secrets of Women (1952)
aka: Waiting Women
13. The Seventh Seal (1957)
14. Shame (1968)
15. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
16. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
17. Torment (1944)
aka: Frenzy
18. Wild Strawberries (1957)
19. Winter Light (1962)
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