All These Women 1964  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Now About All These Women
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Jarl Kulle, Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Allan Edwall, Georg Funkquist, Eva Dahlbeck, Gertrud Fridh, Karin Kavli, Mona Malm, Carl Billquist, Yvonne Igell, Doris Funcke, Lars-Owe Carlberg, Axel Duberg, Ulf Johansson
Cornelius (Jarl Kulle) is a music critic who is writing a biography on a classical musician. He visits the musician's home and learns that he is compelled to have sex with every woman he meets. Although he has not met the musician, Cornelius plans to blackmail the musician into performing Cornelius' composition if he writes the biography. But, the musician dies before he can play Cornelius' music.
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The Deadly Affair 1967  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Haigh, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, William Dysart, Roy Kinnear
Based on John Le Carre's spy novel, "Call for the Dead," this exciting espionage thriller involves the investigation of the apparent suicide of diplomat Samuel Fennan (Robert Flemyng).
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Dogville 2003 R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson, Patricia Clarkson, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Jean-Marc Barr, James Caan, Blair Brown, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Stellan Skarsgard
When a fugitive (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the village of Dogville in the Rocky Mountains, the mayor (Paul Bettany) convinces the citizens to hide her. It works for awhile–until police and gangsters arrive looking for her–and then the villagers turn on her. The symbolism of Americans accepting newcomers at first but exploiting them later prevails throughout this tale.
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Dreams 1955  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Journey Into Autumn
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ulf Palme, Inga Landgre, Naima Wifstrand, Benkt-Ake Benktsson, Sven Lindberg, Kerstin Hedeby, Ingmar Bergman, Renee Bjorling, Tord Stal, Ludde Gentzel, Folke Astrom, Curt Karrby
Fashion photographer Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) and her protege, model Doris (Harriet Andersson), travel around Sweden–each searching for the love of the right man. Susanne calls her married lover Henrik (Ulf Palme), but their romantic rendezvous ends when Henrik's wife (Inga Landgre) appears on the scene. Meanwhile, Doris meets and is attracted to wealthy Otto Sonderby (Gunnar Bjornstrand), but the possibility of a romance with him ends when his daughter Marianne (Kerstin Hedeby) steps in. By vacation's end, both Susanne and Doris have changed their dreams of what love could be.
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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 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, Curt Lowgren, Michael Fant, Hanny Schedin, Gunnar Lindberg, Eric Gustafson
The circus owner, Albert Johansson (Ake Gronberg), of a struggling circus troupe leaves his mistress Ann (Harriet Andersson) to go back to his wife Agda (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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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, Bjorn Bjelfvenstam, Jullan Kindahl, Gull Natorp, Lisa Lundholm, John Melin
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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Summer with Monika 1953 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
aka: Monika
Monika, The Story of a Bad Girl
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson, Georg Skarstedt, Dagmar Ebbesen, Ake Gronberg, Ivar Wahlgren, Renee Bjorling, Catrin Westerlund, Bengt Brunskog, Naemi Briese, Ake Fridell, Sigge Furst, Gert Fylking, Harry Ahlin
Young lovers Monika (Harriet Andersson) and Harry (Lars Ekborg) rush into marriage after discovering that Monika is pregnant.
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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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| 1. All These Women (1964)
aka: Now About All These Women
2. Cries and Whispers (1972)
3. The Deadly Affair (1967)
4. Dogville (2003)
5. Dreams (1955)
aka: Journey Into Autumn
6. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
7. A Lesson in Love (1954)
8. Loving Couples (1964)
9. The Naked Night (1953)
aka: Sawdust and Tinsel
10. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
11. Summer with Monika (1953)
aka: Monika
aka: Monika, The Story of a Bad Girl
12. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
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