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
A classical musician is compelled to have sex with every woman he meets and agrees to a deal with a music critic who plans to write his biography.
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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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The Magic Flute 1975  G, 134 min.
Genre: Foreign / Musical / Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Josef Kostlinger, Irma Urrila, Hakan Hagegard, Elisabeth Eriksson, Ulrik Cold, Erik Saeden, Birgit Nordin, Urban Malmberg, Gosta Pruzelius, Ragnar Ulfung
Using the theme of Mozart's opera involving Prince Tamino's (Josef Kostlinger) efforts to rescue Pamina (Irma Urrila) from her evil sorcerer father Sarastro (Ulrik Cold), Ingmar Bergman weaves both the action on stage with moments of backstage operations into his delightful story.
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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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Scenes from a Marriage 1973 PG, 168 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjo, Gunnel Lindblom, Anita Wall, Barbro Hiort af Ornas, Rosanna Mariano, Lena Bergman, Wenche Foss
Told in six episodes, this film captures the emotions involved in a marriage that is failing. Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann at their best.
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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 Serpent's Egg 1977  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe, Heinz Bennent, James Whitmore, Glynn Turman, Toni Berger, Christian Berkel, Paula Braend, Erna Bruenell
An American Jewish couple, Manuela (Liv Ullmann) and Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine), are trapeze artists caught in Berlin as Hitler rises to power. A rare Bergman misfire.
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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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The Silence 1963 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Gunnel Lindblom, Ingrid Thulin, Jorgen Lindstrom, Birger Malmsten, Hakan Jahnberg, Eduardo Gutierrez, Eskil Kalling, Kristina Olausson, Olof Widgren, Nils Waldt
The third in a trilogy, this film follows "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Winter Light." Two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) spend time in a hotel where they confront their desires representing Sigmund Freud's superego and id.
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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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Summer with Monika 1953 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
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
Young lovers Monika (Harriet Andersson) and Harry (Lars Ekborg) rush into marriage after discovering that Monika is pregnant.
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Summerplay 1951 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Illicit Interlude
Summer Interlude
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Georg Funkquist, Alf Kjellin, Stig Olin, Gunnar Olsson, Annalisa Ericson, Mimi Pollak, Renee Bjorling, Emmy Albiin
Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson) has problems getting over the tragic death of her former lover, but her present lover, David (Alf Kjellin), helps her move past her obsession.
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Thirst 1949 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Three Strange Loves
Torst
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth, Mimi Nelson, Hasse Ekman, Bengt Eklund, Sif Ruud, Naima Wifstrand, Gunnar Nielsen, Helge Hagerman, Gaby Stenberg, Peter Winner, Britta Brunius
Rut and Bertil (Eva Henning and Birger Malmsten) are having an argument while riding on the train through Germany on their way home to Sweden following a vacation in Italy. In flashback, Bertil's ex-lover Viola's (Birgit Tengroth) story about her romantic confusion with a psychologist (Hasse Ekman) and her relationship with lesbian dancer Valborg (Mimi Nelson) is told. In another flashback, Rut's affair with a military officer Raoul (Bengt Eklund) mirrors the problems that Viola has endured. This early Ingmar Bergman film looks at love affairs from the feminine perspective.
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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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To Joy 1950 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Stig Olin, Maj-Britt Nilsson, John Ekman, Margit Carlqvist, Victor Sjostrom, Birger Malmsten, Sif Ruud, Gunnar Rystedt, Erland Josephson, Ingmar Bergman
A failing marriage is examined in this early Ingmar Bergman drama.
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The Touch 1971 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid, Ake Lindstrom, Aino Taube, Margareta Bystrom, Elsa Ebbeson, Staffan Hallerstam, Barbro Hiort af Ornas, Bengt Ottekil, Per Sjostrand, Maria Nolgard, Karin Nilsson
Karin (Bibi Andersson) is happily married to a surgeon, Andreas Vergerus (Max von Sydow), when an American Jewish archaeologist, David Kovak (Elliott Gould), enters her life. She begins to think that she is bored in her marriage and finds David's freedom to travel exciting. After Karin begins an affair with David, she has second thoughts when she finds herself torn between David and her husband as well as her dreams of adventure and a secure home life.
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The Virgin Spring 1960 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Gudrun Brost, Allan Edwall, Axel Duberg, Tor Isedal, Oscar Ljung, Axel Slangus
This film, set in 14th-century Sweden, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It tells the story of 15-year-old Karin (Birgitta Pettersson) who is brutally raped and killed by bandits. Later, the attackers seek shelter at the home of Karin's parents (Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg) who exact revenge.
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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. After the Rehearsal (1984)
2. All These Women (1964)
aka: Now About All These Women
3. Autumn Sonata (1978)
4. Brink of Life (1958)
5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
6. The Devil's Eye (1960)
7. The Devil's Wanton (1949)
8. Dreams (1955)
aka: Journey Into Autumn
9. Face to Face (1976)
10. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
11. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
12. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
13. A Lesson in Love (1954)
14. The Magic Flute (1975)
15. The Magician (1958)
16. Music in Darkness (1948)
aka: Night Is My Future
17. The Naked Night (1953)
aka: Sawdust and Tinsel
18. A Passion (1969)
aka: The Passion of Anna
19. Persona (1966)
20. Port of Call (1948)
21. Saraband (2003)
22. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
23. Secrets of Women (1952)
aka: Waiting Women
24. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
25. The Seventh Seal (1957)
26. Shame (1968)
27. The Silence (1963)
28. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
29. Summer with Monika (1953)
aka: Monika
aka: Monika, The Story of a Bad Girl
30. Summerplay (1951)
aka: Illicit Interlude
aka: Summer Interlude
31. Thirst (1949)
aka: Three Strange Loves
aka: Torst
32. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
33. To Joy (1950)
34. The Touch (1971)
35. The Virgin Spring (1960)
36. Wild Strawberries (1957)
37. Winter Light (1962)
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