Karl-Arne Holmsten

Karl-Arne Holmsten

Karl-Arne Holmsten was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Ragnar Arvedson's "Kustens glada kavaljerer" in 1938. Karl-Arne Holmsten portrayed the elegant detective John Hillman in five films by Arne Mattsson, based on Folke Mellvig's novels. He also played Maria Lang's detective Christer Wijk in two films.

  • Title: Karl-Arne Holmsten
  • Popularity: 0.987
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-08-14
  • Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
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Karl-Arne Holmsten Movies

  • 1954
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    The Yellow Squadron

    The Yellow Squadron

    5.3 1954 HD

    The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold...

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  • 1959
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    Rider in Blue

    Rider in Blue

    5.9 1959 HD

    When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved...

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  • 1954
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    Dance on Roses

    Dance on Roses

    5 1954 HD

    Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig...

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  • 1950
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    Girl with Hyacinths

    Girl with Hyacinths

    7.2 1950 HD

    A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking...

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  • 1952
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    Waiting Women

    Waiting Women

    6.5 1952 HD

    Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other...

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  • 1958
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    Vi på Väddö

    Vi på Väddö

    4 1958 HD

    Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

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  • 1960
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    When Darkness Falls

    When Darkness Falls

    5.4 1960 HD

    Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

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  • 1955
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    Darling of Mine

    Darling of Mine

    5 1955 HD

    The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly...

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  • 1952
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    Klasskamrater

    Klasskamrater

    6 1952 HD

    Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.

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  • 1958
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    The Lady in Black

    The Lady in Black

    5.9 1958 HD

    The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a...

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  • 1958
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    Mannequin in Red

    Mannequin in Red

    6.5 1958 HD

    A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several...

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  • 1963
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    The Yellow Car

    The Yellow Car

    5 1963 HD

    On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence...

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  • 1962
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    Lady in White

    Lady in White

    5.7 1962 HD

    A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

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  • 1940
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    A Sailor on Horseback

    A Sailor on Horseback

    5 1940 HD

    Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance...

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  • 1940
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    Blyge Anton

    Blyge Anton

    4 1940 HD

    Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

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  • 1942
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    Rospiggar

    Rospiggar

    5 1942 HD

    A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son,...

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  • 1943
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    Örlogsmän

    Örlogsmän

    5 1943 HD

    The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy...

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  • 1959
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    Swinging at the Castle

    Swinging at the Castle

    6 1959 HD

    Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

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  • 1958
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    Fridolf sticker opp!

    Fridolf sticker opp!

    5.6 1958 HD

    A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't...

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  • 1951
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    Tull-Bom

    Tull-Bom

    4.7 1951 HD

    Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

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  • 1948
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    Var sin väg

    Var sin väg

    6 1948 HD

    A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the...

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  • 1961
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    Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

    Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

    5.3 1961 HD

    Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

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  • 1965
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    Two Vikings

    Two Vikings

    1 1965 HD

    The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.

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  • 1951
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    Puck heter jag

    Puck heter jag

    6 1951 HD

    Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.

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  • 1956
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    Sju vackra flickor

    Sju vackra flickor

    1 1956 HD

    Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one...

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  • 1953
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    Resan till dej

    Resan till dej

    5 1953 HD

    The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

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  • 1947
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    A Guest Is Coming

    A Guest Is Coming

    6.3 1947 HD

    It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

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  • 1949
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    Farlig vår

    Farlig vår

    4.8 1949 HD

    A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as...

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  • 1957
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    Mamma tar semester

    Mamma tar semester

    1 1957 HD

    Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children...

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  • 1947
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    Försummad av sin fru

    Försummad av sin fru

    1 1947 HD

    Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a...

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  • 1967
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    Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

    Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

    5 1967 HD

    People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz...

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  • 1949
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    Kvinna i vitt

    Kvinna i vitt

    1 1949 HD

    Doctor Karin Lange arrives at a hospital to begin work but faces opposition from the head of surgery who believes women are not suited to the medical...

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  • 1944
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    Gröna hissen

    Gröna hissen

    5 1944 HD

    Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and...

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  • 1944
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    Like Everyone Else

    Like Everyone Else

    5 1944 HD

    Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments...

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  • 1956
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    My Passionate Longing

    My Passionate Longing

    1 1956 HD

    The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.

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  • 1942
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    We Home Toilers

    We Home Toilers

    6 1942 HD

    The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its...

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  • 1964
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    Älskling på vift

    Älskling på vift

    1 1964 HD

    What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be when the husband forbids her to go to the finals in...

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  • 1939
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    Spöke till salu

    Spöke till salu

    1 1939 HD

    The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to...

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  • 1942
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    Kvinnan tar befälet

    Kvinnan tar befälet

    1 1942 HD

    A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.

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  • 1938
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    Du gamla du fria !

    Du gamla du fria !

    1 1938 HD

    A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The...

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  • 1952
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    One Fiancé at a Time

    One Fiancé at a Time

    5.5 1952 HD

    Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.

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  • 1952
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    Säg det med blommor

    Säg det med blommor

    1 1952 HD

    Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this...

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  • 1944
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    Dolly tar chansen

    Dolly tar chansen

    1 1944 HD

    Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.

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  • 1947
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    Hu!

    Hu!

    1 1947 HD

    Documentary on workers with dangerous jobs.

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  • 1938
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    Kustens glada kavaljerer

    Kustens glada kavaljerer

    1 1938 HD

    The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.

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  • 1943
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    En flicka för mej

    En flicka för mej

    1 1943 HD

    The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.

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  • 1940
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    Frestelse

    Frestelse

    1 1940 HD

    A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed...

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  • 1941
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    Ung dam med tur

    Ung dam med tur

    1 1941 HD

    The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.

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  • 1947
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    Daddy Wanted

    Daddy Wanted

    4.3 1947 HD

    Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong...

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  • 1952
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    Klackarna i taket

    Klackarna i taket

    1 1952 HD

    A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.

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  • 1954
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    Young Man Seeking Company

    Young Man Seeking Company

    1 1954 HD

    A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of...

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  • 1945
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    Blåjackor

    Blåjackor

    5 1945 HD

    "Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

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  • 1957
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    Klarar Bananen Biffen?

    Klarar Bananen Biffen?

    4 1957 HD

    Biffen and Bananen compete in a walking race between Stockholm and Gothenburg.

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  • 1947
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    Apéritif de Stockholm

    Apéritif de Stockholm

    1 1947 HD

    A rhapsody of music and images in Stockholm.

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  • 1954
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    Flottans glada gossar

    Flottans glada gossar

    5 1954 HD

    When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine...

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  • 1959
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    Crime in Paradise

    Crime in Paradise

    6 1959 HD

    While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night...

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  • 1955
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    Ljuset från Lund

    Ljuset från Lund

    5.5 1955 HD

    A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological...

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  • 1945
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    Wandering with the Moon

    Wandering with the Moon

    6.5 1945 HD

    Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out...

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  • 1939
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    Emelie Högqvist

    Emelie Högqvist

    1 1939 HD

    Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.

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  • 1949
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    Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

    Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

    6 1949 HD

    it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

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  • 1947
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    The Bride Came Through the Ceiling

    The Bride Came Through the Ceiling

    2 1947 HD

    The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.

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  • 1963
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    Det är hos mig han har varit

    Det är hos mig han har varit

    1 1963 HD

    "It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that...

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  • 1945
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    The Director is Busy

    The Director is Busy

    1 1945 HD

    About hobbies. The Swedish King Gustaf V enjoys embroideres. The CEO Arvid Öhlin plays with his toy trains. The countess Ebba Bonde collects...

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  • 1956
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    Den tappre soldaten Jönsson

    Den tappre soldaten Jönsson

    1 1956 HD

    About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons....

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  • 1941
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    Fröken Kyrkråtta

    Fröken Kyrkråtta

    1 1941 HD

    Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.

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  • 1944
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    The Emperor of Portugallia

    The Emperor of Portugallia

    6.3 1944 HD

    The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives...

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  • 1960
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    Sommar och syndare

    Sommar och syndare

    1 1960 HD

    Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a...

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  • 1952
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    Ubåt 39

    Ubåt 39

    1 1952 HD

    About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.

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  • 1943
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    När ungdomen vaknar

    När ungdomen vaknar

    1 1943 HD

    Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and...

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  • 1954
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    Skrattbomben

    Skrattbomben

    1 1954 HD

    Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people...

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  • 1944
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    Den osynliga muren

    Den osynliga muren

    5.3 1944 HD

    "The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

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  • 1959
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    Just a Waiter

    Just a Waiter

    7 1959 HD

    Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with...

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  • 1941
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    Magistrarna på sommarlov

    Magistrarna på sommarlov

    5.5 1941 HD

    Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a...

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  • 1940
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    Hanna in High Society

    Hanna in High Society

    1 1940 HD

    When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to...

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  • 1946
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    Hotell Kåkbrinken

    Hotell Kåkbrinken

    1 1946 HD

    Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house...

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  • 1943
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    Life and Death

    Life and Death

    5.5 1943 HD

    Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of...

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  • 1955
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    Flottans Muntergökar

    Flottans Muntergökar

    1 1955 HD

    Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.

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  • 1950
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    Ung och kär

    Ung och kär

    1 1950 HD

    The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta...

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  • 1947
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    Tappa inte sugen

    Tappa inte sugen

    1 1947 HD

    In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But...

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  • 1949
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    Love Wins Out

    Love Wins Out

    5 1949 HD

    The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

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  • 1950
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    Kyssen på kryssen

    Kyssen på kryssen

    4 1950 HD

    Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different...

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  • 1939
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    To Help the Lady of the House

    To Help the Lady of the House

    5.1 1939 HD

    Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of...

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  • 1950
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    Fianceé for Hire

    Fianceé for Hire

    6 1950 HD

    A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

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