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Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

The adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet and her best friends Tommy and Annika.

Young Dante inherits $17M if he quits smoking for 14 days. He hires detectives to stop him while his uncle sabotages his efforts to keep inheritance. Struggle between quitting addiction and greed ensues.

The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).

A drama about mental disease, faith, and doubt.

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.

Depicts "Statarna", the Swedish agricultural proletarians, set during the early 1900s. An institutionalized brutality of oppression and poverty surrounded by a beautiful and silent countryside.

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was chosen to take his place.

The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?

Arvid Pettersson works as a customs officer in Haparanda in 1916. This is a time when the small town, being a border town on the Swedish side of the border between neutral Sweden and Finland, then belonging to czarist Russia, currently involved in World War I, is a center for soldiers, refugees, smugglers and spies. He discovers that a Russian ballerina, who's on her way to perform in Stockholm, has a gun, but he doesn't report it, since he falls in love with her a little. However, this isn't the biggest trouble he has because soon afterward, he and two other Swedes become accused of the murder of a Russian V.I.P. in Torneå, on the Russian side of the border. They manage to escape from Russian prison and an almost certain sentence to the feared Peter Paul's prison in Petrograd (former St. Petersburg). As they discover that the ballerina has something to do with the murder, they start following her towards Stockholm. However, they are still on the run from the Russian and now also Swedish police, who think they're behind the murder. Their chase for the murderer takes them both to Stockholm, Skåne (Scania) and even Copenhagen. And all the time, they have the police on their heels.

Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.

Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrekt is released from prison, and lacking other options, works for his brother's private investigation business. The cases that comes his way are peculiar and rarely pays much but Engeln tries to help his clients through clever thinking and unorthodox methods.

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.

Brita moves from her parents' cabbage patch in the countryside to work in Stockholm as a housemaid for a wealthy family. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with Greger, the young man of the household. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from her home village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.

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

The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession".

Felix is a fire station aspirant. However, he has problems with the training. He's scared, clumsy and uncertain about his career choices - but also for the upcoming adult life in general.

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.

Mania Becker starts working in a mental hospital which she hasn't any experience in. She meets a young man who has stopped talking. He has been considered an interesting case and Mania seems to be the only one who can contact him. Soon she realizes that she loves him and it will change her life.

Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.

After a fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The powers of Simon spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.

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 of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

The idealistic Count, together with his mistress, a teacher on the title island, represents a more modern and open lifestyle. Seeking a closer and relaxed contact with the locals. Against these two stands obsolete, doomed and unyielding traditions.

Hanna lives in a small village in Småland with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl around and has many admirers.

Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different environments.