John Ekman Movies

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his...

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes...

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th...

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in...

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't...

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers...

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...

A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her lover.

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the...

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen...

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.