
Margareta Pettersson
Actor · b. 1955
Margareta Pettersson is a Swedish actress who plays with Matt Damon in the feature film Downsizing, directed by Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne. Margareta plays the major supporting role of Solveig Edvardsen. She has scenes with Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau and Rolf Lassgård. Margareta has more than thirty years experience as an actress. She is known for always being very true in her roles, a strong presence on screen and she is also known as a comedienne. She has worked with director Ingmar Bergman in his feature films Fanny and Alexander and Face to Face. Bergman gave Margareta compliments for her natural and true presence on screen. She also worked with Lasse Hallström in his feature film Tuppen. In 2021 in Swedish Short Film Festival Margareta wins Audience Favorite for her own short film Tissel Tassel. She plays the shaman woman in the international TV-series Epic Warrior Women in 2019. Margareta Pettersson is producer, director, and screenwriter, and plays the main role in her own short film Mötet, which was nominated for Best Short Film in SM in Minute Film at Swedish Short film Festival 2019. She was nominated for Best Swedish Female Actor in Luleå International Film Festival in 2019 for her main role in the Short film Alma 2. She won Prize of Honour at the Movie Festival in Poland 2019. Her Short Film Alma Another Day. Meeting and Alma 1 was selected in Luleå International Film Festival in 2020. She plays the main role as Mother in the Swedish Short Film The Tyrant which won prize as Best Swedish Short Film in Luleå International Film Festival in 2020.
Movies22
Movie5.4DramaScience FictionA kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Downsizing
2017 · 4.2K votes
Movie7.2DramaA psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.
Movie5.8DramaA salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow with the abuser's kids.
Movie7.0RomanceDramaMania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
MovieDramaRichard is a tormented young man who has a long distance relationship with his girlfriend. One day he decides to surprise her with a visit. Unfortunately he can't afford the plane ticket. But he has a plan.
Movie4.5ThrillerCrimeA thriller set in a Swedish village. Lisa comes back from London to sell a house left to her by her father. He mysteriously disappeared in the forest in the winter and is presumed dead in an accident. Lisa suspects there is more to the story as her father was disliked in the village. The old hunting lodge by the lake hides a secret. When Lisa starts her search for the truth painful facts about her father, herself and the village will be revealed.
MovieScience FictionTwo small-town brothers are visited by an alien. Having crash-landed in the forests of Norrbotten, the visitor is named Roland. The brothers, Arne and Stefan, teach him everything important about life on Earth, including moonshine, hunting, and the mystery of love.
Movie7.7DramaYoung Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh city, he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival.
Movie4.3DramaThe young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.
Movie3.8DramaThe restaurateur and womanizer Jerrie meets the guest Sara. A passionate but stormy relationship begins. Sara is not like the other women Jerrie has met. Soon Sara is the boss.
Lust
1994 · 4 votes
Movie5.3ComedyDramaA teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Movie5.6ComedyIn 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Movie5.5ComedyOne Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
SOPOR
1981 · 21 votes
Movie9.0DramaComedySamuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.
MovieCrimeDramaCrime-drama about a drifting drug dealer on the run in the Swedish countryside, who ends up with a baby on his hands.
Movie6.3ComedyLife isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Movie2.0ThrillerDramaIn post apocalyptic Sweden, Elin longs to escape her life as a stripper at a local club. When she meets the troubled musician Erland, who at first glance seems to be her ticket out of there, she has no idea that her life is about to turn into a nightmarish fight for survival.
Movie5.7DramaThere is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.
MovieDramaComedyThe time of change is on the threshold for fifty-three-year-old Kaj, who recently has started to question his authority as Sensei. After a workplace accident, Kaj is forced to find a way out of the past and a way into the present.
Movie5.9CrimeThrillerThe criminal police is investigating a criminal gang blackmailing restaurant owners.
Hassel - Beskyddarna
1986 · 7 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeNicke loves practical jokes. When his best friend Pelle is getting married, Nicke is hosting the bachelor party. It will start with the kidnapping of Pelle. Everything goes wrong when Pelle is kidnapped for real by a terrorist group.
Joker
1991 · 27 votes
Series4
TV7.1DramaFamilyAn annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
1960 · 11 votes
TVComedySmåstaden is about the small town of Larstad (like Karlstad, but Lars) where Sweden's youngest and most unwilling municipal councilor Simon Hoffman is tasked with saving the town from total decay.
Småstaden
2017
TVFamilyKidsThe Hedenhös family time-travels and ends up in a museum in Stockholm in 2013. They explore the modern world and try to find a way to get back home.
TV9.0DramaComedySally
1999 · 1 votes