John Hilke
Actor
Movies18
Movie6.6DramaRomanceBased on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Movie5.2ComedyMusic"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.
I dur och skur
1953 · 4 votes
Movie10.0MusicComedyThe Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Sjösalavår
1949 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedySwedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.
Melodin från Gamla Stan
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.2CrimeComedyA police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
Movie9.0ComedyOlle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay back 50,000 crowns in eight days. In order to pay the money he answers the ads in the newspaper looking for a maid.
En karl i köket
1954 · 2 votes
Movie8.0MusicDramaBased on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to settle down with his fiancee Linnea. On the dance floor he meets Rosa.
Movie8.0DramaA Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Mot nya tider
1939 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe hunt for a precious porcelain tableware leads to the Möllegården estate, where ghosts are said to live.
Det spökar - det spökar...
1943 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
Movie5.7ComedyTwo twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Dumbom
1953 · 7 votes
Movie10.0ComedySimon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Simon i Backabo
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.0MusicDramaKnatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne is looking for the music.
Movie4.4RomanceComedyAdolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
Adolf Armstarke
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMarianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two older gentlemen decide to help her avoid the dangers of the city.
Fattiga riddare
1944 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaThe orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.
- Movie10.0Drama
The fisherman Lars Persson on Vinga and his wife Anna has one child, Karin. In the lighthouse lives Anders Bergström with his son Arne.
Havets melodi
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA bachelor in Stockholm must invent a family to be able to get financial support from his aunt Anna. Everything is going well until she arrives on an unexpected visit.
Släkten är värst
1936 · 2 votes