
Johan Widerberg
Actor · b. 1974 · Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Widerberg is the son of Bo Widerberg (who is often cited as one of the greatest Scandinavian directors). Johan's breakthrough role is often cited as the lead of the acclaimed film "All Things Fair", of the year 1995.
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Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeDespite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Ocean's Twelve
2004 · 8.1K votes
Movie7.6ComedyDramaDespite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
Movie6.5DramaRomanceIn 1943 Malmö, 15-year-old Stig is attracted to his teacher Viola, 22 years his senior, who, drawn to his youth and innocence, believes the lad is a God-sent relief from her miserable marriage to a drunken, unfaithful lout.
Movie7.1DramaA wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Wife
2017 · 1.1K votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyA boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Movie7.1ThrillerActionWhen an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.
Movie6.1ThrillerDramaSonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Movie4.5ComedyDramaSingle mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceOlof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.
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.
Movie8.0DocumentaryThe documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeOn 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Vice cops Johansson and Jarnebring, the first to the scene of the crime, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as they think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose certainty, alibis arise, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why?
Movie5.8CrimeDramaA woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are chased by a large number of police but only Martin Beck believes them to be innocent.
Movie5.4CrimeThrillerThis is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.
Movie6.0ComedyDrama"What a Damn Circus" - A young university student Hugo falls in love with promising violinist Agnes, but something happens that changes his life completely. Moving on, the story turns into a romantic drama-comedy with great portions of humour and warmth, as Hugo ends up at Circus Margôt and is drawn into that absorbing existence.
Movie7.9ThrillerA man gets a phone call from an acquaintance, asking for help. They must retrieve something lost inside a train tunnel. They must do it in the middle of the night. "In" is an psychological thriller set in the quiet country of Sweden, where people are hiding behind drawn blinds even though the closest neighbor live miles away. A place where you do not know who live in your apartment building or not even the people you play hockey with every week. We follow the two men into the darkness as they are forced to come closer together. And in spite of all confinement, there is still something left open, an escape, or an abyss, deep down in the dark.
In
2011 · 4 votes
Movie5.0ComedyFamilyTwo 10 year old girls from Stockholm decide to run away from home. They travel to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to report a teacher who wants one girl to revert to study year 4.
Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie
1997 · 3 votes
Movie3.8ComedyDramaA Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.
Gossip
2000 · 13 votes
Movie5.0Herr Von Hancken
2000 · 4 votes
Movie6.3DramaWarJacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier.
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A drama about a young boy who has a relationship with an older woman.
Augustitango
1996 · 1 votes
Movie3.0CrimeDramaA man takes law into his own hands after the search for his daughter's murderer and rapist fails and instead the police go after him.
Odjuret
2012 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaThey are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new direction.
Happy End
2011 · 15 votes
Movie8.0ActionComedyJohn Andersson is the action hero who saves the world from evil villains.
Nordexpressen
1992 · 3 votes
Series13
TV7.2DramaCrimeViveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
TV7.9CrimeDramaIn Northern Sweden, 1852, a new pastor and his family arrive in Kengis, a village riddled with disorder.
TV6.0DramaAn ambitious financial reporter Bea receives an anonymous tip about irregularities at a Swedish major bank. Bea weathered a scoop, but the review is made more difficult by her love affair with the bank's married CEO, Peder. Based on Carolina Neurath's book "Speed Blind" which in turn is inspired by real events.
TV5.9CrimeDramaMurder investigator Evert Bäckström is convinced that crimes have been committed when a women's cranium is found on an island in the archipelago. But his investigation is countered by the police chief and when the woman's identity is clarified, the entire investigation is turned upside down.
Bäckström
2020 · 32 votes
TV7.2DramaCrimeA homeless former detective and an aspiring police officer join forces to solve a cold case in which a pregnant woman was buried alive on a beach on North Koster Island.
Springfloden
2016 · 30 votes
TV6.2CrimeDramaDuring a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of “Rikskrim,” a Swedish national police force.
Modus
2015 · 50 votes
TVDocumentaryFactual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.
TV4.3DramaJournalist Nina Wedén gets the political scoop century and finds herself fast-tracked to becoming the Press Secretary for Sweden's newly appointed Foreign Minister, Jacob Weiss.
Doktrinen
2024 · 3 votes
TV6.3ComedyAnders realizes his daughter is being excluded from social activities and decides to start harassing his neighbors.
TV6.8DramaCrimePolice inspector Maja Silver returns to her hometown in the Swedish Bible Belt as a terrible discovery paralyzes the small community.
TV8.0DramaThe legendary Captain von Hancken is a true eccentric. He arrives with his family at Iglinge Spa in the early 1800s to seek a cure for his real and imagined ailments. When Dr. Wurm tells him he has six weeks left to live, his self-pity grows as he becomes the object of pity and interest. During these six weeks, the most fantastic things happen. He falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious viscountess and imagines that the king is coming to visit. When the king doesn’t show up, von Hancken starts a rebellion...
Herr von Hancken
2000 · 1 votes
TV6.6DramaFamilyTwo siblings, Ebba and Didrik, live in small society by the sea. An ordinary family with usual struggles. They're looking for love in different ways, but it's easier said than done.
Ebba och Didrik
1990 · 10 votes
TV7.0DramaRapport till himlen is a 1994 Swedish mini series directed by Ulf Malmros and starring Johan Widerberg and Lina Englund.