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...

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...

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...

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

Harry Willis is a slob and a bacchant. He is therefore abandoned by his wife Maggi.

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring...

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

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...

The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

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...

The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life....

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

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...

A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the...

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

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...

The aging Count Eric von Ure is worried about the lack of responsibility shown by his son and heir Kuno. His extramarital son Jörgen Ager is...