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Plot Summary:
At the Swedish embassy in Mexico City, the staff tries to do everything to promote the image of Sweden. But for the selfish ambassador Thomas Hofwander, it is mainly about lifting himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration:
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Flicker (2012)
Plot Summary:
There 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
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Dejta (2020)
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When single mom Ella creates a profile on a dating site opens the door to a new world of romance, adventure, occasional disappointment, but also a lot of wonderful passion. But what is it really Ella wants? Dejta is a warm Swedish drama comedy about daring to live life to the fullest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
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Wonderful and Loved by All (2007)
Plot Summary:
Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order to jump-start her life she decides to lie a bit on her next job application with unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
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The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Åberg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 100 min
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The Office (2017)
Plot Summary:
Finnish adaption of the British TV series "The Office".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom
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Ambassadøren (2020)
Plot Summary:
With Ambassador Tina Friis-Thomson at the helm, the staff at the Danish Embassy in Mexico City will show and promote Denmark's very best sides. However, the ambassador's own goal is to promote herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration:
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M/S Romantic (2019)
Plot Summary:
One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 254 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, tragicomedy
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The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Plot Summary:
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
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Freud Leaving Home (1991)
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In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the world. The central character in this drama, however, is Angelique, whose interest in psychoanalysis has earned her the nickname of "Freud." Her older brother is gay and lives in Florida with his lover. Her older sister has married into an Orthodox family, and lives in Jerusalem. They have all gathered in Sweden for their grandmother's birthday. Meanwhile, Rosha's daughter, the mother of these diverse children, has taken ill and is in the hospital. She has been diagnosed with a very advanced, inoperable brain tumor. Freud, who never left home, is perhaps as upset by this news as anyone, and she startles everyone by going out and beginning an affair with a biker. However, she is deeply involved in the new situation: she insists that their mother be brought home from the hospital rather than being allowed to suffer and die there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 103 min
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A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min
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Breaking Out (1999)
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The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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All Inclusive (2017)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Croatia to celebrate Inger's 60th birthday. The whole thing sounded like a great idea until Inger caught her husband having an affair. When the plane takes off for Split the depressed Inger and her two daughters, much too sensible Malin (35) and chaotic Tove (32) are on board. Tove has to struggle to be included in Inger and Malin's circle, the sister's rivalry over their mother is so strong it quickly escalates into a competition of who can comfort Inger the best.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
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Barrier (1966)
Plot Summary:
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min
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All That Jack's (1980)
Plot Summary:
The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Plot Summary:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min
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A Class Apart (2021)
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When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 42 min
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Rederiet (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rederiet was a long-running Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between 1992 and 2002. The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors, and the show has often been referred to as Sweden's version of Dynasty. The 45-minute episodes were broadcast weekly on Thursday nights on the public-service channel SVT1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For ten years, Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the rival TV4 show Tre Kronor. The competition for viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas. Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on YLE TV2, and the show was a hit in Norway too on TV2. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which led most notably to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing in the series. Rapper Ken Ring also appeared as an extra in the show in 1996. On April Fools' Day 1993 SVT News announced that Mel Gibson was to play a lead role in the series. Gibson himself was interviewed and confirmed the information. It was later revealed that the whole event had been a joke.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Gossip (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of "Queen Christina".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Handcuff King (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min
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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
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An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
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Solsidan (2010)
Plot Summary:
Solsidan is a Swedish television comedy series that premiered on 29 January 2010 on TV4. The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just moved to Alex's childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County. Alex tries to get Anna to enjoy herself, and at the same time spend time with his childhood friend Fredde. Ten episodes were scheduled to air in the first season. A second ten-episode season premiered 16 January 2011.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom
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Adventures Italian Style (2020)
Plot Summary:
A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Summer with the Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Bonus Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new couple, their exes and their children navigate the emotional challenges and tricky logistics of blended family life in this Swedish dramedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Shit faced (2011)
Plot Summary:
A twisted comedy show that portrays the drinking and partying habits of the average swede in absurd, over-the-top and, most importantly, hilarious ways. A comedy drama that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time. Anything can and will happen and if it's possible to twist a joke one extra turn, it's twisted twice. "Karatefylla" is R-rated comedy dancing on the grave of good taste.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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A Hustlers Diary - The Series (2020)
Plot Summary:
The gangster Metin tries to get his life in order after a prison stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 221 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, masterpiece
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The American Embassy (2002)
Plot Summary:
The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Medicine (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a middle aged woman tries a new unauthorized medicine, her life changes drastically.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Love Me (2019)
Plot Summary:
Friendship, grief and romance intersect with love in the lives of three generations of people living in Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Odd weeks (2021)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing