Ingmar Bergman

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Dreams
7

Dreams

Aug. 22, 1955

Dreams

Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to ...
Scenes from a Marriage
8.3

Scenes from a Marriage

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even ...
Saraband
7.5

Saraband

Dec. 01, 2003

Saraband

In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, ...
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
7.6

The Making of Fanny and Alexander

The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length ...
After the Rehearsal
7.1

After the Rehearsal

Jun. 21, 1984

After the Rehearsal

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes ...
Fanny and Alexander
8.1

Fanny and Alexander

Dec. 17, 1982

Fanny and Alexander

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father ...
From the Life of the Marionettes
7.2

From the Life of the Marionettes

Made during Bergman’s tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, ...
Fårö Document 1979
6.7

Fårö Document 1979

Dec. 24, 1979

Fårö Document 1979

In 1969, with Sven Nykvist as cinematographer, Ingmar Berman made The Fårö Document, a film that ended with a rather pessimist view of the ...
Autumn Sonata
8.1

Autumn Sonata

Oct. 08, 1978

Autumn Sonata

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: ...
The Serpent’s Egg
6.6

The Serpent’s Egg

Oct. 28, 1977

The Serpent’s Egg

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, ...
The Magic Flute
7.5

The Magic Flute

Oct. 04, 1975

The Magic Flute

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen ...
Cries and Whispers
8

Cries and Whispers

Dec. 21, 1972

Cries and Whispers

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can’t offer her the support she ...
The Touch
6.3

The Touch

Jul. 14, 1971

The Touch

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a ...
The Rite
7

The Rite

Mar. 25, 1969

The Rite

A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for ...
The Passion of Anna
7.6

The Passion of Anna

Nov. 10, 1969

The Passion of Anna

Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of ...
Fårö Document
6.7

Fårö Document

Jan. 01, 1970

Fårö Document

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow ...
Hour of the Wolf
7.5

Hour of the Wolf

Feb. 19, 1968

Hour of the Wolf

While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Shame
8

Shame

Sep. 29, 1968

Shame

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of ...
All These Women
5.4

All These Women

Jun. 15, 1964

All These Women

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic’s house for a few ...
The Silence
7.8

The Silence

Sep. 23, 1963

The Silence

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna’s young son, Johan, ...
Winter Light
8

Winter Light

Feb. 11, 1963

Winter Light

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Through a Glass Darkly
7.9

Through a Glass Darkly

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family’s cottage on a tiny island. Her ...
The Virgin Spring
8.1

The Virgin Spring

Feb. 08, 1960

The Virgin Spring

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver ...
The Devil’s Eye
7.1

The Devil’s Eye

Oct. 17, 1960

The Devil’s Eye

The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar’s daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the ...
Brink of Life
7.3

Brink of Life

Mar. 31, 1958

Brink of Life

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
The Magician
7.6

The Magician

Dec. 26, 1958

The Magician

When ‘Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theater’ comes to town, there’s bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of ...
Wild Strawberries
8.1

Wild Strawberries

Dec. 26, 1957

Wild Strawberries

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to ...
The Seventh Seal
8.1

The Seventh Seal

Feb. 16, 1957

The Seventh Seal

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he ...
Smiles of a Summer Night
7.7

Smiles of a Summer Night

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while ...
A Lesson in Love
7

A Lesson in Love

Oct. 04, 1954

A Lesson in Love

After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself ...
Summer with Monika
7.5

Summer with Monika

Feb. 09, 1953

Summer with Monika

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins ...
Sawdust and Tinsel
7.5

Sawdust and Tinsel

Sep. 14, 1953

Sawdust and Tinsel

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Summer Interlude
7.5

Summer Interlude

Oct. 01, 1951

Summer Interlude

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover’s old diary.
To Joy
7.2

To Joy

Feb. 20, 1950

To Joy

After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were ...
Thirst
6.5

Thirst

Oct. 17, 1949

Thirst

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons ...
Prison
6.8

Prison

Mar. 19, 1949

Prison

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects ...
Music in Darkness
6.4

Music in Darkness

Jan. 17, 1948

Music in Darkness

Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the ...
Port of Call
6.6

Port of Call

Oct. 11, 1948

Port of Call

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can’t forgive ...
A Ship Bound for India
6.5

A Ship Bound for India

Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is ...
Crisis
6.4

Crisis

Feb. 25, 1946

Crisis

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter’s real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes ...
Torment
7.3

Torment

Oct. 02, 1944

Torment

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, ...