Movies: Stefan Jarl

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet to Paris. However, Sventon almost exclusively lives on cream puffs, and to transport these across the ...

A documentary about acclaimed Swedish actor Thommy Berggren....

A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird....

Stefan Jarl follows several homeless people in Stockholm during the cold winter of 1999....

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'....

A hot summer evening at a youth club in the city of Stockholm. 13 youngsters talk about their experiences of police violence and their views on the police....

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries...

"U-barn was based on a few simple things: combining some forms of societal imprinting through education and advertisement, some educational situations and an old commercial. And then genetic imprinting, i.e., handicaps of some kind, and show how chil...

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Naturens Hämnd ("Nature's Revenge") is a moving and thought-provoking documentary about what we do with our natural enviroment, and what concequences it brings along....

A documentary about where our soul is in today's society....

A short tribute to director Stefan Jarl's late friend, filmmaker Bo Widerberg, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 66....

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back....

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy....

A family on a small farm tries to live as usual even though there is a violent coup in the country. The threat is constantly present....

Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he soon realises the urgency of the case when it turns out the killer may hold a hatred for all policemen....

On Saturday, April 26, spring came to Sweden. That same day, Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Bringing mild winds to Scandinavia. Sweden suffered heavily of radioactive poison....

A cry from the revolutionary wilderness. About the solidarity that disappeared....

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s....

'Gästgivargår'n' depicts a restaurant at the foot of Kinnekulle dating back to the 1500s. There, restaurateur Stefan Johansson runs an inn based on local ingredients....