Signe Hasso Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and...

An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life...

A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance....

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very...

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old...

Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.

Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina...

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

"House of Silence" - A banker and his old housekeeper are brutally assassinated by a gangster called Smith. The murders are arranged so that they may...

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really...

Birgit Norén is the new teacher at a small town school and falls in love with the principal.

The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the...

As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser...

Hellert, a middle-aged man, lawyer and well-established, make the acquaintance of kindergarten teacher Birgit Steen. He falls in love with her and...

Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of...

Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he...

In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.