Movies Like Fröken Julie

Från regnormarnas liv

1998

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

Lek ej med kärleken

1961

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Misantropen

1963

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Orestea

1972

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.

Stängda dörrar

1981

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983

Han som fick leva om sitt liv

1987

The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.

Muntra fruarna i Windsor

1998

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

Romeo and Juliet

1955

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

Saraband

2003

Reuniting the characters of Johan and Marianne three decades after "Scenes from a Marriage," "Saraband" follows Marianne’s visit to her reclusive ex-husband, where she finds him locked in a destructive conflict with his troubled son Henrik and Henrik’s musically gifted daughter Karin. Told as an intimate chamber drama, the film explores love, resentment, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of family bonds.

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Jane Eyre

1997

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Easter

1988

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

Ett Dockhem

1970

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

Körsbärsträdgården

1970

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

Medea

1963

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

1983

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.