Movies Like Midsommardröm i fattighuset

Comrades

1982

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

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.

Miss Julie

1969

Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983

Gustav Vasa

1965

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

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.

Twelve Angry Men

1954

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

Dacke

1961

Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.

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.

Den bergtagna

1965

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.

Easter

1988

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

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.