John Ekman Movies

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

A film about family secrets...and deathbed confessions.

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between...

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the...

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes...

The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life....

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her lover.

A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.