Ingmar Bergman
Director, Actor
- It Rains On Our Love (1946)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten
- Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
- Ship Bound for India, A (1947)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Holger Löwenadler
- An early, overlooked play adaptation finds Bergman's visual and dramatic style in its formative stages. Four troubled souls are drawn together by a…
- Summer Interlude (1950)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
- Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
- Summer with Monika (1952)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson
- Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
- Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas Afton) (1953)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ake Gronberg
- This grim flipside to Fellini’s loony, carnivalesque films powerfully relays the degradation of several circus performers at the end of their…
- Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende) (1955)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson…
- An enjoyable, ultimately serious comedy of deception set among the Swedish gentry of the early 20th century who are engaged in a poetic dance of…
- Dreams (Kvinnodröm; Journey Into Autumn) (1955)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand
- Early, flawed Bergman microscope on relationships focuses on two women – a photographer and her model on a fashion shoot – as they…
- Seventh Seal, The (1957)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- The solemn Swede garnered world prominence with this stunning, poetic allegory set in the plague–ridden 16th Century, where a disillusioned…
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
- A classic film of one man's reminiscences and his dramatic search for the meaning of human existence. The bleakness is imbued with a quiet optimism.
- Magician, The (The Face) (1958)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
- Brink of Life (Nara Livet) (1958)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson…
- Minor, but accomplished Bergman potboiler concerns three women in a maternity ward, who must each decide whether to give up their babies for…
- Virgin Spring, The (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow
- Husband, father and brother must cope with the disintegrating mental health of a young woman on an island. The focus is on religion, madness and the…
- Essential Bergman: The Faith Trilogy Boxset (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) (1961-1963)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with questions of religion and faith, contained here in one essential boxset.
- Winter Light (1962)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom…
- The second in Bergman's faith trilogy, in which a village priest finds himself drawn towards atheism after the death of his wife. Crisp, reflective…
- Silence, The (1963)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
- Final part of Bergman's Faith Trilogy (begun with THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY and WINTER LIGHT) is set in an anonymous war–torn country where…
- Persona (1966)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
- Perhaps dir. Bergman's most renowned and haunting work, a study of the psychological processes between a mute patient and her repressed nurse.
Liv…
- Hour Of The Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
- One of dir. Bergman's most troubled visions, this concerns the descent of an unstable artist (von Sydow) and his sensitive wife (Ullmann) into a…
- Ingmar Bergman Collection (The Serpent's Egg, The Hour of the Wolf, The Passion of Anna, Skammen) (1968-1977)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow
- A collection of four of the Swedish master's most challenging and thought provoking works: THE SERPENT'S EGG, THE HOUR OF THE WOLF, THE PASSION OF…
- Skammen (Shame) (1968)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand
- Bleak parable set against the back drop of a fictional war finds an apolitical couple aloofly living out their days on an island indulging in various…
- Passion of Anna, The (1969)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson…
- Unpleasant drama set on a barren island with widow Ullman finding misery loves company in the form of tortured ex–convict von Sydow. Meanwhile…
- Cries and Whispers (1972)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson…
- “It’s Monday morning and I’m in pain…” So begins one of Bergman’s most nerve–wrecking psychodramas, set in a 19th household of…
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
- Married couple Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson undergo a lengthy emotional ordeal as their marriage disintegrates. Shot in a sparse functional…
- Magic Flute, The (1975)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
- An immaculately delivered version of Mozart's operatic fairytale, filmed on a special replica of the original 18th century stage.
At its simplest,…
- Face to Face (1976)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann
- A harrowing insight into a nervous breakdown suffered by a woman psychiatrist. Bleak yet compulsive through stylised photography and Liv Ullmanns…
- Serpent's Egg, The (1977)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Isolde Barth, Heinz Bennent, Toni Berger
- Jewish trapeze–artist Keith Carradine endures the depravities and anti–semitism of 1920's Berlin. Out of the director's most grotesque…
- Autumn Sonata (1978)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman
- The resumes of director Bergman and actress Bergman intersect for the first and only time in this, ahem, Bergmanesque (sombre, brutally honest,…
- From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Robert Atzom, Heinz Bennent, Martin Benrath
- A dark themed and intricately plotted drama from dir. Bergman's later period, concerning a businessman who commits the sex–murder of a…
- Fanny and Alexander (1983)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Kristina Adolphson, Borje Ahlstedt, Pernilla Allwin
- Dir. Bergman's last film is his least typical, yet one of his finest. It tells a semi–autobiographical family saga through the eyes of two…
- Bergman Island (2006)
- Dir. Marie Nyreröd
Feat. Ingmar Bergman
- Just four years before his death, legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sits down at his home on Fårö Island to discuss his work, his fears, his…