Den åldrade Terje ser ut över det stormande havet och minns sin ungdom som sjöman ute på havet, oförväget klättrande i tackel och rår -- och lyckligt gift med hustru och ett litet barn och en nätt liten stuga vid stranden. Plötsligt bryts idyllen sönder av kriget 1809 och engelsmännens blockad av kusten. Oroliga samlas man i grupper, en gudstjänst hålls i det fria. Frågan är hur man ska kunna skaffa mat till hustrur och barn.
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America.
Tre skotska legoknektar mördar Herr Arne och hans hushåll för en kista med silverpengar. Den enda överlevande är Elsalill, som flyttar med fiskaren Torarin till Marstrand. Där träffar hon en ståtlig officer – Sir Archie, som hon blir förälskad i, ovetandes om att han är en av de tre mördarna...
Victor Sjöströms debutfilm om en ung kvinna, männen i hennes liv och hennes tragiska öde. För den nyinrättade svenska filmcensuren blev innehållet dock för magstarkt, vilket innebar att Sjöströms förstlingsverk aldrig fick svensk premiär.
En mäktig änka och en fredlös främling flyr vilt förälskade upp i de isländska bergen. Det praktfulla ödesdramat fotograferades av Julius Jaenzon, och den svenska filmen fick sitt genombrott i världen.
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his uncle to his father-in-law.
Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death
A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc in his home life, it leads to other problems.
The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.
An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.
When two riders come to the monastery seeking shelter for the night they inquire from one of the monks about the founding of the monastery. The old monk reluctantly recounts the story of Count Starschensky, a nobleman of wealth and property. Starschensky is blessed with domestic happiness, however, he later finds that his young wife, Elga, has been sneaking her lover into the castle in evenings when he is away, and that their only child is not his, but a product of this affair. Tragedy ensues and the count sells his estates and establishes the monastery as part of his penance.
Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.
Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.
An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the meeting of the two sisters.