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...

A rich young man falls for a beautiful girl and meets with trouble. An adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

Set at a recreational resort in the mountains, where a group of people have their lives and loves interveined.

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

Cavalry captain von Stahl is in love with dancer Marianne Rizetskis, but when he suddenly finds himself completely destitute he takes off to South...

Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.

Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.

A sea captain travels to the foreign port of San Lucas and collects a large sum of money, where he meets with a beautiful woman...and trouble.

Brothers Paul and Georg Williams' latest invention is of great military importance, and a foreign nation enlist it's most deadly spy, Mylady, to get...

A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.

A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in...

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

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...

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

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

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...

A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc...

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...

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.