Swedish pregnancy movies

List of the best Swedish films about pregnancy according to the audience: Happening, Becoming Astrid, Play, Heart of a Lion, A Man Called Ove, Intrigo: Death of an Author, Shelley, American Burger, My So-Called Father, Waiting Women.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Genredrama
CountryFrance

Based on Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical novel, Happening follows Annie, a bright young student who faces an unwanted pregnancy while abortion was still illegal in 1960s France.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountrySweden, Denmark
Duration01:58

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from society's norms and follow her heart.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountrySweden, France
Duration01:58

In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFinland, Sweden
Duration01:44

Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration02:04

Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany, Sweden, USA

A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:49

Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, comedy
CountrySweden
Duration01:17

A bus load of American students, all jocks, cheerleaders and nerds, are on a culture trip in Europe when they stumble upon a mysterious Hamburger stand in the deep European woods, selling 100% American Burgers. A visit to the Burger Factory behind the stand, renders them trapped in this unknown territory, and they are about to realize that European notion of American Hamburgers is terrifyingly different from what they're used to... The road trip descends into a battle for survival as Americans are treated as cows. Who's going to end up in the slaughterhouse? Will the nerds ever get to score with the cheerleaders? Cliques are formed... Strategies are made... And in the midst of it all they learn a thing or two about friendship, survival, consumerism, horny teenage urges and, perhaps most importantly, to never visit a fast-food restaurant ever again. And the nerds somehow end up having the... Best. Summer. Ever.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountrySweden

A daughter helps her estranged father who's lost his memory.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
CountrySweden, France, Denmark
Duration01:42

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, western, history
CountrySweden
Duration03:24

A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryTunisia, France, Sweden
Duration02:18

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:44

A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountrySweden, Germany

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter - on and off the ice.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountrySweden

A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who can clean the money of the dye pack that exploded while Johan Falk, and his colleagues at GSI, accelerate their hunt.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:13

A late summer night in 1990 a young pregnant woman is brutally murdered by being buried in the sand, to slowly become submerged by the tide. 25 years later, the sadistic murder remains unsolved. Olivia Rönning receives the task of studying the case as a cold case exercise at the Police Academy. Olivia becomes almost obsessed with the murder when she discovers that her father previously worked with the investigation. She quickly realizes that she must get a hold of the principal investigator, detective Tom Stilton, but he seems to have disappeared from the face of the Earth.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
Duration02:04

A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden

When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:39

Agnes has most things in life: a family who are always there for her, a good job in the restaurant industry, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, and soon nothing is as it was.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration01:25

Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving Simon with having to find a new, perfect, girlfriend for his brother.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy
CountryFinland, Sweden

Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountrySweden

Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his mother because he knows nothing else. In the junkyard the dream is alive, and in the hands of Sebbe, dead objects come to life. Here he has the power to create. Here he is free - but alone. His isolation grows as his world shrinks, until one day he is completely isolated with no other than his mother. And when she falls, everything falls.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryFinland, Netherlands, Sweden

When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySweden
Duration02:09

The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten. Torsten does not support Erik very much in his job and has, for some personal reasons, already arrested a suspected perpetrator. Eric takes great risks when he starts digging in the criminal material of the horrible murder case.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryBrazil, Uruguay, Denmark, Norway, Chile, Sweden
Duration01:39

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountrySweden, Croatia
Duration01:54

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySweden, Norway, Finland, Republic of Ireland

Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountrySweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration01:39

A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and she plays opposite her husband, actor Ola Rapace.Award winning actress Pernilla August makes her directorial debut with her take on the bestselling novel Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski.In other main roles we see rising star Tehilla Blad and the Finnish acclaimed actors, Ville Virtanen and Outi Mäenpää.A morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrecomedy
CountrySweden

Bröderna Hårdrock is a film about two brothers who are planning a heavy metal convention in their sleepy village. Their mother, the village priest, worries about them and wants them to settle down and have families. A young female teacher and line dance instructor in the village sets both their hearts beating faster and, unaware of each other's feelings, they enter a battle to win her affections.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Sri Lanka

After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history, sport
CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, Sweden

The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySweden

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryFrance, Sweden

Tom (8) and Benjamin (11) travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father, whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who seems never to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted. But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy
CountrySweden

A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, history
CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror
CountrySweden
Duration01:27

A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountrySweden
Duration01:38

In Bed with Santa (Swedish: Tomten är far till alla barnen) is a 1999 Swedish comedy film directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made under the tiltle Meine schöne Bescherung.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden

Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountrySweden

Sarah, her boyfriend and his five-year-old son Lucas move into a semi-detached house. But the other side is haunted by something evil, who wants Lucas at all costs. Inspired by real events.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountrySweden

Alena’s life is far from simple. When she arrives at her new elite boarding school, Filippa and the other girls start to harass her. But Alena’s best friend Josefin won’t let her take anymore beating. If she won’t strike back, Josefin will do it for her. Hard.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountrySweden

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, France
Duration04:41

Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountrySweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration02:20

The story of the world's greatest tennis icons – Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe – and their legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySweden

In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountrySweden, Netherlands, France

20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryFinland, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration02:24

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountrySweden

A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountrySweden

A 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen, killing five people, including a young girl.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, short
CountrySweden
Duration00:03

On a common night like any other, a solitary woman suddenly hears a muffled but nonetheless alarming sound coming from a plain wooden family chest. Will she confront face-to-face whatever hides inside?




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