The second film of Ingmar Bergman's trilogy on religion and the loss of faith--the other two being THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY and THE SILENCE)--is an unrelentingly austere minimalist drama that takes ... Read more
An elegant follow-up to Bergman's acclaimed WILD STRAWBERRIES, THE MAGICIAN is set in Sweden in the mid-1800s and stars Max von Sydow as the mysterious Albert Vogler, of Vogler's Magnetic Health ... Read more
Winner of the Grand Prix Award for Best Film at the 1958 Berlin Film Festival, Ingmar Bergman's classic Wild Strawberries concerns an elderly academic, introverted and emotionally arid, who makes a ... Read more
Bergman's award-winning film is a classic. An elderly academic, who's introverted and emotionally arid, makes a journey to collect a university award. En route he relives his past through nightmares, ... Read more
A theatre company find that their play has come to the attention of the authorities for being obscene and they are questioned by the local magistrate. Soon everyone is revealing secrets... Read more
A woman dying of cancer is visited by her two sisters who're so wrapped up in their own pain and angst that the woman has to be comforted by her housekeeper. As the end draws close, repressed ... Read more
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the ... Read more
It's Sweden in the mid-1800s and magician and spiritualist Vogler comes to a small town with his troupe hoping to give a lucrative performance. But they're detained in the home of a sceptical doctor ... Read more
In this moving tale of love, obsession and rejection, a self-controlled theatre director awakes from reminiscing about a former lover to find that her daughter is in his theatre. She jolts him into a ... Read more
Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which ... Read more