Filmography Highlights
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Saraband
2003- Rated:
- 15
It has been 30 years since Marianne saw Johan, her ex-husband. She travels out to his remote country cottage and discovers a family in despair. Pitiless semi-autobiographical and supposedly final film from Swedish master Ingmar Bergman
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Faithless
2000- Rated:
- 15
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, and directed by his former lover Liv Ullmann, Faithless is an old-fashioned European arthouse movie, which charts the depths of pain caused by marital infidelity
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Sofie
1992- Rated:
- PG
Ullmann's directorial debut set in Denmark at the turn of the century is a suitably austere effort. Sofie (Mynster) lives with her large Jewish family and is happy enough as an unmarried spinster of
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Bay Boy, The
1984- Rated:
- TBC
Kiefer Sutherland makes his acting debut in this bitter-sweet nostalgic coming-of-age drama that is loosely based on writer Petrie's own experiences in 30s Nova Scotia. Sutherland is Donald Campbell,
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Autumn Sonata
1978- Rated:
- AA
An Oscar-nominated Ingrid Bergman leads this powerful chamber-piece about the reunion of a mother with her mentally and emotionally damaged daughters
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A Bridge Too Far
1977- Rated:
- 15
Innumerable stars from Britain, the US and beyond gather for this Second World War epic. Directed by Richard Attenborough and scripted by William Goldman
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Zandy's Bride
1974- Rated:
- AA
Hackman went straight from what was to prove his best movie and performance, The Conversation, to this lacklustre movie. In a slow western, he plays a churlish pioneer, who sends for a mail-or
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The Abdication
1974- Rated:
- TBC
Pauline Kael once remarked that Ullmann's dutiful recreation of Queen Christina was 'like a hausfrau who's too conscientious to give good parties'. Well, Ullmann has never set the screen alight in En
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Scenes From A Marriage
1973- Rated:
- 15
Powerful study of a marriage in all of its various phases from the master of melancholy, Ingmar Bergman
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Lost Horizon
1973- Rated:
- U
Capra's original was too long, but the remake - music, colour and all - is interminable. In fact, the whole thing is a tedious mistake made watchable only because of Surtee'ss photography - an insuff
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Nybyggarna
1972- Rated:
- TBC
The second part, after The Emigrants (1971), of the most expensive Swedish cinematic project to date is a slushy saga of a loving couple (Von Sydow and Ullmann) stoically surviving disasters against
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Cries And Whispers
1972- Rated:
- X
Spiritual death and decay are placed under the microscope by cinema's master of pessimism, when three estranged sisters reunite around one of their death-beds
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Utvandarna
1970- Rated:
- TBC
A mid-19th-century Swedish farming family are forced to abandon their barren homeland to try their luck in America. Based on no less than four Vilhelm Moberg's novels this is a labour of love if ever
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En Passion
1969- Rated:
- AA
The bleak portrayal of a man who decides to flee human company and meets a woman living in a non-existent past. Classic Bergman
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Shame
1968- Rated:
- X
Even by Bergman's standards this is a severe film, which may account for its commercial failure and some criticism. Shot on his beloved island of Fårö it tells the story of two musicians, J
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The Hour Of The Wolf
1968- Rated:
- X
The film's title refers to the time when nightmares come, in this case in the mind of an artist (von Sydow), living alone with his wife (Ullmann) at their island summer home. He is subject to terribl
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Persona
1966- Rated:
- X
Ingmar Bergman's haunting masterpiece explores the gulf of communication that exists between a nurse and her silent patient
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