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A young girl cuts off her hair as a protest against her mother and is mistaken for a boy at her new school.

Tale of a boy, roughly eight, who experiences a number of problems due to his estranged relationship with his mother. Mom wants her little boy to be someone other than who he is; junior is stubborn, fights back.

The summer Lars turned 12, he still feels he should stay away from the girls, but the prostitute Lill teaches him to dance tango. He also have an uncle with a motorbike.

After his father is killed, King Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen. Valemon must find a bride in the seven year span that he'll be a polar bear, and so he travels to Winterland and finds a wife to take home. Although they are happy, she is not allowed to look upon his face when he turns back into a man at night. When she breaks this rule, Valemon will be trapped to the witch forever.

Maren, a young girl, is the sole survivor of the Black Death in her Norwegian village. Using instincts, folklore, luck, and the clairvoyant powers granted her by being born with a "Victory Cap," Maren survives on her own, waiting for other people to discover her plight. Painstaking recreations of medieval customs and settings dominate the film.

Viktor heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. Once on the islands, he makes friends with a little girl.

Jojje, Roffe, Sivert, Lillen, Peggy and the dog King are a tight-knit group of friends. When it turns out that King is sick and soon to die, his friends decide to give him his best time.

Summer of 1959. 11-year old Osvald spend his summer holiday with his parents in the countryside of Södermanland. His father has promised to play soccer with him and get some exercise. He also promised the locals to teach the church choir an Argentine mass. The father has a slight alcohol problem, so will he be able to do it?

Moa is seven years. She lives with her confused mother and her golden hamster. They have just moved into a new house, which is barely half done. New is also the man's her mother one day drags home.

In the 1970s, a 12-year-old boy Esko lives in Tornio, northern Finland, a town bordering Sweden across the river. Esko befriends a Swedish boy, Pate, and learns to share his obsession for Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist. While standing handcuffed on the railway bridge, contemplating a stunt jump into the icy river, he reminisces the dramatic events of the summer before. For the viewer, his problems are presented with warm humour # gang fights, feeling guilty for lying, Father losing his job, Mother losing her nerves, not to mention Grandfather having lost his willingness to speak since a traumatic war experience 30 years earlier.

Three bank employed women get sacked, while their male boss get a salary raise and a twelve million crowns bonus. The woman are advised to start their own business. They launch "3 girls and a brothel!".

1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer.

About the only Swedish citizen who was executed during World War II. She was suspected of espionage.

Staffan comes back to Svalöv where he grew up. His visit becomes an odyssey of his memories with his friends Maria and Janne when they grew up in the 1940s. They spent their childhood reading about Indians, building a time machine with the crazy inventor Jöns, they learned how to kiss and so on.

Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in medieval Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.

About a young film critic who dream of interviewing actor Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Barrault and one day directing a movie.

The two sisters Theo and Siri and their mate Wilma form a detective club in a suburban cellar. Robert, whose father owns the place , joins the three in trying to solve a series of mysterious events in the neighborhood.

A documentary film maker returns to his birth town and buys a photo shop, earning money as a wedding photographer, while his life spirals into chaos due to a shallow girlfriend and an old friend with a dangerous project.

Partially autobiographical film about little Sara who grows up in a home with a neurotic mother.

A married couple, unable to conceive, search for a male donor, but jealousy creates problems when the husband spies on his wife while posing as her brother.

A biopic of the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky.

Film director Pierre is making an erotic thriller with his girlfriend Greta. The mysterious "G" loves men until they disappear. Soon parallels between the movie and real life are obvious. Men start disappearing.

An 11-year old girl and her life in the area commonly known as "Seppan", after the local factory AB Separator, south of Stockholm in the 1960s.

Arvid Pettersson works as a customs officer in Haparanda in 1916. This is a time when the small town, being a border town on the Swedish side of the border between neutral Sweden and Finland, then belonging to czarist Russia, currently involved in World War I, is a center for soldiers, refugees, smugglers and spies. He discovers that a Russian ballerina, who's on her way to perform in Stockholm, has a gun, but he doesn't report it, since he falls in love with her a little. However, this isn't the biggest trouble he has because soon afterward, he and two other Swedes become accused of the murder of a Russian V.I.P. in Torneå, on the Russian side of the border. They manage to escape from Russian prison and an almost certain sentence to the feared Peter Paul's prison in Petrograd (former St. Petersburg). As they discover that the ballerina has something to do with the murder, they start following her towards Stockholm. However, they are still on the run from the Russian and now also Swedish police, who think they're behind the murder. Their chase for the murderer takes them both to Stockholm, Skåne (Scania) and even Copenhagen. And all the time, they have the police on their heels.

It's 1950 in the Swedish town Vistad. "Kråkan" is in his teens, and his mother wants him to learn piano, but he'll rather listen to Elvis. Then there occurs mystical things and even a murder in town.