1994 film by Jan Troell

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him his bag, hoping he will manage this trip on his own. The boy sits down and starts looking at the other passengers. He picks up his ticket and gives it to the conductor. The stoker shovels more coal into the firebox, while the train passes across the plain outside Lund. Peasants working in the fields look up, and so do various animals along the track. The train makes a short stop to be refilled with water. When it continues, the train driver suddenly sees a cat between the rails. He blows the hooter, but the cat doesn't move. When the train has passed, the cat is still between the rails, but unharmed.

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

1977 film

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

»The Last Sentence«, the latest film from Jan Troell is a biographical drama about a leading newspaperman in Sweden during the Nazi era. The film follows Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief for the liberal Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, one of the few Swedish newspapers that held a staunch anti-Nazi view. His public opposition to the Nazi regime made him a controversial figure in neutral Sweden during WWII, when the government made compromises to maintain Sweden’s neutrality.

It is Arilds birthday, but his father has forgotten this and go to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and son visit the mother in the hospital.

Triple murders are rare enough in Sweden that they qualify as headline-grabbing national news for prolonged periods of time. This movie is based on the story behind one such incident, which took place in 1988. A girl and a boy from Finland have traveled to Denmark, where they support themselves by various mildly nefarious means, generally small burglaries. The boy is captured for one of these crimes and does some jail time, while the girl tries to make a go of it on her own. However, when her aggressive young lover gets out of jail, she takes off with him to Sweden. There, they engage in ever-more daring criminal feats, until one day they murder a married couple and their teenaged son while they are visiting a cemetery. According to reviewers, there is a sense of inevitability in the progress of the story, which focuses on the alienation and isolation of these two congenital outsiders.

1996 film

1897年夏天，一只名为"鹰"的巨型气球载着三名探险者离开瑞典，开始了他们飞往北极极地的探险。这个探险小组领导是中年工程师安德列，他勇敢而又固执，一心想考察极地的秘密，他的同伴是两个年轻的探险家：弗朗凯尔、斯特琳德伯格。汽球在航行三个半小时后停落在冰川上，三个勇敢的人面对大自然的种种艰险展开了一场生与死的搏斗……三十三年之后，人们在一个小岛上发现了他们被冻僵的尸体。安德烈的探险是无意义的，还是伟大的？安德烈是否知道自己会这样死去呢？对于后人这还是个谜。但是，"鹰"的飞翔将作为人对极地的征服而载入史册。

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.

一位班主任之死。

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

2008 film by Jan Troell