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Den okända (1913)
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Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.
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Den tyranniske fästmannen (1912)
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A woman in an abusive relationship is made to realize that she can no longer tolerate her fiance's ill treatment toward her.
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Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917)
Character: Hildur's Mother
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
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Hämnaren (1915)
Character: Georg's mother
Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death
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Den moderna suffragetten (1913)
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Lili and her friend attends a conference, where the English suffragette Miss Spratt. Bursting with enthusiasm they form a feminist cell.
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Balettprimadonnan (1916)
Character: Anjuta's stepmother
Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.
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Gränsfolken (1913)
Character: Ivan's Mother
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
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En stulen vals (1932)
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A guest house in Stockholm. A group of music students hang out. Everyone is supposed to contribute with a composition. The comrades try to force Inga to play hers, but she refuses. She leaves for a walk. From a window she hear a melody.
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Fiskebyn (1920)
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The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.
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Dömen icke (1914)
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Helder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.
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Gatans barn (1914)
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Karl Sterner falls for Jenny, a beautiful young woman from an impoverished background, and soon discovers that he cannot control her willful personality - which proves to cause many conflicts in their marriage.
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Landshövdingens döttrar (1915)
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An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the meeting of the two sisters.
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Therèse (1916)
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Therèse is a young woman who has married an older man to be able to live a wealthier life.
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På livets ödesvägar (1913)
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The son of a poor fisherman and the daughter of a wealthy landlord fall in love, but meet with obstacles to being together. Their happiness meets with objection by her father, who intends to permanently separate them.
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Halta Lena och vindögde Per (1933)
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The film centers on Algot Söderholm's two daughters, beautiful Magda and plain, less desirable Lena. Adapted from the 1910 play by Ernst Fastbom.
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Prästen (1914)
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Maria lives with her alcoholic father in a cabin the forest. One day she is seduced by the local land owner after he gives her a ring. Shortly afterwards he decides to leave the area and travel to Stockholm.
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Skottet? (1914)
Character: Holms mor
During a duck hunt the local land owner Brandt has told his ranger and his son to sit in a boat and collect ducks as they are shot down. When Brandt's dog gets in the water he commands the ranger's son to jump in the water to save the dog but the boy drowns.
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Hin och smålänningen (1927)
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Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
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Hjärtan som mötas (1914)
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Hearts That Meet (Swedish: Hjärtan som mötas) is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.
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Hon segrade (1916)
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Doctor Arthur Born tries to produce a cure for the plague.
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Livets konflikter (1913)
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The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.
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Stormfågeln (1914)
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Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.
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Mästertjuven (1915)
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Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to steal the blueprints.
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De lefvande dödas klubb (1914)
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The suicidal gambler Tom Haget receives an invitation to the D.L.D.C. (The Living Dead Club), whose members apparently see it as their task to help each other to "end this empty earthly existence" according to a lottery system. At the same time, an acquaintance of Tom Haget, Lieutenant Dick Huntley, receives an assignment from his superiors to go to a distant destination with a large sum of money. However, Huntley is hit by a car, unconscious and without ID documents he ends up in a hospital, is reported missing, and it is widely suspected that he ran away with the money. Confused and desperate Huntley meets Haget and gets an invitation to the Living Dead Club.
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Hans hustrus förflutna (1915)
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The international criminal Helene Voigt, who calls herself Countess Montigno, is on the run from the law.
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Bra flicka reder sig själv (1914)
Character: Ruths mor
Ruth has had a happy childhood until her family falls on hard time. Not wishing to be a burden she decides to get a job but she's having a hard time getting one until she gets the idea to dress up as a boy and get a job as a milkman.
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Ebberöds bank (1926)
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Tailor Vipperup in Ebberöd has problems with liquidity: customers are bad at paying for his services while his own creditors are all the more intrusive. His consolation in life consists of his daughter Ellen and the faithful companion Tadeus. However, the repulsive trader Klemmensen, the town's richest man and most ruthless usurer, casts more and more lustful glances at Ellen.
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Havsgamar (1916)
Character: Mrs. Arnold
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
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Thomas Graals bästa film (1917)
Character: Clotilde Douglas
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
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Dunungen (1919)
Character: Bergsradinna
The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his uncle to his father-in-law.
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Kärlekens ögon (1922)
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The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the elegant guests is deprived of her jewelry.
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Landskamp (1932)
Character: Mrs. Holmgren
Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
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Dödskyssen (1916)
Character: Anna Harper
After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.
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Klostret i Sendomir (1920)
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Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.
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Terje Vigen (1917)
Character: Woman on Beach
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
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Ingmarssönerna (1919)
Character: Karin
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
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Kärlek och journalistik (1916)
Character: Eric's Mother
A woman journalist employed as a maid by a great explorer is overcome with remorse at revealing his private life to the public. He shares her feelings and marries her
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Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
Character: Clotilde Douglas
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
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Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918)
Character: Gudfinna, Halla's Farm Worker
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
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Högfjällets dotter (1914)
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A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.
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Ingeborg Holm (1913)
Character: Pauper
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
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