Scandinavian and Nordic LGBT : Gay and Lesbian movies and Documentaries from Norway Sweden Denmark Iceland and Finland (Norge Sverige Danmark Island Suomi)
A Cinematographic Anthology 1957-2024
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- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtRobert SaaskinStarsBirgitte PriceIb MossinGhita NørbyDesperation has a good hold of the youngsters. There are no more than 30,000 teacherships. Young people from the province are flowing to Copenhagen in the hope that the possibilities are greater there.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLars LindLeif NymarkStig TörnblomSix youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment, named "Guesthouse Objectivity" (Pensionatet Sakligheten), where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two forgiving social workers.
- DirectorMai ZetterlingStarsHarriet AnderssonGunnel LindblomGio PetréThree expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
- DirectorTorgny WickmanStarsInge HegelerSten HegelerMaj-Brith Bergström-WalanWhile LANGUAGE OF LOVE illustrated general sex behaviour, MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE shows minority group attitudes towards sex. As in the first film, there is an expert panel of scientist, discussing and explaining the different parts of the film. The famous Danish sexologist couple Inge and Sten Hegeler are throughout the leading characters, while the others experts change in every sector. The headings are as follows: male and female homosexuality, aesthetics and sex, handicapped and sex, drugs and sex, pornography and sex, children and sex, and sex with old people. In the new film affliction and warmth are emphasised, particularly in the chapter showing coition between persons of the same sex. Besides when a blind girl and boy examine with their hands how a naked man and woman respectively are made, a new educational method initiated by the internationally known, Swedish sex pedagogue Maj-Brith Bergstroem-Walan. The child's natural need of masturbation in an unsafe world is commented on, and old people's right to a happy sex life is demonstrated. The pornography part comprises an exposing report from a sex club in Copenhagen, where fascinating "live-Show" is emphasised, and a description of how pornographic films dealing with group sex is being produced. The drugs and sex sequence is a shocking report about all human variations and the importance of tenderness, is concluded in the final chapter, presenting a blond and very attractive young girl and her dark, curly haired fiancée during passionate and richly varied intercourse.
- DirectorChristian HartkoppInterview-based documentary about gay and lesbian relationships in Danish society. Excerpt from press release: Homosexuality is a way of life among several others. For some it is a choice, while others just as little choose whether they want to be gay or heterosexual as they choose skin color, height or to become a beauty queen. The film does not preach 'understanding' or 'tolerance'. It shows that life is difficult and wonderful, full of positive and negative traits., but also that we sometimes make it unnecessarily difficult for each other, locking us inside adopted patterns, perhaps because we are afraid, ignorant or stupid,. We thereby cheat each other for warmth and contact, and it makes us more miserable.
- DirectorPeter RefnStarsLisbet LundquistAnnika HoydalLisbet DahlTV reporter Mille wants to be liberated from matrimonial restraints and have more than one man in her life. She spends time with her friends, bisexual intellectual Suzanne and prostitute Lise. They mostly talk about men and women's lib.
- DirectorErnst JohansenLasse NielsenStarsAnders AgensøPeter BjergOve SprogøeTwo precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.
- DirectorEdward FlemingStarsFrits HelmuthBodil KjerPreben KaasYou meet the gay Bent everyday. One experiences his complicated relationship with the mother, a failed cabaret dancer who has always wanted a daughter, and one meets the friends, which largely consists of gay men and transvestites.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsRobert AtzornChristine BucheggerMartin BenrathAn account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
- DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsBjørn SkagestadKjersti DøvigenAudun MelingWhen a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
- DirectorTuija-Maija NiskanenStarsCarl-Axel HeiknertKerstin TideliusPirkko NurmiDirector Magnus von Freyer's funeral has gathered many people. The daughter Valerie receives one condolence after another. The story goes back to Valerie's childhood.
- DirectorEdward FlemingStarsLars BomNonny SandThomas Alling1939 pre-WWII Denmark: 17 y.o. Thomas and his conservative parents move in next to a liberal/eccentric family. He vacations with them near the beach and gets to know the same age twins' liberal/erotic ways.
- DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsThomas RobsahmAre SjaastadEspen MoreiteA 16 year old boy growing up in the 60'ies, trying to go his own ways. He is inseparable from his friends and starts dropping school and starts experimenting with life, sex, drugs, alcohol.
- DirectorHelle RyslingeStarsKirsten LehfeldtTorben JensenPeter Hesse OvergaardA nurse meets an older chief surgeon at a party. He's attending a doctors' congress in Nairobi and asks her to come along. Returning ten days later, she feels used.
- DirectorMai ZetterlingStarsStina EkbladErland JosephsonPhilip ZandénSwedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna defies convention and her family's wishes by writing erotic fiction. As she harnesses her talent and explores her own sexuality, she puts herself on a dangerous path.
- DirectorStefan HenszelmanStarsClaus Bender MortensenThomas ElholmThomas SigsgaardSixteen year old Kristian is very shy, and is struggling to adjust to his new Copenhagen school. He makes friends with two very different boys, nonconformist Henrik, and bullying clique leader Patrick, who he soon discovers is gay.
- DirectorPer BlomStarsLine StoresundHilde Nyeggen MartinsenMerete MoenA couple of twelve-year-old Norwegian girls struggle with their intense, taboo relationship during the 1930s.
- DirectorIlppo PohjolaStarsTom of FinlandRobert Henry MizerNayland BlakeTom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. His drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity. Tom's ultimate leather men are known and seen everywhere. They are symbols of gay pride and friendship. The documentary includes some titillating 'enactments' inspired by Tom's art work.
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRikard WolffSven WollterA rural village is divided when an extraordinary couple move into a mansion.
- DirectorSvend WamStarsAnders BorchgrevinkNina GunkeBjørn SkagestadA friendless, lonely boy who dreams of escape from a broken home with an neglectful, promiscuous. alcoholic mother and self-centered, clueless, absent father.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsHannu KiviojaEsko SalminenLeea KlemolaEsa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsErik ClausenHelle RyslingeLeif SylvesterThe early 1990's: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character.
- DirectorPeter SchrøderStarsFrits HelmuthTomas Villum JensenJesper LangbergWe follow 4 classmates in a strict boys' secondary school in 1950s Copenhagen, where a sadistic teacher torments his students. We meet them again at their 35 year class reunion.
- DirectorCarsten SønderStarsChristian TafdrupDicteRami Nathan SverdlinA neglected, young teenager abandons his troubled home and finds himself caught in a network of jealousy as he drifts from one romantic companion to another, longing for belonging, while living as a hustler and thief among a gang of such.