Nils Poppe

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges...

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife...

A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a...

Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.

Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the...

Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to...

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year...

Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage...

A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to...

Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown...

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be...

Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his...

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...

Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness -...

The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then...

Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But...

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer...

New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.

The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to...

Poppe plays Sven, an orphan who is being taken care of by the kind Mr. Carlsson. However, when Carlsson remarries a baroness, life becomes hard for...

Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.

When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him....

A feather-light comedy from 1920's Mölle with Nils Poppe and the Gaubier ballet. The play is about a grey aged bachelor who suddenly becomes...

Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life

Emma Klink is devoted to preserve morality in 1912 and she is also a chairwoman for "The support for unmarried mothers". Her husband is a mustard...

The beautiful widow Josefina Pellerin falls for the hapless Mille after he saves her life. However her nephew wants Josefina to marry his commanding...

A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films. A sleep researcher has produced a serum with very fast effect.

Pelle Frisk is serving in the Swedish armed forces.

"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the...

A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological...

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...

Professor Örnstedt is having a hard time at home.

The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one...

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with...

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to...

Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.

The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant...

Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He...

Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun...

In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But...

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired...

The plot takes place on a mansion owned by the new widow Birgitta von Carping (Berit Carlberg). Sten Stensson Steen (Nils Poppe) has rented a room in...

The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

The hunt for a precious porcelain tableware leads to the Möllegården estate, where ghosts are said to live.

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent...

A combination of comedy and romance revolving around the many part-time jobs held by a girl before she acquires a full-time job as a wife.

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes...

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

Short comedy about an author named Viktor Mattson (Nils Poppe) whose publisher tells him that his latest book is bad. To make money, Mattson becomes...