Best Swedish short movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch short films from Sweden, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Dog Walker

    The Dog Walker 2014

    Retired actor Lars-Gunnar Persson spends his days with his neighbor's dog, sharing memories of failed relationships and questioning what life might have been. It's a friendship that suits Lars-Gunnar because the dog, Zeb, is an excellent listener.

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  • Poster for Excess Will Save Us

    Excess Will Save Us 2019

    In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers.

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  • Fittan brinner - livet med vestibulit 2019

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  • Poster for Kära pappa

    Kära pappa 2019

    A short film about fatherhood and a tribute to those who were there.

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  • Poster for Canine

    Canine 2016

    Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...

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  • Poster for Du ritar fult

    Du ritar fult 2010

    "You can't draw", said the classmate. He didn't know it was going to be his last words. Apathetic oddball evokes bloody childhood memories in a confession facing audience.

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  • Renaissance 2014

    An isolated tour ship captain headed for a space habitat in orbit around a unknown planet encounters a force that changes him, putting the last home of mankind in jeopardy.

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  • Poster for Ta mig

    Ta mig 2010

    What would happen if the boys were girls and the girls were boys? Kim is still a virgin and unhappily in love with a girl. After the gym class he talks to his friend Robin to get some support and ask for advice.

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  • Poster for People in Cars

    People in Cars 2017

    Everyday conversations inside cars about love, relationships and mistakes.

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  • Poster for Shut Up Haters

    Shut Up Haters 2019

    Maja (22) lives in Stockholm, Sweden, but a death within the family forces her back to her hometown of Pajala. In Pajala, her sister Sofia lives with the troubadour Johan. After the funeral, Sofia will accompany Johan on a summer tour around Tornedalen, and Maja decides to come along. It will be a journey where questions about their origin and the future of the Tornedal will be put on their head.

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  • Poster for ABC

    ABC 2013

    16-year-old girls Alma and Bea had managed to lure the middle-aged football coach Carl into a changing room at the football club. They got him where they wanted. He wanted to see them naked. They wanted to see him suffer. They shouldn’t have done that, or should they?

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  • Poster for Nerd in Love

    Nerd in Love 2012

    Daniel meets with friends on the weekends to play Warhammer 40k in the back of a game shop. Måns, one of his buddies, makes him feel different though. Despite the lack of confidence, Daniel tries to figure it out what to do about it.

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  • Poster for Filippa

    Filippa 2017

    A dad comes home after work and his daughter wants to play hide and seek. But is it really his daughter?

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  • Poster for Push It

    Push It 2017

    Hedda tries to approach Adam in every way she can, but everything she does turns out wrong. And Adam gets to break all the rules. A film about never being able to win, even though you’re the best, with the gym hall as its arena.

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  • Dubaitjejer - betalt för att festa 2019

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  • Poster for Tiggaren

    Tiggaren 2010

    A beggar asks for money from a man in hurry.

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  • Poster for Children Alike

    Children Alike 2018

    Johannes introduces his new girlfriend Wilma to his sister Hanna. However, Wilma and Hanna are everything but strangers.

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  • Poster for @janabringlove

    @janabringlove 2016

    Joseph can't fall asleep after a nightmare and logging in to have web sex with @janabringlove, 473 km away from him. But something isn't right. Who is @janabringlove and how far away is she actually?

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  • Poster for Everything Is Poetry Baby

    Everything Is Poetry Baby 2008

    Elmin is a very quiet boy that lives in a loud city. One day he meets Lina, a girl that is just the opposite to him. But instead of ignore each other, a friendship begins to grow between them.

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  • Poster for Happy Ending

    Happy Ending 2015

    When the son is sad, the daddy makes the happy ending.

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  • Poster for Min morbror tyckte mycket om gult

    Min morbror tyckte mycket om gult 2008

    It's the summer of 1963 in the Swedish countryside. Today is Martin's 12th birthday and, as always, his shy uncle Helmer arrives at the party before anyone else. Also as usual, his birthday present is something yellow. Helmer is very fond of the colour yellow. But when Uncle Helmer decides to paint his house yellow, the neighbours protest. And one day Martin hears rumours that Uncle Helmer is in the "madhouse" ...A tragicomic short about a moving relationship between a boy and a rather special uncle.

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  • Poster for Dear Kid

    Dear Kid 2017

    During a swimming lesson a mother starts to feel uneasy about the coach's relation to one of the kids, but she has no proof. She faces a dilemma; to make an accusation of the worst kind, or to ignore a child who is possibly getting abused.

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  • Poster for Djurgårdsfärjan 2

    Djurgårdsfärjan 2 2012

    A paraphrase on Eric M. Nilsson's film Djurgårdsfärjan from the early 1960s.

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  • Poster for The Elevator Manager of the Empire State Building

    The Elevator Manager of the Empire State Building 2010

    Sometimes it takes a loyal and dedicated man to manage an elevator.

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  • Poster for In The Gap

    In The Gap 2017

    A woman trapped inside a strange server room must deal with manifestations of her tattered past until her time is up.

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  • Poster for Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments

    Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments 2017

    Against a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.

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  • Poster for Zombie Mayhem

    Zombie Mayhem 2005

    Sharpen your axe and change the bag of your vacuum cleaner, the zombie infestation has at last reached Sweden. Workers are improving a swimming lake in the forest outside Teentown. After setting the explosives in the lake to expand it, workers start to disappear...

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  • Hararna fångar och steker jägaren 1996

    Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

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  • Poster for My Heart Belongs to Daddy

    My Heart Belongs to Daddy 1999

    "My heart belongs to daddy / Majn harts gehert tsum tatn" - the same old love song. But now it is actress Basia Frydman who sings it in Yiddish accompanied by her musicians at home in Kjell Westling's living room. And Tate, that's Basia's lovely old dad Simon, doing his work in a hairdressing salon.

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  • Poster for I Remember Lena Svedberg

    I Remember Lena Svedberg 2000

    Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.

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  • Poster for Hjärtat brinner

    Hjärtat brinner 1967

    A film that places the bright and dark sides of life close together. From an understatement beginning, the movie drives up to an ecstatic highlight with a love act between two young people. The orgasm becomes an enormous image flow into the crematorium's death machine.

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  • Cams 2014

    The image pans slowly around a coastal moor, a neighborhood of silent villas and empty streets, a forest path in fading summer light. There are no witnesses to tell the stories of how it all ended. All manifestations of human activity have ceased, giving way to the crackling and bustling of nature. In this world, which at first seems only to reflect a recent emptying, black things move about, as if dying echoes of a cataclysm too terrifying to narrate.

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  • Poster for Vill du följa med mig Martha?

    Vill du följa med mig Martha? 1980

    The daily life of an immigrant woman.

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  • Poster for Robert

    Robert 1974

    5-year-old Robert lives in a newly built suburban area where all houses look exactly the same.

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  • Poster for Kyrie

    Kyrie 1965

    Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected.

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  • Poster for The Vacation Resort

    The Vacation Resort 1981

    One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.

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  • Poster for Story of Small and Large Rabbit

    Story of Small and Large Rabbit 1982

    The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

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  • Poster for The Johan Camitz Diesel Ads

    The Johan Camitz Diesel Ads 1995

    A collection of short films from the the world-famous, controversial advertising campaign for Diesel. The films are; Magic 55, Hot Couture, Le Look Le Plus Cool, Le Look Le Plus Cool 2, Business As Usual, East Side Story and Battle of Ardennes.

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  • Attic Panic 2015

    A woman is stuck in an attic but she soon finds she is not alone.

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  • One Hundred Years 1984

    A short animation set to and inspired by The Cure's One Hundred Years. Max Anderssons debut animation film won 1st Prize at Melbourne international Film Festival, 2nd Prize at Los Angeles Animation Celebration and a special prize at Berlin Film Festival.

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