Fanny and Alexander (1982)
"Fanny och Alexander" (original title)

A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A kind but pampered beautiful young virgin and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.

The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly ... See full summary »

A married daughter who longs for her mother's love gets visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.