Best "midsummer" Movies of All Time

21 movies found (page 1/1):

Midsommar(2019)

3.6/5 (with 3,167 votes)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Directed by Ari Aster - With Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, ...

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Summer with Monika(1953)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 138 votes)

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Åke Fridell, Renée Björling, Dagmar Ebbesen, Naemi Briese, ...

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The Unthinkable(2018)

2h 9min | Thriller

2.8/5 (with 67 votes)

Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.

Directed by Crazy Pictures - With Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni, Jesper Barkselius, Pia Halvorsen, Karin Bertling, Magnus Sundberg, ...

A Swedish Love Story(1970)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

Directed by Roy Andersson - With Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Margreth Weivers, Björn Andrésen, Roger Magnusson, Jan Olsson, ...

Miss Julie(1951)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Directed by Alf Sjöberg - With Anita Björk, Max von Sydow, Ulf Palme, Anders Henrikson, Inga Gill, Åke Fridell, ...

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Midsummer(2003)

1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is just around the corner and after the freedom and future. But behind the idyllic facade lurks tragedy and secrets. That evening Sophie commits suicide.

Directed by Carsten Myllerup - With Jesper Hyldegaard, Kristian Leth, Lykke Sand Michelsen, Nicolai Jandorf, Laura Christensen, Per Oscarsson, ...

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Thunderclump(1974)

| 1h 37min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Music, Fantasy

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Dunderklumpen lives all alone in the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsummer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.

Directed by Per Åhlin - With Beppe Wolgers, Benton Wolgers, Kerstin Dunér, Camilla Wolgers

A Midsummer of Love(2009)

1h 33min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

The Swedish summer is on and Göran, recently dumped by his girlfriend, is searching for the woman of his dreams. Göran is not altogether in harmony with himself or his work situation and is trying a little bit too hard to please everyone around him. Unlike his best friend however, he is not prepared to compromise with love and settle for the less than perfect girl. In pursuit of love he sails out to a Midsummer party in the seductive Swedish archipelago. Unexpected love lurks in the bright Swedish summer's night ready to rock the raft of romance. Comedy and romance are the main ingredients when a story unfolds about young urban self conscious people in a high society setting.

Directed by Staffan Lindberg - With David Hellenius, Mirja Turestedt, Moa Gammel, Alexandra Rapaport, Peter Dalle, Christine Meltzer, ...

A Midsummer's Fantasia(2014)

1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.

Directed by Jang Kun-jae

White Night Wedding(2008)

1h 36min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur - With Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy(2009)

1h 26min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A beautiful waterfront house, a Swedish flag fluttering in the wind. A sailboat tied to the wooden deck below. This is the setting of the friends' annual Midsummer celebrations. The friends are gathered at Emil's family house and the herring lunch, sauna, games and compulsory skinny dipping are as always prepared. Expectations are set - Micke worries about his highly pregnant wife and the fastest way to the nearest hospital. Eva is looking for some distraction from her recent split with Patrick and Sam. Emil's college buddy from the States arrives with his own expectations of Swedish sin. Wannabe singer-songwriter Anders hasn't told his wannabe pregnant girlfriend Maria about his low sperm count and hopes to solve the problem over the weekend. To top it off Emil's surprise seems to lift the party to unprecedented heights. If everything had gone according to plan that is.

Directed by Ian McCrudden - With Luke Perry

Ghabe(2020)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.

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Midsommardansen(1971)

1h 30min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of young people gathered on the countryside to celebrate midsummer dancing, drinking and romancing. And some fighting too. Followed by more violence, jealousy and guilt. On the journey home one of the cars the travel in collides with a bus.

Directed by Arne Stivell - With Stefan Ekman

Soita minulle, Helena!(1948)

1h 31min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki. But a day before the wedding, her first love Jari arrives to the scene. This film is the first one made from a book series created by Aino Räsänen. There were 3 more Helena films made during the 1950s.

Directed by Hannu Leminen - With Helena Kara, Rauli Tuomi, Erkki Viljos, Elsa Rantalainen

Midsummer Madness(2007)

1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".

Directed by Alexander Hahn - With Orlando Wells, Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Çulpan Xämmatova, Gundars Āboliņš, Tobias Moretti, ...

The Longest Day(2020)

1h 59min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.

Directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén

The Queen of Spades(1959)

1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama

Finnish romantic drama. Kaius Kannisto (Pehr-Olof Sirén), a bachelor who has experienced hard on the love front, goes through his relationships with his four former female friends, the four queens of the deck of cards.

Directed by Maunu Kurkvaara

Fia Jansson från Söder(1944)

1h 37min | Comedy

Luft-Kalle and Kol-Jocke get into adventures in southern Stockholm around midsummer.

Directed by Ragnar Falck - With Nils Kihlberg

Rospiggar(1942)

1h 30min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Directed by Schamyl Bauman - With Sigurd Wallén

The Lonely Cougar and the Heartbroken Stud(2023)

13min | Romance / Love

It's midsummer. A guy has ghosted Jana, and Philip has been dumped in a city unknown to him. They match and decide to see each other.

Midsummer Night(2016)

29min | Drama

Three young girls' during a festive summer night in the northern part of Sweden. The girls are attending a party in a big old house, where both the previous owners oddly enough where one-eyed.

Movies: Best "midsummer" Movies