Best Swedish science fiction movies
A curated collection of popular science fiction movies from Sweden.
The Gladiators (1969)
The Gladiators (1969)
Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.
In The Gap (2017)
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.
Cams (2014)
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.
State Zero (2015)
State Zero (2015)
In the near future, the capital of Sweden has turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. we join four soldiers on a routine mission in 'zone 3', with the assignment to investigate an old surveillance tower that just went offline.
Memorize (2013)
Memorize (2013)
In 2027, everyone is implanted with a chip which records everything they see. It is the end of judicial doubt, but not of crime.
Folly (2021)
Folly (2021)
In a frightening vision of the future, Sweden has handed over government power to an AI. Since then, economic development has been explosive, but when the journalist Folly is about to reveal the truth behind Sweden's international operations, its power becomes highly evident.
Finito (2021)
Finito (2021)
The Swedish engineer Eugene Laestander has pushed the climate crisis to the history books, but mankind has not yet come to terms with its own worst enemy. Finito is a witty and humorous future dystopia with a twinkle in the eye.
Successful Thawing of Mr Moro (2021)
Successful Thawing of Mr Moro (2021)
After a phone call Milo faces an overwhelming change. A new medicine has been approved that may cure his partner Adrian, who has been kept frozen in a container for 43 years. Sensitive and precise depiction of unexpected consequences of future technological innovations.
Reckless (2021)
Reckless (2021)
Stockholm, 2121: an underwater city is blasted into the bedrock. In a society on the verge of being crushed by mounting water pressure, Nikki’s highest wish is to get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
The Trap (2012)
The Trap (2012)
Set in the underground living quarters of a scientist working at an international nuclear waste station near the west coast of Sweden. It is the end of 1999, and the TV in the oppressive living room inhabited by John (the scientist), his wife Margereta, and their son Peter, is proclaiming optimistic statements about the promise of the New Millennium.
Earthbound (2021)
Earthbound (2021)
The environmental movement gave the world free solar energy, but free solar energy created chaos in the economy. And chaos in the economy created war and destruction. Now our hero (played by Alexander Karim) must leave the apocalyptic planet to seek another future. Baker Karim creates a dystopian world with his Afrofuturism à la 2121.
Never Travel on a One Way Ticket (1987)
Never Travel on a One Way Ticket (1987)
A hardboiled story that takes place in a far future when most things are over. What’s left is greed, cruelty, sexuality, fire and a tad of poetry.
Green Men from Outer Space (1986)
Green Men from Outer Space (1986)
A UFO has crashed close to a summer holiday park and a couple of kids are set to help them with the aid of a man with magic powers. But they have to hurry before an anti UFO force finds the green men from outer space.
Möte i kosmos (1998)
Möte i kosmos (1998)
A little curious girl goes on a voyage of discovery in space, wants to see what it looks like at the beginning and end of everything. Complications and difficulties arise with communications. On earth the friend is waiting.
Buljong (1995)
Buljong (1995)
A writer is working on a novel about the 1900s. He poses the question if broth (in the sense of concentrate) is an adequate choice of words to describe the century.
Echo (2017)
Savannen (1983)
Savannen (1983)
A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more and more vary of it.
Röda rummet 1979 (1970)
Röda rummet 1979 (1970)
August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need.