65 Ingmar Bergman Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

The film focuses on the turmoil in the marital life of an affluent couple, their boredom, infidelity and subsequent estrangement. Eventually they finalize their divorce and settle down with their respective partners.  But did that make them happy?  

Antonius Block, a disillusioned and exhausted knight returning from the Crusade, finds his country ravaged by the plague and is confronted by Death. However, believing that he must perform "one meaningful deed" before death, he challenges Death to a fateful game of chess that will determine his future and of those around him.

When popular actress, Elisabeth Vogler, suddenly loses her voice, doctors diagnose it as emotional stress and advices her to take time off. Accordingly, she moves to a beach house on the Baltic Sea accompanied by a nurse called Alma. The story focuses on Alma’s struggle with her mute patience, in course of which the two women’s persona melds as one. 

Also referred to as Wild Strawberries, the Swedish drama follows egotistical and irritable Professor Isak Borg who sets out on a car trip from Stockholm to Lund to receive his doctorate. Accompanying him is his pregnant daughter-in-law who dislikes him. As he meets a series of hitchhikers, he is forced to look into the emptiness of his life. 

In early 20th century Sweden, siblings Fanny and Alexander are children of a large, loving Ekdahl family that owns a theater. After their father’s sudden death, their lives change drastically as their mother marries Bishop Edvard Vergerus. The disciplinarian Bishop rules the household with iron fist and is especially abusive towards Alexander, compelling their mother to find a way out of this. 

A group of men rape and murder a young girl named Karin. However, the same men later ask for shelter at her father’s house, unknowingly. When he finds out about his daughter’s death, he decides to punish the men for their heinous crime.

After seven years, Charlotte travels to Sweden hoping to reunite with her daughter Eva. They have had a troubled relationship as Charlotte had ignored most of her responsibilities as a mother, in order to pursue her career as a classical pianist. Charlotte is shocked when she sees that her second daughter Helena, who is suffering from a disability, is out of the hospital and staying with Eva.

Nattvardsgästerna is a Swedish drama film which tells the story of a small-town priest who finds himself struggling with his faith. He is unable to reconcile the idea of a loving God, with the atrocities being committed on human beings worldwide.

This Swedish drama film tells the story of a woman, Agnes, who is dying of cancer, but her sisters are immersed in their own pains, which is why they are unable to offer her the support that she requires. However, Anna, a religious maid helps Agnes and gives her solace and empathy.

This Swedish film is about a schizophrenic young woman who is on a vacation with her family on a remote island. During this time, she experiences delusions about meeting God, who appears to her in the form of a monstrous spider. Her author father who is suffering from writer’s block attempts to use her illness in her work. Meanwhile, her brother is struggling with sexual frustration.

Jan Rosenberg and his wife Eva have left the city to avoid a civil war, and they begin to live on a rural island where they tend a farm. However, since they are living in isolation, soon their marital problems get worse.  

This Swedish drama film revolves around two sisters; the first one a sensuous woman having a young son, while her older sister is an intellectually oriented woman who is suffering from ailments.   

After his wife passes away, Fredrik Egerman gets married to Anne, a younger woman. However, his son Henrik starts developing feelings for his step mother. Anne starts loving him secretly as well.  

This Swedish psychological horror film revolves around Johan, an artist who is on a vacation with Alma, his pregnant wife. However, he starts hallucinating and suffers an emotional breakdown. He starts believing that there are demons visiting him.

Vogler is a traveling magician, who, along with his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden during the 19th century. They request that his troupe provide them a sample of their act, before they are allowed to perform in public. Their intention is to expose Vogler as a charlatan, but it seems that both Vogler and his crew are too clever.

After getting divorced, Andreas finds himself quite depressed and desolate. He soon meets a woman named Anna, who has lost her husband and her son due to a car crash.

This Swedish romantic drama film tells the story of Harry, a young boy who meets Monika, an adventurous young woman, in the café where he works. She invites him to join her for a movie at a local cinema. After spending the evening together, they find themselves attracted to one another. They soon leave everything behind and head to an island to lead a new life.

This drama film tells the story of Albert Johansson, a circus owner, who decides to pay his ex-wife and his sons a visit, when his traveling circus reaches the town that they live in. This causes his young mistress Anne to get jealous, and therefore she begins having an affair with Frans, an actor who lusts for her.

Four women are shown moving in a crowded closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women who live by passing on roles that have been passed down to them generation after generation. Two of them are shown to be damned souls that are brought back to life. The third one represents death. Meanwhile, the forth is a child born free, but is forced into the female roles like the others.

This Swedish drama film that translates into It Rains on Our Love, was based on Oskar Braaten Norwegian play Bra Mennesker (Good People). The story follows two strangers with an unlucky past who meet after they miss a train and soon begin a relationship. However, they realise that they are abandoned every time by the respectable society.

Abel and Max Rosenberg are circus acrobats but Max’s life turns upside down after Abel commits suicide. He faces several problems in his life including unemployment, depression, alcoholism, etc.

This 1947 Swedish film tells the story of a sailor who returns to his hometown after seven years, and remembers the dark moments from his past, his relationship his cruel father, his mother, and his father’s mistress, with whom he falls in love. 

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, this 14-minute short film focuses on Bergman’s mother Karin, and consists of several still photos of her and other family members.. 

This Swedish documentary film shows us the ‘behind the scenes’, and making of the drama film ‘Wild Strawberries’ (Smultronstället).

The story focuses on the relationship between a Swedish housewife, Karin Vergerus—who lives with her husband and children in a Swedish village—and David Kovac—a foreign archeologist and a Jewish survivor. They meet at a hospital and very quickly develop a relationship; but because of his mental scars, their journey is not as pleasant as it could have been. 

The Swedish drama, also known as Music in Darkness or Night is My Future is a poignant tale of finding love and hope through music. When pianist, Bengt Vyldeke, becomes blind after an accident, he becomes depressed and bitter. As he starts falling in love with Ingrid, Bengt tries to break free of his despair. 

Stimulantia is a Swedish anthology drama film consisting of eight parts, each telling different stories, each directed by different directors.

This Swedish drama film tells the story of a woman, Agnes, who is dying of cancer, but her sisters are immersed in their own pains, which is why they are unable to offer her the support that she requires. However, Anna, a religious maid helps Agnes and gives her solace and empathy.

After getting divorced, Andreas finds himself quite depressed and desolate. He soon meets a woman named Anna, who has lost her husband and her son due to a car crash.

This 1947 Swedish film tells the story of a sailor who returns to his hometown after seven years, and remembers the dark moments from his past, his relationship his cruel father, his mother, and his father’s mistress, with whom he falls in love. 

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, this 14-minute short film focuses on Bergman’s mother Karin, and consists of several still photos of her and other family members.. 

The Swedish drama, also known as Music in Darkness or Night is My Future is a poignant tale of finding love and hope through music. When pianist, Bengt Vyldeke, becomes blind after an accident, he becomes depressed and bitter. As he starts falling in love with Ingrid, Bengt tries to break free of his despair.