57 Liv Ullmann Movies, 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?  

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.

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. 

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.

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.  

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 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.

It is based on the events of ‘Operation Market Garden’ of September, 1944. In order to bring a quick end to the WWII, the allied forces decide to drop thousands of paratroopers to secure strategic bridges in Netherlands to obtain access into Germany. The main bridge was the one to Arnhem. But tough German resistance and faulty allied intelligence led to failure.

In this US-Swedish psychological thriller film, a man, Salem is imprisoned in an asylum for the criminally insane for a couple of years after being convicted for a murder. Determined to get revenge from those who were responsible for his wrongful conviction and subsequent confinement in the mental institution, he breaks out of the asylum and plots a series of murder.

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.

Also referred to as La Diagonale du fou, the movie is a riveting tale of two men playing at the finals of a Chess Championship, but much more than the game is at stake. Soviet Chess champion, Avika Liebskind, is under pressure from the USSR to beat Pavius Fromm, who has defected to the West.  

A teenage boy who lives in Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930s finds himself contemplating life. He is also haunted by a murder that he witnessed in town. 

Western rancher Zandy needs a wife to help him with ranch work; thus, not interested in love or companionship, he treats his mail-ordered bride more as his possession than wife. He is not happy as she is older than anticipated and expects to be treated with respect. But after enduring hardships and trials together, he learns to love and respect his bride.

Ann Stanley is on a vacation in Greece with her family, when her car breaks down, and a young man Peter arrives on a motorbike who persuades her to accept a ride. They soon become better acquainted. Back home in the US, Ann is shocked to see that Peter has arrived at her home, hoping to resume their romance. However, Ann is embarrassed because of their huge age difference.

The Wild Duck is a drama film revolving around a loving family living a happy life, which is turned upside down when an old friend arrives, carrying dark secrets.

The Abdication is a historical drama film which takes us to 1654, and revolves around Swedish Queen Christina’s conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Leonor is a fantasy drama horror film which revolves around the story of Richard, a medieval nobleman, who gets married for a second time, after his first wife passes away. However, he starts to miss his first wife again, and he even sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. She returns eventually, but as a bloodthirsty vampire.

A wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover after his death. Their mutual love, jealousy, pain and envy bring them close in an unanticipated physical and emotional relationship.

Pope Joan tells the story of a Midwestern evangelist who thinks that she is a reincarnation of a Pope in the ninth-century. She explains why she feels this way to her psychiatrist.

The frustrated daughter of a wealthy aristocrat tries to seduce John, her father’s valet, who has known her since she was a child.

A rising tennis star starts having an affair with an older lady who is engaged to a wealthy man. He soon realizes that she doesn’t love the man she is engaged to.

Fools in the Mountains is a comedy film which takes us to a ski resort in a high mountainous region in Norway. A hotel manager has a hard time trying to deal with guests, many of whom behave inappropriately. He also has a problem with a new bellboy, whose ways seem that he is determined to drive him crazy.