Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann Movies / Drama

• 40 Carats [1973]

  An older woman unknowingly enters into a complicated love triangle with a younger man.

• A Bridge Too Far [15 June 1977 (USA)]

  The Allied armies concocted a plan to win the World War II at Arnhem. Disaster ensues when the area around Arnhem, including the key bridges of Germany, is loaded with armoured assaults.

• Angry Man [1 April 2009 (Norway)]

  After Boj's mommy fish dies, he gets power from his own fantasies.

• Cold Sweat [18 December 1970 (France)]

  An American expatriate's (Charles Bronson) wife (Liv Ullmann) and daughter are kidnapped in France by a drug smuggler (James Mason) from his past.

• Dangerous Moves [15 April 1984 (West Germany)]

  Aging Soviet chess champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) arrives in Geneva to face off against his former student Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt) in a World Championship match. Pavius is a defector from the USSR, and the Soviet authorities threaten to harm Akiva's family if he does not defeat the rogue player. Determined to shame Pavius, the government brings the wife (Liv Ullmann) he left behind to the game, attempting to unnerve him as the stress of the match takes its toll on both men.… MORE

• Faithless [15 September 2000 (Norway)]

  Marianne Vogler is a successful actress, happily married to Markus, an orchestra conductor much in demand for overseas concerts, and devoted to her young daughter, Isabelle. Into this easy equation steps family friend David a film director notorious for his reckless attitude towards relationships. Marianne's closeness to David develops into attraction, and he responds despite his friendship with Markus.… MORE

• Farewell Moscow [9 February 1987 (Italy)]

  An astronomer (Liv Ullmann) loses her family and suffers in Siberia as an exiled Jewish dissident in the Soviet Union.

• Gaby: A True Story [30 October 1987 (New York)]

  This film tells the true story of Gabriela Brimmer (Rachel Levin), whose cerebral palsy left her completely paralyzed from birth. At first thought to be comatose by her doctors, with the help of her compassionate maid, Florencia (Norma Aleandro), Brimmer learns to use her one functional limb -- her left foot -- to communicate. From there begins an emotional and physical journey towards self-actualization that ultimately defines Brimmer as a writer, an artist and an activist.… MORE

• Hour of the Wolf [19 February 1968 (Sweden)]

  Johan, an artist, starts hallucinating while vacationing with his wife, Alma. He believes that the demons visiting him are real and is drawn to memories of his ex-girlfriend.

• Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number [22 May 1983 (USA)]

  Newspaper publisher Jacobo Timerman's (Roy Scheider) wife (Liv Ullmann) and sons fight his abuse by the Argentine government.

• Kristin Lavransdatter [21 August 1995]

  A young woman (Elisabeth Matheson) in medieval Norway defies her father and marries a knight (Bjørn Skagestad), whose former mistress wants her dead.

• Let’s Hope It’s a Girl [6 February 1986 (Italy)]

  Countess Elena (Liv Ullmann) assumes control of her family estate after she leaves her husband. Elena is confident that she can run things better than her former spouse, Leonardo (Philippe Noiret). Determined to thwart her efforts, Leonardo returns with his male buddies, hoping to make life tough for Elena. But with the help of her two daughters, her sister, Claudia (Catherine Deneuve), and the maid, Fosca (Stefania Sandrelli), Elena may be able to prove that she doesn't need Leonardo around.… MORE

• Liv & Ingmar [28 September 2012 (Oslo)]

  Filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar chronicles the long relationship between actress Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

• Lost Horizon [17 March 1973 (USA)]

  A British diplomat tries to help several Europeans escape a revolution in southern Asia, but their plane crashes in the Himalayas, where they stumble on the harmonious and spiritual Valley of the Blue Moon. A remake of the 1937 classic.

• Mindwalk [11 October 1991 (Seattle)]

  Jack Edwards (Sam Waterston) is a disillusioned former presidential candidate who escapes to France to see his friend Thomas Harriman (John Heard), an expatriate poet. They travel to Mont Saint-Michel, speaking philosophically about their lives. While there, they meet Sonia Hoffman (Liv Ullmann), an academic who stopped teaching science at an American university when she realized her work was being used by the military. Together they discuss mankind's future through modern systems theory.… MORE

• Pope Joan [1972]

  A Midwestern evangelist (Liv Ullmann) thinks she is a reincarnated ninth-century pope and explains why to a psychiatrist (Keir Dullea).

• Private Confessions [25 December 1996 (Sweden)]

  Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.… MORE

• Richard's Things [30 August 1980]

  Richard dies of a heart attack whilst away on business. When collecting his things his wife learns that he had been travelling with another woman.

• Saraband [10 July 2004 (Italy)]

  Following Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) 30 years after the events of "Scenes from a Marriage," this sequel finds the couple long since divorced and remarried. After Johan separates from his second wife, and Marianne loses her second husband, the ex-lovers try to reconnect. Meanwhile, Johan's son, Henrik (Börje Ahlstedt), is having problems of his own with his daughter, Karin (Julia Dufvenius), a cellist whose career plans don't match her father's expectations.… MORE

• Searching for Ingmar Bergman [12 July 2018 (Germany)]

  Filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta reflects on the life and work of director Ingmar Bergman, who inspires her own career. Other filmmakers and collaborators of Bergman's discuss his most important works.

• Sofie [25 September 1992 (Denmark)]

  Parents (Erland Josephson, Ghita Nørby) and tradition force a 19th-century Jewish woman (Karen-Lise Mynster) to marry a man she does not love.

• The Abdication [3 October 1974 (USA)]

  A Vatican cardinal (Peter Finch) tests Swedish Queen Christina's (Liv Ullmann) conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1654.

• The Bay Boy [6 September 1984]

  Donald Campbell (Kiefer Sutherland) grows up in poverty in Depression-era Nova Scotia. His mother (Liv Ullmann), who also has to care for another son who's mentally disabled, is hopeful that Donald will enter the priesthood. Donald is less certain, especially since he's started to notice the likes of Saxon Coldwell (Leah Pinsent). But, when the young man witnesses a Jewish couple's murder by a prominent citizen, he'll have to make the most important decision of his life.… MORE

• The Danish Poet [16 February 2007 (New York)]

  A woman wonders what made her forefathers and mothers meet, allowing her to become the person that she is.

• The Emigrants [8 March 1971 (Sweden)]

  When a farmer couple's son starves to death because of the bad harvest, the couple decide to emigrate to the U.S. to join a group of farmers who want the same, and embark on their journey.

• The Girlfriend [13 April 1989 (Argentina)]

  The Girlfriend is a 1988 Argentine-German historical drama film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel and starring Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky and Federico Luppi. It was written by Osvaldo Bayer, Alcides Chiesa, Jeanine Meerapfel and Agnieszka Holland.

• The Long Shadow [1992]

  A Hungarian actor (Michael York) visits his father's Jerusalem grave and confronts his heritage and his stepmother (Liv Ullmann).

• The New Land [26 February 1972 (Sweden)]

  A family of Swedish immigrants struggles to turn the American frontier into their new home. They brave the harsh weather and unforgiving conditions to finally lead a better life than before.

• The Night Visitor [1970]

  Wrongly convicted criminal Salem (Max von Sydow) escapes from a mental institution hoping to get revenge on the man who put him there, his brother-in-law Anton (Per Oscarsson). Driven genuinely insane by his time in the institution, Salem plots to commit a series of crimes to frame Anton. Caught up in this murderous scheme is Anton's wife, Salem's sister Ester (Liv Ullmann). The three are thrown together, and the couple must outfox the madman in order to survive.… MORE

• The Ox [22 November 1991]

  Desperate to feed his wife, Elfrida (Ewa Fröling), and their baby daughter, starving laborer Helge Roos (Stellan Skarsgard) kills an ox belonging to his employer, wealthy farmer Svenning Gustafsson (Liv Ullmann). Helge is caught and jailed, making life even harder for Elfrida and her child. Without the assistance of the fearsome local vicar (Max von Sydow) and Gustafsson's wife (Bjorn Granath), the town's primary charitable benefactor, she must turn to other means to survive.… MORE

• The Rose Garden [22 December 1989]

  Decades after the Holocaust, survivor Aaron Reichenbach (Maximilian Schell) returns to Germany and attacks ex-Nazi officer Arnold Krenn (Kurt Hübner) in a Frankfurt airport. When Arnold files assault charges, a public defender, Gabriele Schlüter-Freund (Liv Ullmann), represents Aaron, expecting a straightforward case. But when Gabriele discovers that Aaron is one of many victims of cruel medical experiments in concentration camps, she resolves to seek justice.… MORE

• The Serpent's Egg [28 October 1977 (Sweden)]

  After his brother inexplicably commits suicide, unemployed Jewish-American circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) is stuck in Berlin with his sister-in-law, Manuela (Liv Ullmann), a cabaret singer. Desperate circumstances lead to the pair taking jobs at a medical facility run by Professor Hans Vergerus (Heinz Bennent), who also offers to give them shelter. However, the clinic turns out be a very sinister place, and soon the lives of Abel and Manuela are in serious jeopardy.… MORE

• The Wayward Girl [8 October 1959 (Norway)]

  Ung Flukt or The Wayward Girl is a 1959 Norwegian film directed by Edith Carlmar with a screenplay by Otto Carlmar and Niels Johan Rud. It marks the acting debut of Norwegian film actress Liv Ullmann who had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in Edith Carlmar's 1957 film Fools in the Mountain.

• The Wild Duck [1984]

  Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple (Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons) forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

• Through A Glass, Darkly [2008]

  A young girl, nearing the end of her life, learns to accept death and understand how wonderful life really is.

• Zandy's Bride [19 May 1974]

  Zandy is not looking for love. Instead he wants a wife who can share his burden and hard struggle of country life quietly. When his mail-order bride turns out to be a firebrand, Zandy is taken aback.

• Zorn [19 August 1994 (Sweden)]

  A life of adultery and excess contrasts with professional accolades in this portrait of artist Anders Zorn.

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