When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most striking roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal, affliction he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. His transition from loving father to homicidal despot is depicted on a scale more akin to operatic tragedy than melodrama and, on top of the inestimable pleasures of Mason's performance, a narrative that explores society's use of drugs provides an unexpectedly prophetic di find out more...

'Ordet' is the story of religious rural families in 1920s West Jutland divided internally, and between each other, by different interpretations of their faith. Devout Morten has three sons, one an atheist, one who believes he is Jesus Christ and one who would like to be married, but whose prospective father-in-law objects to his sect. It's going to take a miracle to heal these differences... find out more...

The first part of Bergman's trilogy (followed by Winter Light) about God's silence. His deeply melancholic views on the human condition are reflected thru' this tale of four Swedes geographically isolated, in a summer home on a holiday island, and emotionally separated from each other in a society, rooted in Lutheran Protestanism, in which self-expression is taboo and feelings suppressed. As one of them descends into insanity the others can only gaze helplessly on. Much to be admired in Bergman' find out more...