Lukas Moodysson

Director

January 17, 1969 (57 years)

Lund, Skåne County, Sweden

Biography

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson (born 17 January 1969) is a Swedish author and film director. First appearing in public as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big public, and international, breakthrough directing the 1998 romance film Show Me Love. He has since directed a string of films with different styles and public appeal, as well as continued to write both poetry and novels. In 2007, the Guardian ranked Moodysson 11th in its list of the world’s best directors, describing his directori…

Filmography

7.6

Lilya 4-ever

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

7.1

Show Me Love

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

7.2

Gösta

Gösta is a 28-year-old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets - sometimes it goes well, sometimes not ...

7.0

Together

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.

7.0

We Are the Best!

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

6.2

Mammoth

When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.

4.4

A Hole in My Heart

In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.

4.7

Container

Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."

6.0

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

6.0

Together 99

A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends.

5.9

Talk

Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members.

9.0

En uppgörelse i den undre världen

The leader of a small crime syndicate meets, for the first time in years, with his teenage son in a Chinese Restaurant. Slightly awkwardly, he explains that he hopes his son to take over his business.

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We Are Not Leaving

Erik has been fired and wants his job back. When he can’t have it back, two friends and he decide to occupy the manager's office.

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A Hole in My Second Heart

Lukas Moodysson struggles to film a scene.

6.1

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced

A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalization protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests.

7.0

Det var en mörk och stormig natt

When darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.

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