Vintage Swedish Films

A bold original Swedish film poster for King Kong, produced for a 1966 re-release of the classic monster movie in Sweden.

Original early 70s re-release Swedish film poster for James Bond's iconic first outing, Dr No.

We love this delightful original Swedish film poster for a cinematic release of The Pink Panther series in Sweden in the 1970s.

A wonderfully bold original Swedish film poster for The Ladykillers, the classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness.

A distinctive figure in Swedish film-poster design, Åberg had a gift for reducing an entire story to a few powerful images, expressive faces and beautifully controlled colour.

Adventures of Picasso, Original polish poster for the Swedish film, 1979. Designed by Andrzej Klimowski.

Although unsigned, its design is attributed to lauded Swedish artist Eric Rohman who was the primary house artist commissioned by the major distributors including Skandinavisk Film-C...

Its intimate human focus won the Jury Prize at Cannes and made Wolf an international name. The Swedish poster suits the film's stark moral clarity: restrained, serious and graphica...

It is less a conventional film than a beautifully chaotic 1960s time capsule.

Pure silent-era glamour. This rare Swedish film poster for Queen of the Night – Nattens drottning – dates from around 1920 and features American screen star Dorothy Dalton at the hei...

The Swedish poster channels that modernist tension with a sharp, pared-back attitude.

Federico Fellini follows two young men through a broken, decadent world of banquets, monsters and fragments, creating one of the director's strangest and most visually extravagant fi...

George Raft, Jane Bryan and a young Humphrey Bogart lead Invisible Stripes, Lloyd Bacon's tough 1939 Warner Bros crime drama about an ex-con trying to go straight while the old life ...

One of our favourite film posters for one of James Bond's finest outings, Goldfinger. Aberg's design for the 1965 super rare original-year-of-release features fab Sean Connery and Ho...

Hans Arnold was famous for his strange, macabre imagination, and his Swedish poster work pushes the film into nightmare territory.

Charles Vidor's 1946 noir pairs Hayworth with Glenn Ford in a feverish mix of jealousy, betrayal and nightclub glamour. Eric Rohman's Swedish artwork gives the film its own seducti...

This exceptionally rare Swedish stock one-sheet was created for Paramount’s release of the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons in the early 1940s, with the Man of Steel appearing under h...

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight is a tender late-career masterpiece about an ageing clown, a young dancer and the fragile need to keep performing. Chaplin directs, writes, stars and comp...

Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli is Italian neorealism with volcanic force. Ingrid Bergman stars as a displaced woman trapped on a stark island, while the landscape itself becomes part...

My Lady Friends is a 1921 silent comedy directed by Lloyd Ingraham, starring real-life husband-and-wife team Carter and Flora DeHaven. Based on a Broadway hit, it spins marital confu...

The Swedish poster is therefore more than decoration: it is a vivid piece of evidence from a vanished film world.

Silent-film art at its most alive. An extremely rare and collectible poster.

An extremely rare poster from the film's first-year-of-release poster in Sweden.

Directed by John Cromwell, the 1947 noir pairs Bogart's hard-boiled presence with Lizabeth Scott's smoky ambiguity. Eric Rohman's Swedish poster gives the film a bold, expressive i...

Directed by Charles Martin, the glossy melodrama mixes murder, money and high-society scandal, with Yvonne De Carlo and Zsa Zsa Gabor adding serious star power. The Swedish poster ...

We love this exceptionally rare and very beautiful first-year-of-release Swedish poster for Errol Flynn classic Dodge City. Michael Curtiz directs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilla...

Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper bring serious star wattage to Saratoga Trunk, Sam Wood's sweeping tale of revenge, romance and social climbing in nineteenth-century New Orleans and Ne...

Modern Times is Chaplin's great machine-age comedy: the Little Tramp caught in factory gears, feeding machines and the frantic rhythm of modern life. Released in 1936, it is both hil...

Gösta Åberg's Swedish poster gives the film a strong painted gravity without losing its human core.

Eric Rohman's Swedish poster survives as a vivid piece of that history.

Nils Levin's Swedish poster answers that scale with a severe, theatrical design.

Chaplin takes on tyranny with razor-sharp satire in The Great Dictator, his bold 1940 classic starring Paulette Goddard and Chaplin himself in a brilliant double role. Funny, furious...

A Night at the Opera is the Marx Brothers firing on every cylinder. Directed by Sam Wood, the 1935 classic delivers the contract scene, the overcrowded stateroom and enough perfectly...

Giulietta Masina plays a woman confronting marriage, memory and desire as ordinary life dissolves into spirits, visions and extravagant fantasy. Bengt Serenander's Swedish poster e...

Heinz Edelmann served as the film's art director, creating its wild cast of shapes, creatures and candy-coloured worlds.

Bob McCall was both a NASA artist and a visionary of space-age illustration, creating promotional artwork for the film with extraordinary technical grandeur. This Swedish poster carr...

Bond goes bigger in You Only Live Twice. Directed by Lewis Gilbert, the 1967 adventure sends Sean Connery to Japan for volcano lairs, Little Nellie and one of the most spectacular fi...

Another wonderfully rare poster from early silent cinema. Rex Ingram's 1922 The Prisoner of Zenda is silent swashbuckling on a grand scale, with Lewis Stone taking on royal doubles, ...

Harold Lloyd personally selected the clips for World of Comedy, his 1962 return to cinema screens after almost two decades away. The compilation races through classics including Safe...

Marilyn Monroe goes dark in Don't Bother to Knock, Roy Ward Baker's tense 1952 psychological drama. Opposite Richard Widmark, she delivers one of her earliest and most unsettling per...

A seriously slick original Swedish film poster for Goldfinger, re-released in Sweden in 1967.

Original Japanese film poster for the 1967 drama, I Am Curious (Yellow) This Swedish film was directed by Vilgot Sjoman and starred Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman and Börje Ahlstedt.

Original Swedish film poster for the 1960 Italian film directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni and stars Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti.

Original German film poster for the 1966 Swedish film written and director by Ingmar Bergman, and stars Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann and Margaretha Krook.

Original Swedish film poster for the 1942 Film Noir The Glass Key.

Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom (born 18 December 1931) is a Swedish film actress and director. As an actress she has been particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, th...

Original German film poster for the 1966 Swedish film written and director by Ingmar Bergman, and stars Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann and Margaretha Krook.

Original Swedish film poster for The Dam Busters 1955. This British epic war film was directed by Michael Anderson, and stars Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave.

This stunning poster was designed by prolific Swedish poster artist Gosta Aberg for the first release of 'Goldfinger' in Sweden in 1965.

This stunning poster designed by prolific Swedish poster artist Gosta Aberg dates from a 1967 Swedish re-release.

Original Czechoslovakian film poster for 1974 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and stars Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, and Bibi Andersson.

Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean's iconic American coming of age drama film. We love this Swedish poster is from its first year-of-release in Sweden.

Greta Garbo Swedish American Movie Film Star Goddess Hollywood Mid 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Greta Garbo Plate Size: 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 Paper Size: 20 x 15 Etching with aqu...

Britt Ekland – Mary Goodnight, The Man With The Golden Gun, Bangkok, 1974 Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further pri...

Original Swedish version of this movie poster. Some wear as seen on pictures.

This rare design is from the first release of the film in Sweden in 1968 and features striking red tones with the iconic image of McQueen as Bullitt in the centre.

Britt Ekland – Mary Goodnight, the Man With the Golden Gun, Bangkok, 1974 Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in n...

David Steen † 1936 – 2015 Biography: Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughou...

David Steen † 1936 – 2015 Biography: Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughou...

David Steen † 1936 – 2015 Biography: Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughou...