Flames in the Dark

Flames in the Dark

1942 · 94 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Thriller

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Directed by Hasse Ekman · Written by Hasse Ekman

Your Rating

Cast

Edvin Adolphson Rolf Nordmark
Stig Järrel Birger Sjögren
Inga Tidblad Eva Sjögren
Hugo Björne Edvard Bergfelt
Linnéa Hillberg Magda Bergfelt
Hasse Ekman Per Sahlén
Agneta Lagerfeldt Anne-Marie Ström
Hilda Borgström Anna Charlotta Sjögren
Mimi Pollak Miss Danielsson
Bengt Ekerot Åke Kronström
Åke Claesson Dr Lundvall
David Erikson Andersson - School Janitor

More from Hasse EkmanSee all →

Med folket för fosterlandet

Med folket för fosterlandet · 1938

Med folket för fosterlandet

MovieCrimeDrama

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Girl with Hyacinths

Girl with Hyacinths · 1950

Girl with Hyacinths

MovieDramaMystery

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

Sawdust and Tinsel

Sawdust and Tinsel · 1953

Sawdust and Tinsel

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Prison

A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle · 1959

Swinging at the Castle

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

The First Squadron

The First Squadron · 1941

The First Squadron

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

The Great John Ericsson

The Great John Ericsson · 1937

The Great John Ericsson

MovieDramaHistory

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

Thunder and Lightning

Thunder and Lightning · 1938

Thunder and Lightning

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Meeting in the Night

Meeting in the Night · 1946

Meeting in the Night

MovieThrillerCrime

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Wandering with the Moon

Wandering with the Moon · 1945

Wandering with the Moon

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

You Are My Adventure

You Are My Adventure · 1958

You Are My Adventure

Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.

Thirst

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

The White Cat

The White Cat · 1950

MovieDramaMystery

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.

Örlogsmän

Örlogsmän · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Intermezzo

Intermezzo · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Magistrarna på sommarlov · 1941

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

More Like This

The Square

The Square · 2008

MovieCrimeDrama

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

Marty

MovieDramaRomance

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

To Paint or Make Love

To Paint or Make Love · 2005

To Paint or Make Love

MovieDramaComedy

An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.

The Lost

The Lost · 2006

MovieCrimeDrama

A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.

Madigan

Madigan · 1968

MovieCrimeDrama

NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee · 2009

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

MovieComedyDrama

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

The Final Terror

The Final Terror · 1983

The Final Terror

MovieHorrorThriller

A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.

Candy

MovieDramaRomance

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Jindabyne

Jindabyne · 2006

MovieCrimeDrama

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.

Girls in Uniform

Girls in Uniform · 1958

Girls in Uniform

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.

Five Times Two

Five Times Two · 2004

MovieDramaRomance

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie · 1969

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

A Bay of Blood

A Bay of Blood · 1971

MovieHorrorThriller

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith · 2005

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

MovieActionComedy

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.

Se7en

MovieCrimeMystery

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter