My Life as a Dog

12
1h 42m
1985
7.216 /10 (285)

It could have been worse. I've actually been lucky. If you compare...

Overview

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

Country : Sweden
Languages : svenska
Released Date: 1985-12-12

Top Billed Cast

Anton Glanzelius

Ingemar Johansson

Tomas von Brömssen

Ingemar's Uncle Gunnar

Anki Lidén

Ingemar's Mother

Melinda Kinnaman

Saga

Kicki Rundgren

Gunnar's Wife Ulla

Lennart Hjulström

The Artist

Ing-Marie Carlsson

Berit

Leif Ericson

Uncle Sandberg

Christina Carlwind

Mrs. Sandberg

Ralph Carlsson

Harry

Viveca Dahlén

Tvättande Kvinna

Johan Widerberg

Boy in Town

Manfred Serner

Ingemar's Older Brother Erik

Jan-Philip Hollström

Manne the Boy with Green Hair

Arnold Alfredsson

Manne's Grandfather

Fritz Elofsson

Mäster

Similar Movies

poster
No One's with the Calves
2022-01-20 5.567

No One's with the Calves

Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
In the Name of the Law
1932-04-15 6.9

In the Name of the Law

The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Dita Saxová
1968-02-23 5.8

Dita Saxová

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Contempt
1963-10-29 7.032

Contempt

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems th ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
1984-12-14 7

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But whe ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Silence of the Lambs
1991-02-14 8.345

The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Shawshank Redemption
1994-09-23 8.714

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an a ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Desert Hearts
1985-10-01 7.03

Desert Hearts

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Once Upon a Time in America
1984-05-23 8.392

Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Mystic River
2003-10-08 7.744

Mystic River

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Eyes Wide Shut
1999-07-16 7.483

Eyes Wide Shut

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Devil Wears Prada
2006-06-29 7.39

The Devil Wears Prada

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a majo ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Das Boot
1981-09-17 8.084

Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their l ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Chocolat
2000-12-22 6.973

Chocolat

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Capote
2005-09-30 6.978

Capote

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood". ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Atomová katedrála
1985-04-01 4

Atomová katedrála

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer Hlaváč, who has been involved in the project from the very ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Marfil
0

Marfil

Marfil Cortés, a daughter of a wealthy Spanish businessman, is kidnapped and released, leading her father to hire Sebastian Moore as a bodyguard. Despite initial clashes, they form an irremediable att ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Ébano
0

Ébano

Marfil Cortés, kidnapped and released, is forced to work as a bodyguard by her father. Despite initial clashes, they develop an irremediable attraction. Returning to Spain, they face increasing threat ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Eaten Out of House and Home
1933-11-01 4

Eaten Out of House and Home

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you get a lot of friends. Especially the former captain Kyllijána (Vlasta Burian), who come to him to dri ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
...Maybe This Time
1981-03-19 3.6

...Maybe This Time

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a f ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Check These Out

poster
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984-10-07 7.2

The Times of Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchi ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Hunters
1996-02-02 6.517

The Hunters

A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
93 Days
2016-04-24 5.731

93 Days

Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola out ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Like Two Crocodiles
1995-03-31 7.6

Like Two Crocodiles

A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Rumperbutts
2015-05-22 5

The Rumperbutts

A married, indie band duo regretfully takes a job on a children's show ("Rumperbutts"). Despite the money and success, they are miserable. However, on one magical evening, a mysterious man appears and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Metropolitan
1990-08-03 6.926

Metropolitan

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobilit ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Brain Dead
1990-01-16 5.615

Brain Dead

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporati ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Ratcatcher
1999-11-12 7.1

Ratcatcher

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Under Fire
1983-10-21 6.673

Under Fire

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
A Murder of Crows
1999-07-06 6.105

A Murder of Crows

In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Ma ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Class
2007-03-16 7.4

The Class

An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Porky's II: The Next Day
1983-06-24 5.677

Porky's II: The Next Day

When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the hel ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Jewel of the Nile
1985-08-01 6.21

The Jewel of the Nile

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to writ ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Citizen X
1995-02-25 7.185

Citizen X

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Le Havre
2011-09-08 7.009

Le Havre

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
The Last Picture Show
1971-10-03 7.607

The Last Picture Show

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nea ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Welcome to the Dollhouse
1996-03-22 7.074

Welcome to the Dollhouse

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Watership Down
1978-10-14 7.201

Watership Down

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Asterix in Britain
1986-12-03 6.768

Asterix in Britain

One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soo ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy
poster
Raise the Red Lantern
1991-12-18 7.9

Raise the Red Lantern

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy