Fresh
Bergman's visually striking medieval morality play [was] the work that gained him an international reputation.
Elliott Stein, Village Voice
The Seventh Seal
The story of a challenge to death.
1957 · 1h 36m · Not Rated
Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
The Seventh Seal
Overview
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Film has superior technical narrative, impressive lensing and thesping.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
It survives today only as an unusually pure example of a typical 50s art-film strategy: the attempt to make the most modern and most popular of art forms acceptable to the intelligentsia by forcing it into an arcane, antique mold.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Not only highly impressive but thought-provoking, relevant and intensely moving in our present, nervous, times.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
More films
The Life of Chuck (2025)
Drama · Fantasy · R
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Cast
- Tom Hiddleston, Benjamin Pajak, Nick Offerman
IMDb
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Metacritic
67
The Magician (1958)
Drama · NOT RATED
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast
- Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin
IMDb
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Adventure · Drama · Fantasy · PG-13
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, th...
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Director
- Rupert Sanders
- Cast
- Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth
IMDb
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes
48%
Metacritic
57
The Prestige (2006)
Drama · Mystery · Science Fiction · PG-13
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast
- Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
IMDb
8.5
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
66
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Action · Adventure · Fantasy · PG-13
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers - Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
- Runtime
- 2h 59m
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Cast
- Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
IMDb
8.8
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
87
I Served the King of England (2007)
Comedy · R
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of hist...
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Ivan Barnev, Oldřich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch
IMDb
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
72
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Comedy · PG
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík...
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- János Bán, Marián Labuda, Zdeněk Svěrák
IMDb
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Larks on a String (1990)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · N/A
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Václav Neckář, Jitka Zelenohorská
IMDb
7.3
Cutting It Short (1981)
Comedy · N/A
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed r...
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Magda Vášáryová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek
IMDb
8.0
The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
Comedy · Drama · N/A
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writings by Bohumil Hrabal.
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr
IMDb
7.5
Comments
Talk about the film with other members