Cilla Thorell

Acting

Cilla Thorell

Born

1967-10-01 (59)

Place of birth

Skarpnäck, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

My Life as a Comedian poster
5.3

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha as an adult performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to sold out theatres and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past.

My Life as a Comedian

2019

Bermuda poster
4.7

When Jonna is told by her boss to be more friendly with the diners customers she could never believe what that would result in. What at first seems like a polite conversation with the only guest quickly escalate to an unexpected turn of events.

Bermuda

2018

The Process poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Process

2019

The Reunion poster
6.8

A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high school reunion 20 years later. One of them talks about her being bullied and outcast and soon the former classmates fall back to the roles they used to have back in school. But this is just half of the film.

The Reunion

2013

Orion poster
NR

Change is in the air for Tony; an adolescent trying to make sense of life as summer draws closer for every day. Where many teenagers minds seem to be full of wishes and future dreams Tony’s is not, it’s too occupied with all the destructive things going on around him as he turns to the naive dreamer Anna for comfort. Through her, and her stories about Orion, stars and love Tony finds hope for the first time in his life.

Orion

2013

2000s · 4 titles

Family Secrets poster
5.2

Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.

Family Secrets

2001

Besvärliga människor poster
5.5

"Dificult People" - About the production process when Suzanne Osten directs the theater play ”Difficult people”, written by Nils Gredeby. It is a play about people who fail in their professional careers by ”being difficult”. It all starts with the author attending a course about how to spot the difficult people and how to fire people who sabotage or create problems at the working place. In the process the ensemble has to face questions about how we view our fellow human beings and who is considered expendable.

Besvärliga människor

2001

Suxxess poster
5.7

A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.

Suxxess

2002

Rosa - The Movie poster
2.5

A teenager who dreams of becoming a pop star learns a lot about life, love, and friendship at summer camp, and that lies have short legs.

Rosa - The Movie

2007

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

The Unlikely Murderer poster
6.7

After the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.

The Unlikely Murderer

2021

The New Force poster
6.1

An understaffed police district in 1950s Sweden launches a bold experiment to introduce its first group of female officers.

The New Force

2025

C/o Segemyhr poster
6.9

c/o Segemyhr was a Swedish sitcom that premiered on TV4 Sweden on 4 September 1998. The series took place in and around an apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood in Stockholm, Artillerigatan 35 and later Styrmansgatan 52 in the same area. The series began with three seasons from fall 1998 to fall 1999, thereafter additionally two seasons were added in 2003–2004. All seasons have been released on DVD. Script writers were Fredrik Lindström och Erik Haag.

C/o Segemyhr

1998

The Lost poster
6.7

Truck driver Erwin believes that he's helping people when he smuggles refugees, but shocking consequences follow a moment of distraction.

The Lost

2022

Hostage poster
6.6

When a Nordic Airlines flight to the USA is hijacked, a team of Swedish investigators must race against time to unmask the mysterious hijackers before they bring the airplane down or the US military shoot it out of the sky.

Hostage

2023

Det mest förbjudna poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Det mest förbjudna

2016

Livet enligt Rosa poster
8.3

We learn about the life of 13-year-old Swedish girl Rosa who fantasizes to be a pop star. She uses to explain her life to her fans by talking to a camera and also sings songs about her life into that camera. Rosa's parents are separated, she's living with her mother and her older sister.

Livet enligt Rosa

2005