This powerful depiction of a dying woman who is attended to in her rural mansion by her sisters, is one of Bergman’s most resonant studies of familial bonds, solitude, suffering and the female psyche.

Despite his serious reputation, Bergman made a number of successful comedies and Smiles of a Summer Night – his 1955 Cannes prize winner which assembles various couples in a country house - offers a lighter take on the well-trodden Bergman themes of humiliated lovers and infidelity.

A work of stunning maturity and one of Bergman’s most important films, Bergman achieved a major international breakthrough with this scandalous, sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love.

By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But he attained new levels of visual poetry with this radical, modernist masterpiece exploring the volatile relationship between an actress and her nurse in what is a mesmerisingly beautiful work of unforgettable, haunting mystery.

Perhaps the most delightful film ever made from an opera, Ingmar Bergman put his indelible stamp on Mozart’s exquisite opera in this sublime rendering of one of the composer’s best-loved works.

It’s impossible to label any one work as the definitive entry point, but Wild Strawberries – about an ageing professor taking a nostalgic road trip across Sweden with his daughter-in- law - offers an accessible introduction to many of Bergman’s key motifs and narrative devices.

Those looking for a more explicit exploration of faith and God – themes for which Bergman would become famed for in his films – should look no further than the medieval pageantry of The Seventh Seal - Bergman’s allegorical drama starring Max von Sydow as a knight trying to elude his own death.