This article explores the major tendencies of Swedish Cinematography at the beginning of the XXI century. It focuses on analyzing the peculiarities in the Swedish film genre, which was formed during the silent cinema era, however remained dominant until recently. The peculiarities in contemporary Swedish drama are considered to be an original synthesis of two contradictory tendencies of the 1950s and '60s: these are represented by the psycho-philosophical films by I. Bergman and the Socialogical films by B.Viderberg. The article gives a list of key topics in modern films and outlines the peculiarities of their given genres