Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish: Sånger från andra våningen) is a Swedish black comedy-drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 October 2000,^[2] written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. It uses quotations from the work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 73rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

It is the first film in a trilogy, followed by You, the Living (2007) and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).

A man is standing in a subway car, his face dirty with soot. In his right hand he carries a plastic bag with documents, or rather, the charred leftovers of them. In a corridor a man is clinging desperately to the legs of the boss who just fired him. He is screaming: "I've been here for thirty years!" In a coffee shop someone is waiting for his father, who just burned his furniture company for insurance money. Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into the crystal ball of a scryer. The main men all have goals but their destinations change during the story.

• Lars Nordh as Kalle
• Stefan Larsson as Stefan
• Bengt C. W. Carlsson as Lennart
• Torbjörn Fahlström as Pelle Wigert
• Sten Andersson as Lasse
• Rolando Núñez as the foreigner
• Lucio Vucina as the magician
• Per Jörnelius as the sawed man
• Peter Roth as Tomas
• Klas-Gösta Olsson as the speechwriter
• Nils-Åke Eriksson as patient
• Hanna Eriksson as Mia
• Tommy Johansson as Uffe
• Sture Olsson as Sven
• Fredrik Sjögren as the Russian boy

• César Vallejo
• List of films with longest production time
• List of submissions to the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film