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Plot Summary:
When Emma hears that her father has stopped doing his job as a wolf researcher, she takes her son Leo to Østbygda to find out what's going on. At the same time, a young boy disappears without a trace from the village.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Fenris (2022):
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Perseguidos (2016)
Plot Summary:
Persecuted (Mauricio Islas) José Vicente Solís Armenta is a criminal prosecuted for justice for his crimes against humanity. After being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solís Armenta, on his way to escape, has to deal with his wife, who he cheated on, one of his lovers who seeks to assassinate him, and a bodyguard who seems to succumb to his charms. Given this adverse scenario, José Vicente declares a war without quarter to the authorities, but discovers that the real fight is against himself and perhaps, the only way of redemption is death. Mexican version of the Colombian series 'El capo'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: telenovela
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Ida Takes Charge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ida has just arrived in Oslo to study psychology at the University, after dropping out of her literature studies in Trondheim. Ida's is anxious for most things. Not getting of the bus at the right stop, running out of toilet paper on the public toilet, environmental changes and world war three. But her greatest fear is terror. There is nothing that frightens her more than being a victim of a random attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags:
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Magnus (2019)
Plot Summary:
Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Public Enemy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Freed after 20 years in prison, the child killer Guy Beranger found refuge with the monks in Vielsart, a small village in Belgian's Ardennes. He is placed under the protection of a young Federal Police's inspector, Chloé Muller. A little while after his release, a little girl disappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: crime drama, psychological thriller
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Reindeer Mafia (2023)
Plot Summary:
Poromafia is a crime saga tinged with black humor, centered on the internal power struggle of a family ruling the northern wilderness. The northern matriarch leaves behind an inheritance, which divides the family's lands among the family. However, the wills tear the family apart as buried secrets come to light.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags:
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A Class Apart (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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The River (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl playing by "Djupelv" finds the remains of a body. The family doesn't want to get involved and calls in an anonymous tip, but the same day the girl runs away from home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, captivating
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Limbo (2023)
Plot Summary:
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My and Gloria. The news that their sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags:
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Twin (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young mother is responsible for the accidental death of her husband, she persuades the dead husband's identical twin to take his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Tellus (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Trap (2018)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to overcome her husband’s death and also looking for inspiration, crime novelist Olga Sawicka visits an orphanage where one of the children has gone missing. She soon finds that the orphanage hides many dark secrets and becomes entangled in a deadly dangerous investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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The Lørenskog Disappearance (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a billionaire's wife vanishes, Norwegian police must deal with the frenzied press and deceitful informants to find the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 259 min
Plot tags:
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Dicte (2013)
Plot Summary:
Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, noir, dark, detective, crime drama
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The Congregation (2021)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community. But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social exclusion, group pressure, brainwashing, fanaticism and both more and less religiously sanctioned left-wing chatter end in murder and grief.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Team (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a number of murders of prostitutes at a motorway stop near Berlin, in a rear courtyard in Antwerp, and in a brothel in Copenhagen, Europol decides to form a taskforce to tackle the case. Harald, a Dane, Jackie, a German, and Alice from Belgium embark on the hunt for the killer. As the case unfolds, the killings prove to be just the tip of the iceberg, the iceberg itself being a large, pan-European criminal organization involved in everything from drugs and financial crime to corruption, hired killings and not least people trafficking , illegal labor and prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, noir, interesting
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Beforeigners (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called “beforeigners,” these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, non-linear, enigmatic, detective, interesting
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Deg (2021)
Plot Summary:
Malou is a woman living in a fancy Stockholm suburb, but her successful facade is on the verge of collapsing . When she happens to stumble across 47 million SEK from a robbery, she opens up a bakery in order to launder the money. Liana is an indebted single mom who was abandoned when her ex got arrested for that same robbery. When Liana unwillingly gets involved in the hunt for the money, the two women's paths cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 348 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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White Sands (2021)
Plot Summary:
To solve the brutal murder of a young German surfer, two officers are secretly sent to the tourist paradise Hvide Sande on Denmark's west coast. No one in the city trusts the police, so they go undercover as a happily married couple from the big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 333 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Eyewitness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eyewitness is a gripping, fast-paced thriller seen through the eyes of two teenagers whose clandestine meeting unravels into a nightmare of murder, corruption and gang warfare.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, noir
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The Third Eye (2013)
Plot Summary:
A police detective is trying to locate his missing daughter, while solving other cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, noir
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Wisting (2019)
Plot Summary:
Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, disturbing, exciting, clever, suspense, stylized
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Death of a Pilgrim (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Nordic crime mini-series on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the fall of the welfare state.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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Borderliner (2017)
Plot Summary:
To protect his family, police detective Nikolai covers up a murder case. But when his co-investigator Anniken suspects foul play, he is trapped in a dangerous game on duty, blurring the line between right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, detective, tense, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, dark
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Furia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Norskov (2015)
Plot Summary:
Norskov is a police drama that takes place in an industrial city in northern Denmark. The city is raw and unsentimental, and the financial crisis has left its mark, but there is still a lot of community spirit and empowerment. In the series we follow the policeman Tom Noack, who returns to the city he left almost 20 years ago, and his two childhood friends who in the meantime have become the mayor and primary contractor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir, detective
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The Thin Blue Line (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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Hammarvik (2020)
Plot Summary:
When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, soap opera
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Acquitted (2015)
Plot Summary:
After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir
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Mafiosa (2006)
Plot Summary:
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, detective, sensual
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The Unlikely Murderer (2021)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 228 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing