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Plot Summary:
Crime Inspector Maria Wern returns to duty at the Police Department on the island of Gotland, and is immediately thrown into a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, detective, serious, realistic, gloomy
Best tv shows and movies like Murder in Sweden (2008):
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Detective Inspector Irene Huss: The Torso (2007)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Gothenburg found parts of a dismembered man's body. The only thing that is going on, a tattoo on the torso. Irene Huss find a similar previous cases that will take her to Copenhagen, where she is forced to look for a friend's daughter who disappeared. Likfyndet will be the prelude to more nasty murders that lead Irene in Copenhagen underworld.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, surprise ending
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Original Sin (1997)
Plot Summary:
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team -- Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron -- turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Arne Dahl: A Midsummer Night Dream (2015)
Plot Summary:
A series of brutal murders of Polish women who secretly hiding in Sweden becomes the new A - team first case. The victims prove to be key witnesses in a major lawsuit against the Polish mafia . Three of them have been found murdered in the space of a few days , two missing and the hope is that they are still alive. Detective Kerstin Holm get command when the hunt for a ruthless killer and his shady victim begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, gloomy
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Arne Dahl: Bad Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
An American serial killer is on board a plane from New York to Stockholm. Without a proper identification and with great urgency A-group try to locate this passenger before Sweden inadvertently imports it's first American serial killer. The serial killer enters Sweden, and very soon he begins his killing spree. His methods are blood thirsty and can be traced back to the Vietnam War. A collaboration with the FBI begins in an desperate attempt to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, detective, gloomy
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Arne Dahl: Requiem (2015)
Plot Summary:
Early one morning, a bank office in the middle of Stockholm is hit with a violent robbery. When the police storm the premises, the robbers have vanished without a trace. The event mystifies the A Unit who, under the supervision of US Intelligence, takes the case. When they find a strange hiding place inside one of the bank's walls, with traces of secrets from the days of the Cold War, it soon becomes clear that the bank robbers are just pawns in a larger game. A game that will soon claim more victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, gloomy
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Birthmarked (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother, a young woman embarks on a hunt for several men, who appear to be connected by a piece of music, which she plays to each of them over the phone, before killing them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Similar in 76%
Falcón (2012)
Plot Summary:
Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, atmospheric, gloomy, hardboiled detective, detective series
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Sebastian Bergman (2010)
Plot Summary:
Swedish crime drama series about forensic psychologist Sebastian Bergmann.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, gloomy
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The Truth Will Out (2018)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Peter Wendel leads a cold case group. Based on an original idea by Leif GW Persson, one of Sweden’s most recognized criminologists.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Case Sensitive (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how watertight is the alibi of the apparently distraught husband Mark? Meanwhile, when Sally Thorne, a young working mother with a husband and two small children hears of the deaths, she is deeply shocked. Months before she’d met a man called Mark Bretherick at a hotel and they had a brief but passionate affair. Now, against the advice of her best friend, Esther, Sally feels the need to get in touch with Mark again to offer her sympathy. Based on the bestselling novel The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah, this psychological thriller explores the darker side of motherhood, identity and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, detective, dark, realistic
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Black Work (2015)
Plot Summary:
'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of action, in his job as a undercover cop. Jo, a police officer herself soon has to confront issues in her marriage and family life in order to discover who really killed her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama
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The Sandhamn Murders (2010)
Plot Summary:
Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, disturbing, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense
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The Fifth Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
The 5th woman unfolds autumn 1994. An elderly man found in a gillrad pitfall impaled to death on the sharp sharpened bamboo poles, ecstatic praise of crows. Shortly afterwards disappears a florist without a trace and he also found executed in the forest. Kurt Wallander and his colleagues will soon understand that the attacks is all about revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 229 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, bleak, realistic, gloomy
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Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arne Dahl - Misterioso A failed robbery attempt at Sydbanken outside Avesta leaves one robber lying dead with a dart through his eye, but there are no witnesses to the incident and no perpetrator is ever identified. In Stockholm, three high-profile businessmen are assassinated in a short period of time, and Jenny Hultin of National CID is assigned the task of putting together a special team to solve the case before the assassin strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, detective, gloomy
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Midnight Sun (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 440 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense, atmospheric, noir, dark
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Arne Dahl: Europa blues (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man is found dead, hung from a tree. Another body is found in Skansen's wolverine enclosure. Five girls attempt to flee from Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Wallander (2005)
Plot Summary:
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bleak, gloomy
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100 Code (2015)
Plot Summary:
New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and act as an adviser to the Stockholm Police Department in order to help solve these crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, psychological, detective, bleak, neo noir
Similar in 78%
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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Detective Inspector Irene Huss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
Similar in 78%
The Disappearance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Lyon, the show traces the increasing trauma of the Morel family who fall apart when their 17-year-old daughter fails to return home from a night out. As the hours pass and the police investigation builds, The Disappearance explores every parent’s worst nightmare. There are similarities to Broadchurch in that the lead detective has a complicated backstory while the family members and friends each appear to be hiding something.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, detective, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, noir
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Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, dark, detective, scary, realistic
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Quirke (2013)
Plot Summary:
A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, realistic, tense, suspense, detective, crime drama, historical drama, suspenseful, period drama
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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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Code 37 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Red Rock (2015)
Plot Summary:
Starting on the day a long, dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited, this continuing drama is based around a busy Dublin Garda station. On one side, the Hennessys, a local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other side, the Kielys, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry. Charting the life and dramas of a community about to be enveloped by a feud, through the eyes of those who police it, each episode will be a mix of 'crime of the week' stories and on-going serial arcs, following principle characters in both their professional and personal lives. A powerful and moving drama, Red Rock is a contemporary western, set in the shadow of Ireland's 'gold rush'.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, tense, atmospheric, suspense, serious, soap opera
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The Protector (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gloria Sheppard is an intuitive LAPD homicide detective who juggles her demanding personal and professional lives while raising two sons with the help of her troubled younger brother, Davey.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, detective, psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Good Cop (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark, detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic
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Secrets and Lies (2015)
Plot Summary:
Detective Andrea Cornell is a tough, thorough Homicide Detective who leaves no stone unturned. Her unwavering dedication to her job makes her the most formidable opponent - or a highly valuable ally.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, detective, idiotic