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Plot Summary:
A late summer night in 1990 a young pregnant woman is brutally murdered by being buried in the sand, to slowly become submerged by the tide. 25 years later, the sadistic murder remains unsolved. Olivia Rönning receives the task of studying the case as a cold case exercise at the Police Academy. Olivia becomes almost obsessed with the murder when she discovers that her father previously worked with the investigation. She quickly realizes that she must get a hold of the principal investigator, detective Tom Stilton, but he seems to have disappeared from the face of the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, bleak, suspense, noir
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The Dying Detective (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a mild stroke leaving his right side paralyzed, the doctor telling him a total change of lifestyle is required to escape a massive heart attack. Being Sweden's most successful detective, the doctor tells him her father, a priest, now deceased, had a woman for confession. She told the priest she knew the man who raped and killed a nine year old girl in 1985. The doctor ask the retired detective to investigate. The case being unsolved and also too old to be prosecuted, the partially handicapped detective, enlists a former colleague to help. In between trying to escape his new dietary regime, with a stubborn attitude and known to be the man who can see around corners, he follows the old trail left by a paedophile killer in the Swedish summer. Not knowing what to do if he actually finds him. Let the old testament rule apply? An eye for an eye?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Burning Ice (2017)
Plot Summary:
To protect the woman he loves, a white collar worker unintentionally becomes involved in a murder case and is from then on a suspect. In the blink of an eye, his quiet and boring life gets completely shaken up as he suddenly is both being chased by the police as well as gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Grave (2004)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologists dig up a mass grave in a Swedish forest. A special police group is set up to find out the murderers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 480 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Stockholm Requiem (2018)
Plot Summary:
A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Murder in Sweden (2008)
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
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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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Trace (2007)
Plot Summary:
A new governmental body is created to solve X-file and high-crime cases. Federal Expert Service brings together specialists in various areas: software development, ballistics, forensic, and investigators. FES is doing the whole range of expertise and research, and it investigates the most complex and intricate crimes. Launched as an experiment, FES trains young professionals and assists other special organizations, like FSB and MVDs branches, in solving crimes. Any investigator or detective, people from the Prosecutor's Office and a police officer can ask FES for help. A futuristic office was created especially for shooting: a laboratory, a meeting room, a morgue, an interrogation room, and so on.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
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The Fourth Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1975, and the West German embassy in Stockholm is occupied by German terrorists. It's an attack not only on the embassy, but on Sweden's long-standing pride as a peaceful nation. In the aftermath of the violent occupation, the Swedish Security Police suspects the six terrorists had help from the outside, possibly from a group of Swedish sympathizers. But no leads can be found until fourteen years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, political, detective
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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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Trom (2022)
Plot Summary:
The six-part series follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis' daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to the Faroes to investigate, Hannis discovers Sonja's body in the bloody waters of a whale hunt. His search for answers soon brings him into conflict with the local detective chief inspector, Karla Mohr (Maria Rich; `Follow the Money') as he uncovers a web of secrets in the close-knit community - but how far is he willing to go to learn the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Snow Angels (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, clever
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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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The Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 306 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense, detective, crime thriller
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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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Wallander (2008)
Plot Summary:
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, detective, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic, atmospheric, noir
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Shetland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, crime drama, serious, stylized, detective, suspense, realistic, noir, suspenseful
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Black Spot (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper into secrets of the area.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, scenic, dark, suspense, detective, spooky, mysterious, crime drama, crime thriller, bleak
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Marcella (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son, Marcella throws herself into work to stop herself from falling apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, enigmatic, captivating, neo noir, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, noir
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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
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Marnow Murders (2021)
Plot Summary:
The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims randomly. But nothing is as it seems. The detectives have apparently made some powerful enemies that will do everything in their power to keep the truth from coming to light. The further along with their investigation Frank Elling, a devoted husband and father, and the aloof Lona Mendt get, the bigger the obstacles become.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Break (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: dark, detective, tense, captivating, suspense, noir, crime thriller, hardboiled detective, interesting, detective series
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Motive (2013)
Plot Summary:
A cat-and-mouse series with a twist on the everyday whodunit, "Motive" centers on Angie Flynn, a detective on a backwards chase for clues to a killer that has already been revealed to viewers. The series, filmed in Vancouver, is an unconventional way to watch a crime unfold. Each episode begins by revealing to the audience, not only the victim, but the killer as well. The homicide detective then begins to piece together clues. How did they do it? How are the victim and killer connected? What's the motive? As the mystery unfolds, the audience navigates the twisted and complicated maze of each murder and solves the puzzle alongside Det. Flynn and her team.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, thrilling
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The Man Who Smiled (2003)
Plot Summary:
An old friend of Kurt Wallander, solicitor Sten Torstensson, visits him one day to tell him that his father has passed away close to Brösarp under peculiar circumstances. Kurt does not take his friend's worry seriously. Shortly after, the friend is found brutally murdered and Wallander realises too late that he was wrong. In the hunt for the killer Wallander finds a conspiracy of crimes that leads him to a company that handles transplantations of human organs. Behind the company he finds the image of a man. An elegant and self-confident man who writes his own rules. But who is he? Who gives himself the right to judge over other people? Whose morals decide what is right and wrong? Kurt Wallander is not one of them. In "The man who smiled" he gets himself into crossfire of immorality, betrayal, lies and everything else a man will do to be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Dublin Murders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, crime drama, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Modus (2015)
Plot Summary:
During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of “Rikskrim,” a Swedish national police force.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, noir, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, psychological
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Partners for Justice (2018)
Plot Summary:
Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He has a bad personality, but he is excellent with his work. Baek Beom does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor with a warm heart. She has a bright personality and she comes from wealth family background. The forensic doctor and prosecutor work together to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, detective
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The Killing (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychological, gloomy, tense, detective, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, captivating, atmospheric, noir
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Trapped (2015)
Plot Summary:
As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The local police chief, Andri Olafssun, whose personal life is in shatters, realizes a killer has descended into his town. As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferry’s passengers and the town’s residents realize they are all possible suspects and that a killer is trapped among them.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, detective, crime drama, scenic, enigmatic, bleak, noir, dark, crime thriller, neo noir
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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
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The Chestnut Man (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found brutally murdered in a Copenhagen playground. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Adapted from the acclaimed novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, brutal, tense, captivating, psychological, detective, twisted, suspense, disturbing, serious