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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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Bullets (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, political drama
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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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Quicksand (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maja, a student in Stockholm, finds herself on trial for murder after a tragedy at her school. More doubts and suspicions arise when new revelations are made.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, noir, entertaining, crime thriller
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Beck (1997)
Plot Summary:
Beck follows the Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his partner Gunvald Larson investigating various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, serious, realistic, noir, anime, suspenseful
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Springfloden (2016)
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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Bordertown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, noir, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, atmospheric, dark, crime drama, gloomy
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Blue Eyes (2014)
Plot Summary:
High adrenaline Swedish political thriller from the creative talent behind Humans – An extreme right-wing party is heading towards its best election result when the chief of staff at the Justice Department disappears without a trace. Racism, immigration and nationalism are explored in this series praised by New York Times.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, political, detective, crime drama
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Innocent (2018)
Plot Summary:
After seven years in a high security prison, David Collins' conviction for the murder of his wife, Tara, is overturned due to a technicality, or as his lawyer puts it, an appalling miscarriage of justice. Able to start his life again and begin to repair relationships with his family and friends, David hopes to finally be allowed to mourn his wife's death. As a new investigation is launched, headed by DI Cathy Hudson, dark secrets of abuse, affairs and money troubles rise to the surface. From jealous sisters to disgruntled lovers, these secrets rip fragile relationships apart at the seams. But one question remains: is David Collins truly innocent?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, suspense, realistic, detective
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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 Valhalla Murders (2019)
Plot Summary:
An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, crime thriller
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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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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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Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
Stubborn and determined detective Valeria Ferro endeavors to solve the challenging puzzle behind crimes motivated by jealousy, vendettas and repressed anger to seek the truth and justice. All as she struggles with her own demons and the phantoms of her past that come back to life when her mother is released from jail after serving a seventeen-year prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking
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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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Hidden (2018)
Plot Summary:
DI Cadi John and DC Owen Vaughan try to solve a case involving Mali Pryce, a young woman whose body was discovered in a stream in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, enigmatic, crime thriller, tense, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, crime drama
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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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The Investigation (2020)
Plot Summary:
Copenhagen Police's Homicide unit, headed by Jens Møller, tries to solve the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, intellectual, suspenseful, detective, contemplative
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Deadwind (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, dark, crime thriller, detective
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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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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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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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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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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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Undercover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, detective, thrilling, interesting
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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 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