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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
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Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
Original name: Varg Veum - Dødens drabanter
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective
Plot: investigation, murder, private detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, twists and turns, life is a bitch, danger, race against time, private investigator, youth, chases and races, who done it, kids in trouble, violent content, graphic violence, deadly, mystery, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: norway, norwegian

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Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?
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Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Life's gone pear-shaped for Jack Irish. He's back to takeaway Chinese for one after his girlfriend Linda abandoned him for a career in Sydney, a flashy Brisvegas type is muscling in on the racetrack action, and his cabinet-making still ...
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Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen
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Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
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Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge (2008)
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Story: An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked ...
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Varg Veum - Buried Dogs (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the ...
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Plot: political conspiracy, twists and turns, private detective, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, assassination attempt, woman in danger, state affairs, politics, lesbian, writers ...
Time: 21st century
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Varg Veum - Black Sheep (2011)
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, police officer, missing person, missing sister, who done it, investigation, evidence, partners against crime, suspicion, clue, testimony, murderer ...
Time: 21st century
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Varg Veum - Fallen Angels (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. ...
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Time: 21st century
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