Swedish movies and TV shows – page 5

List of swedish movies

The Fjällbacka Murders: The Sea Gives, the Sea Takes (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Erica finds Fjällbacka's photographer Stigge murdered in his studio, she can't help but take interest in the investigation regarding his death. Patrik and his colleagues at the Fjällbacka police soon starts to question whether or ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: writers, murder, photographer, blackmail, small town, police, investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, who done it, perseverance, puzzle ...
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 7.0
 2K
The Lawyer (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by ...
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, psychological, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, mafia, nordic, organized crime, murder investigation, brother sister relationship, vengeance, evidence, murder mystery, chase, investigation, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, denmark, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, murder, investigation, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, reporter, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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Crimes of Passion: Dangerous Dreams (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Puck’s new boss turns out to be a control freak, who isolates everyone from the outside world. After a strange death, Puck calls on detective Wijk.
Style: suspense, captivating, period piece, detective, contemplative
Plot: father son relationship, police detective, murder investigation, revenge, writers, nobel prize winner, family relations, swedish, manor, despot, stenographer, poisoning ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
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Johan Falk: The End (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's ...
Style: suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: police, criminal underworld, mafia, organized crime, murder, police officer killed, torture, police procedural, nordic, gangster, gunfight, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Agent Hamilton (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, secret service, rogue agent, black ops, double agent, disguise, government agent, secret agent, terrorist, investigation, conspiracy ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Mama Moo and the Crow (2009)
Genre: Animation
Country: Sweden, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Mamma Moo is a typical cow, besides that she wants to do so many uncowly things. Her idea of fun is biking and dancing, and when she meets Crow her happiness is complete - the fun is so much bigger when you have a friend. There's a catch; Crow ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light hearted, colorful ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: friendship, animal, anthropomorphic animal, children, curiosity, talking animal, friends, pets, human animal relationship, animal protagonist, anthropomorphism, cow ...
Time: 2000s
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 5.3
 2K
G (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also get a bit of experience of the world: Robban becomes a ...
Style: colorful, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, gay, swedish, teen social issues, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, going straight, youth, love and romance, redemption, desire for fame, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Sune's Summer (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up ...
Style: not serious, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: boy, childhood sweetheart, car, european, summer, family holiday, camping trip, family relations, daydreamer, swedish, silly humor, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, switzerland
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Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. ...
Plot: cruise ship, lie, presumed dead, fake identity, suicide attempt, stolen identity, psychologist, neighbor, identity theft, identity crisis, christmas eve, outdoor sex ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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 5.6
 2K
The Boneyard (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Style: detective, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: zombie, holiday horror, poodle, creature feature, creature, epidemic, giant monster, apocalypse, villain, monster, living dead, evil child ...
Time: 80s, 90s
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 7.2
 45K
The Wife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style: thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, novela, intellectual ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, novelist, twists and turns, father son relationship, family relations, revelation, adulterous husband, professor, love affair ...
Time: 1950s, year 1992, 60s, 90s, 2010s ...
Place: stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style: tense, sexy, detective, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, rape, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, strong female lead, sexual abuse, age difference, violence against women, goth, femme fatale, strong female character ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1949, year 1958 ...
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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 7.5
 33K
El Dorado (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Style: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, sheriff, redemption, wild west, alcoholic, friendship, shootout, lone hero, vengeance, cowboy, showdown, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1966, year 1967, 60s
Place: texas, usa, sonora, mexico, california
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 5.6
 3K
Hidden (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Style: psychological, scary, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot: house, dead mother, life is a bitch, homecoming, mental illness, haunted by the past, death in the family, parents and children, family relations, family problems, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.6
 5K
Fatso (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Overweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: porn, scandinavian girl, family relations, friends, lifestyle, farce, male virgin, friendship between men, sexual fantasy, strip club, female nudity, marijuana ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Gone with the Woman (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, introspection, love and romance, dominant woman, friendship between men, father daughter relationship, love, swimming, swimmer, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, paris france
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 6.6
 157K
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Style: sexy, bloody, dark comedy, cult classic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: hitman, assassin, gunfight, sniper, gangster, violent, group of criminals, mafia, torture, mob hit, multiple storylines, disguise ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, nevada, los angeles, las vegas, israel
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 6.4
 11K
Next Door (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, rough, twisted, horrifying ...
Plot: sexual relations, murder, time machine, obsession, seduction, surrealism, dishonesty, mentally unstable, couples, breakup, sexualized violence, nordic ...
Time: distant future
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 8.2
 21K
The Kingdom (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The first part of a Danish miniseries that has been edited into two massive films, "Riget" is set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget". The ...
Style: creepy, medical horror, surreal, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, nightmare, dark humor, surrealism, nordic, satanic cult, pregnancy, medical, supernatural, ghost, swamp ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark, iran, copenhagen
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Screwed in Tallinn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called "highly-experienced driver".
Style: dark comedy, road movie, absurd, offbeat, mockumentary ...
Plot: loneliness, social satire, dating, socially awkward, satire, bus trip, matchmaking, bittersweet, realism, male camaraderie, sexual frustration, character study ...
Time: 90s
Place: estonia, eastern europe
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
Style: spy action, action comedy, saga, spoof, spy comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: agent, spy, secret government organization, espionage, mission, tough guy, technology, female agent, one against many, chase, memory loss, secret service ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: london, europe, kentucky, italy, cambodia ...
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 8.1
 4K
Edvard Munch (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style: expressionism, art film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, possessiveness, child, women's rights, passion ...
Time: year 1974, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place: germany, paris france, berlin germany, copenhagen, oslo norway
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Emil in Lonneberga (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his ...
Audience: kids
Plot: skinny dipping, blond boy, swimming, nudity, boy, young love, nordic, bad luck, childhood, parent child relationship, family relations, snow ...
Place: eastern europe
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Like It Never Was Before (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, touching, witty ...
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, lgbt, glbt, civil engineer, gay father, skinny dipping, hotel, vacation, family relations, suburbs, beach ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: switzerland, eastern europe
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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story: It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style: disturbing, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, fascism, deportation, concentration camp, hopes, nazi occupation, wartime life, political unrest ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, budapest, italy, spain
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 5.9
 1K
The Rooster (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: world war two, factory, female friendship, hotel room, love and romance, workplace, life is a bitch, womanizer, social relations, disorder, small town life, workplace situations ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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 6.3
 49K
Kill List (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, art house, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, hitman, contract killer, ritual sacrifice, violent, husband murders wife, child killed, masked killer, brutality, infection, gory, murder ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, britain, yorkshire, england, seattle
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 6.9
 11K
Slim Susie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: disappearance, confession, small town, dishonesty, gang, love and romance, dark humor, family relations, missing person, nordic, brother sister relationship, road trip ...
Time: 2000s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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 7.0
 2K
Intergirl (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style: realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot: prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
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