Movies and TV shows set in scandinavia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in scandinavia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with nordic, female nudity, nude, death, male nudity, nudity, female full frontal nudity, sex, murder and violence plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres shot in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as scandinavia: While We Live (2017), Headhunters (2011), Shelley (2016), The Rise of the Viking (2018), The Bridge (2011), Draug (2018), Margrete: Queen of the North (2021), In Your Arms (2015), Ragnarok (2020), The Hunt for a Killer (2020).
Best films
New films
| Huss (2021) | 6.7 | |
| Bloodride (2020) | 6.4 | |
| Snow Angels (2021) | 7.0 | |
| A Class Apart (2021) | 5.9 | |
| Thin Blue Line (2021) | 8.0 |
List of movies set in scandinavia
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, suspense, exciting, tense
Plot:
car accident, mother daughter relationship, death, hospital, father son relationship, funeral, female nudity, fisherman, estranged father, sex scene, fishing boat, multiple storylines ...
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
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111K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style:
clever, captivating, dark comedy, breathtaking, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, pre-teens
Plot:
twists and turns, art theft, art thief, surveillance, chase, mercenary, male nudity, infidelity, reputation, male star appears nude, thief, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2011, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, europe, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
Style:
disturbing, demonic, spooky, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, lake, nightmare, childlessness, blonde, self harm, dream, supernatural horror, housekeeper, dog, forest, baby ...
Place:
scandinavia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot:
pagan, medieval, viking, rape, child murder, heroes, vengeance, danger, rivalry, death, culture clash, friendship ...
Time:
middle ages, 8th century
Place:
scandinavia, netherlands, europe
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, multiple suspects, murder, murder investigation, cop, police detective, twists and turns, partners against crime, mind game, riddles and clues, heroine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, History, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern parts of Sweden. Among the rescue party chosen to find him is Nanna, a young woman on her first real mission and her first return to the part of the ...
Style:
suspense, contemplative, bleak, scary, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
curse, cave, viking, folk horror, forest, pagan, witchcraft, undead, wilderness, reanimated corpse, medieval, vampire slayer ...
Time:
11th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.
Style:
political, epic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, royal court, royalty, palace intrigue, nobleman, female pubic hair, nordic, scandinavian culture, usurper, engagement ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, medieval times
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, denmark, prussia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Maria (Lisa Carlehed) meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish - to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get ...
Style:
sensitive, romantic drama, heartfelt, road movie, reflective ...
Plot:
life & death, mortality, terminal illness, ethical dilemma, moving, compassion, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, desperation, journey, friendship ...
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
Is relevant?
54K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
norse mythology, supernatural power, teenage protagonist, uncover truth, end of the world, good versus evil, gay, climate change, forces of nature, catastrophe, salvation, superhero ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. The six-part series explores the murder of 10-year-old Helen Nilsson in Hörby, southern Sweden, a seemingly impossible case that remained unsolved ...
Style:
detective, contemplative, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
true crime, child murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, sex crime, murder, police procedural, rapist, interrogation, serial killer, unsolved crime, crime investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This film is set in 1943 when the whole of Europe was embroiled in WWII. It deals with attraction of a 15 year old boy Stig to his teacher Viola. The whole movie revolves around the sexual encounters between Stig and Viola and how he eventually ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, older woman younger man sex, forbidden love, erotica, cheating wife, love affair, female teacher, older woman teenage boy relationship, teachers and students, defloration, sex with teenager ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's 1975, and Martin is a teenager looking to break out of a stifling home environment ruled by his alcoholic father and long-suffering mother. When Martin's pal Micke suggests they get jobs together as waiters at a resort off the Swedish ...
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, sentimental, tense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, unlikely criminals, teenage life, teenage love, satire, workplace, dishonesty, boss and employee, youth, drug dealing, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone - until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s 'Requiem' at the Gothenburg Concert ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
older man younger woman sex, self discovery, love affair, couples, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, fall in love, betrayal, solace, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, touching, art house, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeur, blindness, fetish, losing-it hero, loneliness, imagination, blind woman, fetish sex, female nudity, reality vs fantasy, loss of eyesight, strong sexual content ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family in crisis, prostitute, estrangement, single parent, relationship vs career, family problems, haunted by the past, writer's life, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, iceland
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, gloomy, detective, stylized ...
Plot:
missing child, folk horror, small town, uncover truth, police investigation, family problems, nordic, haunted by the past, riddles and clues, forest, female protagonist, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The youngsters puppy love is set against a backdrop of adults that struggle with their own lives. Her fathers feeling of misery and failure at work, her aunts unhappiness as an unmarried woman without kids of her own. His father work at the ...
Style:
erotic, sentimental, powerful, aesthetic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, young love, coming of age, teenager, teenage boy, fight, male star appears nude, love, crazy love, first love, adolescence, love story ...
Time:
near future, year 1970
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, rough, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
investigation, rape, serial killer, hacker, sexual abuse, missing person, twists and turns, murder mystery, vengeance, murder investigation, journalist, strong female character ...
Time:
year 2011, 60s, 2010s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, london, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Dramatizes the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival ...
Style:
tense, costume drama, exciting, historical drama, heroic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
viking, medieval, norse mythology, battles, ancient, warrior, heroes, female nudity, revenge, war, legends and myths, fight ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 11th century
Place:
scandinavia, ukraine, lithuania, latvia, europe
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.
Style:
funny, stylized, atmospheric, captivating, epic ...
Plot:
norse mythology, barbarian, swords and armor, medieval, viking, battles, violence, myth, adventurer, ambition, escapades, danger ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 8th century
Place:
scandinavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, scientific research, winter, psychopath, characters in danger, society, strong female presence, peril, woman in danger, haunted by the past, clergy, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
Is relevant?
635K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, heroic, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
viking, battles, king, medieval, warrior, sword and shield, sword fight, legends and myths, myth, norse mythology, historical character, adventurer ...
Time:
middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 7th century, 9th century ...
Place:
scandinavia, chicago, ireland, europe, greenland ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, twisted, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, bird, university, teenage girl, faith, lesbian attraction, healing power, hysteria, disappearance, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, indiana, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Style:
philosophical, political, political drama
Plot:
communist, communism, marxism, political activist, outdoor sex, butt, working class, revolution, political activism, sex, erotica, scandinavian culture ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style:
bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prison life, punishment, sexual abuse, juvenile detention, island, prison, rebellion, child abuse, boarding school life, protest, isolation, survival ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, japan, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research ...
Style:
sentimental, witty, humorous, philosophical, breathtaking ...
Plot:
friendship, research, food, satire, human animal relationship, self discovery, cooking, twists and turns, dishonesty, human nature, friends, housewife ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 2003, post world war two ...
Place:
scandinavia, europe, finland, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway, Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the families teenage son, Aigin, observes the ...
Style:
period piece, suspenseful, cult horror, cult classic, serious ...
Plot:
medieval, lapland, survival, indigenous people, viking, winter, snow, coming of age, nature, heroes, sapmi, female nudity ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 11th century, 10th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that country despite the involved political intrigues of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
political intrigue, nationalism, adaptation, independence movement, aristocracy, power struggle, literary, scheming, patriotism, betrayal, loyalty, family drama ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light ...
Style:
contemplative, sensitive, melancholic, pastoral, period drama
Plot:
painting, creative process, art history, impressionism, biopic, female nudity, painter, artist, affair, sunlight, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, eastern europe
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