Nordic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant nordic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, stylized, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with nordic, storytelling, murder, female nudity, friendship, runaway, european, mentor, male nudity and death plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nordic: Lilya 4-Ever (2002), The Bridge (2011), King of Devil's Island (2010), Headhunters (2011), Open Hearts (2002), The Legacy (2014), Beck (1997), Viking Siege (2017), The Square (2017), Force Majeure (2014).
Best films
New films
| The Danish Woman (2025) | 7.8 | |
| Kraken (2026) | 5.9 | |
| Triangle of Sadness (2022) | 7.2 | |
| Storm (2022) | 5.8 | |
| Blackwater (2023) | 6.9 |
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style:
sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern 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: 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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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, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
hospital, dogme 95, relationships, love story, love triangle, sex scene, coitus, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, fall in love, paraplegic, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, nordic, inheritance, heir, bohemian life, family history, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, estate, half sister, family home ...
Time:
year 2014, 20th century, 60s
Place:
denmark
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7K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Beck follows the Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his partner Gunvald Larson investigating various crimes.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, anime, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, police, swedish, nordic, crime investigation, serial killer, law enforcement, police officer, swedish police, murder, police protagonist, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves. Their plan comes unstuck when a gang of marauding Vikings arrive with an army of vicious, tree-like ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
viking, nordic, medieval, pluto, sword and shield, swords and armor, epic battle, killing, revenge, warrior, heroes, death ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A satirical drama reflecting our times — about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Style:
surreal, satirical, thought provoking, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
modern art, social satire, art, sex scene, nordic, hypocrisy, museum, ape man, trust, performance art, art exhibition, painting ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style:
dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot:
nordic, avalanche, cowardice, ski resort, marital strife, passive aggressive behavior, nervous breakdown, family vacation, family holiday, tourism, mountain, vacation gone wrong ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
Place:
alps, scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Sweden, UK, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Style:
captivating, epic, exciting, scenic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
medieval, knight, crusader, monastery, crusade, knights templar, nordic, sword fight, cavalry, ancient, religion, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century
Place:
eastern europe, morocco, middle east, europe, jerusalem ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
detective, gloomy, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, cold case, homicide detective, police detective, policewoman, murderer, unsolved crime, intelligence agency, serial killer, police investigation, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe, copenhagen, scandinavia, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nordic, investigation, murder, school shooting, youth, court, runaway, vengeance, disorder, adaptation, society, friendship ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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223K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style:
dark comedy, sexy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, drinking, teacher, midlife crisis, group of friends, alcohol abuse, nordic, experiment, marriage, friendship between men, dancing, drunkenness ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2013, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, bleak, harsh, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bully, bullying, friendship, father son relationship, revenge, divorce, childhood, parenthood, youth, society, alienation, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, art house, brutal ...
Plot:
viking, danger, norse mythology, death, lone wolves, warrior, vengeance, mute, all male cast, violence, nordic, new world ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 10th century, year 2009, ancient times ...
Place:
jerusalem, highlands, scotland, europe, holy land
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In an older apartment in Copenhagen, some craftsmen make a scary discovery: behind a fake wall they find three mummified bodies sitting around a dining table with a free space ready. Carl Mørck and Assad from Department Q now have to find out who ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, rough, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
danger, investigation, murder, cold case, nordic, mockery, medical experiment, conspiracy, police officer, vengeance, teenager, control ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
denmark, spain, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, compassionate, meditative, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, boy, farm, poverty, immigrant, corporal punishment, working class, bullying, children, youth, nordic ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, 1870s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot:
priest, church, dark humor, religion, funeral, faith, belief, cynic, skinhead, neo nazism, neo nazi, prejudice ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark, saudi arabia, indonesia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
wedding, marriage, poverty, nordic, destiny, family bonds, wealth, family relations, family problems, family secret, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
nordic, police vigilantism, plot twist, police, telephone call, race against time, guilt, kidnapping, mission, police officer, revelation, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, future
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France, USA, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Style:
erotic, captivating, disturbing, underground film, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, sex worker, prostitute, prostitution, interracial sex, sexploitation, porn actress, sexualized violence, teenage prostitute, seductress, porn star, sexual content ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
TV show
Story:
A Paris teen who's half human, half vampire grapples with her emerging powers and family turmoil as she's pursued by a secret vampire community.
Style:
gothic, sincere, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Plot:
vampire, female vampire, nordic, ancient, vampire human love, young lovers, impossible love, power of love, half human, secret, teenage girl, teenager ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
Style:
surreal, funny, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nordic, investigation, viking, nudity, murder, murder mystery, investigator, true crime, murder investigation, mythical creature, legends and myths, crime investigation ...
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140K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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17K
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Style:
depressing, melancholic, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
depression, friendship, writers, self discovery, nervous breakdown, hopes, nordic, cathartic, suicide attempt, love triangle, rise and fall, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
paris france, scandinavia, hawaii, oslo norway
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's almost summer in Sweden and minor indiscretions and misbehavior abound. Leffe likes to show off for his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous grade-school teacher doesn't know ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, photograph, nordic, teenager, prank, unsupportive coworkers, workplace, mischievous children, teenage life, male female relationship, group of friends, bus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug lord, cocaine, nordic, sexual content, taxi driver, drug dealing, criminal heroes, one last job, betrayal, dishonesty, danger, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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
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