Best Swedish Action Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Swedish Action Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating and serious. Plot: nordic, murder, danger, violence, shot in the head, police officer, revenge, profanity, mafia and shootout. Genre: Action, Thriller and Drama. Country: Sweden, USA and Germany.
Best Swedish Action Movies
Best Swedish Action Movies
TOP Movies: Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012), Filth (2013), Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013), Flickering Lights (2000), Headhunters (2011), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), In Order of Disappearance (2014), Last Man Down (2021), The Unthinkable (2018), Black Crab (2022), A Day and a Half (2023), Let the Right One In (2008), The Wave (2015), Kopps (2003), Rambo: Last Blood (2019), Animal Protector (1989), Riders of Justice (2020), Beyond the Border (2011), Horizon Line (2020).

List of Best Movies

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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, hostage, undercover, daring rescue, dishonesty, heroes, confined, working undercover, heroic mission, violent content, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, africa, eastern europe, beirut lebanon, dallas texas ...
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: When a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, they dispatch Kora, a young woman with a mysterious past, to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a ...
Style: psychotronic, epic fantasy, epic
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, violence, bare chested male, female warrior, distopia, planet, asian woman, heroine, murder, fight, space wars, space adventure ...
Time: future
Place: space western
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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, disorder, on the run, gangster, crime gone awry, master criminal, criminal's revenge, cons and scams, violence, mafia, nordic, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story: JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, murder, revenge, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, drug, mob boss, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
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Flickering Lights (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, surreal, philosophical, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gangster, friendship, heist, justice, criminal heroes, going straight, one last job, hopes, career change, partner, secret hideout, money ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: denmark, europe
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, rescue, danger, spy, law enforcement, heroes, assassination attempt, special agent, rivalry, agent, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
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: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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 6.7
 205K
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: spy, cold war, assassin, female killer, lgbt, female assassin, woman fights a man, female warrior, lesbian, rogue agent, female agent, female spy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1989, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, eastern europe, europe ...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials - both in Sweden and in the United States - whom are only known as The Spider Society.
Style: suspense, captivating, intense, realistic, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: programmer, computer hacker, hacker, journalist, computer cracker, father daughter relationship, terrorist, hitman, rogue agent, chess, spy, blackmail ...
Time: 2010s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, washington d.c.
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In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of ...
Style: psychological, dark comedy, noir, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, gangster, revenge, kidnapping, vigilantism, murder, snow, betrayal, justice, loss of son, kidnapped boy, winter ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 3.5
 14K
Last Man Down (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, a special forces soldier abandons his duty and becomes a hermit in the Nordic wilderness. Years later, a wounded woman appears on his doorstep. She's escaped from a lab ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: mercenary, commando, forest, pandemic, virus, epidemic, post apocalyptic, disaster, distopia, comic book, blood, military ...
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The Unthinkable (2018)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.
Plot: nordic, mission, love, political conflict, invasion, christmas, piano, memory lapse, rain, fictional war, helicopter crash, christmas present ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 5.7
 26K
Black Crab (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, soldier, winter, military, mission, civil war, dystopia, military officer, apocalypse, fate of humanity, cold weather ...
Time: 2020s
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A Day and a Half (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
Style: suspense thriller, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: road trip, hostage, daughter, kidnapping, relationship problems, female hostage, male female relationship, abduction, kidnapped girl, child kidnapping, child abduction, husband wife relationship ...
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Let the Right One In (2008)
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: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
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 6.7
 23K
Kopps (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the ...
Style: funny, suspenseful, slapstick, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: small town, friendship, hostage situation, nothing goes right, swat, law enforcement, workplace, save the day, workplace situations, dull life, small town sheriff, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When his housekeeper’s daughter is kidnapped, Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to bring her home but finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels.
Style: serious, tense, action adventure, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vigilante, violence, lone hero, final battle, vengeance, blood, human trafficking, one man army, prostitution, revenge, death, rambo ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: arizona, mexico, sonora, usa
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Animal Protector (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
Style: independent film
Plot: military base, boat, minefield, fight, animal, shooting, colonel, island, laboratory, bomb, beach, explosion
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Riders of Justice (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Markus, a deployed military man, has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which ...
Style: dark comedy, captivating, suspense, funny, enigmatic ...
Plot: revenge, father daughter relationship, vengeance, organized crime, murder, psychology, male prostitute, mathematics, investigation, police investigation, uncover truth, mafia ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: cairo egypt, afghanistan, copenhagen, denmark
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Beyond the Border (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story: December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: soldier, missing person, against the odds, confined, undercover, danger, battles, escapades, military, world war two, secret mission, great war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: eastern europe
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 4.8
 11K
Horizon Line (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, enigmatic ...
Plot: natural disaster, hurricane, airplane, plane crash, strong female character, save the day, male female relationship, trapped, air disaster, fear, heroes, weather ...
Time: 2020s
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Executive Protection (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: organized crime, gangster, threat, investigation, rescue, police detective, woman in danger, race against time, kidnapping, bodyguard, abduction, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, estonia, eastern europe
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, ...
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, captivating, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hitman, terrorism, buddies, mission, bodyguard, woman with a gun, female agent, nun, killer, agent, torture chamber, mob boss ...
Time: 2020s, future, 1950s, 50s
Place: russia, italy, europe, eastern europe, athens greece ...
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Zero Tolerance (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, chase, murder, nordic, shootout, swedish, european, police, revenge, witness, robbery, threat ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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King of Devil's Island (2010)
Genre: Action, 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: punishment, sexual abuse, prison life, island, juvenile detention, prison, rebellion, child abuse, protest, isolation, survival, coming of age ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Huntress: Rune of the Dead (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Runa’s father disappears on a viking journey she steps up as head of her family, but she is tormented by strange nightmares. One day when she is out hunting, she stumbles across a wounded warrior who carries news of her father, new that seem ...
Style: scary, tense, bleak, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: viking, forest, nightmare, treasure, archer, loneliness, missing father, hunting, sister sister relationship, family problems, trapped, fear ...
Time: medieval times, 9th century
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The Master Plan (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.
Style: exciting, suspense, humorous, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: gang of thieves, caper, revenge, partner, murder, vengeance, group of criminals, death, rivalry, plan gone wrong, robbery, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex ...
Style: suspense, sexy, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, journalism, hacker, secret service, conspiracy, dishonesty, strong female lead, lesbian, journalist, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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