Best Swedish Crime Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Swedish Crime Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, tense, suspense, serious, realistic and psychological. Plot: murder, violence, nordic, female nudity, police, death, investigation, cigarette smoking, flashback and police officer. Genre: Crime, Drama and Thriller. Country: Sweden, Germany and Denmark.
Best Swedish Crime Movies
Best Swedish Crime Movies
TOP Movies: Dogville (2003), The Card Counter (2021), Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012), The Hypnotist (2012), Dancer in the Dark (2000), The Master Plan (2015), Border (2018), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), Holy Spider (2022), Holiday (2018), Johan Falk: Slutet (2015), The Ciambra (2017), Accused (2014), The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), The Absent One (2014), Tell It to the Bees (2018), Lilya 4-Ever (2002), The Hunters (1996), Drifters (2015), The Last Contract (1998).

List of Best Movies

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Crimes of Passion: No More Murders (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Puck and Einar decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in Einar's idyllic childhood town Skoga. Pucks father Johannes Ekstedt, professor in Egyptology, has a household cat called Thotmes III that joins the couple. They get to borrow ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, detective ...
Plot: whodunit, murder investigation, police detective, murder, vacation, blackmail, funeral, small town, flashback, lie, danger, society ...
Time: 1950s
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Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, period piece
Plot: murder investigation, multiple suspects, isolation, forest, island, murder, love, party, drinking, lie, drinking alcohol, survival ...
Time: 1950s
Place: eastern europe
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Crimes of Passion: Roses, Kisses and Death (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded by heavily fragrant roses in every color. There lives the beautiful Gabriella, who Christer loves, and an invitation to their engagement party is the reason for Puck and Einar to travel there. But ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, detective, period piece
Plot: whodunit, murder, murder investigation, missing person, police detective, last will and testament, swedish, country estate, ouija board, ouija, dating, clairvoyant ...
Time: 1950s
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 8.0
 158K
Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
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The Card Counter (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, poker, gambling, murder, vengeance, ex soldier, haunted by the past, partners in crime, confronting the past, poker player, secret past, criminal ...
Time: 2020s, year 2002, year 2003, 21st century
Place: iraq, cleveland ohio, atlantic city new jersey, las vegas
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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, detective, period piece
Plot: father son relationship, police detective, writers, nobel prize winner, revenge, murder investigation, family relations, swedish, stenographer, despot, poisoning, manor ...
Time: 1950s
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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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The Hypnotist (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: hypnosis, murder, hospital, hypnotist, boy, witnessing a crime, kidnapped boy, investigation, psychologist, law enforcement, moral dilemma, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, surreal, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: factory worker, life is a bitch, blindness, death sentence, immigrant, destiny, murder, tragedy, secret, hanging, tragic hero, dancing ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1964, 2000s
Place: nebraska, usa, washington d.c., washington state
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
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, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hacker, investigation, twists and turns, rape, journalist, sexual abuse, strong female lead, amateur detective, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1966, year 1964 ...
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe, australia
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Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Studio Sex (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, media, minister, female nudity, politics, violence, society, dishonesty, journalist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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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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 7.0
 34K
Border (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Style: art house, bleak, surreal, rough, neurotic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: customs officer, father daughter relationship, troll, border guard, sadistic psychopath, sexuality, norse mythology, baby, sex scene, forest, supernatural horror, child molestation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: central europe, scandinavia, finland, 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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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, talky, serious ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, journalist, conspiracy, corruption, hospital, policewoman, investigation, trial, lawyer, kickass women, rape ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
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, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
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 7.3
 25K
Holy Spider (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Style: action thriller, dramatic, tense, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, prostitute, journalist, murder of a prostitute, prostitution, muslim, religion, police, sex worker, investigation, serial murder, religious fundamentalism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, maghreb
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 5.7
 5K
Holiday (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Style: melancholic, captivating, serious, scenic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: beach, sexual assault, physical abuse, erection, murder, wealth, drug lord, male female relationship, forced sex, gangster, rape, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2019, 21st century
Place: turkey
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Johan Falk: Slutet (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: psychological, tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, mafia, criminal underworld, murder, torture, police officer killed, organized crime, police procedural, nordic, gangster, gunfight, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 6.9
 3K
The Ciambra (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style: neorealism, psychological, tense, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: gypsy, male female relationship, friendship, teenager, petty criminal, father son relationship, chase, betrayal, brother sister relationship, family relations, coming of age, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2017
Place: italy, southern italy, rome italy
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 7.0
 4K
Accused (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An assistant prosecutor zealously pursues a conviction in the case of a pediatric nurse accused of murdering her patients, but doubt arises when her evidence shows that the infants may have died of natural causes.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, captivating
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, legal, lawyer, nurse, hospital, accusation, prison, whistleblower, women, serial killer, trial ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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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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Crimes of Passion: King Lily of the Valley (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as Christer Wijk are invited to a wedding in Skoga. The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters a flower-shop in order to inspect her bridal bouquet of lily of the valley, but suddenly vanishes ...
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, detective
Plot: whodunit, multiple suspects, murder investigation, police detective, murder, small town, affair, wedding, escapades, danger, violence, swedish ...
Time: 1950s
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Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police investigation, missing person, police detective, cold case, false identity, police partner, unsolved crime, under the surface, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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 7.1
 26K
The Absent One (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues points in the direction of a group of young upper class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, noir ...
Plot: police investigation, partners against crime, cold case, murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, boarding school, father son relationship, conspiracy, bare breasts, nordic, twins ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
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Tell It to the Bees (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the ...
Style: sad, psychological, thought provoking, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, lgbtq, female nudity, intolerance, emotional abuse ...
Time: 50s, year 1952, 1950s
Place: scotland
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 7.8
 49K
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
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: bleak, depressing, sad, harsh, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: europe, denmark, russia, soviet union, eastern europe ...
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 7.0
 9K
The Hunters (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Style: action thriller, thrilling, neo noir, detective, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: poacher, rape, politics, european, nordic, macabre, manhunt, sex crime, murder mystery, whodunit, murder, hunter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 2K
Drifters (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Minna, a drug addict who makes a living dealing drugs, can't pay rent and after cheating some delinquents she runs with the money. She meets Katja and they move together to an illegal residence outside the city, where a group of people have ...
Style: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, unusual plot structure
Plot: homeless woman, drug addict, homeless shelter, friendship, drug deal, arrest, homeless, debt, drug dealer, caravan, jail, drug use ...
Time: 2010s
Place: eastern europe
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The Last Contract (1998)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Style: detective, action thriller, realistic, serious
Plot: assassination, hitman, spy, murder, investigation, nobody believes, dishonesty, politics, state affairs, head of state, law enforcement, violent content ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1985
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
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