Dystopia 2021

The Bridge (2011 - 2018)

8.6 /10

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.

Average Episode Run Time: 58` . Year(s): 2011 - 2018

Director: Lisa Siwe , Morten Arnfred , Charlotte Sieling

Producer: Bo Ehrhardt , Anders Landström

Stars: Sofia Helin , Thure Lindhardt , Mikael Birkkjær , Sarah Boberg , Rafael Pettersson , Julie Carlsen

Wallander (2005 - 2013)

7.8 /10

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 29` . Year(s): 2005 - 2013

Director: Stephan Apelgren , Jacob Hagenborn , Ronny Fritsche

Producer: Carl-Fredrik Lagnecranz , Jenny Gilbertsson , Niva Westlin Dahl

Stars: Krister Henriksson , Charlotta Jonsson , Signe Dahlkvist , Mats Bergman , Fredrik Gunnarsson , Douglas Johansson

The Sandhamn Murders (2010 - 2023)

0 /10

Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.

Average Episode Run Time: 44` . Year(s): 2010 - 2023

Director: Viveca Sten

Stars: Alexandra Rapaport , Nicolai Cleve Broch , Ping Mon H. Wallén , Pernilla Göst , Mattias Malmros , Yasmine Garbi

Before We Die (2017 - 2019)

6.4 /10

The police woman Hanna Svensson has a strained relationship to her son after having arrested him for drug dealing. Her married police man lover disappears, possibly kidnapped by MC gangs, although ties to Bosnia also appear.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . Year(s): 2017 - 2019

Director: Niklas Rockström , Wilhelm Behrman

Producer: Jon Petersson

Stars: Marie Richardson , Adam Pålsson , Magnus Krepper , Čedomir Đorđević , Richard Forsgren , Sandra Redlaff

The Hunters (1996 - 2021)

4.9 /10

Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 1996 - 2021

Director: Jens Jonsson , Johan Lundin , Kjell Sundvall

Stars: Rolf Lassgård , Pelle Heikkilä , Johannes Bah Kuhnke , Anna Azcárate , Sampo Sarkola , Pasi Haapala

Jordskott (2015 - 2017)

7.1 /10

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 Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.

Average Episode Run Time: 59` . Year(s): 2015 - 2017

Director: Jakob Ström , Henrik Björn

Producer: Filip Hammarström

Stars: Moa Gammel , Göran Ragnerstam , Ann Petrén , Hans Mosesson , Elina Du Rietz , Charlott Strandberg

The Truth Will Out (2018 - 2021)

0 /10

Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.

Average Episode Run Time: 43` . Year(s): 2018 - 2021

Director: Leif G.W. Persson

Producer: Catrin Wideryd , Leif G.W. Persson , Niclas Salomonsson

Stars: Robert Gustafsson , Louise Peterhoff , Johan Ulvesson , Ingela Olsson , Christopher Wagelin , Ia Langhammer

The Lawyer (2018 - 2020)

7.7 /10

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 a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2018 - 2020

Director: Pontus Klänge , Karin Martinson , David Berron

Stars: Alexander Karim , Malin Buska , Sara Hjort Ditlevsen , Susanne Storm , Thomas Bo Larsen , Nicolaj Kopernikus

Stockholm Requiem (2018)

6.6 /10

A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2018

Director: Karin Fahlén , Kristina Ohlsson

Producer: Peter Gustafsson

Stars: Liv Mjönes , Jonas Karlsson , Alexej Manvelov , Mikael Birkkjær , Jessica Liedberg , Magnus Roosmann

Millennium (2010)

8 /10

Based on Stieg Larsson's literary phenomenon and featuring and Award winning* breakthrough performance by Noomi Rapace, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist. A past full of secrets that a mysterious underground Government group would kill to keep hidden. The Millennium TV miniseries is a compilation of the three Swedish film adaptations, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest with extended scenes, adding more depth in both the stories and the characters. It was divided into 6 episodes total, with each episode of the series about 93 minutes long, making the television series about 119 minutes longer than the movies.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 33` . Year(s): 2010

Director: Stieg Larsson , Daniel Alfredson , Niels Arden Oplev

Producer: Søren Stærmose

Stars: Noomi Rapace , Michael Nyqvist , Lena Endre , Sofia Ledarp , Michalis Koutsogiannakis , Per Oscarsson

Anxious People (2021)

6.8 /10

A bank robber holds the visitors of an open house hostage and then promptly vanishes, leaving the police baffled — and suspicious of everyone.

Average Episode Run Time: 29` . Year(s): 2021

Director: Felix Herngren

Stars: Sascha Zacharias , Dan Ekborg , Alfred Svensson , Marika Lagercrantz , Carla Sehn , Sofia Ledarp

Black Lake (2016 - 2019)

6.1 /10

An unsettling chain of events are set into motion when a group of young friends an visit an abandoned ski resort in the far reaches of Sweden. The remote and neglected Black Lake has been closed for years when Johan invites his friends to stay there. He dreams of reopening the isolated hotel and restoring it to a luxury ski resort, but what begins as a fun research trip soon takes a sinister turn as the group is gripped by a series of unexplained and disturbing events. They soon uncover the real reason Black Lake was abandoned all those years before, and solving the mystery rapidly becomes a matter of life and death.

Average Episode Run Time: 30` . Year(s): 2016 - 2019

Director: Jonathan Sjöberg , David Berron , Ulf Kvensler