Movies about Sweden

Movies about Sweden
List of the best films about Sweden, selected by visitors to our site: The Women on the Roof, Red Dot, Breaking Surface, Britt-Marie Was Here, Becoming Astrid, Pleasure, Frostbitten, A Beautiful Mind, Border, A Man Called Ove.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:29
CharactersPhotographers, Friends
PlotLove, Death, Love triangle, Art
PlaceSweden

An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountrySweden
CharactersSnipers, Family
PlotSurvival, Hiking trip, Family life, Snow, Cold
PlaceSweden
StyleTense, Serious, Disturbing

On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySweden, Norway, Belgium
CharactersLifeguards
PlotSurvival, Diving, Cold, Rivalry
PlaceSea, Ocean
TimeWinter
StyleExciting, Womens in main roles, Serious, Disturbing

Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:56
CharactersFamily, Trainers
PlotSoccer, Treason, Friendship, Divorce, Dreams
PlaceSmall cities
StyleLight, Soulful, By books

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been housewife for most of her life and and living in small backwater town of Borg, there isn't many jobs available and soon she finds herself fending a youth football team.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountrySweden, Denmark
Duration01:58
CharactersAliens, Strong women, Blonde girls, Writers
PlotOn real events, Dancing, Religious, Art, Snow
PlaceSpace, Trains, Hotels, Sweden
TimeFuture
StyleFor girls, Fascinating, Tense, Makes me think, Touching

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from society's norms and follow her heart.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountrySweden, Netherlands, France
PlaceSweden

20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, comedy
CountrySweden, Russia
Duration01:38
CharactersVampire, Teens, Bikers
PlotEnd of the world, Supernatural, Viruses, Chase, Snow
PlaceParty, Hospitals, Ukraine, Sweden, Small cities
TimeWorld War II
StyleBlack humor, Gothic, Disturbing

Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten, Sweden.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:15
CharactersSpy, Geniuses, Mathematicians, Scientists, Terminally ill
PlotLove, On real events, Puzzles, Obsession, Mental disorders
PlaceUSA
StyleInteresting, Psychological problems, Mind-altering, Twisted plot, Inspirational

At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today..

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Denmark
Duration01:45
CharactersTroll, Deer
PlotSupernatural
PlaceForest, Cemetery, Sweden
StylePsychological problems, By books, Philosophical, Heavy, Depressive

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.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration02:04
CharactersDogs, Gay, Teachers, Students, Neighbors
PlotLove, Dancing, Money, Investigation, Friendship
PlaceKitchen, Hotels, Sweden
StyleKind, Black humor, Touching

Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountrySweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration02:20
CharactersTrainers
PlotOn real events, Tennis, Competitions, Confrontation, Rivalry
PlaceNight Clubs, Sweden
StyleExciting, Action, Fascinating, Serious

The story of the world's greatest tennis icons – Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe – and their legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration02:27
CharactersManiacs, Hackers, Nephews
PlotInvestigation, Love with age difference, Mystery, Fear
PlaceSweden
StyleAction

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 industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:43
CharactersDogs, Family, Friends, Birds, Parents
PlotLove, Dancing, The escape, Seduction
PlaceParty, Kitchen, Sweden
Time19th century
StyleRomantic, Psychological problems, Soulful, Serious

A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:00
CharactersBusinessmen
PlotAbduction, Revenge, Loneliness, Mystery
PlaceKorea
StyleUnexpected ending, Psychological problems, By comics, Atmospheric, Heavy

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, France, Norway, Denmark
Duration02:00
CharactersDogs, Strong women, Family, Psychologists, Photographers
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Depression, Vacation, Birthday
PlaceMountains, Party, Hotels
TimeWinter
StylePsychological problems, Action, Soulful, Fascinating

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySweden, Georgia, France
CharactersGay
PlotLove, Dancing, First love, Birthday, Rivalry

Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In this conservative setting Merab finds himself having to break free and risk it all.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryNorway, Sweden
Duration02:24
CharactersFamily
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Tsunami, Flooding, Fate
PlaceMountains, Hotels, Small cities
StyleAction, Twisted plot, Tense, For men, Disturbing

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 caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountrySweden
Duration01:54
CharactersLosers, Old man
PlotAdventure, Chase
PlaceSweden
StyleLight, To cry, By books, Fascinating, Fancy

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
CountrySweden, France
Duration01:42
CharactersDrummers, Friends
PlotMusic, Uprising, Music group
PlaceSweden
StyleExciting, Smart, Fancy, Black humor

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountrySweden
PlotLove, Music, Rivalry
PlaceVillage, Sweden
StyleSoulful, Touching, Serious

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:31
CharactersTeens, Actors
PlotLoneliness, First love, Dreams
PlaceSweden
StyleAtmospheric, Gloomy, Touching

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountrySweden
Duration01:37
CharactersMusicians, Fish
PlotArt
PlaceSweden
StyleAction, Fascinating, Gloomy, Serious

From the producer of Dosage V - Alpine Blocs comes a 35mm bouldering flick about bouldering on planet Earth: PURE. Pure is about 19 extraordinary climbers in six countries on three continents , with no ropes.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden
Duration01:29
CharactersJournalists, Reporters
PlotInvestigation, Intrigue

While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is the key witness and is bound by the police not to disclose anything she has seen. A terrorist group with connections to the Middle East quickly admits responsibility for the murder. International press is all over the story, as are the police.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryDenmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration02:10
CharactersKillers, Police
PlotAbduction, Investigation, Religious, Depression, Conspiracies
PlaceSchool
StyleExciting, Tense, Disturbing

An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has travelled across the ocean for a long time. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigators from Section Q receive it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration01:55
CharactersVampire, Teachers, Childrens, Immortals, Losers
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Supernatural, Snow, Fear
PlaceSchool, Sweden
StyleAtmospheric, Fascinating, Depressive, Gothic

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 Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
CountrySweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
Duration02:08
PlotWar, Adventure
PlaceSweden
TimeMiddle Ages
StyleExciting, Atmospheric

Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:37
CharactersGay, Friends
PlotLove, Passion, Friendship, Mystery
PlaceSweden
StyleAction, Fascinating, Serious

Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, melodrama
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:56
CharactersFamily, Lawyers, Sisters
PlotLove, Treason, Love with age difference, Passion, Relationship
TimeNew Year
StyleMakes me think

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountrySweden
PlotSupernatural, Curses, Ghosts
PlaceSweden
StyleAtmospheric, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

Sarah, her boyfriend and his five-year-old son Lucas move into a semi-detached house. But the other side is haunted by something evil, who wants Lucas at all costs. Inspired by real events.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryNorway
CharactersPolice
PlotChase
PlaceCourt, Sweden
StyleBlack humor

Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.





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