Swedish action movies

List of the best Swedish action movies selected by visitors to our site: Operation Ragnarok, Beyond the Border, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Headhunters, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Easy Money, Last Man Down, Kung Fury, Johan Falk: Spelets regler, Arn: The Knight Templar.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, action
CountrySweden

A town in south of Sweden is isolated after a viral outbreak. The Swedes and immigrants still inside must band together to survive the onslaught.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, drama, military
CountrySweden
Duration02:01

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 see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden
Duration01:55

In Stockholm, Sweden, hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by Frans Balder, a computer engineer, to retrieve a program that he believes it is too dangerous to exist.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration01:40

    An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Sweden

    The sequel to the assassin action-comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
    Duration02:04

    A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrefantastic, action
    CountrySweden, United Kingdom

    John Wood left the pieces of a broken civilisation behind, to go back to his roots in the woodland, after a virus pandemic struck the world.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, short, crime
    CountryUSA, Sweden
    Duration31:02

    During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySweden

    It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the big difference that this time it's personal for Frank.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountrySweden

    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.

    Markimdb: 2.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Spain, Sweden

    In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” (Messner) – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:49

    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 massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryNorway, Sweden
    Duration02:24

    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: 6.7
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountrySweden, Denmark

    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 police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryColombia, Denmark, Luxembourg, USA, Uruguay, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, France

    On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
    CountrySweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Morocco
    Duration02:08

    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: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Poland
    Duration01:56

    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, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
    Duration02:04

    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 trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, short
    CountryFinland, Norway, France, Sweden
    Duration01:19

    It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden
    Duration01:30

    Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:31

    Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountrySweden, USA

    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 connected to her dreams. Something is coming for them, something vile.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
    Duration02:32

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark, Sweden, Finland

      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 his wife ended up being a random casualty of.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Hungary
      Duration02:04

      Year 1206. Norway is ravaged by civil war. The King's illegitimate son is guarded in deep secret. A boy that half of the kingdom wants to kill and two men will protect to the death. A boy named Earl Håkonsson. Birkebeiners is the story of the escape that changed Norway's history forever.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
      Duration01:01

      After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryRussia, Sweden
      Duration01:47

      A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountrySweden

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryDenmark, Sweden, Germany

      14-year-old Lulu moves to a small provincial town with her mother and younger brother. One night, her brother is struck by a beam of white light - actually the spirit of Herman Hartmann from the 19th-century. To her despair, Lulu realizes that Herman has possessed her brother, and the two of them are whirled into a fevered adventure.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, western
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, South Africa, Sweden, Belgium
      Duration01:32

      In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryDenmark, France, USA, Sweden, Belgium
      Duration01:30

      Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountrySweden

      Stockholm policeman Martin Beck is called in to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. Beck and his partner, Einar Ronn, soon discover that the murdered policeman was well known to his colleagues for his excessive brutality, though his misdeeds were never reported to higher authorities. As they pursue their investigation, a sniper climbs to a roof in downtown Stockholm and starts firing at every uniformed officer he sees.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama
      CountrySweden

      Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryDenmark, Sweden
      Duration00:45

      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 several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountrySweden

      A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigation takes them in a dangerous direction that proves to have unforeseen consequences. The hunt for the robbers is intense and their methods become more refined and terrifying. Klara ends up in the line of fire, both literally and figuratively, and the investigation takes her in a direction that she could never have imagined.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountrySweden

      Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Sweden

      Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, detective
      CountrySweden

      Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever had. But in his desperate attempt in graduating he accidentally crashes on earth and discovers Pontus, an earthling who accidentally stumbled upon an intergalactic crystal which gave him inhuman strength. Now Kenny must save Pontus from Rutger Oversmart who wants the powers from the crystal for himself and Pontus must save Kennys faith from failing school and ending up as a hairdresser.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryDenmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
      Duration02:10

      During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountrySweden
      Duration01:32

      A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, military
      CountryFrance, Germany

      The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orders, to blow up the French capital. The descendent of a long line of Prussian military men, the general has never had any hesitation when it came to obeying orders. This is what’s on Swedish consul Raoul Nordling’s mind as he takes the secret staircase that leads to General von Choltitz’s suite at the Hôtel Meurice. The bridges on the Seine and the major monuments of Paris (including the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower) are mined with explosives, ready to be detonated. Armed with all the weapons of diplomacy, the consul will try to convince the general not to follow Hitler’s order of destruction.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryCanada, USA

      Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryNorway

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:40

      A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:39

      Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryWest Germany, USA

      The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

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

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.




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