Swedish murder movies

List of the best Swedish films about murder according to the audience: False Trail, Insane, Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna, Exit, Man on the Roof, The Invisible, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Intrigo: Samaria, The Horror Vault 3, The Killer Inside Me.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySweden
Duration02:09

The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten. Torsten does not support Erik very much in his job and has, for some personal reasons, already arrested a suspected perpetrator. Eric takes great risks when he starts digging in the criminal material of the horrible murder case.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror
CountrySweden
Duration01:27

A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountrySweden, Germany

It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows rapidly to involve several gangs from Gothenburg underworld. GSI switched to try to identify a new thread which proves to be both larger and better armed than any other. The only clue is a tattoo on one of the killed gang members.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountrySweden
Duration01:40

There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is answered by someone who he thought had committed suicide years ago.

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: 6.4
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountrySweden

A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration02:27

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, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany, Sweden, United Kingdom

Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror
CountryUSA, Sweden, Denmark

Five new stories of grueling horror: A Christmas Haunting, Zombie Office, Undone, Unchangeable and The Psychomanteum - ghosts, zombies and bloody revenge.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, USA
Duration01:49

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

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: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, France
Duration02:07

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 history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.

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
    Genredrama, family, short, military
    CountryTunisia, Canada, Qatar, Sweden

    Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountrySweden
    Duration00:30

    An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryDenmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Iceland, Sweden

    The Shamer's Daughter, Dina, with the magical power of compelling people to admit their most secret shame, must save her family with her newly found father. But he is a Blackmaster, with the power to make people see and believe things that aren't true, so Dina must deal with having inherited this horrible power, while forging a relationship with a father she fears and mistrusts.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden
    Duration01:52

    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 an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountrySweden, Finland

    While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountrySweden

    A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of 'bottom-of-the-barrel' Swedish movies.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
    Duration02:43

    Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryDenmark, Netherlands, Sweden

    Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, France
    Duration04:41

    Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden, Belgium

    The captivating story of Sweden's greatest judicial scandal ever, about one man who sacrificed everything in his hunt for the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, USA, Hungary
    Duration02:16

    A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, USA

    This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden
    Duration02:01

    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 daughter before the murderer does.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryDenmark, Sweden

    Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountrySweden, Denmark, Finland
    Duration02:20

    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: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland, Sweden

    Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, whose presence on social media has made her a celebrity. Although she has hundreds of thousands of followers, is surrounded by loyal employees and admired by acquaintances, she is looking for true intimacy.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration02:04

    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: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Germany
    Duration01:00

    Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Sri Lanka

    After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySweden, Denmark

    Erika is mentally bruised and starts group therapy with people seeking absolute anonymity.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFinland, Sweden

    Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySweden

    In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountrySweden, Denmark
    Duration01:58

    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: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden

    When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.

    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: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryNorway, Sweden, Germany

    Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families...

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountrySweden, France
    Duration01:58

    In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:25

    When Sebastian meets Andreas for the first time, he knows they belong together. While Sebastian defies gender norms — flouting convention in his androgynous fluidity — straight-identifying Andreas becomes unable to accept his attraction to another man, as their relationship progresses. Struggling with his identity, Sebastian becomes increasingly determined to become “Ellie,” even if it means walking away from Andreas. Something Must Break brims with raw electricity as it explores questions of gender and sexuality with refreshing candor.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:33

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySweden

    Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity. Sara, a student, is writting an essay based on the legend and uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows on the family name of one of the school's main benificiaries. On the night of the hundreth anniversary, the festivities go awry, students disappear and something dark and unknown is moving through the schools corridors...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, sport
    CountrySweden, Denmark

    A film about Rikard, age 30. He is autistic and severely disfigured. He lives in a home for disabled people. He was separated from his mother as a three-year-old, and this continues to torment him today. To deal with life's trials, Rikard escapes into a fantasy world in which he's a 50-meter-tall giant.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:42

    When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountrySweden

    On a foggy day, Julia's six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think…

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France
    Duration01:35

    In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police Detective Noredin is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the power elite, close to the President’s inner circle.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredocumentary, cartoon, history
    CountryDenmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium

    Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountrySweden

    The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa Linderborg's best-selling novel.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryPoland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, France
    Duration01:45

    A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.




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