50 Amazing Swedish Movies of All Genres
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- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceEwa FrölingA journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreAs computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceLena EndreLisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsKåre HedebrantLina LeanderssonPer RagnarOskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
- DirectorPer HanefjordStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEva FritjofsonErica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsMalin CrépinBjörn KjellmanLeif AndréeReporter Annika is at the Nobel prize awards, when shooting kills a woman and wounds an Israeli stem cell scientist. Annika is silenced as witness, so she investigates the killed woman while the press writes about the Israeli.
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonStarsMalin CrépinBjörn KjellmanLeif AndréeA popular TV host is shot after a TV shoot after party at a castle. Ten are held as suspects. Reporter Annika Bengtzon covers it. Anne, her friend and colleague at the tabloid, is the last of 10 released. Annika tries to clear her name.
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonStarsMalin CrépinBjörn KjellmanLeif AndréeTabloid crime reporter Annika investigates a case where a dancer at a strip club is found dead in a park.
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonStarsMalin CrépinBjörn KjellmanLeif AndréeTabloid crime reporter Annika investigates a murder in Luleå. Is it related to an F21 jet fighter bombed 40 years ago? Annika has relationship problems.
- DirectorUlf KvenslerStarsMalin CrépinBjörn KjellmanLeif AndréeA policeman is found dead in his bed. His son Alexander is missing. The police and Annika Bengtzon a crime reporter try to solve the murder and find the missing child simultaneously.
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdArn, 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.
- DirectorLisa James LarssonStarsMartin WallströmMylaine HedreulSissela KyleFor 25-year-old Sebastian it is all about surface and appearance. Life is full of party, money and one-night stands. He has never challenged himself, whether it be his dream of a music career or maybe, especially true love. When everything is at its best in his superficial life he has an accident that leads to him becoming blind. A whole world closes, or rather opens up. When he sees everything in black, he meets Mia, a personal assistant. A girl he normally would not pay any attention to. She becomes the first to successfully open his eyes to what is important in life. But when Sebastian discovers that Mia is not who he expected superficiality gets an entirely different meaning. EGO is a romantic comedy drama about vanity, love, sex, and that things are not always as they seems.
- DirectorAnna OdellStarsAnna OdellAnders BergDavid NordströmA famous artist isn't invited to her class reunion. She makes a film about what could've happened if she had gone there and confronted her bullies, and later shows that film to her former classmates.
- DirectorRickard PetreliusStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEva FritjofsonEvents have parallels in 1931-2. The Lucia bride goes missing. The herring factory majority owner is found dead there. Writer Erica and her cop husband investigate while also preparing for Christmas.
- DirectorRichard HolmStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEva FritjofsonErica mentions in a TV interview, that her next book's about her friend, Peter, who vanished when they were 13. Shortly after, Peter's brother gets murdered. Erica and her cop husband investigate separately.
- DirectorRickard PetreliusStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEva FritjofsonOn the way to a romantic weekend, writer Erica and her cop husband stop in Kungshamn to investigate the possible murder of two French scuba divers, declared an accident by the coastguard. It may be related to an 1820 shipwreck.
- DirectorJörgen BergmarkStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEllen Stenman GöranssonAnna visits her writer sister Erica and her cop husband Patrik in Fjällbacka. Anna dates a TV host filming in town. A woman's found unconscious, OD'd on insulin. Then a man's murdered. Patrik and Erica investigate.
- DirectorMarcus OlssonStarsClaudia GalliRichard UlfsäterEva FritjofsonFjällbacka's photographer is found murdered in his studio by writer Erica, who starts investigating even before her cop husband. Only negatives are missing.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsHolger AnderssonNils WestblomViktor GyllenbergSam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
- DirectorBeata GårdelerStarsMalin CrépinJoel KinnamanMalin LevanonA romantic drama about a security officer who tries to hide her secrets from her lover, a cop.
- DirectorAnders NilssonStarsJakob EklundJoel KinnamanMikael TornvingPoliceman Johan Falk returns to Gothenburg and starts service at the successful special service GSI, but the relation between the unit and the criminals introduces him to a world he never thought existed.
- DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsAndreas WilsonHenrik LundströmGustaf SkarsgårdA teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
- DirectorDaniel EspinosaStarsJoel KinnamanMatias VarelaDragomir MrsicWhen JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
- DirectorKarin FahlénStarsMartin WallströmCecilia FrodeJonas KarlssonStockholm Stories is a contemporary and humorous multi plot drama about five people whose paths cross during a few rainy days in November. Young metropolitan writer Johan, obsessing over his theory on urban light and darkness. Preppy Douglas finds himself in love with the recently dumped and currently homeless Anna. Advertising professional Jessica is denied an adoption because she lacks friends. Workaholic Thomas is distracted from his position at the cabinet minister by a randomly sent love letter. How much light do we need to see each other? And how much darkness to dare to meet? You need to unplug to connect.
- DirectorAlexandra-Therese KeiningStarsRuth Vega FernandezLiv MjönesKrister HenrikssonA young woman engaged to be married finds herself in an affair with her soon-to-be stepmother's lesbian daughter.
- DirectorMani Maserrat-AgahStarsGustaf SkarsgårdAnna ÅströmRebecca FergusonThis is a story of IDA and KRISTER. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
- DirectorMikael MarcimainStarsSofia KaremyrSimon J. BergerJosefin AsplundA young girl is recruited from the bottom rung of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
- DirectorDaniel Lind LagerlöfStarsJonas KarlssonLivia MillhagenIngvar HirdwallSuburban priest falls in love with woman in wheelchair.
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmPernilla AugustReine BrynolfssonThe Victoria stadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for clues that will lead them to the perpetrator but without any luck. As the Olympic Games draws near the situation becomes more desperate. Annika Bengtzon, a reporter for Kvällsposten, sees a connection that no one else sees and without understanding it she starts a carousel that in the end will threaten her own life.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsLisa LindgrenMichael NyqvistEmma SamuelssonIn 1975, the dynamics of a Swedish commune begin to change upon the arrival of a beaten wife and her two kids.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorLisa LangsethStarsAlicia VikanderDavid DencikAnna BjelkerudErika has it all: a good job, lots of friends and a secure relationship. Until the day it all falls apart. Suddenly this perfect life means nothing, and the feelings she once was able to control are no longer within reach. She starts going to group therapy and meets other people suffering from various forms of trauma. One day Erika and this eclectic group of four people decide to take matters into their own hands and heads off together in search of a way out. They start checking into hotels - a place of complete anonymity where one can wake up as a different person.
- DirectorLisa LangsethStarsAlicia VikanderSamuel FrölerJosephine BauerWith her troubled past, Katarina's life seems to be already set in stone until she discovers music. But the path she has to follow proves a treacherous one filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam.
- DirectorTeresa FabikStarsRakel WärmländerDan EkborgJosephine BornebuschThis is a romantic comedy about love, friendship and the courage it takes to follow your dreams. It's based on the novel with the same title by Kajsa Ingemarsson. And it's centers around Agnes, how is a chef that loves cooking. She has a good job, a boyfriend who loves her and a best friend who is always there for her. One day she is both fired from the luxurious restaurant and dumped by her boyfriend. Therefore she has nothing left to loose when a friend asks Agnes if she would like to be part owner in and open up a new restaurant. At the same time she manages to fall in love with the one person who cannot know who she really is.
- DirectorJoel BergvallSimon SandquistStarsGustaf SkarsgårdTuva NovotnyLi BrådheAfter an attack leaves him in limbo, invisible to the living and also near death, a teenager discovers the only person who might be able to help him is his attacker.
- DirectorUlf MalmrosStarsTuva NovotnyJonas RimeikaBjörn A. LingA young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.
- DirectorLevan AkinStarsJosefin AsplundHelena EngströmMiranda FrydmanAn 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.
- DirectorKristian PetriStarsKristoffer JonerJonas KarlssonMagnus KrepperMona has just moved to a new town and a new job, when she witness a grisly murder. She's shocked but also fascinated, and when the police won't listen, she starts her own investigations.
- DirectorChristina OlofsonStarsTove EdfeldtJoel KinnamanAdnan ZorlakA 17-year-old girl named Hannah stumbles through a love triangle while also dealing with a mysterious stalker.
- DirectorAnders NilssonStarsJakob EklundPeter AnderssonMarie RichardsonJohan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsMira BarkhammarMira GrosinLiv LeMoyneThree girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
- DirectorLevan AkinStarsRoberto AriasAndreas FlodströmDitte SorbonIn the blink of an eye everything can change and life as you know it will never be the same again. Everybody keeps telling little Hugo how it is. But Hugo is certain that things are not as they seem. He knows that he can't move with his mother and baby sister and leave everything behind. Especially not his older brother and best friend Simon.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsEdda MagnasonSverrir GudnasonKjell BergqvistThe world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship.
- DirectorStaffan LindbergStarsIzabella ScorupcoDavid HelleniusSuzanne ReuterA physician who initiates a relationship with the carpenter renovating her apartment decides to go on a vacation with him, but their respective children and her parents get in the way.
- DirectorMåns MårlindBjörn SteinStarsEric EricsonEva RöseJonas KarlssonA shiftless loner finds that he suddenly has something worth living for, as he tries to protect the enigmatic love of his life from the men who want to do her harm.
- DirectorAndreas ÖhmanStarsBill SkarsgårdMartin WallströmCecilia ForssA younger brother with Aspergers syndrome helps his older brother find a girlfriend.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsJohannes KuhnkeLisa Loven KongsliClara WettergrenA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
- DirectorMårten KlingbergStarsJonas KarlssonBrendan CoyleAnja LundqvistBritish soccer champion arrives to Swedish sleepy town to save their soccer team.
- DirectorElla LemhagenStarsGustaf SkarsgårdTorkel PeterssonTom LjungmanA Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is an 18-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.
- DirectorAlain DarborgStarsSimon J. BergerAlexander KarimTorkel PeterssonCharles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.