The Nordic countries export a very particular kind of crime story: grey light, tired detectives, a body somewhere cold. It became a genre because the good ones are very good. These are those.
This Danish miniseries takes place in a hospital in Copenhagen where the staff and patients encounter strange and supernatural events. It follows an eccentric group of characters, including dishwashers who comment on the odd occurrences. The show uses a muted sepia color scheme and mixes absurd situations with horror and dark humor.
A woman on the run seeks shelter in a remote mountain town. The townspeople agree to hide her in exchange for her labor, but the arrangement slowly turns exploitative.
A teenage girl in a poor post-Soviet town is abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself. She falls into a trap of exploitation and human trafficking.
This film follows the life of a donkey named Balthazar as he passes from one owner to another. Most people treat him poorly.
A journalist and a young hacker team up to investigate a decades-old disappearance of a woman from a wealthy family. They uncover a dark history of violence and secrets.
A neo-Nazi is sent to a remote church as punishment where a priest forces him to bake a cake from an apple tree. The priest's relentless optimism clashes with the man's violent worldview.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must stop a nuclear attack planned by a terrorist and a mysterious extremist. The mission takes them across multiple countries as they try to prevent a catastrophe.
A journalist investigates a decades-old disappearance of a young woman from a wealthy family. He teams up with a skilled but troubled computer hacker to uncover dark secrets.
A bank robber gets in over his head and his brother tries to help him out. The plot involves a series of chaotic and bloody events.
In post-World War II Germany, a young American man takes a job as a sleeping car conductor on a train called Europa. He becomes entangled with a German woman and the lingering horrors of the Nazi past.
A Copenhagen police officer named Asger Holm answers emergency calls while waiting for his own court hearing. He receives a call from a kidnapped woman and tries to save her using only his phone and radio.
A military man returns home after his wife dies in a train accident. He teams up with a group of misfits to investigate if it was really an accident.
A female journalist investigates a serial killer who targets prostitutes in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The killer believes he is cleansing the city of sin.
A therapist has a session with a new patient. The meeting takes a disturbing turn.
A successful corporate recruiter in Norway lives as a secret art thief to afford his expensive lifestyle. He targets a valuable painting owned by a new job candidate, which sets off a dangerous chain of events.
A ghostlike narrator drifts through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. In each room he encounters people from different moments in the city's 300 year history.
A quiet woman in Reykjavik secretly fights the aluminum industry by sabotaging power lines. As she attacks the system, she also prepares to adopt a child from Ukraine. The story balances her environmental activism with the chaos it brings to her personal life.
A Danish crime lord named Milo struggles to keep his drug business running while dealing with a major deal and personal problems. His life gets more complicated as he faces threats from all sides.
A music-loving police officer tries to stop a group of drummers who stage surprise concerts by making noise with everyday objects in public buildings.
A jeweler and gambling addict named Howard Ratner owes money to dangerous people. He bets everything on an expensive opal and a high-stakes basketball bet to get out of debt.
A small-time gangster in Copenhagen tries to balance his criminal life with his responsibility as a new father. He struggles to please his boss and stay out of trouble while facing mounting pressure from his past.
A cold case detective in Copenhagen investigates a decades old mystery involving forced sterilizations and disappearances. The case leads him and his assistant into a web of institutional corruption and personal vengeance.
In the late 1800s American West, a mute woman lives with her family on a remote farm. A sadistic preacher arrives who claims to know her dark past, and she must fight to protect her home and her life.
An American couple travels to rural Sweden for a midsummer festival that turns increasingly disturbing. The young woman's grief over a family tragedy strains their relationship as the cult's rituals escalate.
A doctor works in a refugee camp in Africa while raising his sons in small-town Denmark. His family and others in the community deal with bullying, grief, and the desire for revenge.
Four small-time criminals in Copenhagen steal a fortune from their boss and flee to a remote country house. They try to start a new life but their past keeps catching up with them.
The film follows a fictional young woman named Kaja during the 2011 Utøya summer camp massacre. It shows the attack from the perspective of the victims, using a single continuous take in real time.
A serial killer named Jack recounts his murders over 12 years to the poet Virgil. He tries to justify his crimes through a series of flashbacks.
A film depicting the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway, with a focus on the bombing of government buildings and the shooting at a youth camp. It then follows the legal process and recovery of survivors in the aftermath.
A woman recovers in a hospital after being shot, while a journalist works to prove she was set up by a secret government plot. The story follows their fight to expose hidden corruption and clear her name.
A detective in Copenhagen is assigned to a cold case unit in the basement. He investigates a woman's disappearance from a ferry five years earlier. The story follows his efforts to uncover what really happened.
A police detective travels to a small town in northern Norway to investigate a murder. He accidentally kills his partner during the investigation and tries to hide his mistake while the midnight sun keeps him from sleeping.
A Danish drug dealer named Frank has a drug deal go wrong and loses a lot of money. Now he has only a few days to find the cash he owes.
A cold case detective in Copenhagen reopens a murder investigation from the 1990s. He uncovers a web of secrets involving a group of wealthy boarding school students.
Lisbeth Salander returns to Sweden from a year abroad. She becomes a murder suspect after a journalist and his girlfriend are killed along with her own guardian. Mikael Blomkvist races to find her before the police do.
A cold case team in Denmark finds a message in a bottle that leads them to a string of abductions. They race to stop a kidnapper before he kills again.
During World War Two, a civilian crew sails a supply ship through an Arctic convoy under constant threat from German submarines and aircraft. The film follows their struggle to survive the harsh conditions and relentless attacks.
A student takes a job as a night watchman at a forensic institute. He must walk past where the dead are kept while police investigate murders of women in the city. Strange things start happening during his rounds.
A respected snowplow driver in rural Norway seeks revenge after his son is murdered by a drug cartel. His actions set off a bloody chain reaction between rival criminal gangs.
A group of children living in a housing development discover they have psychic abilities. As they explore their powers, the darker impulses of some kids lead to frightening and violent consequences.