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- CreatorMåns MårlindHans RosenfeldtBjörn SteinStarsSofia HelinRafael PetterssonSarah BobergWhen a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
- StarsLennart JähkelJacob NordensonTomas NorströmThree middle aged brothers are still living home in a Godforsaken rural skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden.
- StarsRolf LassgårdHelena Af SandebergJonas KarlssonA newly put-together police force tries to solve the old mystery of the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
- CreatorSøren SveistrupStarsSofie GråbølMorten SuurballeLars MikkelsenPolice detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.
- CreatorVegard Eriksen StenbergGjermund EriksenStarsJon ØigardenAnna Bache-WiigIngjerd EgebergA newspaper journalist revealing fraud in a large multinational company finds out that his family is involved, which ruins his career and family relations and entangles him with a mystery.
- CreatorMai BrostrømPeter ThorsboeStarsCecilie StenspilSøren VejbyAndré BabikianBodyguards in PET, 3 newly-trained in particular, are followed while doing their job protecting the PM, other ministers, and other political individuals threatened with attacks.
- StarsMalin Mases ArvidssonIrene LindhClaes LjungmarkA man is found dead, hung from a tree. Another body is found in Skansen's wolverine enclosure. Five girls attempt to flee from Sweden.
- StarsCharlotte FichMads MikkelsenLars BrygmannA mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases.
- CreatorOle BornedalStarsPilou AsbækSarah-Sofie BoussninaBent MejdingWhen Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
- CreatorMichael HjorthHans RosenfeldtStarsRolf LassgårdTomas LaustiolaMoa SilénIn two new Nordic Noir thrillers, Rolf Laasgaard, one of Scandinavia's most popular actors (Wallander, False Trail), assumes a powerful new role as Police profiler Sebastian Bergman.
- StarsLaura BachJakob CedergrenLars MikkelsenAbout the hunt for a type of violent criminal who has yet to strike in Denmark, and who is surrounded by fear and mystique - the serial killer.
- StarsErnst-Hugo JäregårdKirsten RolffesGhita NørbyDoctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
- StarsMelinda KinnamanHenrik NorlénEsmeralda StruweDuring a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik and her autistic daughter both get drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths.
- CreatorHenrik BjörnStarsMoa GammelGöran RagnerstamRichard ForsgrenA detective returns to her hometown seven years after her daughter's disappearance, trying to find a connection to a current case.
- CreatorBjørn Olaf JohannessenErlend LoePer SchreinerStarsBartek KaminskiOla G. FurusethTone Beate MostraumYoung polish academic Tomasz travels to Norway to find his unknown father. Once in Norway he meets a strange blend of Norwegian middle class and all their made up "problems". The series follows Tomasz on his search and the families of "Ullevaal Hageby"
- StarsAtle AntonsenTuva NovotnyAnders Baasmo'Dag' is a Norwegian comedy series about a marriage counselor who thinks people should live in solitude.
- CreatorChristian TorpeStarsMille DinesenLise BaastrupNikolaj GrothSchoolteacher Rita is a very outspoken, rebellious woman who is competent in the classroom but needs her own advisor when it comes to her personal life.
- StarsLars RantheMarie Louise WilleCecilie Bøcker RoslingA family drama about a physician who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
- CreatorMette HeenoStarsHenrik PripLaura DrasbækChristian TafdrupThree siblings escape the attention of some angry gangsters by settling into a quiet residential street, where they think nothing can go wrong.
- StarsIben HjejleLærke WintherDar SalimDicte is a dedicated reporter and refuses to give up before she has her story. Her stubborness gives her problems immediately with the policeman John Wagner, and they often get into clashes with each other.
- StarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreThe adventures of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander.
- StarsUlrich ThomsenThure LindhardtNikolaj Coster-WaldauThe Blekinge Street Gang (Blekingegadebanden) was a group of left-wing extremists who performed various spectacular robberies in Copenhagen in the 1980s. The money from the robberies went to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- CreatorPetter S. RosenlundStarsMarc Ben PuchRobert Hunger-BühlerAndreas DöhlerThe story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.
- CreatorCasper ChristensenFrank HvamStarsFrank HvamCasper ChristensenMia LyhneThe socially awkward misadventures of Frank Hvam, his girlfriend Mia and his best friend Casper.
- StarsAtli Rafn SigurðssonBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonHeida ReedThe Cliff is a dramatic mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths, set against the backdrop of a controversial hydroelectric project. From Walter Presents, in Icelandic with English subtitles.
- StarsFanny KlefeltHappy JankellMarcus HasselborgSteph and Agnes go to the same school but don't like each other at all. Agnes with probably the best grades in the whole city, and Steph a little more of a bad girl. When their parents start dating during the summer they leave the two girls and Agnes' sister, while going on a trip through Europe. They have to live together in Agnes' apartment together...
- StarsRolf LassgårdHelena Af SandebergHenrik NorlénThe year is 1975, and the West German embassy in Stockholm is occupied by German terrorists. It's an attack not only on the embassy, but on Sweden's long-standing pride as a peaceful nation. In the aftermath of the violent occupation, the Swedish Security Police suspects the six terrorists had help from the outside, possibly from a group of Swedish sympathizers. But no leads can be found until fourteen years later.
- StarsAdam LundgrenAdam PålssonBjörn KjellmanA story of love and death. Rasmus, 19, escapes to Stockholm and finds love in the religious Benjamin just as the AIDS epidemic hits the city's gay community.
- CreatorJohann ZollitschStarsMikael PersbrandtHelena Af SandebergSofia Papadimitriou LedarpMarkus Haglund (Mikael Persbrandt) is a criminal law professor fond of liquors, promiscuous relationships, and disobeying superiors. At Uppsala University near Stockholm, he establishes a class of four law students: Anna Sjöstedt (Helena af Sandeberg), Fia Jönsson (Sofia Ledarp), Belal Al-Mukhtar (Francisco Sobrado), and Roger Andersson (Leonard Terfelt), called Oskyldigt dömd (Innocently Convicted), dealing with cases where persons are already sentenced and imprisoned, assisting the convicted in fighting for their innocence and freedom.
- StarsKjell BergqvistAnnika HallinJens HulténInvestigators find a 25-year-old skeleton in a Swedish coastal cave connected to a family massacre, prompting a return to the island for further investigation.
- CreatorJarl Emsell LarsenStarsAxel BøyumAnneke von der LippeOdin WaageTwo 15 year old boys secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.
- StarsKjell BergqvistCecilia NilssonGöran RagnerstamArchaeologists dig up a mass grave in a Swedish forest. A special police group is set up to find out the murderers.
- StarsPeter HaberIngvar HirdwallRebecka HemseCommissioner Martin Beck and his eccentric partner Gunvald Larsson investigate murders in Stockholm, Sweden.
- StarsMalin Mases ArvidssonIrene LindhClaes LjungmarkAn African refugee is shot by the police. A husband and wife are killed and their son is still missing. Another body is found in a luxurious appartment.
- CreatorHenning MankellStarsKrister HenrikssonFredrik GunnarssonMats BergmanA Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.
- CreatorAdam PriceStarsSidse Babett KnudsenBirgitte Hjort SørensenSøren MallingA political drama about a prime minister's rise to power, and how power changes a prime minister.
- CreatorMaya IlsøeStarsTrine DyrholmMarie Bach HansenCarsten BjørnlundThe death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.
- CreatorEilif SkodvinAnne BjørnstadStarsSteven Van ZandtTrond FausaSteinar SagenA New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer in Norway after testifying against his former associates.
- StarsKyrre Haugen SydnessIda Elise BrochMarte EngebrigtsenA police detective is trying to locate his missing daughter, while solving other cases.
- StarsSissela KyleFrida HallgrenMaria KulleNot all battles are violent. Meet a courageous group of women who takes on both the male rulers of the day and a corrupt grocery industry.
- CreatorAnna Bache-WiigSiv Rajendram EliassenStarsNicolai Cleve BrochLena EndreHenrik RafaelsenAfter having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.
- CreatorLars LundströmStarsLisette T. PaglerPia HalvorsenJohan PaulsenIn an alternative present, companion robots are commonplace. When humans make copies of themselves so lifelike that they form emotional bonds, questions and ethical dilemmas arise.
- StarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonBibi AnderssonTen years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.
- CreatorFelix HerngrenJacob Seth FranssonUlf KvenslerStarsFelix HerngrenJohan RheborgJosephine BornebuschThe lives of two very different families in the posh neighborhood of Solsidan in Sweden.
- CreatorJacob Seth FranssonStarsHenrik DorsinSissela BennBjörn GustafssonA Swedish version of the British TV-series "The Office"
- CreatorKarianne LundJo NesbøErik SkjoldbjærgStarsHenrik MestadAne Dahl TorpEldar SkarIn the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union because the newly-elected environmentally-friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.
- CreatorJukka-Pekka SiiliStarsMinka KuustonenLauri TilkanenPirkka-Pekka PeteliusTellus, a Finnish environmental group led by Eevi Forsman, use increasingly radical means to "save the earth". They are pursued by Taneli Lokka, an experienced police detective who tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
- StarsPeter EggersJoel SpiraLinda ZilliacusIn 1790 Johan Gustav Dåådh joins the Stockholm police, in an attempt to change, or at least improve, the system from within. He is a modern thinker in an old hierarchy. Torn between alliances, he solves crimes among rich and poor.
- StarsBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonUnnur Birna Jónsdóttir BackmanAri Kapríus KristjánssonThe Cliff is a dramatic mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths, set against the backdrop of a controversial hydroelectric project. From Walter Presents, in Icelandic with English subtitles.
- CreatorDunja Gry JensenStarsThomas LevinClaus Riis ØstergaardJacob LohmannRaw, brooding drama in which police detective Tom Noack returns home to Norskov, an industrial port in northern Denmark, after 20 years away to clean up the town's all-consuming drug problem.
- CreatorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonIn a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.
- CreatorJeppe Gjervig GramJannik Tai MosholtAnders Frithiof AugustStarsEsben SmedThomas HwanNatalie MadueñoA big Danish sustainable energy company has had an enormous, suspect growth. Problems start, when an employee's body is found and cop detective Justesen starts investigating Energreen.
- StarsKarolina WedinNatalie MinnevikAgnez Hedwall StrokirkElin comes to live with her mother and enters high school, where she is surrounded by a number of bizarre events all centering around the fact that she looks like another young student who disappeared over six months ago.
- StarsPeter MagnussonJonas KarlssonHenrik DorsinEighteen years ago they were the biggest boyband in the world. Now it's time to reunite.
- StarsAlexandra RapaportClara Christiansson DrakeJoel LützowSonja lives a carefree life with her family near Stockholm and works as an accountant in the family business at the marina. One day Sonja is drawn into the criminal underworld to save her family.
- CreatorHenrik Jansson-SchweizerStarsBjörn BengtssonJoel SpiraAliette OpheimA mother sends postcards to her estranged son and daughter, inviting them back to the guest house they grew up in. She gives each of her children one piece of advice and leaves them to ponder the meaning.
- StarsJulia RagnarssonKjell BergqvistCecilia NilssonA student at the Police Academy is tasked to study a cold case: the murder of a pregnant woman on a Swedish beach 25 years ago.
- CreatorJohan KindblomTomas TivemarkStarsMia SkäringerGöran RagnerstamJoel SpiraVera, a mother of two children, simultaneously loses her job and is left by her husband.
- StarsIda HallquistBjörn A. LingMia SkäringerSwedish comedy mini-series about a family where mother and daughter find out that they are pregnant at the same time. The series is set in Molkom, a rural community in the heart of Swedish Värmland, far from the hustle and bustle of big city life.
- CreatorRobert AschbergAlex HaridiJörgen HjerdtStarsLouise PeterhoffSven NordinKarin Franz KörlofPolitics, extremism and violence in Sweden.
- StarsTomas NorströmMatilda GrahnTeodor RunsiöThe ten-year-olds Lasse and Maja helps the police to solve crimes.
- StarsJerka JohanssonGustaf HammarstenShanti RoneyIn this show we get to know four friends. All of them struggling to keep their daily-life together. And one day a week they meet to keep abreast of each others lives.
- CreatorLars LundströmStarsOla RapaceAnja LundqvistBisse UngerHoffa, Nicke and Hamid want more luxury but the money is just not enough. So they get faster money, but not legal
- StarsPeter AnderssonStina EkbladAnna EklundA group of students go through a year of training at the Swedish Police Academy.
- StarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdArn must endure a great ordeal before he can get the love of his life Cecile, who has been confined to a monastery.
- CreatorLars LundströmStarsJonas MalmsjöKarin BergquistIsabelle MoreauFredrik, Zahra, Jonny, Filippa, and Carl are five young Urbans. By accident they lose control of their lives and get dragged into a myriad of good, evil, black, and white. in the middle of the nightclub Blue.
- StarsJens AlbinusMarina BourasSteen Stig LommerAs more crimes and criminals cross borders, the Danish police creates an international criminal investigation team. The half Icelandic "Ørnen" leads the diverse team of 6. The latest technology (2004-6) is used.
- CreatorMåns MårlindHans RosenfeldtStarsEric EricsonLia BoysenLotta KarlgeA group of people with problems suddenly finds that they have supernatural powers.
- StarsSofia PekkariGöran SjögrenNazif RamadaniThis show is about Swedish teenagers and their trials and tribulations. They come from different backgrounds with various socioeconomic issues. Main characters are Juan and Sabina who share a forbidden love
- StarsLena MeriläinenLeena PöystiAntti LuusuaniemiDrama series set in a hospital.
- CreatorTommi LiskiPetja PeltomaaOlli HaikkaStarsJussi VatanenKari HietalahtiTommi LiskiThe life of Kimmo and his friends.
- StarsCarl-Kristian RundmanAnu SinisaloSanna ToivanenTapio, as family man is deep in debt and married to a financially irresponsible woman he cannot control. To avoid disaster, he starts doing questionable jobs for a career criminal.
- CreatorKim Fupz AakesonStarsMartin BuchEsben DalgaardViktor Lykke ClausenThomas (Martin Buch) and Dion (Esben Dalggård) are two old friends in dire straits trying to open a restaurant.
- StarsLars HemingstamAlexandra RapaportUlf FribergRight before Christmas Charlotte Ekeblad (Rapaport) is given an offer she hardly can refuse, to become a minister in the Swedish Parliament. As minister of environment she is put in a position with no greater power, yet the prime minister comes out as a modern and open minded leader with a young woman in his staff. Charlotte Ekeblad though, is torn between a family life as a woman, and the opportunity to make a career. In the middle of this stands a husband not really sure what to think of becoming number two in the family, and a resistance in the male domination of the government. The pressure builds up and the marriage starts to shake in its foundations. It's time for Charlotte to ask herself if the price for the ability to change is too high.
- StarsKjell BergqvistCecilia FrodeStella AspKaj is a cheat and a slacker. Luckily, he has a job as an estate agent and a wife who can support him. But all this comes to an end when he get sacked from work and thrown out of his home.
- CreatorJens DahlLolita BellstarStarsLene Maria ChristensenLars BrygmannNicole JohansenWhen her husband is imprisoned, inexperienced Lulu must take over the family business while raising two children and working to clear his name.
- StarsSøren FauliLene Maria ChristensenClaus Thobo-CarlsenCult director Søren Fauli is about to make his first real feature film. When a large advertising agency offers him a very well-paid job, he therefore declines. But then, to everyone's surprise, the newly appointed film consultant hesitates to support Søren's film and makes unexpected demands. Søren begins to waver in his faith. And when the advertising agency simultaneously sends him the Mac computer he so desperately wants, he slowly begins to change his attitude: "It could be very nice to make some money."
- StarsCharlotte MunckPaw HenriksenKurt RavnA policewoman does her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.
- CreatorHanna LundbladStig ThorsboeStarsAmalie DollerupLars RantheAnne Louise HassingThe seaside hotel "Badehotellet" in NW Denmark opens for its wealthy guests each summer. We follow the guests and staff at the hotel from 1928 and into the 1940s.
- CreatorAnders WeidemannStarsKjell WilhelmsenHanna ArdéhnLotta TejleSeries about people escaping their cold winter homeland looking for happiness in sunny Thailand but getting more than they hoped for.
- StarsAksel HennieTuva NovotnyAnders Danielsen LieIn NOBEL, two stories carefully intertwine as a returning soldier and family man becomes a pawn in a political international game. As the stakes grow higher he is forced to discover just how far one should go in the name of peace.
- CreatorAdam PriceStarsLars MikkelsenAnn Eleonora JørgensenSimon SearsThe story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth, and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons--he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into making desperate choices in order to either gain his love or break free from him.
- CreatorAndrew LoweryGlenn LundPeter SettmanStarsPeter StormareJohan GlansVivian BangTwo unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.
- CreatorMikko PölläRoope LehtinenStarsCecilia ForssBeate BilleSynnøve Macody LundThree women are gathered at a cabin with their three colleague husbands when they watch the men blow up in the boat just going out fishing. A police man investigates the widows, who will have to try to explain what happened.
- StarsAlexandra RapaportJonas MalmsjöPing Mon H. WallénViveca Sten's popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime and the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
- StarsZahid AliStig Frode HenriksenIngrid Bolsø BerdalThis is the story of the urban police officer Salmander who, after somewhat accidentally killing his police horse in front of thousands of children, gets relocated to the location farthest north in Norway: Hellfjord.
- StarsGísli Örn GarðarssonBjörn ThorsCharlotte BøvingThis thriller series follows two detectives, Gunnar (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) and Hinrik (Gísli Örn Garðarsson),as they attempt to track down a serial killer who has a penchant for murdering goose hunters.
- CreatorLaura SuhonenStarsMatleena KuusniemiTommi EronenSanteri Helinheimo MäntyläDrug Crime Detective Oskari is the envy of his colleagues. His connections to underworld and informants is unrivaled. What they don't know is the mother of his child, Krista, is a drug addict who lives in that world. And now she's back in his life, shaking his home life on one hand, and offering new connections to knocking down the rise of drug imports. If only he could trust her.
- CreatorJón GnarrStarsSara Dögg ÁsgeirsdóttirHelga Kristín HelgadóttirJoi JohannssonBorgarstjórinn is about the mayor of Reykjavík and hið assistant going through various adventures
- CreatorMiikko OikkonenStarsVille VirtanenMatleena KuusniemiAnu SinisaloQuirky police detective, in Finland, delves into his memory palace to solve despicable crimes all the while trying to keep his family together. If Sherlock was based in Finland this would be it.
- StarsEllen Dorrit PetersenOdd-Magnus WilliamsonLine VerndalAber Bergen is an entertaining courtroom drama about the recently separated but for the time being professional partners, Erik Aber and Elea Bergen.
- StarsFilip BergValter SkarsgårdAnna ÅströmA group of young friends visit an abandoned ski resort in northern Sweden, where strange noises from the basement are just the start of a series of horrifying events.
- CreatorMorten ArnfredPeter NyrénSøren SveistrupStarsSøren ByderMartin HestbækAnne-Grethe Bjarup RiisHotellet is all about the Faber family, who owns the Hotel Faber. As the head of the family commits suicide, the rest of the family try to pick up the pieces after him. The series is clearly inspired by Twin Peaks and Empire.
- StarsCaroline VedelFanny Leander BornedalChristine Albeck BørgeWe follow two 15-year-old twin sisters taking their first steps out into a fascinating, dangerous and unpredictable adult world. Set against a backdrop of the fairytales by the Brothers Grimm, the sisters face the changes, challenges and clashes of the teenage years in a new and magical manner.
- CreatorMåns MårlindBjörn SteinStarsLeïla BekhtiGustaf HammarstenAlbin GrenholmThe brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.
- CreatorThomas TorjussenStarsAnders BaasmoAnders Danielsen LieStein WingeIn the middle of the dysfunctional Broch-Hansen family, a tragic and humorous tale of the 36 year old Georg, more than ready to be a grown up and a family man, but afraid of turning out just like his old man, also to the one he loves.
- StarsMads OusdalAne Dahl TorpKristoffer JonerAn intense hijacking of a prisoner transfer van which leads to a formation of a secret police unit called HUNTER. The officers in this specialized group don't always go by the book but they often get solid results. The leader is Dan W. who says he is just an analyst...but he is very smart and has a nickname of 'sniper'. Also in the groupa is an undercover cop who is good with details and a good kick boxer. Six episodes cover one complete story through lots of action and complicated political characters and criminal elements.
- StarsEvy Kasseth RøstenLars Arentz-HansenAnders DahlbergSverre Fjeld, a young policeman, comes in contact with Trude, a single mom, who's former boyfriend belonged to a drug cartel. Sverre gets more and more involved in her problems and her life, and is slowly drawn into a web of lies and crime.
- StarsThomas GiertsenIne F. JansenJon ØigardenA mockumentary about comedian Thomas Giertsen, who has everything: Great girlfriend, big house, lots of cash and funny friends. A perfect life? Still he tends to get in trouble. After all; he's always right.