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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
"In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal 'Millennium' trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Mikael Blomkvist, Salander's friend and Millennium's publisher, is alone in his belief...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Swedish
Description
Before anyone else played the part, Rolf Lassgard established the role of Kurt Wallander in the original Swedish film adaptations of Henning Mankell's bestselling crime novels. Kurt Wallander is a cop who gets the job done; decades of coming up against criminal minds has honed his instincts for investigations and he knows where to draw the line between the job and personal vendettas. Usually. Includes: The Man Who Smiled; Firewall, Parts 1 & 2; and...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Following a mental breakdown, Detective Peter Wendel is tasked with creating an elite team of investigators to crack cold cases. When the police find a note on a dead body that claims Sweden's most notorious serial killer is a fraud, Wendel gets a chance to redeem himself, but only the dregs of the force are available to work the case. Under pressure to mobilize quickly, Wendel is forced to hire two cops who hate each other, plus a forthright woman...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
A lifetime of police work has left Detective Kurt Wallander with the look of a man who's seen too much. Recently recovered from a heart attack, veteran Wallander works alongside his daughter Linda, a recent academy graduate, and Stefan Lindman, a young detective eager to prove himself. Together, they solve cases in the Swedish seaside city of Ystad and confront the darkest recesses of the human heart.
Before the frost: A series of bizarre, ghoulish...
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Description
Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson wins a camera in a lottery and finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Swedish
Description
Daniel, a successful international conductor, returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't refuse, and nothing in the village is the same again. As the amateur choir develops and grows, he is drawn to the people of his old hometown, makes friends, and finds love.
10) The Seventh seal
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
11) Saraband
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Swedish
Description
Johan and Marianne lost touch after their divorce. Years later Marianne looks up Johan and tries to get him out of isolation. Upon her arrival to his home, they spend several intense weeks together. Sequel to Scenes From A Marriage. Bergman's last film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Swedish
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes director approved special edition features.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
A woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. It's also just the beginning of a wave of violence the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Swedish
Description
Evert Baackstromis a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius, and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently, but DNA points to her death in the 2004 tsunami. Prosecutor Hanna Hwassbelieves it's a mistake, but Backstrom sees a case only he can solve: a woman who has died twice.
15) Force majeure
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Swedish
Description
An idyllic family skiing vacation takes a stunning turn when an avalanche threatens the ski lodge restaurant, sending people fleeing and demanding quick decisions that change the course of the family's dynamics and trust.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
After pulling off a bank robbery in series one, series two sees Jenny and Cecilia tackle another classic heist: art theft. Where banks were the target in series one, their focus has now shifted to the rich tax-evading men earning big money at the taxpayers' expense. This is Kalmar, Sweden's local aristocracy, who play bridge at the gentlemen's club and only watch out for each other.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
An abandoned tanker ship crashes into the Oresund bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating the incident is Scandinavia's oddest couple: Swedish detective Saga Noren, hampered by primitive social skills, and Martin Rohde from Denmark, still reeling from the death of his son. Theirs is a friendship from having been through hell together on the job.
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
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