Best Swedish action series

Snapphanar (2006)

Snapphanar is a Swedish miniseries which aired in three parts on Sveriges Television during Christmas 2006, directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. The historical drama is about the Snapphane peasant rebel movement which fought against the Swedish rule of Scania in the 17th century. The "Snapphanar" was a rebellion people, who fought secretly for Denmark during 1660-1700.The miniseries were criticised by historians due to a perceived lack of historical accuracy. The Scanian nationalist attitudes portrayed in the series did not exist in the 17th century, and the term snapphane, which is used for self-identification in the series, was in fact a derogatory term used by Swedes.

Arn: The Knight Templar (2010)

Hassel (1986)

Vid Vintergatans slut (2010)

Hidden: First Born (2019)

Jonas's life is turned upside down after a difficult accident. He begins to explore his true self, unaware that someone, or something, is looking for him. Slowly he is drawn into a tangle of mystery and ritual murder against the captivating backdrop of modern day Stockholm.

Star Stable: Mistfall (2021)

Mistfall is the story of a tragic accident, a mysterious island, a magical horse… and an epic adventure. Feel the excitement build as Skye Rowan struggles to understand who she is and comes to fulfill a destiny centuries in the making!

A Road to Gyllenbla! (1985)

Ratio Rasch, the president of planet Gyllenblå, has banned laughter and emotions in order to create a society based on reason. Police are constantly patrolling the planet and anyone caught laughing is imprisoned and given anti-laughter serum. Only a few members of an underground guerrilla oppose the president. On Earth, the eccentric Dr. Krull listens to signals from outer space and realizes that something needs to be done so he sends the two children Cecilie and Fredrik to Gyllenblå. Epicykel, a guerrilla member, senses their presence and hopes to get to them first but fails. The children are put in school, where Fredrik has great difficulty controlling his laughter but Cecilie adapts well. The guerrilla knows that laughter is contagious and Fredrik gives them new hope of returning laughter to the people of Gyllenblå.

Vid Vintergatans slut (2010)

Kullamannen (1967)

Ronja the Robber's Daughter (2024)

Loving, loyal and unafraid, the daughter of a wanted robber chief makes a secret friend in her father's magical and treacherous forest.

Barna Hedenhös uppfinner julen (2013)

The Hedenhös family time-travels and ends up in a museum in Stockholm in 2013. They explore the modern world and try to find a way to get back home.

Ture Sventon (2019)

When two CIA-agents come looking for Ture and reveals the mysterious escape of Ville Vessla, Sweden’s most intelligent and dangerous criminal who Ture put behind bars 25 years ago, an exciting chase begins.With the help of Ture’s flying carpet, the odd trio sets of on a journey to London, the deserts of Valley of the Kings, the Paris Catacombs and the world seas to find the answer to one of the world’s greatest mysteries: The Bermuda Triangle!

Pojken med guldbyxorna (1975)

Pojken med guldbyxorna is a 1975 Swedish TV-series, based on an 1967 novel by Max Lundgren, that became very popular in Sweden and has since been shown numerous times on Swedish television. The version now broadcast on TV4 Guld consists of episodes cut into 30 minutes each.The plot revolves around a boy who discovers that he is able to pull an infinite number of banknotes from the pockets of his jeans.

Kronprinsen som försvann (2022)

The young Crown Prince Carl Wilhelm is suddenly forced to flee the royal castle when his mother the Queen disappears. He meets the poor girl Hilda who helps him assume a false identity as an orphanage boy.

Kråkguldet (1969)

The story takes place during the weeks before Christmas, in the small mining town of fictitious Granhyttan in Bergslagen, Sweden. One day a suspicious couple, Signe and Orvar, arrives in the small town and retires in an abandoned hut. Nobody knows what they up to; but strange things starts to happen as Staffan finds a gold nugget while playing in a disused mine at the Kråkberget Mountain during a skiing trip with his schoolmates. Staffan believes the nugget is a part of Skarp-Erik's gold, as his grandpa had told exciting stories about. The news about the gold discovery spread quickly and Staffan and his friends are soon pursued by curious schoolmates, school staff and also the mysterious strangers. All this happens as the students are rehearsing for the nativity play before Christmas break.

Pappas pojkar (1973)

Children of the Luna (2000)

Four children run away on a motorboat after their parents are killed in a plane crash.

The Helicopter Heist (2024)

Two childhood friends decide to try one last heist — to rob millions from Sweden's safest cash depot. But the police are already on their heels.

First Responders (2020)

First Responders is from Sweden’s SF Studios and follows the daily lives of hospital, police and rescue personnel in the beautiful but hazardous Swedish mountains and will debut on Viaplay in the Nordics in 2020.

Agent Hamilton (2020)

Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but at the same time works as a double agent.

STHLM Blackout (2024)

Technical news-producer Arthur goes on a first date with true-crime enthusiast Mille. They are involuntarily caught in the center of a chaos, involving murder and sabotage. To survive, they must take matters into their own hands.

Anna Holt (1996)

Hunt for a Murderer (1998)

A murder of a man seems to be affiliated with the police themselves. A curse of lies, betrayal and prostitution begins to emerge and affects the relationship between everyone in the team.

Hem till Midgård (2003)

The setting is 992 in Sweden, in a suburb of Birka called Midgård, which is the last village in Sweden where people still believe in the old Norse gods. Meanwhile the real chieftain Snorre den Store (Snorre the Great, but with the alternative meaning "big penis") is away plundering in the Mediterranean. His youngest son Lillsnorre (Snorre the Lesser or "small penis") is in charge of the village, and forced to guard his father's Byzantine thrall Cassandra, who Lillsnorre also falls in love with. The episodes usually feature Lillsnorre and his not so great men attempting a new scheme to get money (which they are notoriously short on), sometimes by Plundering and sometimes by more honest means, or Lillsnorre trying to impress Cassandra and outshine Rövhalt.

Jorden runt på 6 steg (2015)

Filip & Fredrik throw themselves out on a journey across the earth to test the theory that no two people on earth is longer than six people apart. Without using their own contacts, the guys manage to reach a famous person in six steps. Without using their own contacts shall see whether it is possible to get from a stranger in a distant country to a famous person on the six stages - Gordon Ramsay, Buzz Aldrin and Leif GW Persson. The journeys take them to unexpected places, people and meetings that no one would have imagined, least of all themselves. There will be three improbable journeys that take Filip & Fredrik six continents, 32 different locations and a total of three times around the earth.

Ronja Rövardotter (1986)

The Lost Treasure of Aquila (2014)

The siblings Sam and Minna and their mother Eva arrive to the Orchid coast to celebrate Christmas in the sun with aunt Anja and their cousin Bianca. It's the first time after their father's death the siblings are back on his beloved Orchid coast, and it is in the same time both beautiful and sad to be there. It promises to be an exciting Christmas when a mysterious mask and old pieces of wood from a sunken ship washes ashore at the hotel where they live. Grandfather Ivo tells the three cousins the legend of pirate Aquila, whose ship sank in the battle for "the greatest treasure of them all". Meanwhile Sam, Minna and their mother Eva learns that the Orchid coast will be destroyed after Christmas. Can pirate Aquila's treasure save the coast?

Kapten Sabeltand (2012)

Vendetta (1995)

A Swedish agent vows revenge on a mob family after his partner is slain during hostage negotiations.

Island of Secrets (1972)

Two groups of teens get shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Stockholm archipelago and try to create a new society in order to survive.