Best Swedish mystery movies
A curated collection of popular mystery movies from Sweden.
Solstorm (2007)
Solstorm (2007)
While in a party promoted by her chief and friend Måns Wenngren, the fiscal attorney, Rebecka Martinsson, receives a call from her former sister-in-law, Sanna Strandgård, telling that her brother and preacher Viktor was murdered, stabbed and with severed hands, and she would be arrested. Rebecka heads to her hometown Kiruna and defends Sanna, but the evidences found by the police in her house prove her guilty and she is arrested. While investigating the crime, Rebecka is haunted by her past and faces the bigoted and fanatic religious dwellers that worship the local church, and is more convinced of the innocence of Sanna.
13 Demon Street: The Secret of the Telescope (1959)
13 Demon Street: The Secret of the Telescope (1959)
A man believes that a telescope containing magical powers will make him rich, only to receive a dire prediction instead.
Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Echoes from the Dead (2013)
Echoes from the Dead (2013)
On a foggy day, Julia's six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think…
Shadow Animals (2017)
Shadow Animals (2017)
A young girl follows her parents to a party where she experiences assorted grown-up rituals. As the evening progresses she finds the adults' behavior increasingly strange. Everyone tries to fit in, but not everyone succeeds.
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia (1991)
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia (1991)
Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.
Mannequin in Red (1958)
Mannequin in Red (1958)
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Irene Huss 4: Glasdjävulen (2008)
Irene Huss 4: Glasdjävulen (2008)
In a small community near Gothenburg three members of a family priest brutally murdered. The walls are covered with up-and-inverted pentagram - the symbol of the devil's face - painted there by the victims blod.Kriminalinspektör Irene Huss drag quickly parallels to a previous case in which a priest was murdered. Even in that case there were satanic connections. But the deeper Irene Huss digs in case the more convinced she becomes that the clergy are not always as pious as they should be
Münsters fall (2005)
Münsters fall (2005)
When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear a media frenzy. But the quick arrest of the man's former partner in the face of damning evidence promises a quick resolution to the case.
27 sekundmeter snö (2005)
27 sekundmeter snö (2005)
In 1939, a group of skiers set off on a five-day ski trip in the Lapland mountains. Due to a severe storm, they are snowed-in a mountain cabin. On the first night, a murder takes place, the successful businessman Weismann is brutally stabbed to death. The group's participants realize, horrified, that the killer must be one of them. In order to endure the following days trapped in the cabin, they must try to solve the murder mystery themselves.
Fallet G (2006)
Fallet G (2006)
The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might be linked to Van Veeteren's only unsolved case.
Camilla Läckberg: The Stonecutter (2009)
Camilla Läckberg: The Stonecutter (2009)
A dead, seven-year-old girl is found in a fisherman's net.
Svart Lucia (1992)
Svart Lucia (1992)
High school student Mikaela is attracted by her Swedish teacher Göran and writes an erotic novel for his class.
Irene Huss 3: The Night Round (2008)
Irene Huss 3: The Night Round (2008)
A blackout leaves the distinguished halls of the Löwanderska Hospital in complete darkness. Doctor Sverker Löwander hears the alarm when one of the ventilators go off, and rushes to the intensive care unit only to find the nurse in charge dead in the stairwell and the other disappeared without a trace. When DI Irene Huss arrives, the only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds. There's only one slight problem: Nurse Tekla committed suicide at the hospital sixty years ago.
The Lady in Black (1958)
The Lady in Black (1958)
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Fiktiv granskning - En grävande historia (2022)
Fiktiv granskning - En grävande historia (2022)
An objective, fictional and completely true account of when the Sockerdricka rush wears off and our most beloved characters have to grow up. We meet a forgotten Pippi Longstocking, the traumatized financial shark Alfie Atkins and a bitter Karlsson-on-the-Roof who has been banned from flying. But what is really left when the spotlights go out and the game is over? Jimmy Olsson, who was once Sweden's foremost investigative journalist, decides to get to the bottom of this central question.
A Guest Is Coming (1947)
A Guest Is Coming (1947)
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
This Can't Happen Here (1950)
This Can't Happen Here (1950)
Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.
Don't Cry Wolf (2003)
Don't Cry Wolf (2003)
In an idyllic Stockholm suburb, 11-year-old Lillebror Ström lives with his mum, dad, sister and grandma. When Alex, his sister, introduces her new boyfriend to the family, only Lillebror and his best pal Jens get suspicious. Is Slim Trim really that nice, and what's the deal with those shady friends of his? Meanwhile Lillebror's daddy Roland has financial troubles. Roland works at the Toy Museum, which is host to a gold exhibition. When the greatest gold heist in national history is exposed, Roland's in trouble, being the only one with access to the secret information about the museum's security system. Lillebror and Jens have to do something.
The Peak (2024)
The Peak (2024)
About wanting to have the "peak".
The White Cat (1950)
The White Cat (1950)
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
The Bath House (1989)
The Bath House (1989)
Set in the WWII era, the story tells of a boy in a small village who befriends three girls around his age. One day he discovers a young couple sneaking into an old and cracked bathing shack and decides to alert his new friends. When the kids join up at the shack, the eldest girl comes up with the idea to lock the couple inside, threatening not to let them out until they "do it" and allow the kids to watch from the outside. And so begins the psychological warfare...
Rider in Blue (1959)
Rider in Blue (1959)
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Whoops! (1955)
Whoops! (1955)
A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person (1967)
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person (1967)
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf. Things might get out of hand in this exciting thriller in true Hitchcockian style.
Ghost Hunters (1987)
Ghost Hunters (1987)
The teen Gullan and her friends like to hang out in an old film studio at night and tell ghost stories. One night something mystical happens and the kids run away in fear but they return later to find out what really happens in the big old building.
Sköna juveler (1984)
Sköna juveler (1984)
In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.
Moon Over Hellesta (1956)
Moon Over Hellesta (1956)
Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Mudcake (2025)
Mudcake (2025)
Three strangers are employed to live together in an old house several hours from civilisation and cook for a man they do not know. When the pantry is missing an ingredient a series of bad decisions is played out in an effort to find it.
The Yellow Car (1963)
The Yellow Car (1963)
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.