Scandinavian Cinema

Best Scandinavian Thriller Movies

Name: Best Scandinavian Thriller Movies
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Nordic noir — Scandinavian thrillers known for dark atmospheres and complex mysteries.

Best Scandinavian Thriller Movies — 15 entries in the scandinavian cinema category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Dogville	2003	Lars von Trier	7.8	Crime, Drama, Thriller	Denmark	178	A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2009	Niels Arden Oplev	7.5	Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	152	Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, h...
Sisu	2022	Jalmari Helander	7.4	Action, War, Thriller	Finland	91	When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
The Guilty	2018	Gustav Möller	7.3	Thriller, Drama, Crime	Denmark	85	Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
Riders of Justice	2020	Anders Thomas Jensen	7.3	Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller	Denmark	116	Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
The House That Jack Built	2018	Lars von Trier	7.1	Drama, Horror, Crime, Thriller	Denmark	152	Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	2009	Daniel Alfredson	7.1	Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	147	After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she...
The Girl Who Played with Fire	2009	Daniel Alfredson	7	Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery	Denmark	129	Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse u...
Thelma	2017	Joachim Trier	6.8	Drama, Mystery, Thriller	Denmark	116	A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
The Wave	2015	Roar Uthaug	6.7	Action, Thriller, Drama	Norway	105	Although theorised, no one is really ready when a mountain pass above the scenic and narrow Geiranger fjord in Norway collapses and creates a tsunami over 300 feet high. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
Speak No Evil	2022	Christian Tafdrup	6.7	Horror, Thriller	Denmark	98	A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Antichrist	2009	Lars von Trier	6.6	Drama, Horror, Thriller	Denmark	104	A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Mindhunters	2004	Renny Harlin	6.5	Mystery, Thriller, Crime	Finland	106	Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Big Game	2014	Jalmari Helander	5.5	Action, Adventure, Thriller	Finland	90	Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terr...
The Snowman	2017	Tomas Alfredson	5.2	Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Horror	Sweden	119	Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

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