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- DirectorBirger LarsenStarsLaura BachJakob CedergrenLars MikkelsenA forensic psychiatrist decides to change work. Days before leaving, a case of 5 shot on a Copenhagen city bus might involve an old patient of his. Other murders follow. He can't stop before the case is solved.
- 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.
- CreatorMorten DragstedOskar SöderlundMikkel Bak SørensenStarsBirgitte Hjort SørensenArdalan EsmailiJoachim FjelstrupA character-driven drama and thriller series about the events leading to a terror attack in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe.
- 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.
- 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.
- StarsSofia PekkariPihla ViitalaJohn SimmTwo young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law.
- CreatorKristoffer MetcalfeStarsKristofer HivjuRebekka NystabakkMathilde Holtedahl CuhraWhen a young mother is responsible for the accidental death of her husband, she persuades the dead husband's identical twin to take his identity.
- DirectorUlrik Imtiaz RolfsenStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandA successful female politician hires private detective Varg Veum to find her missing daughter without attracting too much attention. During his investigation, Veum becomes aware of an international company and its dealings with corruption, black-market business, ad murder.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandThe film begins in Copenhagen, where Varg Veum finds Lisa, the 16-year-old runaway prostitute daughter of a wealthy businessman. He brings her back to his client and his family in Norway, where he is intercepted by neighbors who ask him to find their son Peter, Lisa's close friend. He is reluctant to help them, but when Lisa's 21-year-old drug-addict friend turns up dead in a Bergen hotel room, Veum wants to do everything possible to protect the girl from a dangerous drug dealer. But the police see her as the prime suspect in the murder and regard the private detective's investigation as interference.
- DirectorAlexander EikStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergGeorge MendelPrivate detective Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Evans, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing armakon, a weapons storage facility, and to prove him innocent.
- DirectorTrond Espen SeimStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergLene NystrømWhile investigating a case of sisters who have vanished, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to a police-investigated murder. Varg is obviously risking his pregnant wife's life if he wants to follow the case.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergLene NystrømVarg tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to prevent her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from? Was it an accident, or was she killed as a warning to other girls in the same circles? Together, Varg and Karin discover that the dead girl was deeply involved in operations in which young women were forcibly introduced in the country and at the asylum reception centres are cynically exploited. Important people at high government levels pressure the police department to hinder further investigation. What are they trying to hide? Time works against Varg, who must prove the identity of important people behind the ring before more young girls lose their lives.
- DirectorStephan ApelgrenStarsTrond Espen SeimLene NystrømBjørn FlobergVarg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-old Jan Egil. The kid refuses to talk to anyone except Veum, who has known him since childhood. He swears he didn't kill his foster parents. But there are a couple of social works at the welfare home for stray kids, where Egil landed when he was a year old; they are deeply touched by the drama as defenders of the young population of the social home, for it's been plagued by a new drug called GHB (Hydroxybutyric acid) which killed several kids, When Egil declares himself guilty of the murder, Hamre asks Veum to get his hands out of a solved case. But Veum discovers that Egil is been forced by the knowledge a disturbing reality concerning his foster father and this drug.
- DirectorStephan ApelgrenStarsTrond Espen SeimLene NystrømBjørn FlobergThis is number 8 in the series of Varg Veum, written by Gunnar Staalesen. The plot spins around Veum's girlfriend's sister: she is a prostitute, and through her discovered shady actions, drug dealing, pimping, and other criminal activities.
- DirectorStefan FaldbakkenStarsLars Petter AaseThomas AlvebergPer Egil AskeVeum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has settled down to enjoy domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, then his bitter enemy "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl. Soon Veum is deeply entangled is a case where he must take a tough battle with his conscience; was he really innocent in the girl's death? The only answer is "The Knife", but his mind is set om only one thing: revenge.
- DirectorAlexander EikStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergDennis StorhøiVeum is on a case of a missing employee (Arne) for an international oil drilling company. When he checks Arne's flat he discovers a woman's torso in the fridge. He is attacked and knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the police is on the scene but the limbless body is gone.
- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsTrond Espen SeimPer KjerstadBjørn FlobergMurder and trouble hit Veum when he meets up with classmates in the rock-band Camp, when he resumes contact with a former flame Rebecca, now the wife of his buddy. A Varg Veum mystery by best-selling crime novelist Gunnar Staalesen.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergKathrine FagerlandThere has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for her estranged husband Jonas's car brings Varg together with Wenche Andresen, he believes he may have found the one. But Jonas ends up dead, and Wenche is the cops' prime suspect. Varg can't believe this beautiful woman with her old-fashioned ideas on love and fidelity can possibly be guilty, and he sets out to crack the case and prove her innocence.
- DirectorAlexander EikStarsTrond Espen SeimBjørn FlobergSiv KlynderudRacial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally, and his wife is fatally wounded. The Party is about to hold a leadership election. One of the candidates, Marit Holm, comes to Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked. Varg is drawn into a web of conspiracy and betrayal at the heart of the political establishment, in which spin doctors and political players will do anything to achieve their ends.
- CreatorIna BruhnStarsNatalie MadueñoSimon SearsTobias SantelmannInvestigator Jan and profiler Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of a murderer's view as they link a series of killings.
- StarsKarin Franz KörlofKardo RazzaziKajsa ErnstNew police officer Katarina Huss must manage the tough life in Gothenburg and suspicious colleagues, and she is soon tangled in corruption and betrayal.
- CreatorSøren SveistrupStarsSofie GråbølMorten SuurballeLars MikkelsenPolice detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.
- CreatorMette HeenoStarsJosefin AsplundArdalan EsmailiEva MelanderTwo days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, the five-week-old baby Lucas inexplicably disappears from his home. The experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in parents' stories.
- DirectorLisa OhlinStarsPeter HaberJennie SilfverhjelmMartin WallströmThe police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame