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Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Language
Swedish
Formats
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
2011.
Edition
High definition, special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
In turn-of-the-last-century Sweden, four men and four women of different classes attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men's hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting-- an idyllic community, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting-- an idyllic community, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
The overdose: A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
Wallander is Ystad's veteran detective who's finally learned to find respite from the job in the moments of grace that come from living on the beach with his dog, Jussi, or spending time with his granddaughter. He's still on the outs at work, however: offbeat methods make him an irritant for management, and his colleague, Martinsson, is angling for his position. But no one in the department has the uncanny sense of the criminal mind that he does.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Formats
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
2015.
Language
Swedish
Description
Sebastian Bergman is strong-headed, politically incorrect, intuitive, abrasive and grief-stricken. He's struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife and young daughter from the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, an event that caused his life to careen out of control. Returning to work, Bergman had one more surprise waiting for him - an adult daughter he never knew he had, now working alongside him as a fellow investigator in the Stockholm police department....
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.
The man who smiled: Wallander is contacted by an old friend...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
The Tricksters: A farmer is apparently kicked to death by a horse, until Detective Wallander investigates and uncovers clues suggesting a different scenario--one that involves a mysterious woman the farmer had met through the personal ads. Kurt and Linda bait the killer with their own personal ad and soon find themselves in hot water.
The Photographer: An American tourist is found dead and her husband demands the body and all her possessions be returned....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
The black king: Detective Linda Wallander's allegiance to the job gets tested when a murder investigation leads her across the path of an old lover. He comes from a chapter she'd rather forget but her knowledge of him helps crack the case surrounding the murder of a beautiful young woman.
The forger: A young girl witnesses her mother's murder, and a restauranteur is the primary suspect. Wallander and his team get outside help from another detective...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Swedish
Description
Serial killer: A serial killer is on the loose-- all the victims are women, and all attended the same school. Beck must dig into a past no one wants to re-live to stop the killer.
The Pearl Hotel: After Gunvald accidentally kills a girl who runs in front of his car, Beck needs his help to solve the case of an explosion at the ferry terminal and must bring Gunvald back from the brink.
The monster: When the bomb squad detonates a suspicious suitcase,...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Swedish
Description
He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across.
"The decoy boy: After the bodies of two immigrant boys are discovered,...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Swedish
Description
The man with no face: A man is found stabbed to death and his widow claims a mysterious foreigner knocked on their door the day before the murder, but that may not be the real story.
The cartel: A Greek restaurant owner is found tortured and killed, leading to a world of smuggling, threats, and violence.
The recluse: An Asian woman is found murdered in the water, and an elderly retired man is discovered dead in his own yard.
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