In Stockholm, on St. Lucy’s feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Two cops from vice squad, Johansson and Jarnebring, who were the first to the crime scene, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, a man assigned to guard the country’s Minister of Justice. Just as the beat cops think they’ve tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose their certainty, alibis crop up, and even the cops doubt what they’ve seen. Who’s protecting the suspect and why?Read More »
Nordic Noir
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Bo Widerberg – Mannen från Mallorca AKA The Man from Majorca (1984)
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Baltasar Kormákur – Mýrin aka Jar City (2006)
2001-2010Baltasar KormákurCrimeIcelandMysteryNordic NoirA murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.Read More »
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Joel Bergvall – Den Osynlige AKA The Invisible (2002)
2001-2010CrimeDramaJoel BergvallNordic NoirSwedenQuote:
Nicklas lives a pretty normal teenage life, until one day, not far from graduation, when a gangster from his school beats him up. Nicklas passes out, and the next day when he returns to school he notices that nobody seems to notice him. As he tries to get attention he notices that his actions disappear the moment he has done them. He throws a book and as soon as it lands it’s back where he picked it up. He has returned as a ghost, but he can do nothing but passively observe as the police stand clueless to the murder.Read More » -
Henning Ørnbak – Kun sandheden AKA Nothing But The Truth (1975)
1971-1980CrimeDenmarkDramaHenning ØrnbakNordic NoirA well acted and photographed murder mystery based on a fairly predictable story… ~Philm.dkRead More »
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Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen – Afsporet (1942)
Lau Lauritzen1941-1950Bodil IpsenDenmarkFilm NoirNordic NoirAfsporet (English: Derailed) is a 1942 Danish thriller directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.. Starring Ebbe Rode and Illona Wieselmann, the psychological drama revolves around the intense erotic relationship between a wealthy married woman suffering from amnesia and a paroled petty thief entangled with organized crime. Afsporet was Ipsen’s directorial debut and is considered the first true Danish film noir.Read More »
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Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt – Tænk på et tal AKA Think of a Number (1969)
1961-1970CrimeDenmarkFilm NoirNordic NoirPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtQuote:
The story opens just before Christmas, when solitary, apathetic bank clerk Flemming Borck uncovers a plot to rob his bank. (It’s a convoluted set-up, so we’ll just leave it at that.) After doing a little rookie recon, Borck identifies the would-be bank robber as a faux shopping-mall Santa Claus, and counter-plots to steal the money himself and let Santa take the blame. This works out about as badly as you might imagine, and our bumbling protagonist spirals further and further away from the carefree, laconic lifestyle he had hoped to ensure for himself.Read More » -
Hans Petter Moland – En ganske snill mann AKA A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Drama2001-2010Hans Petter MolandNordic NoirNorwayAfter serving a 12-year sentence for killing a man for sleeping with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
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Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen – Izzat (2005)
2001-2010ActionCrimeNordic NoirNorwayUlrik Imtiaz RolfsenIzzat paints an image of Oslo, Norway’s capital, and its crime-environment in the mid-90’s. We follow Wasim and his involvement in Eastside Crew, the crime-gang mostly consisting of second-generation Pakistanis in Norway. What makes this movie extra special, is the realness of it all. Based on actual events, the film marks a flashy debut for Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, the director.Read More »
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Morten Tyldum – Hodejegerne aka Headhunters (2011)
2011-2020CrimeDenmarkMorten TyldumNordic NoirThrillerPlot / Synopsis
Roger Brown is Norway’s most successful headhunter. The unscrupulous Brown leads a life of excess and finances his extravagance by way of dangerous art thefts. When he meets the Dutchman Clas Greve he sees the chance to become financially independent and starts planning his biggest hit ever. But soon he runs into trouble–and it’s not financial problems that are threatening to bring him down this time.
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