Niklas Rockström

Pressure Point

Playwright Lars Norén's daring play "7:3" involves long-convicted criminals playing themselves. Initially praised for rehabilitation prospects, safety concerns are ignored amid an unstoppable momentum, raising ethical questions.

Release Date:2024-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:4

The Unlikely Murderer

After the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.

Release Date:2021-11-05

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:42

Before We Die

Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation.

Release Date:2021-05-26

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:16

Caliphate

National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistant who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.

Release Date:2020-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:128

Alex

Ruthless and corrupt police officer Alex has decided to come to terms with his dubious past and become clean. But the dark forces he has collaborated with earlier refuses to let him off the hook, putting both Alex and his family's lives at great danger. At the same time Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly has been instructed to bring him down.

Release Date:2017-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:10

Before We Die

The police woman Hanna Svensson has a strained relationship to her son after having arrested him for drug dealing. Her married police man lover disappears, possibly kidnapped by MC gangs, although ties to Bosnia also appear.

Release Date:2017-01-15

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:29

Thicker Than Water

The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

Release Date:2014-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:12

Wallander: Missing

A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.

Release Date:2013-06-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10

Walk the Talk

Pontus, Mats, Olle and David. Four friends in their 40s who are restarting their lives in different ways when they thought all the choices were made. The main roles are played by Gustaf Hammarsten, Shanti Roney, Erik Johansson and Jacob Ericksson.

Release Date:2010-10-18

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Wallander: Blood Line

Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.

Release Date:2006-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden

Release Date:2006-06-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Borkmann's Point

Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a collaboration that is not without its problems.

Release Date:2005-12-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

Carambole

Carambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young boy with his car and drives away when he sees the boy is dead. Some days later he receives a letter telling him that someone knows what he did, and want money for his silence. And after that it just gets messier for the good doctor...

Release Date:2005-12-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

Wallander

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

Release Date:2005-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:54

Strong as a Lion

Simon is nine years old and in his world, he has a real lion as a companion. Simon is bullied at school by Alex. Simon is sure he can defeat Alex in team with the lion, but it's just in his imagination. In the real life he has no chance... until one day.

Release Date:2003-02-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2