Stefan Thunberg

Beck

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Release Date1999-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count55

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 Date2005-01-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count57

The Hunters

Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.

Release Date2018-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count26

Farang

Former criminal Rickard has vanished. Fleeing Sweden and the old friends he has testified against, he abandons his name, his life, and his family to start over in Thailand. Ten years later and still with a price on his head, Rickard knows that a return home would be a death sentence. And so he ekes out his existence as a small-time crook in the back alleys of Phuket. Life’s tough and dirty, but at least it won’t kill him.

Release Date2017-03-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count12

End of Summer

On a summer's evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion, and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy's older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm, when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance. A shaken Vera travels home to her fractured family to uncover, once and for all, what really happened in the summer that never ended.

Release Date2023-10-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count7

Mafia

The stark transformation of 1990s Sweden from peaceful to perilous as it follows the ascent of Radovan "Jakov" Jakovic from rags to criminal riches and Gunn Philak, the lone cop who sees the looming mafia menace in cigarette smuggling's shadow.

Release Date2025-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Watch the Skies

When a foster home placed teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to find out the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with UFO expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.

Release Date2022-12-25

DepartmentCrew

JobDramaturgy

Vote Count108

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.

Release Date2012-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count126

False Trail

The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten. Torsten does not support Erik very much in his job and has, for some personal reasons, already arrested a suspected perpetrator. Eric takes great risks when he starts digging in the criminal material of the horrible murder case.

Release Date2011-09-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count61

Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.

Release Date2012-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count73

Wallander: The Sniper

When a small-time crook is killed by a sniper, Wallander and the Ystad police investigate. Meanwhile, trainee policeman Pontus is forced to reconsider his career.

Release Date2009-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Beck 32 - Steinar

An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, is missing, but is she really the victim? And what role has the so-called neighbourhood watch from the nearby community played? The case is difficult to solve, with everyone involved guarding their secrets, regardless of social class. Furthermore, police supervisor Klas Fredén decides to go over Martin Beck’s head and recruit charismatic, Norwegian homicide investigator, Steinar Hovland. The newly-structured Beck group faces the blight of a power struggle. And Martin struggles to find his way back to his old self.

Release Date2016-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count24

Wallander: The Joker

When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.

Release Date2006-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count15

Beck 33 - End of the Road

Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son. The Beck group takes on the case and find that there is a hidden security room in the victims’ house, containing stolen weapons. They find fingerprints from a criminal who was involved in a robbery 4 years ago. After the robbery, he shot his accomplices and disappeared without a trace, along with their haul of 6.3 million. The question is how the former police officer ended up with the weapons and how is he connected to the thieves? The case wakes strong feelings at Police Headquarters and takes highest priority.

Release Date2016-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

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 Date2005-08-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count7

Münsters fall

When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear a media frenzy. But the quick arrest of the man's former partner in the face of damning evidence promises a quick resolution to the case.

Release Date2005-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden

Münster stumbles upon the body of a young woman who has been strangled in her home and surprises the killer, who is still at the scene. The killer flees, but an unusual book is found at the scene, dedicated to the killer. When another victim is found, Van Veeteren's literary expertise is put to the test when it becomes clear that they are dealing with a serial killer who chooses his victims based on the names of characters from 19th-century crime novels. What will be the name of the next victim?

Release Date2006-06-14

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count9

Fallet G

The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might be linked to Van Veeteren's only unsolved case.

Release Date2006-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

Beck - Den förlorade sonen

A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years.

Release Date2021-02-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

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 Date2005-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count6

Wallander: The Betrayal

A young student reports her mother missing. The next day, the mother's body is found buried in the sand close to the family's house.

Release Date2013-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count14

Wallander: The Secret

11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.

Release Date2006-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Wallander: The Collector

A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.

Release Date2010-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Wallander: The Courier

After the murder of a motorcyclist, an investigation reveals that bikers are being used as drug couriers from Denmark to Sweden and that the killing was part of a cartel power struggle.

Release Date2009-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count19

Moreno and the Silence

When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, tongues begin to loosen.

Release Date2006-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Young Jönsson Gang Showing Off

When their circus tickets get swiped, the Jönsson League boys hatch a plan to steal them back, but end up suspects in an even bigger crime!

Release Date1997-11-28

Vote Count23