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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, HĂ€mnden, 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.
Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.
Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.
Madame BofvĂ©n leads a notorious gang of thieves known locally as the Klappsnapparna (the Christmas Thieves), because Christmas is their peak season and Christmas presents are their prey. The gang is now busy with their preparations â cow hooves must be polished, picklocks gathered, and the thieves' lair decorated with counterfeit banknotes. Among the thieves are Bongo, Skuggan, Trollet, and of course Kurre. Kurre is the clumsiest pickpocket in town and grew up in the gang, which has become his family.
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Siblings Ofelia and PhilĂ©mon are on their way home to Sweden to celebrate Christmas with their grandmother. When their fatherâs money is ruined by rats, he offers the children a coin for every tail they bring. But the cunning diesel rats Lucky Closette and Don Calzone have other plans â and Lucky, who is both brave and mischievous, knows exactly how to put an end to the children's rat hunt.
11-year-old Bobo is embarrassed by his momâs terrible singingâuntil he discovers she was once a Swedish music legend, before losing her voice when he was born. After a football accident leaves Bobo in a coma, heâs swept into a dreamlike underworld where he meets its mysterious boss.
Drama comedy that is invented, written down and performed by the Killing Gang: Tomas Alfredson, Jonas Inde, Martin Luuk, Henrik Schyffert, Robert Gustafsson, Andres Lokko and Johan Rheborg.
Gösta is a 28-year-old child psychologist who gets his first job in a small rural town. He wants to be the kindest person in the world and help everyone he meets - sometimes it goes well, sometimes not ...
No two friends are more different than Little Anna and the Tall Uncle. She is short, he is very tall. Little Anna is brave, the Tall Uncle is a scared cat. And yet there is nobody who Little Anna would rather go swimming with, build a tree house with or ride a motorcycle with than the Tall Uncle. And there is nobody the Tall Uncle would rather bake a yummy cake for than his best friend Little Anna.
Eva is separated from her husband and daughter by the police. A story about taking the consequences of one's choice.
A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?
The Van Veeteren films are based on HĂ„kan Nesser's best-selling novels. Set in the fictional northern European city of Maardam, they follow retired police commissioner Van Veeteren Wollter and his two protĂ©gĂ©s, detectives MĂŒnster Hanzon and Moreno Rexed.
âE-e-emil!â shouts father across the small farm in Katthult, the boy is up to his old tricks and will have to be banished to the woodshed. Except that Emil doesnât see this as punishment â on the contrary: he locks the door from inside so that he can continue undisturbed to carve another of his wooden figures, of which he has a whole collection. His little sister Ida also wants to sit inside the shed, but sheâs too well-behaved. This new adaptation of Astrid Lindgrenâs beloved tales from her book âEmil of Lönnebergaâ portrays the sunny side of life in the country at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Ă berg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson discovers a police report that his long-estranged sister has been abused. He confronts her with his knowledge but she denies it.
Bjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money. Across the river lives Bjarnes father Halvar. The two have never pulled evenly, which stems from a 20-year conflict filled with idle words, grumpy pride and stubborn prestige. In order to rescue the firm Malin sees no alternative but to go across the river to ask Halvar to cater for the loan. A decision that will have unexpected consequences.
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victimâs work with a book about âsocietyâs dark sideâ that captures the Beck groupâs interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalistâs killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.
Erica returns to her hometown for her parents funeral and her childhood friend murdered
In 1939, a group of skiers set off on a five-day ski trip in the Lapland mountains. Due to a severe storm, they are snowed-in a mountain cabin. On the first night, a murder takes place, the successful businessman Weismann is brutally stabbed to death. The group's participants realize, horrified, that the killer must be one of them. In order to endure the following days trapped in the cabin, they must try to solve the murder mystery themselves.