Swedish Movies on Netflix
Last updated April 18, 2025
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe third in the original trio of films inspired by author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," this thriller follows feisty computer hacker Lisbeth Salander as she finds herself hospitalized, suspected of murder and targeted for death by thugs.
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsFrom 1967 to '75, a film crew aimed cameras at major figures in the Black Power movement, creating hours of footage that remained unreleased for decades. In clips, Stokely Carmichael, Huey P. Newton and Angela Davis discuss the movement's evolution.
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As It Is in Heaven
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis Oscar-nominated Swedish drama tells the story of Daniel Dareus (Michael Nyqvist), a small-town boy who escaped his tiny village to become a famous conductor. A tragic mishap sends him back home in search of a fresh start, and he ends up leading the local choir. Frida Hallgren, Helen Sjoholm and Lennart Jahkel co-star in writer-director Kay Pollak's (Children's Island, Love Me!) heartwarming tale.
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Mother of Mine
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsDirector Klaus Härö tackles the real-life drama of history in this heartbreaking film set against the backdrop of World War II. Evacuated to the safety of neutral Sweden along with more than 70,000 other Finnish children, 9-year-old Eero (Topi Majaniemi) grapples with feeling abandoned by his biological parents and yet detached from his surrogate family. Unfortunately, things only get worse when he returns to a much different home life.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsA journalist and a rebellious computer hacker team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's niece, only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family in this adaptation of the bestseller by Stieg Larsson.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHacker Lisbeth Salander becomes the prime suspect when two journalists die after magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist launches an expose of the Swedish sex trade, so the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.
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The Queen and I
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsNahid Persson Sarvestani's thought-provoking documentary about her friendship with Queen Farah, the Shah of Iran's wife, demonstrates how even those at odds can find middle ground and understanding as the conversation becomes political and personal.
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Bananas!*
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNicaraguan laborers are paying a high price to get cheap bananas onto the world's tables, and Southern California personal injury lawyer Juan Dominguez has decided to do something about it. This film tells his story. Director Fredrik Gertten follows Dominguez as he takes on corporate giants Dole Food and Dow Chemical on behalf of 10,000 banana workers made ill by a pesticide used in Nicaraguan plantations years after it was banned in the States.
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Mammoth
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsLukas Moodysson writes and directs this drama centered on three intersecting stories, one of a traveling New Yorker named Leo (Gael García Bernal), another of his surgeon wife, Ellen (Michelle Williams), and also the children of their Filipino nanny, Gloria (Marife Necesito), in the Philippines. A series of dramatic events unfolds after Leo visits Thailand, causing everyone to reexamine their priorities. Sophie Nyweide co-stars.
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Kiss Me
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhile celebrating her own recent engagement, Mia travels to the Swedish countryside to attend the engagement party of her estranged father. When she meets her soon-to-be stepsister, sparks fly and Mia finds herself unexpectedly falling in love.
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Heaven's Heart
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a dinner party conversation turns to the topic of infidelity, surprising revelations and unsettling questions emerge, and the marriages of two happy couples become increasingly compromised by doubt and distrust. Is unfaithfulness a forgivable response to temptation or an unpardonable offense? Jakob Eklund, Maria Lundqvist, Mikael Persbrandt and Lena Endre star in this provocative drama from director Simon Staho.
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Madness
2010 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsWhen they stop at a country gas station on the way to a cheerleading competition, Jenna (Victoria Bloom) and Tara (Yohanna Idha) pick up Chad (Andreas Vaehi) and Oliver (Max Wallmo), whose car has conked out. But their cheerful mood turns to terror as a group of sadistic killers stalks and captures them. Now the four teens must fight for their lives as their captors start slaughtering them one by one in this gory spine-chiller.
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