Kim Bodnia
1) Rosewater
Language
English
Description
Recounts the real-life experiences of London-based, Tehran-born journalist Maziar Bahari when he returns to Iran to cover the 2009 presidential elections and is detained as a spy and tortured by an interrogator Bahari identified as Rosewater.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she₂s not the only person looking for her.
Language
English
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Language
Swedish
Description
A woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. It's also just the beginning of a wave of violence the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
Language
English
Description
"The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and...
Language
English
Description
"In the final season, the cat and mouse chase of Eve and Villanelle comes to a captivating end. With Eve set out on the ultimate revenge mission, Villanelle embraces a brand-new way of life in an attempt to prove that she's not a monster. And all the while, Carolyn must go to extraordinary lengths to continue to chase down The Twelve and stop them for good"--Container.
Series
Language
Swedish
Description
An abandoned tanker ship crashes into the Oresund bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating the incident is Scandinavia's oddest couple: Swedish detective Saga Noren, hampered by primitive social skills, and Martin Rohde from Denmark, still reeling from the death of his son. Theirs is a friendship from having been through hell together on the job.
Series
Film Movement volume Year 4, film 7
Language
Norwegian
Description
Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love.
10) Nightwatch
Language
Danish
Description
Martin has a good life filled with great friends. But when he takes a part-time job as the night watchman in a hospital morgue, he finds himself haunted by grisly visions and deviant desires. As his nights grow even more bizarre, somebody begins brutally murdering local prostitutes and Martin becomes the prime suspect.
Language
Danish
Description
Based on the novel by Erling Jepsen, Robert, a young cop from Copenhagen, is transferred to a small town in southern Jutland after some dark events in his private life. The new position isn't a dream job but a necessary stepping stone toward his way back to civilization in Copenhagen. But the provincial ways and local hierarchy thrust Robert onto a slippery slope.
Language
English
Description
The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and...
Language
English
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Emma Roberston is assigned to work with Connie Mortensen, a wife, and mother accused of a despicable crime. Her assessment will determine whether Connie faces life in jail, life in a secure psychiatric hospital, or the chance of rehabilitation and release. Emma hopes that the high-profile case will make her career, but her sessions with Connie quickly become a complex psychological game of cat and mouse with confusing sexual undercurrents. Connie...
15) Killing Eve
Language
English
Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
17) Rosewater
Language
English
Description
Journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
19) Pusher trilogy
Language
Danish
Description
A "brutal and strangely affecting portrayal of the [dregs] of Danish society and the criminal conscience"--All Movie Guide.
20) Pusher
Language
Danish
Description
Frank is a small-time pusher who sells heroin. When a deal goes wrong and Frank is busted by the police, he is released because of lack of evidence. Unfortunately, he now owes a very big debt to Milo, an ex-Yugoslav dealer, who has given him two days to collect the money that will save him from a bullet.