If you want to brush up on your Swedish or just explore new genres beyond Scandinavian noir, we’ve got you covered. Here are the best movies and shows to stream right now featuring the Swedish language.
After more than 400 separate film adaptations, is there anything new to say about the monster that birthed the sci-fi…
In The Promised Land, director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) and Mads Mikkelsen reunite to create another intense, enjoyable drama…
There are plenty of versions of the Cinderella story, but none as brutal and nauseating as The Ugly Stepsister. For…
The Royal Hotel sees Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) resorting to take up a dire live-in job behind…
You may have heard about this 2019 critic-favorite from clips like this one of a kid running to flee the…
Director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) reunites with Mads Mikkelsen to tell the story of four teachers going through a mid-life…
Among the sea of class satires released in the last year, Triangle of Sadness is one of the better ones.…
Let Go follows the same structure as many modern family dramas. You can practically tell how it ends five minutes…
One woman’s main character syndrome reaches shocking lows in this vicious Norwegian satire of social-media-era narcissists. Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp)…
Finnish director and megastar Aki Kaurismäki hits with yet another absurd but poignant movie. The Other Side of Hope is…
Love & Anarchy is a raunchy and poignant series that mainly follows Sofie (Ida Engvoll ), a middle-aged consultant whose…
Familiarity breeds contempt, and Swedish Netflix’s new horror-comedy takes this idea to the extreme. Based on the novel by Mats…
This Swedish movie is the story of Astrid Lindgren, one of the most translated children book writers of all time.…
Directed by the award-winning Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge and adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel, The Wife…
Shia Laboeuf and Stellan Skarsgård star in this true story about one of the greatest tennis matches in history: the…
A plot straight out of a horror film: two young, but penniless foreigners find themselves stuck in a town ruled…
Though it doesn’t provide a more holistic view of Chinese society even in the context of work and industry, Ascension…
The Square is a peculiar movie about a respected contemporary art museum curator as he goes through a few very…
This movie is pretty much in every regard a Norwegian Kill Bill. It’s a dark gory comedy where, naturally, the…
A wonderful homage to the woman, actress, and mother based largely on her own archives and interviews with her four…
An unusual romantic comedy about a woman who doesn’t believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for…
We Are the Best! is one movie that may be overlooked largely by viewers, though it perfectly captures counterculture, and relates to…
This coming-of-age story starts in the present time, where Elle Marja, now a grandmother, reluctantly goes to her sister’s funeral…
If you like: weird movies and / or Scandinavian mythology, this movie is for you. It’s about unusual looking border…
This Danish film which was the country’s submission to the Oscars is about a delicate subject. A lawyer who specializes…
Much like the 1976 horror classic Carrie, Thelma centers on a young telekinetic woman whose religious upbringing and sexual repression…
With a particularly empowering tenderness and resilience, The Divine Order explores a glossed-over chapter in history wherein Swiss women could…
Sisters Martine and Filippa, daughters of a founder of a religious sect, live a simple and quiet life in a…
This Swedish surprise hit captivated viewers across the Atlantic because of one thing: the lead’s perspective. Okay, well, the performances…
The end of the world, of course, forces people to contemplate one’s life purpose, the choices they made, and the…
Set in the small town of Åmål, western Sweden, the debut feature by Lukas Moodysson (We Are the Best), is…
When a group of percussionists illegally carry out a city-wide performance act, it’s up to policeman Amadeus Warnebring to stop…
Somehow an art house film, horror, and romance all in one, Let the Right One In explores the boundaries of…
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