16 Films & TV Shows Set In Sweden During The 21st Century
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I am Zlatan
🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sComing-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
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I'm in the Band
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sFollow a journey from the early 90's in Stockholm when a bunch of musicians led by Nicke Andersson decide to start what became the rock band that inspired a whole generation of music lovers around the world, praised by their fans and worshiped of their idols. In a series of personal portraits, we follow the band's ups and downs for 25 years.
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I Am Greta
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2010sA force of nature. — Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
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Beartown: Season 1
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2020sThis isn't a game. — Hockey is the last beacon of hope for the citizens of Björnstad, so when its junior hockey team makes the national semifinal, the burden of the entire town’s dreams weigh heavily on the shoulders of its teenage superstars. However, the day of the semi-final is also the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatised and the town in turmoil.
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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇴 Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. — Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter—much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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Vox Lux
California New York 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇭🇷 Croatia The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sA twenty-first century portrait. — In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, Celeste is a mother to a teenage daughter of her own and is struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
New York Kentucky District of Columbia England 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇮🇹 Italy 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 2010sReports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. — When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.
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Becoming Zlatan
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000sThe decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film closely follows him, from his debut with the Malmö FF team in 1999 through his conflict-ridden years with Ajax Amsterdam, and up to his final breakthrough with Juventus in 2005.
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7 Days in Hell
England 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium The 1990s The 2000sThe epic battle for epicness — A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
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Eat Sleep Die
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2010sA young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
🇸🇪 Sweden England 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 2000sEvil shall with evil be expelled. — This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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Play
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2000sIn central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
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Marianne
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2010sThe life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2000sBased on the Worldwide Best Seller — Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
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Miss Sweden
🇸🇪 Sweden The 2000sEnjoyable, bouncy little romantic comedy — Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up.
