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Hacker journalists, chess-playing knights, vampire suburbs and midsummer cults — Sweden exports darkness with design. From Pippi to Lisbeth Salander, start here, then open the country on StoryTerra's map.
Open Sweden on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Sweden
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Browse 155 books, 572 movies, 14 TV shows and 31 games set in Sweden.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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 Seventh Seal
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God…
Midsommar
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets…
Vikings
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a…
Persona
A young nurse Alma is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects but will not talk. As they spend time together Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly never receiving any answer.…
Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund Sweden with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law Marianne in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way they encounter a…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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…
Let the Right One In
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg Stockholm twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider bullied at school by his classmates; at home Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist…
A Man Called Ove
Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house…
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