The 40 most popular 2020s swedish movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Last Viking
2025 · 1h 56m
country: Denmark
After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.


Pleasure
2021 · 1h 48m
country: Sweden
19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.


Horizon Line
2020 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.


The Swedish Connection
2026 · 1h 42m
country: Sweden
Swedish Foreign Ministry bureaucrat Gösta Engzell, overlooked during WWII, rescued thousands while turning supposedly neutral Sweden into a moral force. His efforts challenged the status quo and left a lasting humanitarian legacy.


Black Crab
2022 · 1h 49m
country: Sweden
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.


The Last Breath
2024 · 1h 36m
country: Sweden
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.


Off Track
2022 · 1h 49m
country: Sweden
A mid-age hipster in Stockholm is a training freak and trains for the 90 km ski race Vasaloppet. His sister is the opposite, no job, drinks but has a daughter. Suddenly secrets reveals and promises are made.


Eagles of the Republic
2025 · 2h 8m
country: Sweden
George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.


The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
2021 · 1h 33m
country: Sweden
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.


Je m'appelle Agneta
2026 · 1h 54m
country: Sweden
Craving a fresh start, recently unemployed Agneta accepts an au pair gig in Provence that turns into an indulgent escape — and an unexpected awakening.


The Stories
2026 · 1h 41m
country: Egypt
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.


Sea Fever
2020 · 1h 35m
country: Belgium
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.


Doctor Glas
2026 · 1h 50m
country: Sweden
The lonely doctor Gabriel Glas despises society's superficiality - until the fashion designer Helga enters his life. She's trapped in a destructive marriage, and Gabriel sees his chance to save her. Soon, they are caught in a web of lies, desire, and power. The deeper Gabriel is drawn into the relationship, the more moral boundaries he crosses - with catastrophic consequences.


Inside the Trustor Scandal
2026 · 1h 42m
country: Sweden
For the first time since 1997, Joachim Posener finally emerges from hiding and allows himself to be interviewed about his life and the Trustor affair. Twenty-seven years ago, he disappeared without a trace, and ever since, he has been on the international most wanted list. Now, Karin af Klintberg searches for him to find out how he lives and where he's been hiding all these years. But perhaps above all, to uncover what everyone is wondering: Was he guilty? Through new and opposing testimonies from never-before-heard voices, Karin simultaneously continues the search for the truth about the coup. How could five people swindle 600 million kr and still go free? And where did the money actually go?


A Part of You
2024 · 1h 41m
country: Sweden
A teenager struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered world in this emotional and bittersweet coming-of-age drama about those who are left behind.


An Honest Life
2025 · 2h 2m
country: Sweden
When a cynical law student in search of inspiration joins a band of anarchists, he becomes entangled in a web of crime where he is more pawn than player.


Slow
2023 · 1h 43m
country: Lithuania
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.


True Fear
2024 · 1h 32m
country: Sweden
When two female best friends hosting an online horror-themed history show together decide to make an episode about the site of a 17th century witch hunt, they find themselves seemingly terrorized by evil supernatural forces.


Super Charlie
2024 · 1h 18m
country: Denmark
Wille has always dreamed of becoming a superhero and fight crime alongside his father. This dream is shattered when Wille's brother, Charlie, is born. Charlie gets all the attention, and on top of that – he has superpowers. When a supervillain and an evil scientist enact a plan to overthrow the city, Wille and Charlie must put their differences aside and work together as a team. Can an infant and his envious brother save the city?


Sons
2024 · 1h 40m
country: Denmark
Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and most violent in the prison. Here begins an unsettling psychological thriller, where Eva’s sense of justice puts both her morality and future at stake.


Please
2026 · 9m
country: France
A dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and to be loved. Centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. Told through a series of loosely connected, tender and absurd scenes, the film follows people who are searching for closeness and acceptance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the sides we try to hide, such as feeling needy and pathetic. The stories overlap and reappear, gradually forming a portrait of collective longing.


Avicii - I'm Tim
2024 · 1h 37m
country: Sweden
Before Avicii, there was Tim. Through his own words, witness how a prodigious musical talent became one of the defining artists of his generation.


Burn All My Letters
2022 · 2h
country: Denmark
The film’s story revolves around Karin Stolpe’s complex relationship with her husband Sven Stolpe and her passionate love affair with Olof Lagercrantz which starts in the 1930s. It shows the impact of passion, jealousy and anger across 70 years, involving different generations.


Mother
2025 · 1h 43m
country: Belgium
Calcutta, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create her new order in response to the call she has received from God.


Trouble
2024 · 1h 38m
country: Sweden
Wrongfully convicted of murder, a clumsy electronics salesman faces police corruption and criminal conspiracies in an attempt to prove his innocence.


Love Forever
2025 · 1h 36m
country: Sweden
A Stockholm couple plans to get married on the gorgeous island of Gotland, where family-imposed traditions turn their most important day into a disaster.


The Roads Not Taken
2020 · 1h 25m
country: Sweden
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but stressful day takes on a hallucinatory and epic quality.


The Hypnosis
2024 · 1h 40m
country: France
André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.


I Am Greta
2020 · 1h 37m
country: Germany
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.


Watch the Skies
2022 · 1h 56m
country: Sweden
When a fostered teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but in fact kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to discover the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with unidentified flying expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.


Breaking Surface
2020 · 1h 22m
country: Belgium
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.


The Evil Next Door
2020 · 1h 27m
country: Sweden
A dad moves into a new house with his son and girlfriend. When he's out of town working, the son makes a new "friend" next doors.


The Conference
2023 · 1h 41m
country: Sweden
A ragtag group of public sector employees battle not only their own discord but also a bloodthirsty killer during a seemingly innocuous retreat.


Egghead Republic
2025 · 1h 34m
country: Sweden
An alternative reality where the cold war didn’t end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakhstan. Sonja, a 22 y.o. Swedish club-kid, working at one of the hippest magazines in the world, is mysteriously invited to report from inside the radio-active zone, to find or debunk the rumors of mutated centaurs living there…


Bad Neighbours
2026 · 1h 52m
country: Sweden
Hanna moves home to the country and ends up in the middle of a neighborhood feud between the ex-prime minister Stefan Carlsson and the stubborn Harry Flodman, who are arguing about a smelly outhouse. As Harry's live-in supporter, she is forced to choose a side; the power or the stubborn neighbor. The story is inspired by real events.


Alive
2020 · 23m
country: Sweden
Victoria is disabled and yearns for intimacy, so her assistant Ida offers to help by making a Tinder profile. Victoria gets a match, but the guy she is matching with is very shady, and Ida worries about what might happen if they meet.


Stolen
2024 · 1h 45m
country: Sweden
A young woman struggles to defend her Sámi heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation.


The Quiet Beekeeper
2026 · 1h 44m
country: Sweden
In the small community of Åmotfors in Värmland, Olof lives a quiet life as a beekeeper after losing his partner many years ago. All that remains is his teenage daughter Lise, who increasingly seeks to escape the confines of home. Olof struggles to reach her, and grief has long lain buried in silence—until he suddenly falls ill and is forced to confront all that has remained unspoken. With great sensitivity, Marcus Carlsson portrays the different stages of life and reminds us how the fragility between people can hold both pain and light.


I Am Zlatan
2021 · 1h 40m
country: Denmark
Coming-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.


The Year I Started Masturbating
2022 · 1h 38m
country: Sweden
Ambitious overachiever Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly, she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being set for victory, Hanna refuses to give up and decides to win him back. But to get there means having to win something much more important, love and desire for herself and who she is.
The 2020s opened with theatrical exhibition in crisis and streaming absorbing much of the mid-budget film. What's emerged is a split market: event spectacle in cinemas, and almost everything else finding its audience at home.
Swedish cinema is inseparable from Ingmar Bergman, whose chamber dramas set an international benchmark for psychological seriousness. The country also anchors the Nordic noir tradition that reshaped European crime storytelling.