Best Swedish war movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch war films from Sweden, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Shame

    Shame 1968

    In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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  • Poster for All Things Fair

    All Things Fair 1995

    Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity while she is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a relief from her drunk and miserable husband.

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  • Poster for Stockholm Bloodbath

    Stockholm Bloodbath 2024

    In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.

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  • Poster for Beyond the Border

    Beyond the Border 2011

    December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to see the enemy everybody's talking about. But the adventure ends in disaster and soon thereafter Lieutenant Aron Stenström finds out that his brother Sven is one of the missing soldiers. With the odds stacked against him he is forced to go behind enemy lines on a secret rescue mission. Deep inside the Norwegian forests Aron realizes that a completely different kind of line must be crossed if they're to come out alive.

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  • Poster for 1939

    1939 1989

    When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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  • Poster for Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

    Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990

    Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

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  • Poster for An Enemy to Die For

    An Enemy to Die For 2012

    Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

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  • Poster for General von Döbeln

    General von Döbeln 1942

    1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.

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  • Poster for The Gladiators

    The Gladiators 1969

    Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.

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  • Poster for The War to End All Wars - The Movie

    The War to End All Wars - The Movie 2023

    "The War To End All Wars - The Movie" is an animated musical and historical journey that brings to life stories from World War 1. It features music from Sabaton's 10th studio album, "The War To End All Wars".

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  • Poster for A Day Will Dawn

    A Day Will Dawn 1944

    After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

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  • Poster for The First Squadron

    The First Squadron 1941

    The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

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  • Poster for Kalabaliken i Bender

    Kalabaliken i Bender 1983

    The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.

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  • The Deserter 2022

    A deserting soldier is caught and sentenced to death and his only way to win his freedom back is to convince the judge that he had no other choice. His plead tells of both supernatural entities and an extreme fear of death.

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  • Poster for The Bread of Love

    The Bread of Love 1953

    Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

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  • The Swedish Connection 0

    This is a Swedish story of an unknown hero, Gösta Engzell, a down-prioritised bureaucrat at the Swedish Foreign Ministry during the 2nd World War who saved thousands of lives and turned the so-called neutral Sweden into a moral superpower along the way.

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  • Poster for Karl XII

    Karl XII 1974

    August Strindberg's historical play about the king he called Sweden's traitor.

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  • Poster for Ingen morgondag

    Ingen morgondag 1957

    It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.

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  • Poster for När kriget kom

    När kriget kom 1989

    Short film by the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency showing what would happen if Sweden got into a war.

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  • Mannen utan själ 1983

    A mystery game of light and shadow. The shadows seal around the army's. It is the men of the two extreme parties who shoot at each other, spreading destruction and death.

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  • Poster for Sabotage

    Sabotage 1952

    With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden.

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  • Europa: The Last Battle 2017

    World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.

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