Best Icelandic mystery series

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

  • Poster for Katla

    Katla 2021

    A year after a subglacial volcano erupts, mysterious elements from prehistoric times emerge from the melting ice, bringing unforeseen consequences.

    Netflix
    66
  • Poster for Trapped

    Trapped 2015

    The body of a murder victim turns up in a small Icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world.

    RÚV
    77
  • Poster for The Darkness

    The Darkness 2024

    Special investigator DI Hulda Hermannsdóttir tackles one last cold case before forced into early retirement. This one relates the mysterious and shocking murder of a young Russian asylum seeker a year prior.

    Sjónvarp Símans
    62
  • Poster for The Lava Field

    The Lava Field 2014

    When Reykjavik crime detective Helgi Marvin Runarsson is called in to investigate a suicide case on Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the case turns out to be far from simple. Pulled into a sinister trail of evidence, Helgi's own deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. Will Helgi turn a blind eye to murder in order to save the life of his daughter.

    RÚV
    64
  • Poster for Prisoners

    Prisoners 2017

    After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.

    RÚV
    65
  • Poster for The Flatey Enigma

    The Flatey Enigma 2018

    Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.

    Sky Vision
    60
  • Poster for The Flatey Enigma

    The Flatey Enigma 2018

    On a deserted island off the western coast of Iceland in 1970. A body is discovered by three seal hunters, and after it is found to be a missing Danish cryptographer, the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between the researcher and a medieval manuscript known as The Book of Flatey. Before long another body is found on the tiny island. This time, in the ancient Viking tradition, the victim’s back has been mutilated with the so-called blood eagle. Kjartan, the district magistrate’s representative sent to investigate the crime, soon finds himself descending into a dark, dangerous world of ancient legends, symbolism, and secret societies to find a killer.

    Sky Vision
    46
  • Poster for The Flatey Enigma

    The Flatey Enigma 2018

    Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.

    Sky Vision
    35
  • Poster for Fangar

    Fangar 2017

    After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.

    RÚV
    10
  • Poster for Óupplýst

    Óupplýst 2012

    Stories of normal people that have encountered supernatural things.

    10
  • Mannshvörf 2013

    Stöð 2
    10
  • Entrapped 2022

    Police investigate the disappearance of a cult member.

    64