Best Norwegian crime series

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

  • Poster for Lilyhammer

    Lilyhammer 2012

    After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.

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  • Poster for Wisting

    Wisting 2019

    Empathetic, meticulous and relentless - the only thing to escape Larvik detective William Wisting in his hunt for Norway's most notorious criminals is a happy family life. And when two mysterious deaths interrupt Wisting's Christmas, it is the beginning of a showdown with the deadliest killer of them all.

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  • Poster for Acquitted

    Acquitted 2015

    After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.

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  • Poster for Furia

    Furia 2021

    Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.

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  • Poster for Valkyrien

    Valkyrien 2016

    In an illegal hospital, hidden in an Oslo underground station, a physician is desperately trying to find a cure for his wife's terminal illness.

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  • Poster for Mammon

    Mammon 2014

    Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life’s biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother’s family.

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  • Poster for Eyewitness

    Eyewitness 2014

    Two 15-year-olds secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.

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  • Poster for The Lørenskog Disappearance

    The Lørenskog Disappearance 2022

    When a billionaire's wife vanishes, Norwegian police must deal with the frenzied press and deceitful informants to find the truth.

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  • Poster for Gangs of Oslo

    Gangs of Oslo 2023

    Policeman Moaz Ibrahim is forced into living a dangerous double life with the criminal gang Enemiez as an attempt to keep his shady past hidden from the outside world.

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  • Poster for Monster

    Monster 2017

    In the dark and remote landscape of northern Norway, a brutal murder reveals a mass grave which links old cases to missing people. Local police officer Hedda is put on the case with special investigator Joel Dreyer, who comes from the metropolitan south. Their different backgrounds, personalities, and methods immediately set them against each other. But when the investigation begins to spiral out of control, both detectives resort to questionable moves in order to stay on the case and protect their secrets.

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  • Poster for Forsvinningen på Lørenskog

    Forsvinningen på Lørenskog 2021

    What happened to Anne-Elisabeth Hagen? Where is she, was she kidnapped by criminals for profit or is it her husband who may have made her disappear? Program leader and journalist Kenneth Fossheim sheds light on the Lørneskog case together with former detectives from Kripos Per Angel and Håvard Aksnes.

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  • Poster for Magnus

    Magnus 2019

    Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.

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  • Poster for Outlier

    Outlier 2020

    A young girl is found killed at a camping resort and criminal psychologist Maja Angell believes that the police have arrested the wrong man....

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  • Poster for The Machinery

    The Machinery 2020

    Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.

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  • Poster for Varg Veum

    Varg Veum 2007

    Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.

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  • Poster for The Third Eye

    The Third Eye 2014

    A police detective is trying to locate his missing daughter, while solving other cases.

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  • Poster for Christmas on Blood Mountain

    Christmas on Blood Mountain 2017

    A family gathering doesn't go as planned, as one by one is being killed by a mysterious murderer.

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  • Poster for Fenris

    Fenris 2022

    When Emma hears that her father has stopped doing his job as a wolf researcher, she takes her son Leo to Østbygda to find out what's going on. At the same time, a young boy disappears without a trace from the village.

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  • Poster for Headhunters

    Headhunters 2022

    The place is Oslo, the year is 2002, and Roger Brown is a newly employed headhunter in an exclusive recruitment agency. He is given the prestigious task of finding a new top manager for the oil company Njord Oil. Roger is willing to do whatever it takes to quickly climb the career ladder. Takes place before the novel "Headhunters" by Jo Nesbø.

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  • Poster for Kieler Street

    Kieler Street 2018

    Jonas has started a new life and lives in Scandinavia's least criminal town. But the facade falls when Jonas realizes that other inhabitants are former criminals with dark secrets. They will do anything it takes to protect their new lives.

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  • Poster for Baneheia: Kampen om sannheten

    Baneheia: Kampen om sannheten 2021

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  • Poster for Åsted Norge

    Åsted Norge 2016

    With the help of skilled journalists and their own expert team, "Åsted Norway" will uncover and try to solve crimes. The viewers can expect an intense pursuit of sought after criminals.

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  • Poster for For Life

    For Life 2020

    A tough police investigator and her team are currently solving murder cases. 15 years later she's at a completely different and more dangerous place.

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  • Poster for Who Killed Birgitte?

    Who Killed Birgitte? 2018

    In this "True Crime" documentary series, the murder of Birgitte Tengs in Karmøy Norway, 1995, is investigated. The case is one of the most famous murder cases in Norway.

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  • Poster for Ran

    Ran 2005

    Five boys meet in their teens. This lays the foundation for a career in crime, driven on by the dream of the big heist. Police are becoming aware of them, but the biggest threat is proving to be their own friendship. "Ran" is a high-profile television drama for four episodes. It a mix of drama and action, which is about both spectacular robberies, and about friendship and affiliation. The dilemma the gang encounters is similar to what most of us experience: there comes a point in life where the roads separate, where you realize that you and your old friends have grown apart. This causes a bigger problems for these guys, as this break is not just a little sad and melancholy experience - it is also a threat to their life, their future and their identity.

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  • Poster for Catch and Release

    Catch and Release 2021

    A dying policewoman hopes to solve her last case when a fly fisherman is killed in a small village, but the investigation takes a personal turn along the way.

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  • Poster for Brennpunkt: Drapet i akebakken

    Brennpunkt: Drapet i akebakken 2021

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  • Poster for The Dog Patrol

    The Dog Patrol 2024

    Sør-Vest police precinct is one of the most advanced dog units in the country, with 21 dogs that are trained to find narcotics, weapons and money, look for tracks on crime scenes, hunt suspects or rescue missing people in snow-covered mountains. The dog patrol is a documentary that follows the dog patrol unit in one of Norway's most exciting police districts. The series gives viewers an insight into the daily work of those who work in the dog unit and get up close to the officers and their four-legged companions.

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  • Poster for Hvor er Thea?

    Hvor er Thea? 2017

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  • Poster for Therese: The Girl Who Disappeared

    Therese: The Girl Who Disappeared 2020

    Nine year old Therese disappears from Fjell in Drammen, Norway in July 1988. She has never been found. How could it happen? A family is still searching for answers, and two detectives never let the case go.

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  • Poster for Seizure

    Seizure 2019

    Oslo detectives Max Sørensen and Sander Holm are called in to investigate after four young immigrant boys are found dead in an empty swimming pool. Bizarre twists in the case brings the detectives face to face with both their own demons and a dark sequence of increasingly inexplicable events.

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  • Poster for Torpedo

    Torpedo 2007

    Emotionally-charged miniseries about a “Torpedo” (enforcer) who has his life turned upside down in an instant – the moment he finds his wife murdered. She was killed with her husband’s weapon, making him the prime suspect, and leaving him with the responsibility of caring for their five-year-old daughter as he embarks on a harrowing four-day quest find the real killers and clear his name Less

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  • Poster for Rød snø

    Rød snø 1985

    November, 1942, during the war. Anne Eriksen, a young Norwegian woman living in Gothenburg, is on her way to visit good friends in Dalsland – a visit that will have unexpected consequences. The destination of her journey is Linds Pensionat in Nössemark. She is welcomed by Ruth Lind, her son Evert, and the guests at the guesthouse. Peace and idyll reign in the remote guesthouse. But its proximity to occupied Norway makes the tranquility fragile...

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  • Poster for Åsted Norge: Savnet

    Åsted Norge: Savnet 2020

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  • Poster for Dirty Money, White Lies

    Dirty Money, White Lies 2004

    Sverre Fjeld is a young police officer caught between the law and his own conscience. Sverre is fresh out of the police academy and about to get married to his longtime girlfriend. As he takes his first job in Olso, a chance meeting with a young single mother leads to a larger web of dirty money, white lies, drugs, corruption and clandestine liaisons.

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  • Poster for Recoil

    Recoil 2018

    A criminal group starts to investigate the police man Tom Karlsen after a drug deal goes wrong.

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  • Poster for Spesialenheten

    Spesialenheten 2011

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  • Toget 2014

    Two detectives are on their way from Oslo to Bergen when suddenly their train is hit by an avalanche. When the power is turned back on, they find two dead bodies in the train car.

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  • Poster for Drømmefangeren

    Drømmefangeren 2005

    Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel. Young Therese Geber from Asker is found murdered in the harbor basin at Aker Brygge. An eerie atmosphere spreads throughout his home municipality when another young girl is murdered and a five-year-old mysteriously disappears. Cato Isaksen is assigned to the case. He has left his partner Sigrid and moved back in with his wife Bente and sons Gard and Vetle. Isaksen is still torn between his job as an investigator and his obligations as a father. This has particular consequences for his relationship with his eldest son Gard.

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  • Poster for Fox Grønland

    Fox Grønland 2001

    The series is about police investigators in Greenland police and the assignments they receive. Every day they face new challenges that affect them differently. These consist of inspector Jan Erik Holm, Hassan Mohammed Arif Osman, Trond Olsen and Holms ex-wife Cecilie Melvold. The series paints a somewhat grim picture of Oslo, it is a place where no one is safe, where nobody is above threats and blackmail. Even policemen are subjected to harassment.

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  • Poster for Marerittet

    Marerittet 1989

    «Marerittet» is a Norwegian-Swedish drama-thriller series. Nils (Tomas von Brömssen) and Eva Lind (Kjersti Holmen) are a married couple whose mountain trek in Northern Norway goes awry. After Nils injures his foot, they descend into a remote fishing village in Lofoten. Though the setting appears idyllic, its inhabitants are cold and hostile. As tensions escalate, unsettling events reveal that sinister forces may be at play beneath the surface. It was filmed in Vestvågøya in the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Summer of 1989.

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  • Poster for SK 917 har nettopp landet

    SK 917 har nettopp landet 1983

    Norwegian miniseries. The story takes place in a jumbo jet on a route between Copenhagen and New York. SAS route 917 takes off from Copenhagen Airport with 350 passengers on board. Among the passengers in first class are four Nordic directors of an American cosmetics group. The atmosphere between them is tense. Shortly after departure, a business manager dies of a heart attack. Later on the journey, someone discovers a dead man in the toilet room. A ruthless murderer is on board the plane.

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  • Poster for Helmer and Sigurdson

    Helmer and Sigurdson 1976

    We follow the detectives Helmer and Sigurdson, investigating murders in Oslo, Norway.

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  • Poster for Taxi

    Taxi 1969

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  • Poster for The Mourning Cloak

    The Mourning Cloak 2008

    Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel. Lise Sommer is haunted by her past in "Sørgekåpen" (The Mourning Cloak). Her best friend Esther Synnøve Lønn is found murdered with her throat slit. A few days later, Esther's son also disappears. When the police begin to scratch beneath the surface, it turns out that a childhood friend of Lise and Esther Synnøve is also missing. The relationship between the friends hides dark undercurrents. What really happened when the girls were little? And what are their mothers hiding? The dark threads between the characters are woven together in a dangerous pattern. Someone wants revenge, but who? And why? Cato Isaksen has a new and sinister murder case to solve.

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  • Poster for Slangebæreren

    Slangebæreren 2005

    Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel. A serial killer is on the loose in Oslo. He kills and leaves mysterious notes under the bodies with lines from a children's song. Problems pile up for investigator Cato Isaksen, both in relation to his two families and the murder cases.

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  • Poster for Good Night, Darling

    Good Night, Darling 2009

    A Norwegian drama about a struggling musician who turns to blackmail after witnessing a murder.

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  • Dødelig kjemi 1992

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  • Poster for Aksjemordet

    Aksjemordet 1990

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  • Poster for Størst av alt

    Størst av alt 2007

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  • Poster for Honningfellen

    Honningfellen 2008

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  • Poster for The Orchestral Pit

    The Orchestral Pit 2010

    Police detective Cato Isaksen investigates the brutal murder of first violinist Siv Ellen Blades.

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  • Station 2: Navy Divers 2019

    Come with the Navy's Diving Service to work - all the way down to the depths.

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