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- A warm, dramatic adventure story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.
- Private detective Varg Veum and police inspector Hamre located in Bergen, Norway work closely together in solving crimes and murders. Showing us how cruel humans are.
- A successful female politician hires private detective Varg Veum to find her missing daughter without attracting too much attention. During his investigation, Veum becomes aware of an international company and its dealings with corruption, black-market business, ad murder.
- Nikolaj has embarked on a flirtation with Laura, who was once his teenage sweetheart. Nikolaj's unhinged brother Tobias then becomes involved in the game, and their old rivalry is rekindled. But when Nikolaj's girlfriend Rikke appears on the scene, reality is turned on its head.
- [season 1, episode 1] "Bitre blomster" (original book title: "Bitre blomster"): Camilla Farang, 4 years old, has disappeared. Although Bergen's police are on the case, Camilla's mother hires private detective Varg Veum. The company Norrlon produces plastics and other toxic substances such as hydrocyanid acid also known as Zyclon B, which can be a very lucrative industry when you are willing to compromise the law. It lasts 91 minutes.
- The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
- Murder and trouble hit Veum when he meets up with classmates in the rock-band Camp, when he resumes contact with a former flame Rebecca, now the wife of his buddy. A Varg Veum mystery by best-selling crime novelist Gunnar Staalesen.
- The film begins in Copenhagen, where Varg Veum finds Lisa, the 16-year-old runaway prostitute daughter of a wealthy businessman. He brings her back to his client and his family in Norway, where he is intercepted by neighbors who ask him to find their son Peter, Lisa's close friend. He is reluctant to help them, but when Lisa's 21-year-old drug-addict friend turns up dead in a Bergen hotel room, Veum wants to do everything possible to protect the girl from a dangerous drug dealer. But the police see her as the prime suspect in the murder and regard the private detective's investigation as interference.
- There has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for her estranged husband Jonas's car brings Varg together with Wenche Andresen, he believes he may have found the one. But Jonas ends up dead, and Wenche is the cops' prime suspect. Varg can't believe this beautiful woman with her old-fashioned ideas on love and fidelity can possibly be guilty, and he sets out to crack the case and prove her innocence.
- Defense attorney Jonas Bechmann is a man of the system--until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances 18 months earlier.
- Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally, and his wife is fatally wounded. The Party is about to hold a leadership election. One of the candidates, Marit Holm, comes to Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked. Varg is drawn into a web of conspiracy and betrayal at the heart of the political establishment, in which spin doctors and political players will do anything to achieve their ends.
- Veum is on a case of a missing employee (Arne) for an international oil drilling company. When he checks Arne's flat he discovers a woman's torso in the fridge. He is attacked and knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the police is on the scene but the limbless body is gone.
- [season 1, episode 2]: "Tornerose" (original book title: "Tornerose sov i hundre år"): Private detective Varg Veum is in Copenhagen to retrieve the teenage girl Lisa who has run away from home and now earns a living as a prostitute in Copenhagen. As Varg Veum returns the girl to her parents the neighbors ask for his help to find their son who was also Lisa boyfriend. He had spent money on some unsuccessful investments in an attempt to pay back some drug money and is now missing. When his body turns up it sets up a string of family secrets that are revealed. It lasts 89 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 3]: "Din til døden." (original book title: "Din til døden."): A not very successful robbery against a horse racing venue and a mechanic with both a criminal record and a bad temper leads to murder, kidnapping and a stalker who does his best to be persuade his victim into becoming his girlfriend. It lasts 86 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 4]: "Falne engler." (original book title: Falne engler."): The suicide of a teenage girl dressed as an angel in a white dress brings out Lucifer in her grieving father. He is actually a policeman and a colleague of Hamre. As the avenging father kills several women dressed the same way as his daughter, Varg Veum and Hamre work together to solve the case and, by coincidence, one of the involved parties is actually one of Varg's youth friends. The teenager was mentally ill and had stopped her medical treatment but her father could not accept her death as suicide. It lasts 94 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 6]: "Begravde hunder." (loosely based on the book: "Begravde hunder biter ikke.": A right-wing nationalist party wants the political power in Norway if not internal strife, scandals and a bloody assassination get in the way first. The female front politician Marit Haug is known to the police as someone who often report people for either harassment or burglary. But no one really takes her seriously. At least not until more people die. It lasts 87 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 5]: "Kvinnen i kjøleskabet." (original book title: "Kvinnen i kjøleskabet."): The international oil company VeriDrill asks Varg Veum to find one of their employees. It starts a hunt searching for the truth of why a man would steal business secrets from his own company and the true identity of the missing employee who to the very end is only partly retrieved. It lasts 86 minutes.
- Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has settled down to enjoy domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, then his bitter enemy "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl. Soon Veum is deeply entangled is a case where he must take a tough battle with his conscience; was he really innocent in the girl's death? The only answer is "The Knife", but his mind is set om only one thing: revenge.
- [season 2, episode 1]: "Skriften på veggen." (original book title: "Skriften på veggen."): The action in the first episode of season 2 takes place 6 years after season 1 ended. Varg Veum has cut his hair and quit his job as a private detective and now works as a teacher. His last case ended 6 years ago when we helped the police solve a murder which incarcerated Kniven. Now, he has been released and has gained a reputation as a writer, but he is still a dangerous man and Varg Veum needs to quit his job as a teacher and stop Kniven for doing further damage. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- About the hunt for a type of violent criminal who has yet to strike in Denmark, and who is surrounded by fear and mystique - the serial killer.
- A forensic psychiatrist decides to change work. Days before leaving, a case of 5 shot on a Copenhagen city bus might involve an old patient of his. Other murders follow. He can't stop before the case is solved.
- In a future (2019) dystopian Denmark, the brothers Jensen and Jensen become bounty hunters.
- This is number 8 in the series of Varg Veum, written by Gunnar Staalesen. The plot spins around Veum's girlfriend's sister: she is a prostitute, and through her discovered shady actions, drug dealing, pimping, and other criminal activities.
- Private detective Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Evans, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing armakon, a weapons storage facility, and to prove him innocent.
- Varg Veum is summoned by Chief of Police Hamre to a hostage drama on a farm outside Bergen: A married couple has been brutally murdered, and all evidence points to their foster son, 16-year-old Jan Egil. The kid refuses to talk to anyone except Veum, who has known him since childhood. He swears he didn't kill his foster parents. But there are a couple of social works at the welfare home for stray kids, where Egil landed when he was a year old; they are deeply touched by the drama as defenders of the young population of the social home, for it's been plagued by a new drug called GHB (Hydroxybutyric acid) which killed several kids, When Egil declares himself guilty of the murder, Hamre asks Veum to get his hands out of a solved case. But Veum discovers that Egil is been forced by the knowledge a disturbing reality concerning his foster father and this drug.
- Follows Katrine Jensen (Laura Bach) on her search for a serial killer after human remains are found in the woods. She enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer (Jakob Cedergren) to track down the mysterious killer.
- Katrine invites her married boyfriend to the Department's birthday party for Mia (the M.E.). Thomas takes an instant dislike to him and warns Katrine; she pays no mind. His (Thomas's) divorce goes through, but there's a surprise ending in store.
- The members of a family are found dead in their own home. During the investigation, another family is kidnapped and the prisoner is kept in his own house. A battle against time begins to free the family before the killer's utopia crackles.
- The members of a family are found dead in their own home. During the investigation, another family is kidnapped and the prisoner is kept in his own house. A battle against time begins to free the family before the killer's utopia crackles.
- A seventeen-year-old who is admitted to one of Denmark's largest prisons is subjected to abuse and killed. When another prisoner is killed in the same way, it becomes clear that it is more than a sexual murder.
- A seventeen-year-old who is admitted to one of Denmark's largest prisons is subjected to abuse and killed. When another prisoner is killed in the same way, it becomes clear that it is more than a sexual murder.
- When a brutalized corpse of a drug dealer with connections turn up, the homicide department assume that it Is the beginning of a drug war. Things escalate and Thomas Schaeffer decides to go undercover to uncover the truth.
- Katrine decides to go ahead and date the married guy pursuing her because 1) He assures her he's split from his wife; and 2) He makes her happy. Meanwhile, Thomas's divorce proceeds while the serial killer continues to terrorize the city.
- [season 2, episode 2]: "Svarte får." (original book title: "Svarte får."): Varg Veum's mother-in-law is dying from cancer and her last wish is to see her younger daughter before she dies. Siren ran away when she was only a teenager and now lives a life as a drug prostitute using a hotel as her work place with the hotel maneger as her pimp. Varg Veum fulfills his mother-in-law's wish but Siren is shortly after that killed. Now Varg Veum in cooperation with Hamre needs to put an end to the hotel's working methods. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 2]: "Svarte får." (original book title: "Svarte får."): Varg Veum's mother-in-law is dying from cancer and her last wish is to see her younger daughter before she dies. Siren ran away when she was only a teenager and now lives a life as a drug prostitute using a hotel as her work place with the hotel maneger as her pimp. Varg Veum fulfills his mother-in-law's wish but Siren is shortly after that killed. Now Varg Veum in cooperation with Hamre needs to put an end to the hotel's working methods. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 4]: "I mørket er alle ulver grå." (orginal book title: "I mørket er alle ulver grå."]: One of Varg Veum's friends, a soldier, returns to Bergen after service in Afghanistan. He has got a new job as a security guard at the company Armakon, that produces weapons and bombs. The company's CEO's are some of his old war comrades but now they need to clean every obstacle away that before they can lounge Operation Phoenix. Norway has banned the sale of of them. Therefore, they blow themselves up so they can re-emerge in Hungary, which has not banned cluster bombs. The mission is called "Operation Phoenix". Varg Veum needs to travel to Hungary to prevent "Operation Phoenix". It lasts for 86 minutes.
- A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.
- Varg tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to prevent her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from? Was it an accident, or was she killed as a warning to other girls in the same circles? Together, Varg and Karin discover that the dead girl was deeply involved in operations in which young women were forcibly introduced in the country and at the asylum reception centres are cynically exploited. Important people at high government levels pressure the police department to hinder further investigation. What are they trying to hide? Time works against Varg, who must prove the identity of important people behind the ring before more young girls lose their lives.
- While investigating a case of sisters who have vanished, Varg Veum is about to become a father. He realizes that the case has connections to a police-investigated murder. Varg is obviously risking his pregnant wife's life if he wants to follow the case.
- [season 2, episode 5]: "De døde har det godt.": Dead and/or abused illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Norway are not considered to human but only an excellent opportunity for making good money by a civilized society full of respectable citizen who are to occupied with being respectable to notice what it feels like to try surviving and often dying on the beneath the limits of respectability. It lasts 86 minutes and is not based on a book but only on the characters from the books.
- [season 2, episode 6]: "Kalde hjerter." (original book title: "Kalde hjerter") Varg Veum works on a case about drug trafficking in a prison. That has a direct link to his search for a missing sister and her hidden and also missing brother, since he was one of the involved parties in the drug trafficking until he escaped prison. Varg Veum and Hamre discover cats hung around the city. Hamre tells Varg that there has been more reports from old ladies who lost their cats. The dead cats eerily mimic victims of the Norwegian tradition "hitting the cat out of the barrel", where a barrel is hit until the bottom falls out. However, in this unsettling twist it seems as if the cats have been removed from their barrels and then hung up around town. Varg Veum becomes a father. It lasts 87 minutes.
- Dicte is a dedicated reporter and refuses to give up before she has her story. Her stubborness gives her problems immediately with the policeman John Wagner, and they often get into clashes with each other.
- A disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote CIA broadcast station to protect a code operator. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late.
- Homicide investigator Wagner tries to keep Dicte out of the case about the Bosnian woman who was found dead, but Dicte has ways and means of her own.
- Newly divorced journalist, Dicte Svendsen, returns to her hometown of Aarhus with her daughter Rose. Working as a crime reporter, she discovers the corpse of a young Bosnian woman, who seems to have bled to death following a c-section.
- On a dramatic midsummer night, Dicte discovers a torched car in her neighbor's driveway. Inside the house, she finds the body of a woman who appears to have committed suicide.
- Another female corpse has turned up, and Dicte unexpectedly finds herself linked to the murdered women.