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ICELAND
Trapped - Icelandic drama series in which the police try to solve a crime as a storm hits a remote town.
BELGIUM
Salamander - Belgian thriller serial about a police inspector's investigation into a bank robbery which uncovers a complex conspiracy.
FINLAND
Vares: Private Eye - Private investigator, ladies’ man, hard-drinking pub regular: Jussi Vares is a hero whose laid-back nonchalance belies a rock-hard determination to solve the case. Vares radiates all the vulnerability and loneliness of a man who may not have found his place in life, but can pretty much do without it.
Look of a Killer - Former KGB agent Viktor Kärppä isn’t a killer even though he looks like one, and he saw things on the job that he’d like to forget. In an attempt to escape his past and create some order in his life he settles in Finland, putting down roots in the country of his ancestors. Assimilating into his adopted culture proves impossible, however, because he comes off as an outsider. His multi-cultural background and fluency in Russian and Finnish, which were useful to him once, are now liabilities.
RAID - Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series
Prisoners of War - the gripping original Israeli drama on which the American series Homeland is based.
Hostages - Drama series about a surgeon who, the day before operations on the israeli prime minister, is heldostage with her family.
Falcón - Four-part Javier Falcón thriller based on Robert Wilson's novels. The Spanish city of Seville is the exquisite backdrop for this layered psychological thriller about Javier Falcon, a Chief Inspector in the Seville police--a flawed and complex character investigating homicide whilst battling his own demons and troubled past.
Marshland (la Isla Minima) - a film set in Spain's deep-south, 1980. In a small village frozen in time a serial killer has caused the disappearance of several adolescents.
NORTHERN IRELAND
The Fall - Gillian Anderson stars as DSI Stella Gibson in a thrilling crime serial. In Series Two, DSI Stella Gibson returns to hunt for serial murderer Paul Spector played by Jamie Dornan.
SCOTLAND
Shetland - A murder mystery set against the stunning Scottish backdrop of the Shetland Isles. Based on the novels by Ann Cleeves.
WALES
Hinterland - Detective drama series set in Aberystwyth against the backdrop of mountainous terrain.
AUSTRALIA
East West 101 - Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He’s also a Muslim, in a post-9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. Malik and his team work together to solve a variety of cases involving people who represent a cross-section of modern Australia.
The Code - Australian political thriller about two very different brothers who unearth information that those at the highest levels of power will kill to keep secret. - Australian political thriller about two very different brothers who unearth information that those at the highest levels of power will kill to keep secret.
MEXICO & U.S.
The Bridge (Juarex - El Paso) - The Bridge is a present-day crime thriller exploring the tensions on the U.S.-Mexico border. The plot is loosely based of the Danish/Swedish thriller The Bridge (Broen/Bron).
ARGENTINA
Epitafios - Two series of gripping pscyohological thrillers set in Buenos Aries.
Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos - An excellent, must see documentary by Filmmaker Chris Arth. Go behind the scenes with some of Scandinavia’s biggest stars: actors Krister Henriksson (Kurt Wallander), Peter Haber (Martin Beck, Martin Vanger in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Trond Espen Seim (Varg Veum), authors Henning Mankell (Wallander), Gunnar Staalesen (Varg Veum) and Maj Sjöwall (Martin Beck).
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