# The best Nordic noir series

From The Bridge to The Chestnut Man: the Nordic crime series critics and viewers rank highest (Nordic Perspective, Wikipedia, Bästaguiden).

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- Sep 26, 2026 · emil_cinephile
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## Top 12

1. **The Bridge (2011-2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Saga Norén and a body on the Øresund Bridge.
2. **The Killing (2007-2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sarah Lund and her jumper, Copenhagen.
3. **The Chestnut Man (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Danish thriller from Søren Sveistrup's novel.
4. **Trapped (2015-2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An Icelandic town snowed in with a killer.
5. **Bordertown (2016-2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Finnish detective in the border town of Lappeenranta.
6. **Wallander (2005-2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Krister Henriksson as Henning Mankell's detective.
7. **Millennium (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist on TV.
8. **The Eagle (2004-2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Danish crime series about an Icelandic-Danish detective.
9. **Jordskott (2015-2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Disappearances in a Swedish forest and folklore.
10. **Modus (2015-2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A psychologist and a detective in Uppsala.
11. **Caliphate (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Swedish security police, an IS sympathiser and a Stockholm teenager.
12. **Those Who Kill (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Danish series about serial killers.
13. **Beck (1997-)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Beck and the Stockholm police.

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