History Main / NordicNoir

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an [[/index]]AudienceAlienatingPremise[[index]] and only lasted a single season.
* [[/index]]''Series/BlackMirror'' has a couple episodes heavily inspired by this genre, though mixed with ''Black Mirror'''s trademark speculative science fiction.[[/index]]

** Which was adapted into ''Series/{{Backstrom}}'', an American procedural that kept the original's cynical edge while softening down some of the protagonist's other flaws.

* The ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''"Hated in the Nation"'' was heavily inspired by this genre, though mixed with ''Black Mirror'''s trademark speculative science fiction, as was ''Crocodile'', which was actually filmed (if not set) in Iceland.

* ''Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses''
* ''VideoGame/{{Draugen}}'' is somewhat of a retro take on the genre, placing a missing person's case in a rural Norwegian village in the year of 1923.

* ''Literature/HarryHole''
* ''Film/HoldTheDark'' is an American production set in Alaska (and filmed in Canada), and...weirder than some of the classic examples, but it qualifies as a take on the genre.
* ''Film/TheHunters''
* ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance''
* ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' and its American remake.
* ''Film/JohanFalk'' These movies do feature some sleuthing, but in Sweden at least, they are marketed as pure action movies.

* ''Literature/MartinBeck'' series is an UrExample of the genre, and basically spawned all other titles mentioned here.
** ''Film/{{Beck}}'' is a series of a TV movies [[InNameOnly very loosely based]] on Sjöwall and Wahlöö's novels. Maj Sjöwall was an advisor for the series, though.

* ''Literature/{{Millennium|Series}}'', one of the most famous literary examples.
** ''Film/TheMillenniumTrilogy'', the film adaptations of the original three books.
** ''Film/{{The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo|2011}}'', the English-language American adaptation.
* ''Literature/MissSmillasFeelingForSnow'' as a literary example that contains many central tropes and aesthetic trappings of the genre, while not exactly being a part of it. It ''is'' partially a detective story, albeit not in PoliceProcedural form, but, Peter Høeg being the writer that he is, is broader in genre, somewhat philosophical and multi-layered.
* ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' (Arguably ''proto-nordic noir'')

* ''VideoGame/WhispersOfAMachine'' combines the genre with CyberPunk.

** ''Series/TheBridgeUS'', its USA/Mexico remake.That

* ''Series/{{Bullets}}''

** ''Series/TheBridgeUS'', its USA/Mexico remake.

* ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'', one of the most famous literary examples.

* ''Series/MidnightSun'' (Midnattssol/Nuit Polare), a French-Swedish coproduction playing in Kiruna, Sweden.

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* ''Series/{{Wallander}}'', the other blockbuster literary example.

* ''Literature/HarryHole''
* ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' and its American remake.
* ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}'', arguably the TropeCodifier for people who don't read prose crime fiction.
** ''Series/TheKilling'', its US remake.
* ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' (Arguably ''proto-nordic noir'')
* ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'', one of the most famous literary examples.
** ''Film/{{The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo|2011}}'', the English-language American adaptation.
* ''Series/RolandHassel'', a classic nordic-noir-crime-thriller from the 80's, famous in Sweden for the protagonist being more intelligent than cocky.
* ''Series/{{Wallander}}'', the other blockbuster literary example.

* ''Literature/MartinBeck'' series is an UrExample of the genre, and basically spawned all other titles mentioned here.
** ''Film/{{Beck}}'' is a series of a TV movies [[InNameOnly very loosely based]] on Sjöwall and Wahlöö's novels. Maj Sjöwall was an advisor for the series, though.
* ''Series/{{Lilyhammer}}''
* ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearance''
* ''Film/JohanFalk'' These movies do feature some sleuthing, but in Sweden at least, they are marketed as pure action movies.
* ''Series/{{Jordskott}}''
* ''Series/{{Fortitude}}'' is what you get when a British TV channel decides to make its own Nordic Noir, still in a Scandinavian setting.
* ''Gentlemen'' and its sequel ''Gangsters'' by Klas Östergren
* ''Series/{{Trapped}}'' (Original title ''Ófærð''), an Icelandic TV series in 10 parts.
* ''Series/MidnightSun'' (Midnattssol/Nuit Polare), a French-Swedish coproduction playing in Kiruna, Sweden.

* ''Series/YGwyll'', a Welsh take on the genre.

* ''Series/TheBreak'', a Franco-Belgian take on the genre.
* The ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''"Hated in the Nation"'' was heavily inspired by this genre, though mixed with ''Black Mirror'''s trademark speculative science fiction, as was ''Crocodile'', which was actually filmed (if not set) in Iceland.
* ''Literature/MissSmillasFeelingForSnow'' as a literary example that contains many central tropes and aesthetic trappings of the genre, while not exactly being a part of it. It ''is'' partially a detective story, albeit not in PoliceProcedural form, but, Peter Høeg being the writer that he is, is broader in genre, somewhat philosophical and multi-layered.
* ''Film/HoldTheDark'' is an American production set in Alaska (and filmed in Canada), and...weirder than some of the classic examples, but it qualifies as a take on the genre.
* ''Film/DepartmentQTheKeeperOfLostCauses''

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an [[/index]]AudienceAlienatingPremise[[index]] and only lasted a single season.
* ''VideoGame/{{Draugen}}'' is somewhat of a retro take on the genre, placing a missing person's case in a rural Norwegian village in the year of 1923.
* ''Series/{{Deadwind}}'', as pictured above.
* ''Series/{{Twin}}'', which has many of the hallmarks of a Nordic Noir drama, with some police procedural aspects, but the detective is merely a side character and the focus of the story is on the victim's twin brother.

* ''Series/{{Deadwind}}''.

''Nordic Noir'' or ''Scandinavian Noir'' is a genre of CrimeFiction from the Nordic countries, which broke through around the TurnOfTheMillennium and since.

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* ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}''
** ''Series/TheKilling''; arguably the TropeCodifier for people who don't read prose crime fiction.

** ''Series/TheTunnel''
** ''Series/TheBridgeUS''

* ''Series/YGwyll'', a welsh take on the genre.

* ''Series/TheBreak'', a franco-belgian take on the genre.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luc chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an The attempt became an [[/index]]AudienceAlienatingPremise[[index]] and only lasted a single season.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luc chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an The attempt became an k[[/index]]AudienceAlienatingPremise[[index]] and only lasted a single season.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an [[/index]]The attemptAudienceAlienatingPremise[[index]] and only lasted a single season.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[/index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an AudienceAlienatingPremise and only lasted a single season.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of [[index]]''Series/BreakingBad''[[/index]], changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an AudienceAlienatingPremise and only lasted a single season.

* ''Bankenrot'' ("Broke") was essentially a Nordic version of ''Series/BreakingBad'', changing down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher for down-on-his-luck chef. The attempt by AMC to adapt it to American audiences, ''Feed The Beast'', unfortunately became an AudienceAlienatingPremise and only lasted a single season.