Genombrottet

Series Similar to Genombrottet

If you enjoyed Genombrottet, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Snabba cash

   2021 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Snabba cash is set in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in the feature films. It is a buzzing environment where the craving for status and money is stronger than ever. The entrepreneurial jet set as well as the criminal world has become even more brutal, chaotic and ruthless. When these two worlds collide, loyalty, friendships and business partners will all be tested in the never-ending quest for easy money.

2. Bäckström

   2020 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Bäckström revolves around the nationally famous homicide detective Evert Bäckström, who can boast of having solved 99 percent of all the cases he has taken on. But when a skull pierced with bullet holes is found on an uninhabited island in the archipelago, Evert Bäckström is faced with a more troubling mystery than even he could have imagined.

3. Tunna blå linjen

   2021 · Drama, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   An intimate portrayal of the daily life of four police officers, where the line between private and professional life blurs out as tensions heighten in the animated and crime-ridden city of Malmö, Sweden. 

4. Reservatet

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on Netflix.

   When a neighbor's au pair vanishes from her wealthy suburb, Cecilie seeks answers — and unravels secrets that shatter her seemingly perfect world.

5. Trom

   2022 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   When the body of an animal rights activist surfaces in the bloody waters of a local whale hunt, investigative journalist Hannis Martinsson risks his own skin on the trail of a spectacular story, sending shock waves through an isolated island community, where every old friend has suddenly become a possible new suspect.

6. Wallander

   2006 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Wallander follows a troubled detective who lives and works in Ystad, near the southern tip of Sweden.

7. Maria Wern

   2008 · Drama, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   After the death of her husband, Police Inspector Maria Wern moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children to start over. While struggling with raising two children as a single mother and still mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil but she remains determined to endure what sometimes feels like a losing battle.

8. ALEX

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   ALEX is about the hard-dead and corrupt police Alex who decided to get clean. But the dark forces he has co-operated with refuses let him go, which causes both Alex and his family's life to be jeopardized. While Alex gets a new partner, Frida, who secretly been instructed to bring him down.

9. Jordskott

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   A detective returns to her hometown ten years after her daughters disappearance trying to find a connection to a current case.

10. Springfloden

    2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime profile.

    Springfloden alternates between the time lines of 1987 and 2011. The latter follows Police Academy Cadet Olivia Rönning and her work for a class assignment: She is tasked with unraveling the mystery of a cold case from 1987, one in which three people sadistically murdered a young woman on a Koster Islands beach – a killing that a young boy inadvertently witnessed.At that time, national homicide investigator Tom Stilton was unable to solve the case, since he couldn't ascertain the victim's identity, locate the murderers, or establish a motive for the killing. And so it was shelved. Fifteen years later, he took a new approach to the case, but a bruising divorce left Stilton in a fragile mental state that deteriorated even further.As Rönning digs through case files, she sorts out as much as she can, but there are still many questions left unanswered. What would really help her is getting input from the now-former detective, the homeless Stilton.