The Lava Field

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If you enjoyed The Lava Field, 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.

   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. Ófærð

   2015 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on Ríkisútvarpið.

   In Siglufjörður, a remote village in the Northeastern Region of Iceland, a mutilated corpse is found near the local port, just after the arrival of an international ferry. Andri, the town's chief of police, starts the investigation about the very unusual crime, while a blizzard soon gets everyone trapped in the area.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Genombrottet

   2025 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   When a shocking double homicide goes unsolved for 16 years, a detective teams up with a genealogist to catch the killer before it becomes a cold case.

8. 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. 

9. Monster

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   In the north of Norway, a young girl disappears from an isolated religious community. Detective Hedda Gilbert returns to her place of birth where she is forced to work with special agent Dreyer.

10. Valkyrien

    2016 · Drama, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

    Doctor Ravn is a surgeon desperate to find a cure for his dying wife Vilma. The hospital had given up on her, so Ravn enters into an alliance with Oslo's underworld and opens a clinic in a disused underground station for those in need, who either have no GP or cannot use public hospitals. Ravn's endeavours both to build a clinic and get patients is made possible by the corrupt Leif. Convinced that the end of the world is nigh, Leif has widespread access and knowledge of the city's underground shelters and secret passages, as well as a significant network in the Oslo underworld and its black economy.