Wisting

Series Similar to Wisting

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

1. Ófærð

   2015 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   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.

2. Monster

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery 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.

3. 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.

4. Mammon

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Mammon is a thriller series in the spirit of "All the Presidents men". However, in this story not all journalists are good, and the hunt for truth far more personal. Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother's family.

5. Modus

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman at the Stockholm Police. Nyman is dispatched to Uppsala to investigate the shocking Christmas Eve murder of bishop Elisabeth Lindgren. In Stockholm, the bodies keep turning up - though the causes of death vary. But before long, Inger Johanne starts noticing a pattern. Modus is a thrilling story that raises questions about religion, human rights, and the very nature of love itself. It goes beyond conventional crime and peppers the story with red-hot political issues and criticizing intolerance.

6. Bortført

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Pia, along with Israeli friends, is captured by the terrorist group ISIS, and is threatened with death if ISIS prisoners are not released.

7. ALEX

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on Viaplay.

   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.

8. Arne Dahl

   2011 · Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Swedish crime thriller series about an elite team of detectives.

9. Øyevitne

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Two 15 year old boys secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.

10. Reservatet

    2025 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

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