Did you also enjoy the new Swedish series? The breakthrough (2025) on Netflix and are you now looking for similar series? With our series tips you will be completely involved in a new story in no time. In the list below you will find 5 equally compelling series from Scandinavia that are now on Netflix and perfect for fans of The breakthrough.
Quicksand
7.4In this Swedish miniseries, Maja (Hanna Ardéhn) is accused of murder for her role in a school shooting. The teenager, who seems very normal, just like Cora and Julian Walker (Elisha Henig) in The Sinner, is investigated by the somewhat strange detective Jeannette Nilsson (Rebecka Hemse). Did Maja do it or not?
In your hands
6.5When teenagers Billy and Dogge are recruited by a local gang, the friends are confronted with a violent world from which they are too young to protect themselves.
The Nurse
6.9The Danish series is based on the book of the same name by Kristian Corfixen and revolves around the true story of Danish nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen who was convicted of attempted manslaughter of four patients at Nykøbing Falster hospital. Early one morning in March 2015, Danish police received a call from a nurse. She suspects her close colleague of deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again.
Soon a murder case unfolds like never before in Danish legal history. Several colleagues now tell the police that they also suspect that the nurse has poisoned patients, and some even say that they have had this suspicion for years. But why hasn’t anyone responded? And where is the proof?
The disappearance – Lørenskog 31 October 2018
When a billionaire’s wife disappears, the Norwegian police are puzzled. Was she kidnapped or did she have a hand in her disappearance? The police simultaneously have to deal with a frenzied press that wants to know everything about the case and with fraudulent informants who they need to find out the truth.
The trailer below is dubbed in English; However, the series can be viewed in Norwegian on Netflix.
A perfectly normal family
The Sandell family is a normal family consisting of priest Adam, lawyer Ulrika and their 19-year-old daughter Stella. They live a seemingly perfect life in a polished residential area outside Lund.
One day everything changes when Stella ends up in custody, accused of murder. Her devastated parents don’t know what to do. What happened? They want to help Stella at all costs, but do they actually know their daughter? Or each other?
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Beeld: Still ‘The breakthrough’ via Netflix / Nadja Hallström
