Netflix Announces News About 26 Nordic Titles

Netflix has announced news about 26 Nordic titles, including a new crime drama series based on one of Jo Nesbø’s “Harry Hole” novels.

Netflix Nordics March 2024 group pic — Photo credit: David Thunander

Netflix has been bringing Nordic stories to that region and to the world since 2018, and the global streaming giant will be bringing even more — from action and crime dramas, to rom-com, period drama, and reality series — to audiences in the coming months and years.

So, without any further ado, let’s take a look at the titles, which will launch exclusively on Netflix, starting with the ones whose premiere dates have been announced. (Note that most, but not all, of them will be available globally.)

Ronja the Robber’s Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter) (Sweden)

Based on the book of the same name by Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking), this family-friendly series follows the adventures of Ronja (Kerstin Linden, Summer with the In-Laws), a spirited and rebellious girl born into a gang of robbers in a medieval Scandinavian castle. As Ronja grows up, she discovers the magical but dangerous forest with its strange and mysterious creatures, yet feels more at home here than behind the walls of the castle. When she meets Birk (Jack Bergenholtz-Henriksson), a young boy from a rival gang, it marks the beginning of a dark family feud and the start of a forbidden friendship, all while a notorious bailiff arrives to rid the forest of robbers once and for all.

The series costars Christopher Wagelin (Summer with the In-Laws), Krista Kosonen (Beforeigners), Sverrir Gudnason (Love Me), Maria Nohra (Heder), Pernilla August (Young Royals), Vera Vitali (Bonus Family), and Johan Ulveson (The Truth Will Out).

Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, Part 1 premieres in the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the UK, France, Spain, and the Netherlands on Thursday, March 28. Part 2 will follow later in 2024.

Midsummer Night (Midtsommernatt) (Norway)

Set against the backdrop of a midsummer party, this drama series explores themes that everyone can identify with or relate to — from relationships, marriage, love and betrayal, to hopes, dreams, jealousy, forgiveness, and secret parallel lives. It is during the party that Carina and Johannes, who, after 30 years of marriage, choose to tell their family and friends a big secret that has unforeseen consequences.

The star-studded cast of Norwegian and Swedish acting talent includes Pernilla August (Young Royals), Dennis Storhøi (Troll), Amalia Holm (Delete Me), Sofia Tjelta (Delete Me), Linn Skåber (Good Night Darling), Kim Falck (The Architect), Christopher Wollter (Modus), Fanny Klefelt (Before We Die), Peiman Azizpour (Furia), Maria Agwumaro (A Human Position), Eirik Hallert (Hvite gutter), Liv Osa (Mammon), and Kadir Talabani (A Star Is Born).

Midsummer Night premieres globally on Thursday, April 11. (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Stolen (Stöld) (Sweden)

Based on Ann-Helén Laestadius’s critically-acclaimed, international best-selling novel Stolen, this drama feature portrays a young woman’s struggle to defend her indigenous heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation. The story also lays bare the tensions that arise when modern ideas come up against a traditional culture with deeply-rooted patriarchal structures.

The cast includes Elin Kristina Oskal (in her acting debut), Martin Wallström (Beck), Lars-Ánte Wasara, Ida Persson Labba, Pávva Pittja (Midnight Sun), Ingahilda Tapio, Magnus Kuhmunen, Simon Issát Marainen, Niilá Omma, and Anne Lajla Westerfjell Kalstad, amongst others.

A Swedish- and Saami-language production, Stolen premieres globally on Friday, April 12. (You can set a reminder for it now at www.netflix.com/stolen.)

Deliver Me (I dina händer) (Sweden)

In this gritty crime series, teenage friends Billy (Yasir Hassan) and Dogge (Olle Strand) are recruited by a local gang, plunging them into a violent world they are too young to protect themselves from. When one of them tries to escape the gang, it tears their friendship apart. Meanwhile, desperate to protect his community from gang violence, a detective (Ardalan Esmaili, Snabba Cash) goes after a drug dealer he holds responsible for the murder of a witness.

Costars include Yusra Warsama (Castle Rock), Ane Dahl Torp (Occupied), Henrik Norlén (Modus), Mahmut Suvakci (Top Dog), Solomon Njie (Top Dog), and Abdirahman Mohamed.

Deliver Me premieres globally on Wednesday, April 24. (You can set a reminder for it now.)

A Part of You (En del av dig) (Sweden)

In this drama feature, Agnes’s (Felicia Maxime, Young Royals) older sister, Julia (Zara Larsson), possesses everything that Agnes dreams of: She’s the coolest person in school, the center of every party, and the lucky girl who’s dating Noel (Edvin Ryding, Young Royals). If only Agnes could be more like her. When the worst possible thing happens, Agnes’s world is turned upside down and she is forced to reinvent herself. Suddenly, she’s on the verge of getting everything she’s ever wanted… but at what cost?

Costarring Ida Engvoll (Love & Anarchy) and Alva Bratt (Barracuda Queens), A Part of You premieres globally on Friday, May 31. (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Pernille: Season 4 (Pørni) (Norway)

Created, written by, and starring Henriette Steenstrup (Ragnarok, Lilyhammer), this comedy-drama series follows her character, Pernille (aka Pørni), a middle-aged single mother who faces challenges aplenty while fumbling through everyday life with three teenagers while caring for her aging father and navigating a job within child care.

Season 4 opens two years after the events in Season 3. Spring is approaching, and Pernille is in a new relationship and enjoying a somewhat stable life (according to her standards). However, when Bjørnar (Gunnar Eiriksson, Twin) moves back to Oslo and takes over Yngvar (Øystein Røger)’s old chief position, life takes an unexpected turn. Can they go back to being friends and colleagues with the history they share?

Costars include Nils Ole Oftebro (Mammon), Vivild Falk Berg (Royalteen), Ebba Jacobsen Öberg, Jon Ranes (Atlantic Crossing), Jan Gunnar Røise (A Storm for Christmas), Deniz Kaya (Recoil), and Henrik Mestad (Occupied).

Pernille: Season 4 is slated to premiere globally in Summer 2024 (date tba). (Seasons 1-3 of Pörni are now available in certain Netflix territories; in the US, they are currently available on Viaplay.)

Baby Fever: Season 2 (Skruk) Denmark)

In Season 2 of this comedy-drama series, Nana (Josephine Park, Darkness: Those Who Kill) is now mother to a two-month-old baby. For as much as she adores her child, Nana hates being on maternity leave, so she begs her old boss, Helle (Charlotte Munck, Rita), to give her back her job. Promising to mend her ways and do whatever it takes to become the world’s best fertility doctor again, Helle begrudgingly agrees. Great, but Nana hasn’t given any thought to who will care for her baby while she’s at work.

Reluctantly, Nana asks her mum to live in as a kind of permanent babysitter/roommate from hell. She doesn’t have any choice, really, because now, more than ever, she must excel at her job, since the new star doctor, Hampus, stepped into her shoes during her absence. To top it all off, Mathias is still lurking in the wings — the great love of her life who both got away and doesn’t know he’s father to Nana’s baby. More than ever before, Nana needs to lie while also needing to tell the truth…

Costars include Olivia Joof (DNA), Simon Sears (Ride Upon the Storm), Emil Prenter (Sex), Michael Birkkjær (Borgen), and Tammi Øst (The Nurse).

Baby Fever: Season 2 is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba).

Billionaire Island (Lakseøya) (Norway)

This drama centers on two families in a small coastal community in Norway, who are sworn enemies in the global salmon industry.

The cast includes Trine Wiggen (Beforeigners), Svein Roger Karlsen (The Lørenskog Disappearance), Ragne Grande (Home Ground), Kåre Conradi (Norsemen), Oddgeir Thune (Home for Christmas), Vetle Røsten Granås (Everybody Hates Johan), Nemi Storm, Hanne Skille Reitan (Beforeigners), Tor Ivar Hagen (Hagen), Benjamin Bakkeid, Elisabeth Matheson (Kon-Tiki), Bjarne Brøndbo (Helt perfekt), Axel Bøyum (Black Widows), Manish Sharma (Beforeigners), Frank Kjosås (Exit), and Bjørn Sundquist (Ragnarok).

Billionaire Island is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

The Helicopter Heist (Helikopterrånet) (Sweden)

Adapted from the based-on-true-events novel The Helicopter Heist, this action-crime drama series tells the story of one of the most spectacular heists in history. On an early September morning in 2009, eyes from around the world turn to an inconspicuous Stockholm suburb, where a helicopter has landed on the roof of the country’s safest cash depot. Except it isn’t safe at all, because the police can only watch as the robbers disappear, taking with them several million dollars. Even more surprising (at least these days): not a single shot is fired.

The cast includes Ardalan Esmaili (Rebecka Martinsson), Mahmut Suvakci (Conspiracy of Silence), Iskra Kostic (Riding in Darkness), Einar Bredefeldt (The Unlikely Murderer), Erik Svedberg-Zelman (Toppen), Johanna Hedberg (100 Code), Victoria Carmen Sonne (The Kingdom), Dejan Milacic (Taelgia), Ludde Hagberg (Love & Anarchy), Wim Elfwencrona, and Angela Kovács (Spring Tide).

The Helicopter Heist is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now at www.netflix.com/helicopterheist.)

An Honest Life (Ett ärligt liv) (Sweden)

Based on the novel An Honest Life by Joakim Zander, this thriller feature follows Simon, who, after arriving in Lund full of anticipation and ready for his life to really begin, is quickly disappointed by law school. During a violent protest march, he meets the anarchistic young woman, Max, and falls in love. She dazzles him with a world of excess, lies, and huge risks, and when Simon realizes the damage that’s been done, it’s too late to escape.

The cast includes Simon Lööf (Threesome), Nora Rios (Caliphate), Peter Andersson (The Unlikely Murderer), Willy Ramnek Petri (Becoming Astrid), Arvid von Heland (Blatten), Nathalie Merchant (The Truth Will Out), Christoffer Rigeblad, Fabian Hedlund (Drottningarna), Lucas Grimstedt (Rebecka Martinsson), and Alice Andersson (Roslund & Hellström: Box 21).

An Honest Life is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Making It in Marbella (Sweden)

This reality TV series revolves around Homerun Brokers and the firm’s young agents as they navigate their personal and professional lives while earning millions from selling stunning homes in the most luxurious area on the sunny Spanish coast to the rich and famous. In Marbella, it’s a quick ride to the top, but the downfall can come sooner than expected.

Making It in Marbella is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Trouble (Strul) (Sweden)

Filip Berg (Bäckström, Black Lake) stars in this remake of the classic 1988 Swedish film Strul, playing Conny, a divorcé who works as a salesman at a major electronics chain and looks forward to spending time with his daughter, Julia, every other week. But then Conny’s life is turned upside down when he is in the wrong place at the wrong time, is wrongly convicted of murder, and ends up in prison. Here he meets criminals Norinder and Musse, who mistake Conny for being a pilot, the profession of his ex-wife’s new successful boyfriend, Tomas. This is how Conny ends up becoming a part of the criminals escape plan: he’s supposed to fly the getaway plane. But he also needs to find a horse for Julia’s birthday.

Costars include Amy Deasismont (Thunder in My Heart), Eva Melander (The Conference), Joakim Sällquist (Black Crab), Måns Nathanaelson (Beck), Dejan Čukić (Before We Die), Sissela Benn (Toppen), Magnus Sundberg (Alex), Shirin Golshin (The Sandhamn Murders), Paloma Winneth (Bonus Family), and Peter Gardiner (Top Dog).

Trouble is slated to premiere globally in Fall 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Maybe Baby 2 (Bytte bytte baby 2) (Denmark)

In this sequel to the comedy film Maybe Baby, Cecilie (Mille Dinesen, Rita) and Andreas’s (Lars Ranthe, Seaside Hotel) son, Leo, and Liv (Katinka Lærke Petersen, Loving Adults) and Malte’s (Kasper Dalsgaard, The New Nurses) daughter, Sille, are now two years old. The families still keep in touch, but live very different lives. During a medical exam, it is revealed that the two babies were never swapped. After the shock subsides, the two families decide to move in together in a collective at Andreas and Cecilie’s place, in order for both sets of parents to be with both children every day. However, the couples’ very different views on lifestyle, decor, eating habits, and parenting methods soon become apparent, and the two families struggle to live under the same roof.

In addition, Cecilie feels much more attached to her biological daughter, Sille, than to Leo, so she decides to pursue custody of Sille behind the backs of the other three parents. When she realizes she has acted wrongly, it is too late; her selfish plan is exposed. The collective falls apart, Liv and Malte move away with Sille, and Cecilie must now fight to be forgiven and find a solution that everyone can live with.

Costarring in the film are Thomas Bo Larsen (Follow the Money), Sarah Boberg (The Bridge), Magnus Haugaard (Maybe Baby), and Troels Lyby (The Team).

Maybe Baby 2 is slated to premiere globally in 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

The Snow Sister (Snøsøsteren) (Norway)

Based on the book Snøsøsteren by Maja Lunde and Lisa Aisato, this family film centers on Julian (Mudit Gupta), who turns eleven years old on Christmas Eve. Usually, it’s the best day of the year, filled with the aromas of gingersnaps and tangerines, the sound of a crackling fire, the decorated Christmas tree, and the flickering candlelight — all the things that make up Christmas.

But this year, nothing is as usual. Julian and his family are engulfed in sadness, and it feels like Christmas has been canceled. Then, one day, Julian meets the happy and Christmas-loving Hedvig and begins to believe that there will be Christmas after all. But there’s something strange about Hedvig’s house. And who is the old man lurking around the house all the time?

Featuring Celina Meyer Hovland, Ole Steinkjer Øyen, and Jan Sælid (Aber Bergen), The Snow Sister is slated to premiere globally in 2024 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Barracuda Queens: Season 2 (Sweden)

Set in 2000, the new season of this crime drama finds Lollo (Alva Bratt, Quicksand) back in Stockholm after her studies in Paris. The rest of the girls have been quite bored, still living at home, adapting to a normal lifestyle. Lollo’s return, though, quickly has them consider moving out. But how will they find the money to make it happen? They’ve promised Lollo’s mother, Margareta (Izabella Scorupco, Hidden: First Born), that they won’t do any more robberies, so maybe there are other ways? There’s a lot of money in the art world, and for the Barracuda Queens, nothing seems impossible…

Returning cast members include Tea Stjärne (Tjuvarnas jul), Sarah Gustafsson (Huss), Tindra Monsen, and Sandra Zubovic (JJ+E). Joining the cast are Cecilia Frode (Blue Eyes), Filip Berg (Rig 45), and Joel Spira (Thicker than Water).

Barracuda Queens: Season 2 is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba).

Diary of a Ditched Girl (Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig) (working title) (Sweden)

Adapted from Amanda Romare’s novel Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig, this series stars Carla Sehn (Love & Anarchy, Anxious People) as Amanda, a 31-year-old woman who, in her desperation to be loved, decides to try everything to make it happen — from dating guys out of, in, and below her league, to swiping on Tinder and picking up guys in bars. Despite being submissive or dominating (depending on the guy), she’s still abandoned and alone. Heck, she even has a hard time getting to second base, much less to a second date.

The same thing goes for Amanda’s friends, so they try to find new dates for each other while debating the big questions: Why is it so hard to find love? How much can the world really require from a person? And how many times can you go out into the world with your heart in your hand, only to have it stepped on once again?

Diary of a Ditched Girl (working title) is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba).

Love Is Blind: Sweden: Season 2 (Love Is Blind: Sverige) (Sweden)

In the new season of this hit reality series, singles who want to be loved for who they are on the inside will choose someone to marry without seeing them. Over the next four weeks, they’ll move in together, plan their wedding, and attempt to add a physical connection to their emotional bond. When their wedding day arrives, will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with? Or have the physical realities and external factors sabotaged their relationship?

Love Is Blind: Sweden: Season 2 is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba).

The Glass Dome (Glaskupan) (Sweden)

Based on a story idea by best-selling author and TV producer Camilla Läckberg (The Fjällbacka Murders), this crime drama series follows behaviorist and criminologist Lejla, who returns to the small Swedish town where she was held captive as a young girl by an unknown person. But it’s also the place where she found a home with Valter, a now-retired police officer. Soon after Lejla’s return, a girl vanishes, prompting Valter and Lejla to investigate the disappearance and forcing Lejla to delve into her own darkness. Time will show that the whole village is harboring secrets. Could it be that history is repeating itself?

The cast includes Léonie Vincent (Spring Tide), Johan Hedenberg (The Sandhamn Murders), Johan Rheborg (Agatha Christie’s Hjerson), Farzad Farzaneh (Bara barnen), Ia Langhammer (The Truth Will Out), Cecilia Nilsson (Spring Tide), Emil Almén (Gåsmamman), Emma Broomé (Maria Wern), Oscar Töringe (Limbo), and Ville Virtanen (Bordertown).

The Glass Dome is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

Little Siberia (Pikku-Siperia) (Finland)

Adapted from Antti Tuomainen’s novel Little Siberia, this drama feature sees everyday life in the small village of Hurmevaara shaken when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night. According to the town’s mayor, the meteorite is very valuable for the future of the slowly dying village, so Joel, the village priest and a veteran peacekeeper, ends up guarding it in an old museum before it gets sent to London for a detailed analysis. Still, the precious meteorite attracts a lot of attention.

While Joel protects the meteorite from both amateur and professional criminals, he also tries to unravel an even greater mystery in his own life: His wife recently revealed that, finally, she is pregnant. It’s great news, but for Joel, not so much. He can’t have children due to a war injury. He just hasn’t told his wife…

The cast includes Eero Ritala (Shadow Lines), Malla Malmivaara (Deadwind), Tommi Korpela (A Good Family), and Martti Suosalo (Deadwind).

Little Siberia is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

The Right Track (Norway)

This film follows Emilie, a broke and unorganized 30-year-old woman who feels like the world is against her. Her ex-husband has moved on with his life and wants their daughter to live with him full time. When an accident in her apartment forces her to move in with her sporty, wealthy brother, he gives Emilie an ultimatum: If she wants to stay, she must join him in doing the Birken, a 54-km skiing race. Emilie has never skied before, but what starts as a nightmare gradually gives her a sense of accomplishment and hope for the future. Can Emilie complete the Birken race and prove to herself and the world that she is more than a loser?

Starring Ada Eide (Skam), Trond Fausa Aurvåg (Norsemen), and Christian Rubeck (The Heavy Water War), The Right Track is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba).

The Swedish Connection (Sweden)

This biopic historical drama feature is based on the true story of Gösta Engzell, a bureaucrat at the Swedish Foreign Ministry during World War II. When Gösta and his team become aware that something terrible is happening to the Jews, they come up with a brilliant plan to fool the Nazis. The film is the story of an unknown hero who saved thousands of lives and turned the so-called neutral Sweden into a moral superpower along the way.

The cast includes Henrik Dorsin (Triangle of Sadness) as Gösta Engzell, Sissela Benn (Wallander), Jonas Karlsson (Beck), Johan Glans (The Simple Heist), Marianne Mörck (Bonus Family), Oscar Töringe (Limbo), Loa Falkman (I’ll Be Home for Christmas), and Olle Jansson (Beck).

The Swedish Connection is slated to premiere globally in 2025 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

The Chestnut Man (standalone sequel) (Kastanjemannen) (Denmark)

Based on a novel by Søren Sveistrup, author of The Chestnut Man, this standalone sequel to the titular series opens with a 41-year-old woman being found murdered. In the police’s hunt for her killer, they examine the woman’s digital footprints and quickly learn that she had been violently stalked for months. The perpetrator had played an involuntary game of hide-and-seek with her by monitoring her in private situations and sending her pictures and videos in a steady stream, together with what looks like a nursery rhyme. It soon becomes clear that the murder can be linked to another unsolved case, in which a 17-year-old high school student was also subjected to a violent form of stalking before she was found dead a couple of years ago.

With Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, The Rain) back in Copenhagen, he takes on leading the investigation with his former partner, Naia Thulin (Danica Curcic, Equinox). However, the relationship between the two investigators is complicated. After the case of the Chestnut Man, Hess and Thulin tried dating, but the relationship ended abruptly and was filled with unresolved feelings.

The Chestnut Man standalone sequel is slated to premiere globally in 2026 (date tba).

Harry Hole (working title) (Norway)

Arguably the most highly-anticipated title on this list, this crime series is based on The Devil’s Star, the fifth title in Jo Nesbø’s “Harry Hole” novels, and marks Nesbø’s debut as a scriptwriter. A heat wave hits a holiday-quiet Oslo. In an apartment by the cemetery, small black lumps begin to drip through the floor. At the same time, police detective Harry Hole is lying on the floor in his small apartment, drunk, dismissed, and abandoned by his girlfriend. In the hunt for his corrupt colleague Tom Waaler, Harry has lost his closest colleague, and only he knows that Tom Waaler is behind the murder. At the same time, another woman is found murdered with an index finger cut off. Harry Hole gets his last mission… along with the only other first officer not on vacation: Tom Waaler.

Harry Hole is slated to premiere globally in 2026 (date tba).

Je M’Appelle Agneta (Sweden)

Based on Emma Hamberg’s novel of the same name, this film follows Agneta, a colorful and funny person, although this isn’t obvious on the surface. Agneta has just turned 49, her children have flown the nest, her job at the traffic office is stagnant, and she feels invisible. Her husband, on the other hand, has found meaning in life by taking ice-cold baths and cycling fast in expensive gear. In an attempt to escape the dull shackles of everyday life, Agneta leaves her safe Swedish existence behind to work as an au pair for a Swedish boy in France. Except the boy, Einar, turns out to be an elderly, eccentric, and demented gentleman. So begins a messy, life-affirming friendship that turns everything Agneta thought she knew about life and herself upside down.

Je M’Appelle Agneta is slated to premiere globally in 2026 (date tba).

The New Force (Skiftet) (Sweden)

This historical crime drama series, Netflix’s first commission of a Nordic period drama, centers on Sweden’s first female police officers. Set in 1958, it follows this group of pioneers as they graduate and take a big step for gender equality while struggling to take even the smallest step for themselves. The skirts they are forced to wear chafe like sandpaper against their thighs, and they are ridiculed by the public, belittled by the media, and scorned by their colleagues. These new recruits are placed in the country’s most crime-ridden district, the Klara police district in Stockholm, and as they start patrolling these mean streets, they soon realize that their biggest problem isn’t the criminals; it’s the resistance from colleagues and their own families.

Starring Josefin Asplund (Vikings), Agnes Rase (Midsommar), and Malin Persson (The Restaurant), The New Force is slated to premiere globally in 2026 (date tba). (You can set a reminder for it now.)

The Key Series (working title) (Sweden)

Adapted from Alex Ahndoril’s novel I Will Find The Key, this mystery-crime drama film follows private detective Julia Stark, who is hired by a wealthy family to solve a murder that was committed at their estate in the northwest of Sweden. Julia asks her ex-husband, Sidney Mendelson, to take time off from the City Police and follow her to the countryside, where the two are welcomed as guests at the opulent estate. While dining and socializing with each of the family members, Julia and Sidney search for the truth, trying to find out who the perpetrator is before it’s too late.

There is no time frame for The Key Series (working title) as yet.

Stay tuned for updates.

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“Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter” by Astrid Lindgren