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Maj Sjöwall (5 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her books about police detective Martin Beck. She wrote the books in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö.
Total trailers found: 70
25 December 1980
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him.
04 January 2016
The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society.
28 February 2011
Lone Wolves & Dragon Tattoos traces the evolution of Nordic crime fiction, from its humble beginnings with the Martin Beck novels of the 1960s straight through to the worldwide phenomenon of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, featuring interviews with some of the actors, writers and producers who bring these mysteries to life on-screen.
27 February 1998
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son.
01 April 2016
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood.
16 January 1967
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf.
28 March 2015
An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease.
01 July 1994
A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.
12 December 2001
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.
26 November 1993
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer.
01 October 1976
When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.
05 December 2025
The team investigates an arson murder involving head pastor Tolle, who is found burned to death inside the Jeriko parish church.
20 March 2026
A violent gang in one of Stockholm's suburbs is suspected of another fatal shooting and the Stockholm police are conducting a cross-border operation to prosecute the leader of the gang.
01 January 1994
A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder.
20 December 1973
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder.
19 September 1998
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.
02 July 1993
A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence.
06 October 1993
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockholm gets the case.
25 December 2021
A body is found in the water near Liljeholmen. The body belongs to a 39-year-old Danish citizen with a solid criminal record and who was a member of a notorious Danish drug gang.
06 December 2024
Three men enter a luxury apartment in Stockholm dressed as couriers. But what appears to be a robbery ends in a brutal murder that resembles an execution.
03 February 2018
Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does the murder have something to do with his side project: teaching unaccompanied refugee children to ice skate? This undertaking has certainly not been appreciated by everyone in their small, sheltered community.
17 September 2007
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide.
17 March 2023
A man is found dead at a flea market in southern Stockholm. It looks like an ordinary robbery gone wrong, but the investigation takes an unexpected turn.
01 January 2018
A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work.
21 June 2025
When Alex is alerted to a brutal murder, she brings the temporarily suspended Vilhelm and her colleague Josef to the crime scene.
16 January 2002
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute.
18 February 2022
Alex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate. But in the middle of a live broadcast, an armed man appears and threatens Tormalm and suddenly everyone in the TV studio is drawn into a hostage drama.
06 February 2016
An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park.
14 August 1967
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved.
13 February 2002
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking.
21 March 2015
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered they discover new evidence that soon leads them to an Islamist terrorist cell.
03 June 1998
A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld.
25 December 2022
Police trainee Vilhelm Beck is out on an internship with his supervisor when, during a routine burglary case, he finds a dead 17-year-old boy at the scene of the crime.
06 November 2020
A young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug network is behind it.
25 August 2009
When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder.
21 February 2007
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage.
05 March 2016
Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son.
06 June 2007
After a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a hotel in Stockholm, the police gets dragged into a murder investigation where they meet the dark side of the art world.
28 May 1998
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside.
01 January 2015
The body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been strangled after a night partying with two young men, but the room was paid for using the credit card of a mugging victim whose alibi doesn't add up.
01 January 2016
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found.
05 February 2021
A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years.
06 October 1993
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved.
01 January 2004
A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Manw
01 January 2021
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague.
27 June 1997
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case.
07 April 2018
The murder of a restaurant owner who is gunned down in front of a diner full of customers has unexpected repercussions for Alex, whose brother, Paul, represented two men expected of involvement in the killing.
21 January 2022
A man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef resumes the relationship with a former girlfriend from school, Cissi, whose father recently died of a sudden heart attack during a robbery.
02 July 2023
The Beck group is called out to investigate the brutal murder of a man in his own house and Vilhelm, Beck's grandson, ends up being kidnapped.
08 September 1979
In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests .
21 June 2010
In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor.
10 November 2007
A paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the computer together with photo equipment is missing.
10 April 2002
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.
28 June 2006
An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates.
22 August 2007
A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.
18 March 2022
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame.
17 December 1997
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.
03 March 2018
The Beck group, with Alex Beijer as new group manager, is given a case where a 12-year-old girl found her mother dead below the stairs at home.
20 March 2002
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex.
01 July 2023
Nothing is the way it should be in the Beck group. Josef is suspended, pending an internal investigation.
