Movies Like Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008)

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty is a 2008 crime, thriller film from Erik Richter Strand with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers and Varg Veum - Yours Until Death.

Crime Thriller

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers

2007

Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.

5.8

MagicScore

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

2008

Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.

6.1

MagicScore

Varg Veum - Fallen Angels

2008

Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families...

6.3

MagicScore

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge

2008

An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.

5.7

MagicScore

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs

2008

Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked.

5.6

MagicScore

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

2010

Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.

6.4

MagicScore

Varg Veum - Black Sheep

2011

Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.

5.7

MagicScore

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death

2011

Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.

6.2

MagicScore

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey

2011

Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility.

6.5

MagicScore

#10

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy

2012

Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?

6.3

MagicScore

#11

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts

2012

Varg Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger.

5.6

MagicScore

#12

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

Boundless

2024

In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

Pusher II

2004

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

Pusher

1996

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

The Big Sleep

1946

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

7.6

MagicScore

#17

On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery

2008

When the residents of a neighborhood are offered huge sums of money to sell their homes to a developer, the only ones to refuse are an elderly lesbian couple. Soon after, the couple's home is besieged by anti-gay vandalism, but Don suspects that the attack is motivated by big-business rather than homophobia.

5.4

MagicScore

#18

Inherent Vice

2014

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

6.5

MagicScore

#19

Insomnia

1997

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

No Good Deed

2002

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

5.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty?

The top films similar to Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty by MovieMagicScore are Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers (5.8), Varg Veum - Yours Until Death (6.1), Varg Veum - Fallen Angels (6.3). Each shares crime/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty worth watching?

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 38 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty?

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008) is a crime, thriller film directed by Erik Richter Strand, starring Trond Espen Seim, Bjørn Floberg, Endre Hellestveit.

Where can I find more recommendations like Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty?

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This ranked list pairs Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008), a crime and thriller film from Erik Richter Strand, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Trond Espen Seim take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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