Movies Like Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy (1997)

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy is a 1997 crime, drama, mystery, thriller film from Pelle Seth with a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Beck - The Man with the Icons and Beck 03 - White Nights.

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Beck - The Man with the Icons

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.

5.6

MagicScore

Beck 03 - White Nights

1998

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

6.3

MagicScore

Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye

1998

In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are women, and they were all in the same class, and Beck thinks that a scandal back in the past has something to do with the murders. But no one wants to talk about the past and it becomes a struggle to find the perpetrator before the final murder - only one woman is still alive.

5.9

MagicScore

Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl

1998

Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.

5.5

MagicScore

Beck 06 - The Monster

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. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?

5.4

MagicScore

Beck 07 - The Money Man

1998

A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been serving Gavling with secret information from the archive of the police authorities.

5.9

MagicScore

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness

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.

6.7

MagicScore

Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance

2001

Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge.

6.5

MagicScore

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face

2001

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Beck 11 - The Cartel

2001

It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.

5.5

MagicScore

#11

Beck 12 - The Loner

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. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.

5.9

MagicScore

#12

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown

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. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.

5.7

MagicScore

#13

Beck 14 - The Advertising Man

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.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball

2002

Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood..

6.2

MagicScore

#15

Beck 16 - The Last Witness

2002

A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness.

6.5

MagicScore

#16

Beck 17 - The Scorpion

2006

An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson discovers a police report that his long-estranged sister has been abused. He confronts her with his knowledge but she denies it.

5.9

MagicScore

#17

Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar

2006

A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Beck 19 - The Vulture

2007

Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished. When they find out Veden was a gambler with heavy debts battling his addiction the case leads Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and freshly returned Lena Klingström into Sweden's illegal gambling scene. And Veden was planning to expose his own addiction and his party's huge financial profits from gambling in a confessional book - which his political allies got wind of via illegal data theft. With several people having an interest that Veden stays missing the team tries to find the politician and the true perpetrator while Beck is grappling privately with his ambivalent feelings about working with ex Lena again....

5.4

MagicScore

#19

Beck 20 - The Lawyer

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. Martin Beck and Lena Klingström find evidence which brings new light to the investigation - but who's pulling the strings?

6.0

MagicScore

#20

Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting

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.

5.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy?

The top films similar to Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy by MovieMagicScore are Beck - The Man with the Icons (5.6), Beck 03 - White Nights (6.3), Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye (5.9). Each shares crime/drama/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy worth watching?

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10 from 37 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy?

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy (1997) is a crime, drama, mystery, thriller film directed by Pelle Seth, starring Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, Figge Norling.

Where can I find more recommendations like Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy

This ranked list pairs Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy (1997), a crime and drama and mystery and thriller film from Pelle Seth, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Peter Haber 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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