Movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Key Features:: Mystery, Thriller, Journalistic investigation, Hacker, Cold case, Missing person, Family secrets, Corruption, Noir, Unconventional protagonist, Violence-moderate, Psychological manipulation, Redemption, Partnership, Revenge
Tone:: serious, gritty, suspense-driven
Target Audience:: Mystery fans, Thriller enthusiasts, Intellectual viewers, Crime fiction readers
Emotional Arc:: Intrigue → Dread → Revelation

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009-02-27

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Cast

Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall, Björn Granath, Ewa Fröling

Crew

Niels Arden Oplev, Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg

Rating

★7.53(3108 votes)