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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009 · 152 min

A cold, methodical plunge into buried cruelty, where quiet investigation slowly tightens into genuine dread.

Directed by
Niels Arden Oplev
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Starring
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
Tagline
Based on the Worldwide Best Seller
Overview
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

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Directed by
Niels Arden Oplev
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Starring
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • violence
  • crime
  • isolation
  • corruption
  • justice
Places
  • single country house
  • small town
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror5
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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drama, thriller, crime, mystery
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Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
Starring
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall
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Cinematography
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