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The Chestnut Man is a Nordic noir thriller built around a deeply unsettling detail: a handmade figurine left at the scene of a brutal killing. Two detectives chase a methodical predator whose crimes are threaded through a political family's trauma — specifically, a child who vanished. The show signals a taste for procedural darkness where ritual evidence carries psychological weight, institutional power complicates justice, and the personal stakes of investigators are inseparable from the case itself.
About The Chestnut Man
The Chestnut Man is a Danish crime series released on Netflix on 29 September 2021. The series was created by Dorte Warnøe Hagh, David Sandreuter, and Mikkel Serup, is directed by Kasper Barfoed and Mikkel Serup and is based on the book of the same name by Søren Sveistrup. The series stars Danica Curcic and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Naia Thulin and Mark Hess, who investigate the dismemberment and murders of several mothers in Copenhagen by a serial killer who leaves figurines made of chestnuts at the crime scenes. The series was renewed for a second season in 2024, adding Sofie Gråbøl and Katinka Lærke Petersen to the cast. It premiered on 7 May 2026, under the title The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek.
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Films like The Chestnut Man
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Hangman
A detective and profiler pair hunt a serial killer who leaves deliberate, game-derived signatures at every crime scene.
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The Snowman
An ominous object placed near a victim becomes the central clue in a detective's investigation of sinister disappearances.
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The Walker
A crime draws an unlikely figure into a web where political connections and personal loyalty obscure the truth.
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The Woodsman
A man navigating a fractured return to society is shadowed by an authority figure monitoring his every move.
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The Carman Family Deaths
A dramatic rescue at sea unravels into a murder case tangled with family wealth and hidden motives.
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Bagman
A folkloric predator who targets children haunts a survivor trying to confront what he barely escaped.
Books to read after The Chestnut Man
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The Man In the Woods
A teenager who witnesses a crime follows a suspect into the woods and uncovers a town's layered secrets and dangers.
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The mystery of the missing masterpiece
Young investigators probe a suspicious burglary and discover the victim may not want the culprits found at all.
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The Marriage Act
A woman discovers her mystery lover — the father of her child — is the detective now entangled in her life.
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The Man Who Died Twice
A woman is drawn into a hunt involving stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a colleague who desperately needs her help.
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Murder At The Mall
Investigators tracking extremist threats must untangle whether the most obvious suspects are really responsible.
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The elephant man
A deformed man navigates a society that turns him into a spectacle, exploring how power and pity intersect.
More series like The Chestnut Man
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The First Man
Two women whose violent acts mirror each other are drawn into a confrontation where motive and desire collide.
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Mr. Mercedes
A retired detective is tormented by a killer's taunting messages and launches a dangerous private pursuit of justice.
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Sugar
A detective carrying personal demons investigates the disappearance of a young woman connected to powerful people.
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Manhunt
A real police detective's methodical, pressure-driven pursuit of serial criminals is dramatised with procedural precision.
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The Hunt
A mysterious delivery leads a man into a missing persons case threaded with buried relationships and hidden truths.
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The Gardener
A hitman's carefully maintained cover — calm gardener, no feelings — cracks when he falls for his next target.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after The Chestnut Man?
On TV, Mr. Mercedes delivers the same cat-and-mouse tension between a detective and a taunting killer, while Manhunt keeps things grounded in authentic police procedure. Both reward the patience that The Chestnut Man demands.
What films are similar to The Chestnut Man?
Hangman is the closest match — a serial killer using a deliberate symbolic system, with a detective-profiler pairing working against the clock. The Snowman also centres on an eerie object planted near victims as the killer's calling card.
Why does The Chestnut Man feel so unsettling?
The show weaponises a mundane, handmade object — a chestnut figurine — as the killer's signature, making something childlike feel deeply threatening. Layering that ritual detail against a missing child and a compromised investigation keeps the dread personal rather than abstract.