Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Last Viking is a black comedy about a freshly released ex-con whose reunion with his mentally ill brother becomes an absurdist road trip — the hidden loot they're hunting is less a destination than a pretext for two brothers to figure out who they are to each other. It signals a taste for dark, deadpan Scandinavian humor, morally complicated men navigating family obligation and guilt, and stories where crime is a backdrop for something more quietly human.
The Last Viking is a 2025 black comedy film written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen. The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2025. It received a theatrical release in Denmark on 9 October 2025.
From the Wikipedia article The_Last_Viking_(2025_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Beforeigners
Strangers from radically different worlds must reckon with identity and belonging in a society unprepared for them.
Series
Prisoner
A worn-down Danish prison where raw work and outside-world conflict blur, exploring lives shaped by incarceration.
Series
The Last Kingdom
A man's search for identity amid loyalty, politics, and the tension between where he came from and where he belongs.
Series
68 Whiskey
Dark comedy meets Kafkaesque institutional absurdity as a group navigates danger and self-destruction together.
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The Team
A Danish detective anchors a cross-border crime team, the Scandinavian procedural mood running through every frame.
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The Last O.G.
A man released after years inside finds the world transformed, forcing a wry reckoning with who he's become.
Film
Viking
Fraternal conflict over inherited guilt and power drives this blood-law saga across a fractured ruling clan.
Film
The Vikings
Two rivals tangle over an English maiden — loyalty and ambition cutting across every allegiance.
Film
The Green Butchers
Danish black comedy where a gruesome accident unexpectedly transforms a struggling butcher shop's fortunes.
Film
Brothers
Two brothers whose bond is tested by absence, trauma, and the secrets that reshape who comes home.
Film
Erik the Viking
Pythonesque satire of Viking life — a warrior gathers his village to petition the gods and end Ragnarok.
Film
Ragnarok
An archaeologist's discovery of a secret in the Oseberg ship sends him and his children into dangerous territory.
If the dark comedy and prison-release angle grabbed you, The Last O.G. is a natural next step — another ex-felon stepping back into a changed world. For the Danish crime-family atmosphere, Brothers and The Green Butchers share the same quietly devastating tone.
It centers the relationship between two brothers — one mentally ill — over the heist itself, so the recovered money is almost beside the point. The emotional weight of fourteen lost years and a sibling bond shaped by illness gives it a grounded, bittersweet edge.
68 Whiskey shares the Kafkaesque institutional absurdity and dark humor, while Prisoner captures the specific texture of Danish incarceration and the messy lives that orbit it — both make good companion viewing.