The Hunters (1996)

For anyone who liked the far-north stretches of the TV shows, this is the film to find. Rolf Lassgård plays a Stockholm policeman who returns to Norrbotten after his father's death and picks up a long-running reindeer-poaching case, only to discover that his own brother is involved. Kjell Sundvall lets the hostility of a small community do the threatening: nobody talks and everybody knows. Lassgård's big, weary presence anchors it, and the remoteness of the place gives the case a sense of isolation that no city thriller can match. The same detective, Erik Bäckström, returned for the 2011 sequel False Trail.