Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev

  • Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • 152 min
  • R

Based on the Worldwide Best Seller

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

DramaThrillerCrimeMysteryjournalistislandbondagerapestrong womanhackerbased on novel or booknaziblow jobantisocial personality disorderfemale protagonistwhodunit

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