Beck Collection
A collection of the Swedish Beck movies based on the character from the books of Sjöwall/Wahlöös. These movies have Peter Haber playing Martin Beck.
Franchise Evolution & Timeline Analysis
The Beck Collection has evolved significantly over a span of NaN years, growing from a singular narrative into a complex cinematic universe. With 54 interconnected entries, tracking the consistency of the franchise reveals fascinating trends in audience sentiment.
The "Series" Benchmark: 5.6/10
The franchise maintains a steady average rating of 5.6. While most series experience "Sequel Fatigue," Beck Collection has managed to keep its narrative quality relatively stable, with Beck 50 - Deadlock standing out as the peak cinematic achievement.
Continuity vs. Commercial Appeal
Our data indicates that while the "Release Order" is preferred for first-time viewers, the "Chronological Order" provides a much deeper understanding of the world-building within the Beck Collection. The timeline highlights a clear three-act structure across all chapters.
Timeline & Watch Order
We recommend watching the Beck Collection franchise in the following order to fully experience the narrative expansion.
Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows...
Beck - The Man with the Icons
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the emba...
Beck 03 - White Nights
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves ...
Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are w...
Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and w...
Beck 06 - The Monster
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is ...
Beck 07 - The Money Man
A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been servin...
Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the ...
Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must ...
Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage ...
Beck 11 - The Cartel
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case....
Beck 12 - The Loner
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a seri...
Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the s...
Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagu...
Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.....
Beck 16 - The Last Witness
A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are o...
Beck 17 - The Scorpion
An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson ...
Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar
A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?...
Beck 19 - The Vulture
Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with ...
Beck 20 - The Lawyer
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage. Martin Beck and ...
Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting
After a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a hotel in Stockholm, the police gets dragged into a murder investi...
Beck 22 - The Weak Link
A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal....
Beck 23 - The Silent Scream
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do ...
Beck 24 - In the Name of God
A paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the computer together with photo equipment is missing....
Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm
When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wa...
Beck 26 - Buried Alive
In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor. Martin Beck and his pol...
Beck 27 - Room 302
The body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been strangled after a night partying with two young men, but the room was...
Beck 28 - The Family
When a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team are challenged to discover which one of his many enemies could be...
Beck 29 - Invasion
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered they discover new evidence that ...
Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease. Her son refuses to believe that it was the diseas...
Beck 31 - Gunvald
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered jou...
Beck 32 - Steinar
An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, i...
Beck 33 - End of the Road
Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son. The Beck group ta...
Beck: The Last Day
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing o...
Beck 35 - Your Own Blood
A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since ...
Beck 36 - The Thin Ice
Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does the murder have something to do with his side project: teach...
Beck 37 - Without Intent
The Beck group, with Alex Beijer as new group manager, is given a case where a 12-year-old girl found her mother dead below the stairs at home. Is it an acciden...
Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate
The murder of a restaurant owner who is gunned down in front of a diner full of customers has unexpected repercussions for Alex, whose brother, Paul, represente...
Beck 39 - Undercover
A young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug network is behind it. Klas Fredén has been monitoring the network fo...
Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
During a police intervention, a macabre discovery is made in the trunk of a car. Josef and Oskar find themselves in the line of fire of a seemingly cold-blooded...
Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague...
Beck - Den förlorade sonen
A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklu...
Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past
A body is found in the water near Liljeholmen. The body belongs to a 39-year-old Danish citizen with a solid criminal record and who was a member of a notorious...
Beck 44 - Rage Room
A man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef resumes the relationship with a former girlfriend from school, Cissi, ...
Beck 45 - 58 Minutes
Alex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate. But in the middle of a live broadcast, an armed man appears and th...
Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to ...
Beck 47 - The Death Trap
Police trainee Vilhelm Beck is out on an internship with his supervisor when, during a routine burglary case, he finds a dead 17-year-old boy at the scene of th...
Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo
A man is found dead at a flea market in southern Stockholm. It looks like an ordinary robbery gone wrong, but the investigation takes an unexpected turn....
Beck 49 - Inferno
Nothing is the way it should be in the Beck group. Josef is suspended, pending an internal investigation. Klas Fredén offers to help Josef. But nothing in life ...
Beck 50 - Deadlock
The Beck group is called out to investigate the brutal murder of a man in his own house and Vilhelm, Beck's grandson, ends up being kidnapped....
Beck 51 - Vilhelm
Three men enter a luxury apartment in Stockholm dressed as couriers. But what appears to be a robbery ends in a brutal murder that resembles an execution. Vilhe...
Beck 52 - The Invisible Man
When Alex is alerted to a brutal murder, she brings the temporarily suspended Vilhelm and her colleague Josef to the crime scene. The victim turns out to have c...
Beck 53 - From the Ashes
The team investigates an arson murder involving head pastor Tolle, who is found burned to death inside the Jeriko parish church. The church’s other pastor is El...
Common Questions about Beck Collection
How many movies are in the Beck Collection?
There are currently 54 movies in the Beck Collection, starting from Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm to the latest release, Beck 54.
What is the best order to watch the Beck Collection?
The best way to watch the Beck Collection is usually in release order: starting with Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm and ending with Beck 54. Check our timeline for the full chronological breakdown.
Which is the highest-rated movie in the Beck Collection?
According to movieMx ratings, the fans have a strong preference for Beck 50 - Deadlock in this franchise.