The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009 PG-13 2h 32m

7.5 /10

3.2K

Genre

Drama Thriller Crime Mystery

Plot

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

Director

Niels Arden Oplev

Writers

Rasmus Heisterberg Stieg Larsson Nikolaj Arcel

Stars

Michael Nyqvist Noomi Rapace Lena Endre

Cast & Crew

Michalis Koutsogiannakis

Hans-Erik Wennerström

Policeman in the Woods

Young Lisbeth Salander

Otto Falk (uncredited)

Jannike Grut

Prison Guard Anette (uncredited)

Alexandra Hummingson

Journalist / Murder Victim (uncredited)

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Shaun R.L. King

Gang Member (uncredited)

Henrik Kvarnlöt

Police Inspector (uncredited)

Jan Mybrand

Economic Director (uncredited)

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Mika-Christer Mäenpää

Security Guard (uncredited)

Birgit Falk (uncredited)

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Lisbeth Åkerman

TV Reporter (uncredited)

User Reviews

Dr_Nostromo

20 Nov 2025

82/100 A reporter's social disgrace for libel, rape and revenge, the investigation of serial killings going back to the 40's, all centered around a...

narrator56

5 Dec 2021

Oddly, the version of this movie I watched contained both English subtitles and dubbing, and after a while I wished I could turn off the dubbing and g...