Department Q: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 11 h 26 min. Movies adapted from the Department Q series of novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen

1. 
   Movie 1

   The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)

   1 h 33 min · ★ 7.0

   Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her…

2. 
   Movie 2

   The Absent One (2014)

   1 h 56 min · ★ 7.0

   Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his…

3. 
   Movie 3

   A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)

   1 h 48 min · ★ 6.9

   Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that…

4. 
   Movie 4

   The Purity of Vengeance (2018)

   1 h 58 min · ★ 7.1

   Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

5. 
   Movie 5

   The Marco Effect (2021)

   2 h 5 min · ★ 5.7

   When a homeless Romani boy is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant's passport, police inspector Carl Mørck and Department Q are tasked with finding the connection.

6. 
   Movie 6

   Boundless (2024)

   2 h 6 min · ★ 5.9

   In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during…