The Candidate

Defense attorney Jonas Bechmann is a man of the system--until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances 18 months earlier.

The Candidate is a 2008 thriller movie directed by Kasper Barfoed, starring Laura Christensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Tuva Novotny. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.2/10 from 3,056 votes and runs 1h 30m.