In 2005, Mårlind and Björn Stein made their directorial feature film debut with the fantasy thriller Storm.

They next released the 2010 supernatural thriller Shelter (also known as 6 Souls in the United States),[2] starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and based on a screenplay by UK screenwriter Michael Cooney.

[3][4] Mårlind and Stein co-directed Underworld: Awakening (2012), which starred Kate Beckinsale as Selene and grossed over $160 million worldwide.

[7][8] For television, the duo directed all episodes of the Swedish-French police procedural Midnight Sun (2016).

[13] Mårlind is the father of one child with English actress Tuppence Middleton, born in August 2022.