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IS-Language Films
Top 82 IS-language films from a catalog of 82, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Kjarval and The Door Mountain | 2,019 | Ásgeir Hvítaskáld | Documentary | 8.5 | 13 | IS | Iceland | In the year 1948 while travelling in east Iceland painter Jóhannes Kjarval camps on a plot of land in Hjaltastaðaþinghá which he falls in love with and where he decides to build himself a cabin. |
| Heima | 2,007 | Dean DeBlois | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 88 | IS | Iceland | Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop. |
| Touch | 2,024 | Baltasar Kormákur | Romance, Drama | 7.4 | 106 | IS | Iceland | Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier. |
| Metalhead | 2,013 | Ragnar Bragason | Drama, Music | 7.3 | 228 | IS | Iceland | A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music. |
| Woman at War | 2,018 | Benedikt Erlingsson | Drama, Thriller, Comedy | 7.2 | 429 | IS | France | Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life. |
| Virgin Mountain | 2,015 | Dagur Kári | Drama | 7.2 | 252 | IS | Denmark | Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world. |
| Heartstone | 2,016 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Romance, Drama | 7.2 | 173 | IS | Denmark | A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood. |
| The Last Farm | 2,004 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 7.2 | 22 | IS | Iceland | An Oscar nominated Icelandic short film about an old man who might leave his farm but keeps a secret. |
| Solitude | 2,024 | Ninna Pálmadóttir | Drama | 7.2 | 10 | IS | France | An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family. |
| Angels of the Universe | 2,000 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Drama | 7.1 | 32 | IS | Denmark | The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band. |
| Undercurrent | 2,010 | Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson | Drama | 7.1 | 10 | IS | Iceland | The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid crew members commits suicide. To fill his gap, a young woman takes his place on the next tour and gradually the fragile balance is tipped, and personal issues that should be left on the mainland cause dangerous friction between the crew members |
| Rams | 2,015 | Grímur Hákonarson | Drama | 7 | 296 | IS | Denmark | In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. |
| Beautiful Beings | 2,022 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Drama | 7 | 61 | IS | Czech Republic | A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path. |
| Noi the Albino | 2,003 | Dagur Kári | Drama | 6.9 | 104 | IS | Denmark | 17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control. |
| The Juniper Tree | 1,990 | Nietzchka Keene | Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 | 85 | IS | Iceland | Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery. |
| Of Horses and Men | 2,013 | Benedikt Erlingsson | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 6.9 | 82 | IS | Norway | A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception. |
| Volcano | 2,011 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.9 | 31 | IS | Denmark | Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past. |
| Whale Valley | 2,013 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Drama | 6.8 | 31 | IS | Iceland | The film shows a strong bond between two brothers that live in a remote fjord with their parents. We look into their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey that marks a turning point in the lives of the brothers. |
| Under the Tree | 2,017 | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 165 | IS | Germany | When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control. |
| And Breathe Normally | 2,018 | Ísold Uggadóttir | Drama | 6.7 | 111 | IS | Belgium | At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track. |
| Echo | 2,019 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.7 | 35 | IS | Iceland | Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays. |
| When the Light Breaks | 2,024 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.7 | 31 | IS | Croatia | When the light breaks on a long summer's day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. |
| Nest | 2,022 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 6.7 | 30 | IS | Denmark | A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy. |
| Back Soon | 2,008 | Sólveig Anspach | Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 12 | IS | Iceland | Anna Hallgrimsdottir, a poetess, dish washer and marijuana dealer in her late thirties, lives in Reykjavik with her two sons, Krummi and Ulfur. Anna is tired of her lifestyle and the coldness of Iceland and wishes to show her sons more of the world. Finally she decides to do something about it, move on, and somewhat change her lifestyle. The first step in her revival is to sell her business which consists of her mobile telephone which includes her big list of clients. The sale is an unusual one and the potential buyer promises her the asking price within 48 hours. During those 48 hours Anna gets into all kinds of “Icelandic familial adventures” as her kitchen fills up with customers/friends, partying, while waiting for her to come Back Soon. |
| When the Raven Flies | 1,984 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Action, Drama, History | 6.5 | 38 | IS | Iceland | Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge. |
| The Love That Remains | 2,025 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 14 | IS | Denmark | Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons. |
| Mr. Bjarnfreðarson | 2,009 | Ragnar Bragason | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 12 | IS | Iceland | Centers on Georg Bjarnfreðarson, an over-educated know-it-all who has just been released from jail after a ten year sentence for manslaughter, but is still a prisoner of his own past. |
| Devil's Island | 1,996 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | IS | Denmark | Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't. |
| Lamb | 2,021 | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.4 | 1,011 | IS | Iceland | An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them. |
| Sparrows | 2,015 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 6.4 | 37 | IS | Iceland | The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis. |
| The Deep | 2,012 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama | 6.3 | 124 | IS | Iceland | Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero. |
| Reykjavik-Rotterdam | 2,008 | Óskar Jónasson | Action, Thriller | 6.3 | 49 | IS | Denmark | A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur. |
| Life in a Fishbowl | 2,014 | Baldvin Z | Drama | 6.3 | 28 | IS | Czech Republic | Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period. |
| Operation Napoleon | 2,023 | Óskar Thór Axelsson | Thriller | 6.2 | 162 | IS | Germany | A modern-day lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of freedom lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII aeroplane, long buried deep beneath the ice, before the CIA. |
| The County | 2,019 | Grímur Hákonarson | Drama | 6.2 | 35 | IS | Denmark | A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community. |
| Two Birds | 2,008 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 33 | IS | Iceland | The story takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate. |
| The White Viking | 1,991 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Drama, Adventure | 6.2 | 13 | IS | Denmark | Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism. |
| I Remember You | 2,017 | Óskar Thór Axelsson | Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 171 | IS | Iceland | After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted. |
| 101 Reykjavik | 2,000 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 125 | IS | Denmark | A 30-year-old slacker who lives with his mother finds his life turned upside down when his mother's flamenco-dancing friend moves in. |
| A White, White Day | 2,019 | Hlynur Pálmason | Drama | 6.1 | 120 | IS | Denmark | In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love. |
| The Sea | 2,002 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 16 | IS | France | Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets. |
| Children | 2,006 | Ragnar Bragason | Drama | 6.1 | 11 | IS | Iceland | Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she is oblivious to what’s going on with her twelve year old Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund’s only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his fourties who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marinó starts to lose grip on reality. |
| The Oath | 2,016 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6 | 95 | IS | Germany | When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them. |
| Cop Secret | 2,022 | Hannes Þór Halldórsson | Comedy, Action, Thriller | 6 | 90 | IS | Iceland | When Bússi, Iceland's toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him. |
| Stormland | 2,011 | Marteinn Þórsson | Drama, Comedy | 6 | 16 | IS | Iceland | The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution. |
| Cold | 2,023 | Erlingur Thoroddsen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6 | 12 | IS | Belgium | An investigation by Óðinn on decades old deaths at a juvenile treatment center, as he proceeds he suspects that the sinister secrets are connected to his ex-wife's mysterious suicide. |
| Paris of the North | 2,014 | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 12 | IS | Denmark | Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit. |
| Movie Days | 1,994 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Drama | 6 | 10 | IS | Denmark | This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. |
| Jar City | 2,006 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 5.9 | 75 | IS | Iceland | A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad. |
| Black's Game | 2,012 | Óskar Thór Axelsson | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 | 73 | IS | Iceland | In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld. |
| Yes-People | 2,020 | Gísli Darri Halldórsson | Animation, Comedy | 5.9 | 48 | IS | Iceland | Six people. Living in one building but following different paths. Each gets through the day in their own way – and with their own voice. |
| Jitters | 2,010 | Baldvin Z | Drama | 5.9 | 45 | IS | Iceland | An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately scrutinized by his family and friends who notice he’s different. But as the school year launches with Gabriel distracted with parties and his friends’ own dramas, Marcus returns, reigniting the hot, thrilling emotions of one’s first crush. Jitters fires head-first into the topsy-turvy world of first love with an attractive cast and pulsating soundtrack, making it a smartly refreshing journey into the queer, teen experience. |
| Let Me Fall | 2,018 | Baldvin Z | Drama | 5.9 | 19 | IS | Iceland | When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable. |
| Children of Nature | 1,991 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Romance, Drama | 5.9 | 18 | IS | Germany | An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords. |
| White Night Wedding | 2,008 | Baltasar Kormákur | Drama | 5.9 | 15 | IS | Denmark | Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time? |
| Artun | 2,014 | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Drama | 5.9 | 14 | IS | Iceland | A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. One day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for. |
| LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers | 2,010 | Howard E. Baker | Action, Adventure, Animation, Family | 5.8 | 101 | IS | United States of America | Clutch Powers ventures on a mission assigned to him by his boss to solve the chaos that occurred on the Space Police prison planet. |
| In the Shadow of the Raven | 1,988 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Drama, Action | 5.8 | 16 | IS | Iceland | Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wo... |
| Vultures | 2,018 | Börkur Sigthorsson | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 5.7 | 36 | IS | Denmark | In an attempt to fix his financial problems, Erik recruits his brother, Atli, to help him import a shipment of cocaine into Iceland. Erik thinks he's got things all figured out, until the young Polish “mule” they've hired is unable to pass the drugs through her system. |
| Dorks & Damsels | 2,007 | Gunnar B. Guðmundsson | Action, Comedy | 5.7 | 15 | IS | Finland | The film revolves around Hildur, a national celebrity and socialite who has to look for a job when her boyfriend Jolli is sent to prison. She finds a job at Astrópía, a store that sells role playing books and her immersion into geek culture changes her outlook on life. |
| Rift | 2,017 | Erlingur Thoroddsen | Horror, Mystery, Drama | 5.6 | 35 | IS | Iceland | Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in. |
| Mamma Gógó | 2,010 | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 15 | IS | Germany | Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by. |
| Either Way | 2,011 | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Drama, Comedy | 5.6 | 11 | IS | Iceland | Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads in their lives. |
| The Seagull's Laughter | 2,001 | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Drama, Comedy | 5.5 | 15 | IS | Denmark | Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice. |
| Northern Comfort | 2,023 | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Comedy | 5.4 | 64 | IS | France | A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly. |
| Legends of Valhalla: Thor | 2,011 | Óskar Jónasson | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 5.4 | 52 | IS | Iceland | An over confident teen with a magical weapon and a handful of imperfect gods join forces against an evil queen and her army of giants |
| Cold Light | 2,004 | Hilmar Oddsson | Drama | 5.4 | 10 | IS | Germany | What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon. |
| Eleven Men Out | 2,005 | Róbert I. Douglas | Drama, Comedy | 5.3 | 18 | IS | Finland | The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism |
| City State | 2,011 | Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime | 5.2 | 14 | IS | Iceland | A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other. |
| Him | 2,019 | Runar Þór Sigurbjörnsson | Drama, Romance | 5.2 | 12 | IS | Iceland | Andri, an anxious teenage boy, hides and represses his sexuality in fear of his masculine father's reaction but, on the eve of Andri's first date, he finds a clever way to reveal his secret. |
| Agnes Joy | 2,019 | Silja Hauksdóttir | Drama | 5.2 | 12 | IS | Iceland | When a new neighbour arrives at Rannveig´s doorstep, her frustrated everyday life suddenly changes. The cloud of hopelessness that surrounds her marriage and her relationship with her almost adult daughter lifts temporarily but soon the family is forced to confront new and unknown challenges in their relationship. |
| The Sacred Mound | 1,993 | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Drama | 5.2 | 12 | IS | Iceland | A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her. |
| O | 2,024 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Drama | 5.2 | 10 | IS | Iceland | A fragile soul's inner turmoil unfolds as he battles personal demons in pursuit of a seemingly mundane goal. |
| Cold Trail | 2,006 | Björn Br. Björnsson | Drama, Thriller | 5.1 | 14 | IS | Iceland | After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover what really happened. |
| The Swan | 2,018 | Ása Hjörleifsdóttir | Drama | 5 | 13 | IS | Germany | When young Sól is sent to live with her distant countryside relatives for a summer, she becomes entangled in a dramatic rite of passage with a mysterious farmhand, Jón, and the farmer’s daughter, Ásta. |
| Brave Men's Blood | 2,014 | Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama | 5 | 12 | IS | Iceland | The head of the Reykjavík police department's internal affairs unit decides to use his investigation into a corrupt police lieutenant to take down a major criminal organization. |
| Stormy Weather | 2,003 | Sólveig Anspach | Drama | 5 | 11 | IS | Belgium | The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment. |
| Graves & Bones | 2,014 | Anton Sigurðsson | Thriller, Horror | 4.7 | 12 | IS | Iceland | Gunnar and Sonja are a married couple that had it all, money,love and a beautful daughter. But after the death of there daughter their world falls apart. To make things worse Gunnar is in the middle of a trial, being charged with illegal sales and purchase on behave of his company. When Gunnar and Sonja inherit Gunnar's niece Perla, the couple take on a weekend journey to pick up Perla, who is staying at a remote house in the Icelandic country side where she lost both of her parents in a horrible way. When Gunnar and Sonja arrive at the house strange things start to happen. |
| XL | 2,013 | Marteinn Þórsson | Drama | 4.3 | 10 | IS | Iceland | Ex-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into rehab by his political rival, following a well publicized art exhibition brawl. Full of denial, Leifur throws a party before checking in, but when it´s time to leave – very few do, turning the night into an adventure exclusively for those old enough to vote. |
| Wrestling | 2,007 | Grímur Hákonarson | Drama, Family | 4.2 | 11 | IS | Iceland | A love story about two gay wrestlers living in rural Iceland who must keep their relationship a secret from the inner world of Iceland's national and very macho sport. |
| Frost | 2,012 | Reynir Lyngdal | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | 3.9 | 13 | IS | Finland | A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force. |
| Shadowtown | 2,020 | Karolina Lewicka | Drama | 3.9 | 10 | IS | Iceland | A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for. |
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