Iceland Movies

A documentary about the life of a "famous" bum in Iceland.

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...

When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they...

Áramótaskaup: 2025 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

An old woman, Frída, awaits her death in a country hospital. Every morning, a nurse moves her to a window at the end of a long corridor. One...

Birta overhears her mother’s phone conversation. She is saying to a friend that, due to her financial problems, she won’t be able to...

A young mother finds an abandoned doll and takes her with her home. While she takes care of the doll she begins to open up to the doll and tells her...

A middle aged man visits the house of the Icelandic Nobel prize winner Halldor Laxness and his wife Audur and finds room for self expression in their...

When two troll siblings wake up all alone in their cave, they need to embark on an adventure to find out were the 100 troll family has gone to. New...

Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

A promising high school kid is unjustly sent to the notorious juvenile prison of Iceland where he faces increasingly severe abuse from the head guard...

The protagonist Ketill Larsen is a 71-year-old man living in a desolate house on a hill with a view of a shopping mall on the outskirts of Reykjavik....

Lúpína is about to play the biggest stage of her career at Iceland Airwaves. This film follows her in the lead-up, the rehearsals, and...

Gunnar and Lovísa are heading out of town on a romantic getaway when they realize they are being followed, and in turn many secrets reach the...

The tale of Goldilocks is sometimes viewed as a cautionary tale that imparts a lesson about the hazards of wandering off and exploring unknown...

Emily is a young boy that dreams about owning a dog and he starts working so he can save up to buy one. Meanwhile his family are dealing with money...

Sigga, an Icelandic artist, is performing abroad at a high end party. Afterwards she goes to the hotel bar and runs into an Icelandic flight crew...

Trolls in various forms have accompanied mankind from the beginning, depending on how people understood the word each time. They can be people...

Margrét, a middle-aged office worker, wakes to see cows walking around downtown Reykjavík. When she arrives at her office, she realizes...