Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Also Known As: Olafur Darri Olafsson, Olafur Darri, オラフル・ダッリ・オラフソン, اولافور داری اولافسون
Biography: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson has lived in Iceland for most of his life and works full time as an actor. He does a lot of theatre work as well as films and he is one of the founders of the Vesturport theatre company, which has performed around the world.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Connecticut, USA
Birthday: March 03, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Wine of the House
Overview: A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Full House
Overview: No plot found
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Epic Fail
Overview: Epic Fail is based on true events that happened in Reykjavik, Iceland not so long ago. It is a 14 minute short film about a guy that finds himself in extraordinary situations and has to take matters into his own hands and put his trust in strangers that under normal circumstances, he never would have met and for sure never talked to. But when people find themselves in a situation and have to ask strangers for help then interesting things happen and we see that we are not so different after all and we should not judge the book by its cover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2009-06-04
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The Box
Overview: The film tells the tale of a man named Kalli, a scruffy looking 30 year old, that lives in his brother’s garage. As he wakes up hung-over on the morning of his birthday. He finds to his surprise an over sized box in his living room. Inside the box is a very unusual birthday present from his brother Teitur. As Kalli opens the box, he discovers that the gift is a woman from East-Europe, that was mailed to him. As Kalli struggles to convince his brother that giving someone a mail-order bride on their birthday is not the right thing to do, he realizes what a sociopath his brother really is. And though he doesn’t want to admit it to himself, he too has some serious women issues and does not respect them as human beings. In the end the film shows how so many men treat women like objects. Although the film deals with serious issues it does so in a light and absurd way so the laughs are plenty and never far between.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Beauty of Small Things
Overview: No plot found
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Njalssaga
Overview: TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Thicker Than Water
Overview: Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Beautiful Beings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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White Night Wedding
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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Let Me Fall
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Swim for your life
Overview: The film follows the brave attempts of two men to be the first Icelander to swim the English Channel, the Mount Everest of swimmers, their failures and eventually the success of one of them. Interwoven with the story of the amazing endurance of these two men, is the history of swimming in Iceland and in particular the long and hard struggle to re-introduce the skill after it had been almost totally lost to this seafaring nation. By the 19th century it is reckoned that in the whole of Iceland no more than 6 individuals of a population of 50.000, knew how to swim. With references to the ancient Icelandic sages, we learn through staged scenes how a local hero took on and defeated the Norwegian kin in a bout of the popular Viking sport of sea wrestling and how a mother fled after her husband was viciously killed, swimming to land with her two children.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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Glanni Glæpur Í Latabæ
Overview: Íþróttaálfurinn has managed to change the villagers' negative attitude towards sports, healthy food and all diligence. But when he leaves and the villagers have to manage on their own, they turn out to be very unstable and easily influenced by the criminal Glanni Glæpur, who turns up disguised as a very rich man. In fact, he has stolen the president's car and intends to corrupt the villagers so that he can sell them un-wholesome powder-food and become mayor of the town.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Undercurrent
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-09-05
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Wrath of Gods
Overview: When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if the Norse gods were actually working against them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-05-06
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Pearls and Swine
Overview: Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Permille
Overview: Erik likes to have a drink once in a while. The day after a good party, sitting with his girlfriend having a chat, he meets people he doesn't remember. Has he arrived at a crossroads? Is Erik in deeper trouble than usual?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-09-20
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Fiasco
Overview: Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Stormland
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-14
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The Deep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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XL
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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The Rock of Ages
Overview: A soldier, which army, which era, unclear. What’s clear is the evil he’s done. Faced with his impending mortality, he fears being judged in the afterlife. Only immortality will do. He meets a talking rock who promises just that - but he’ll first have to face his fiendish deeds...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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A Winter's Journey
Overview: Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice and snow, on a dangerous journey which will either lead him to death or to a new life.
Genres: Animation Drama Music
Original Language: en
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Contraband
Overview: When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Overview: Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-18
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Beowulf & Grendel
Overview: The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-14
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Country Wedding
Overview: A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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The Meg
Overview: A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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The Last Witch Hunter
Overview: The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-21
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Summerlight and Then Comes The Night
Overview: The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Hidden People
Overview: Guti (35, Slovenian) and Sig (50, Icelander) wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, while Guti recalls a fight with skinheads Sid drunkenly participated in and Guti tried peacefully to intervene in. Sig has no passport or any clue about his identity—the skinheads have taken everything he owned. Guti is trying to build a new home for himself on a river raft after losing his house to the bank and his life to his ex-wife. He introduces Sig to his friends—suburban misfits, who remind Sig of a legend of the hidden people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sl
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East
Overview: A film inspired by real events in the Icelandic underworld. A young man has a one night stand with the former girlfriend of a violent criminal and is kidnapped by said criminal and his gang in an effort to blackmail him. When that doesn't work they decide to bring him to the countryside to the home of an old friend. There they proceed to torture the poor man...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2015-04-17
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Operation Napoleon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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101 Reykjavik
Overview: Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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The BFG
Overview: An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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The White King
Overview: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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King's Road
Overview: After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Undying Love
Overview: What lengths does a man go to hold on to love.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Patient Seven
Overview: The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-11
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Zoolander 2
Overview: Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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CUBS
Overview: A single father wants to fulfil his young daughter's wish to throw a slumber party for her friends, but it turns out to be more of a challenge than he thought due to the rules of modern society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-03
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Artun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-11-12
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Overview: Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-14
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End of Sentence
Overview: Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-23
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Murder Mystery
Overview: On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-25
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
Overview: A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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The Vanishing
Overview: Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Overview: A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Overview: As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-03
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Overview: Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-26
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Children
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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The Rooties
Overview: A band's and their crew's miscommunication leading them to being on the opposite sides of the country leads to comic consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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Out of the Ash and Into the Fire
Overview: A streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know that the woman is lives a life of crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-02-06
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I can't be seen like this
Overview: The lives of two sisters change forever one winter morning.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Woyzeck
Overview: The excitedly physical staging of Georg Buchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt him. A hostage to fortune, class and his sadistic superiors, Woyzeck’s fate is played out in a series of nightmarish encounters. He stumbles through a world of macabre carnival, sexual betrayal and cruel oppression, pursued by the demons of his own paranoid fantasies. Pushed beyond breaking point, Woyzeck’s last love- crazed act destroys the only thing he truly cares for.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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