Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Island
Birthday: April 23, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Heartless
Overview: Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple faces their biggest fear in the face of life with a new partner.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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Noi the Albino
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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Solitude
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-04-03
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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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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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Oiko Logos
Overview: Oiko logos takes place in an ecosystem which is totally silent. But the inhabitants use sounds as a basic nourishment and therefore they have to travel to other ecosystems to collect sounds. In the film we see how particular sounds affects the life of the ecosystem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Camera Obscura
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1993-02-28
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Mines That Explode Later (Than Expected)
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1991-10-26
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Flugþrá
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-05-27
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Try Again
Overview: The short film Reyndu aftur (Try Again) follows a young man whose suicide attempt is interrupted by an ex-girlfriend. By mistake, he tells a spontaneous lie that has unpredictable consequences, forcing him to deal with various problems of everyday life and face up to the fact that everybody is burdened with issues of their own. Should he give life a second chance or the just give in to the rope?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Carjackin
Overview: A run down boxer meets his faith outside a supermarket.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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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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Hver var Jónas?
Overview: A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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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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Magnús
Overview: Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-08-11
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A Letter from Helga
Overview: In a remote fjord in 1940s Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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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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Áramótaskaup 2021
Overview: Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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The Very Last Fishing Trip
Overview: A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Cold Trail
Overview: After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover what really happened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-12-29
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Volcano
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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The Secret Spell
Overview: Sveppi and Villi go on summer holiday to an old country hotel. Soon they realize a dark and beautiful secret concerning a ghost, a secret spell and a grumpy hotel manager.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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The Quiet Storm
Overview: A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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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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Gói og baunagrasið
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-07-01
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Vikingar
Overview: Iceland, in the year 1000. Magnus, a fearless Viking warrior, confronts Bjarni the Berserker who abducted his wife and child. Their rivalry is only beginning.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Metalhead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2013-10-11
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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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Driving Mum
Overview: The death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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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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Support
Overview: A dying man in an intensive care unit decides to take his fate into his own hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-06-12
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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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Pale Star
Overview: PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-23
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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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I Remember You
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Gói og Eldfærin
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Genres: Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-11-05
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The Oath
Overview: When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-09-06
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Face to Face
Overview: Brynhildur is excited; the 12-year-old has a good chance of getting a solo part in the choir for her class Christmas concert. If only it weren’t for Silja, who is making Brynhildur’s life difficult with her bullying. Even though Brynhildur hasn’t done a thing to provoke Silja. It’s not until she gets up the courage to talk to her father about it that Brynhildur begins to understand what’s behind Silja’s behaviour. At her father’s suggestion, Brynhildur invites the entire class to her birthday party. She sees it as a possible way to win sympathy from Silja and become friends with her. But the plan appears to fail – Silja organises a competing party!
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Chum
Overview: Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom and beautiful woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-08-27
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The Third Name
Overview: A stranger highjacks a boat close to the Icelandic shore, and demands to speak to his ex-girlfriend, but she has never heard of him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2003-06-17
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Black's Game
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-03-11
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The Last Fishing Trip
Overview: Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really hard work. What was supposed to be a cozy fishing trip, turns out to be a downward spiral to Hell. Let's go fishing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Round 0
Overview: Kolbeinn and his friends are young Icelandic boxers, training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks compromising their future, both as boxers and young men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-11-15
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Parents
Overview: The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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Plan B
Overview: Two men in their late twenties, Jim and Frank, old friends from childhood, both emaciated and very grunge guys, meet again after many years. Jim, trying hard to get his life back on track, is pulled in to his old habits of drugs and crimes by Frank and his friends from their old neighbourhood. They set out to help Frank's father to brake out of jail who in return finances their "shopping trip" to Amsterdam.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-11-24
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Alma
Overview: After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Fjallið
Overview: An emotional coming of age story about a family getting their lives thrown over by an accidental death and how cosmos and a road trip into the highlands offers comfort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2025-02-06
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God's blessings
Overview: Guðaveigar is about a group of Icelandic priests who set out on a mission to find the perfect mass wine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-12-26
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