Pétur Einarsson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 31, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Angels of the Universe
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Eleven Men Out
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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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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Leap Year
Overview: No plot found
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Pretty Angels
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1990-02-18
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SSL-25 (Special Squad Laugarnesvegur 25)
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-12-30
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The Box of Chocolates
Overview: Ragnar, straight out of hospital, orders a taxi-driver around Reykjavik in order to find a three layered chocolate box. He wants to repay a nurse for her good service at the hospital. After each unsuccessful stop at various grocery stores, his daughter, Hrönn, gets increasingly agitated in the back seat of the cab. Tension between father and daughter build to a peak, and it becomes crucial for Hrönn to confront her father for the first time in her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Nail
Overview: Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-09-29
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Rattlesnakes
Overview: Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the privilege of just wearing whatever shoes they want – without any worries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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When the Raven Flies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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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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Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Overview: No description found
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Ikingut
Overview: In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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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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The Messanger
Overview: Páll thinks he is just like everyone else, that is until he begins to have vivid visions about life after death. At first he has a open mind about them, but discovers through them an evil plot. The visions show him a spree of killing of important people within society. A panic ensues, and Páll gets tangled in a plot with powerful people and a cult that could destroy society.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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The Fishing Trip
Overview: On a sunny summer day a Range Rover stumbles across the lava and moss down to lake Þingvallavatn. A husband and wife step out of the vehicle along with their children, fishing partner and his daughter. While the men fish and the wife enjoys the sun the children notice a man that seems to have something to hide.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1980-03-08
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Polite People
Overview: A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-31
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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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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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Broken Glass
Overview: Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a drug overdose and winds up in a home for other girls with problems, but the two women who run the place turn out to be not quite the ladies they seemed. Maria knows she can't stay there very long, and starts planning her escape.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Story of a Murder
Overview: Middle aged bourgeoisie couple lives a loveless life along with their beautiful eighteen year old daughter. The man has a passionate desire for the girl who in fact is not his real daughter but the fruit of an affair of the woman early in the marriage. This leads to tragic events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1977-03-12
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The Beatle
Overview: Gunnar owns a car sale where he works everyday, and even lives there along with his two sons, and his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Overview: After Lára, 13, loses both her father and brother in an accident, she discovers that her father used to be a member of a theatre group at a local theatre. In order to keep his memory alive, she joins the company. The company consists of eccentric and playful elders who introduce Lára to the magic of theatre and the importance of play. While Lára struggles to piece together the fractured life she now shares with her mother, she decides to help the company in their attempt to save the theatre with a big hit play. But evil and corrupt forces want it gone forever.
Genres: Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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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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Nóttin, já nóttin
Overview: 12 hours in the life of a young man who has just received bad news which change everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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God bless this house
Overview: A couple are going through a divorce, but once one of their children gets injured they start taking care of it, and maybe each other also.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1979-12-26
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