Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reykjavík - Iceland
Adult: No
Birthday: December 08, 1974
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Male
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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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A Dark Spring
Overview: A Dark Spring portrays the last day in a young man’s life. A young man sits on a bench by the Reykjavik Lake, keeping a promise to his childhood love, a promise made fifteen years earlier. As the day grows old he still waits the long wait, in small hope of being reunited with his lost love. A young woman bearing remarkable resemblance to his young love seduces him to abandon the long wait, and his principles. By doing so, the young man pays the ultimate price.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-02-06
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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 Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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December
Overview: December is a present-day tale set in Reykjavik during the holiday season. Jonni (Tomas Lemarquis) returns to Iceland to spend Christmas with his family and to record an album with his old (one-hit-wonder) band. He soon finds out that circumstances in his family have changed dramatically and his friends have moved on. We follow Jonni as he deals with this blunt new reality. Tomas Lemarquis, the star of Noi the Albino, plays Jonni, a musician who after a long time living abroad returns to home Iceland to spend Christmas with his family and record an album with his old (one-hit-wonder) band. He soon finds out that family circumstances have changed dramatically and that his friends have moved on. Dealing with this blunt new reality, Jonni also has to wrestle with the reigniting of an old flame, as he helps his family make Christmas merry in spite of everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Jar City
Overview: A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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City State
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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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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Woman at Sea
Overview: Lili has left everything behind to travel to the edge of the earth and accomplish her dream, fishing the Northern seas. She persuades Ian, the captain of a trawler by the name of Rebel, to give her a chance and let her join the crew. The only woman on board, they call her Sparrow. Hidden behind a frail appearance is a will of steel, and her courage and determination ultimately win over their respect. Adopted into this world of often unfortunate individuals, Lili will conquer her right to live differently, free.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-11
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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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Graves & Bones
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-04-21
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Northern Comfort
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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Wild Game
Overview: At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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My Promised Land
Overview: In occupied Iceland, up and coming singer Bjork performs at the forbidden underground club Camp Tripoli run by the US Military. When she heads into the night afterwards she falls prey to pure-bread Icelandic bigotry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-03-27
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Make a wish, BENÓNÝ!
Overview: Rolling stone and absentee father Benóný, is in for a surprise when his path unexpectedly crosses with his teenage daughter, blissfully unaware of him, on vacation in his isolated seaside village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
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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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Agnes Joy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2019-10-05
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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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Lamb
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-08-12
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Sacrifice
Overview: Oli, his young girlfriend, and a scheming colleague are fleeing the Icelandic financial crises with a fortune in forbidden cash stuffed into a duffel bag. They head for Spain in their boat under cover of night. The seas rage and a horrible accident occurs. Marooned on a freezing outcrop of rock, the tension builds as the three violently disagree as they take drastic measures to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Cop Secret
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-05-23
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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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Kill the Poet
Overview: Set during WWII when artists were being blacklisted in Communist witch-hunts, follows the star-crossed love story of a young poet and a young female painter from a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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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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Phobos
Overview: A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated colony ship Covenant, on what amounts to a highly unorthodox job ‘interview’ for their upcoming mission, masterminded by their employer, the Weyland Yutani Corporation.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-15
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