Helgi Björnsson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1958
Age: 66 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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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
Overview: An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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Memphis
Overview: To start with we are led to believe the setting is a country-hotel of some sort. In the end we discover this is a State Rehabilitation Facility and everything that happens is a carefully orchestrated escape plot by some of the inmates. The film was shot on location at an isolated boarding school in Saelingsdalur in the west of Iceland. The school is used as a hotel during the summer months but the film takes place in the wintertime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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Laggó
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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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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Remote Control
Overview: Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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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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Behind Schedule
Overview: A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-06
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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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The Honour of the House
Overview: A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pregnancy, with the purpose of upholding the aristocratic status of their name and household. Or that is what we are told, because underneath the facade, is a story of two sisters, who have had intimacy with the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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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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Of Horses and Men
Overview: A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Paris of the North
Overview: Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-07-08
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Frost
Overview: A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-27
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Dramarama
Overview: Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Foxtrot
Overview: Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1988-08-25
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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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The Atomic Station
Overview: The film tells the story of a young farmgirl moving to Reykjavík after the second world war, and her attempts to adapt to the city life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1984-03-18
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the Colours of the earth
Overview: Mummi, a sixteen year old farmers son falls in love with Sigrún, but when it comes to love, Mummi has no experience and thus must figure it out for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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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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No Such Thing
Overview: A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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Odd Fish
Overview: Two childhood friends get a long-awaited opportunity to found and run a seafood restaurant together. When one of them comes out of the closet as a trans woman, their friendship gets tested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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