Kristbjörg Kjeld
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Biography: Kristbjörg Kjeld (born June 18, 1935) is an Icelandic actress. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1962. She won the 2010 Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for her performance as Mamma Gógó in Mamma Gógó.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: June 18, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
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Slurpinn & Co.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Pretty Angels
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1990-02-18
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Flugþrá
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-05-27
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Col Tempo
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Sea
Overview: Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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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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In the Shadow of the Raven
Overview: Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1988-10-28
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The Seagull's Laughter
Overview: Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-10-20
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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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The Girl Gogo
Overview: Ragnar has left his family farm and works as a taxi driver in Reykjavík in the early sixties. He's drawn to the beautiful but unhappy girl Gogo and hopes to build a better life with her. But she's a lost soul and their brief romance results in tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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Dot Dot Comma Dash
Overview: Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a little boy learning about life, about divorce, military occupation, the Beatles, little girls and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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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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Ghost Story
Overview: A young student starts working as a night watchman in the Icelandic TV-house which is supposed to be haunted. Together with a make-up girl working there, he pretends to be a red-haired ghost. But what started out as a joke, soon becomes no laughing matter.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1985-02-14
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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 Drama
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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Under the Glacier
Overview: Our hero is Umbi (an acronym for emissary of the bishop), sent by him to undertake an important investigation at Snæfell-glacier. In particular he is to look into the conduct and behavior of Jón Prímus, the old pastor at Snæfell. Fantastic rumors are rife: amongst other things it is said that a corpse is lodged in the glacier! Armed with his tape recorder and notebook, Umbi embarks upon his mission. He tries to question the weird locals, a weird lot, but gets evasive answers. Slowly he is dragged into a quagmire of strange happenings and his efforts to understand only make him confused. If at the beginning he is a chipper, a mere device, by the end of the story he is inextricably involved, a committed participant in the bizarre events.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1989-02-25
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Savior
Overview: The incredible cinematography of SAVIOR sweeps viewers away into the Icelandic outback and into a beautiful young girl's journey inside her body and soul to find her true self. Forced by her neglectful parents to spend the summer in a camp for much younger children, Kaja runs away. On her journey, she encounters the grave dangers of the exotic Icelandic wilderness and is forced to face her deepest fears. This coming-of-age story follows Kaja as she learns to embrace the one source of comfort she will always have--herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2004-09-26
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Sparrows
Overview: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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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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Playing with Balls
Overview: A lesbian in midlife crisis acts on her desire to escape the day to day routine only to find disappointment instead of that absolute bliss she hoped for.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Ein Sommer in Island
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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The Together Project
Overview: Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-29
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I
Overview: A young trans person travels to the city in search of the freedom to be themselves
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-09-30
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Cold Light
Overview: What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Privacy
Overview: Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his family. A gallery of humorous, off-beat characters is revealed, who's seemingly ordinary lives conceal bitter divorces, passionate second marriages, vengeance, luck and misfortune, crime and punishment.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-09
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Overview: Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Miss Regina
Overview: Two brothers are asked by their grandmother to kill their sister's boyfriend.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-12-27
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The Typist
Overview: The story spans over 45 years and shows the daily work routine of two co-workers.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Mamma Gógó
Overview: Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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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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The Life of Bella
Overview: Bella is a struggling writer who gets a job assisting an elderly lady. She soon discovers that this job is a lot harder than she thought. Will she give up or gain a new perspective on life?
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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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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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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