Iceland Movies

Personal and elaborative documentary about Iceland's first real pop star, Bjorgvin Halldorsson.

Jóhann is a thirty year old guesthouse owner in downtown Reykjavík who has isolated himself socially after the death of his father. The...

A film about the Westman Islands eruption in 1973, the destruction and the restoration work which began a year later.

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...

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...

In September 2003, thirteen people from Iceland set out for an adventure. Their goal was to stage their successful, Icelandic production of Romeo and...

After a failed attempt at a hostel luggage room hook up, Sam and Naomi think they will never see each other again. When a volcano erupts, grounding...

Gudmundur Felix lost both arms in a horrible work accident in 1998, when he climbed a high voltage mast for repair work. His biggest wish is to hug...

The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland's most dangerous man, Gulla's car dealership. To...

The Wedding Gift tells a tale of a mother, a son and his wife and a sewing machine. Filmed almost entirely in a car, the cramped space gives tension...

A documentary about alcoholism. The late Joe Pirro, a well known American therapist with over 30 years' experience in handling patients suffering...

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...

Two twins separated at birth grow up to be artists in an eccentric Icelandic film, that just like a science fiction film asks the question: 'What if...

A film about the Municipal Water Supply in Reykjavík which was founded in 1909.

When politics and the power structure fail to embrace equal rights in the 1980s, women take matter into their own hands and permanently change how...

An Icelandic farmer's son decides to leave his farm, fiance, friends, dog and horse, during the depression before World War II, to start a new life...

Canvas and Curtains is a documentary about the icelandic artist and scenographer, Steinthor Sigurdsson. This biography narrates Steinthors story from...