Best Icelandic Movies
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Best Icelandic Movies
TOP Movies: The Bothersome Man (2006), Arctic (2018), White Night Wedding (2008), Virgin Mountain (2015), Heartstone (2016), The Professor and the Madman (2019), Lamb (2021), Sparrows (2015), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Everest (2015), Metalhead (2013), Against the Ice (2022), The Deep (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), I Remember You (2017), Adrift (2018), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Stardust (2007), 22 July (2018), The Old Guard (2020).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, art house ...
Plot:
dystopia, nightmare, suicide attempt, exile, accountant, alone in the world, parallel universe, suicide, emotionless, isolation, confined, captivity ...
Time:
distant future, future
Place:
argentina
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63K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek ...
Style:
minimal cast, suspense, touching, visually stunning, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, snow, wilderness survival, polar bear, male protagonist, struggle for survival, very little dialogue, ice, fish ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who ...
Style:
humorous, witty, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
wedding, island, wedding ceremony, unlikely couple, family feud, love affair, buddies, hopes, love and romance, couple relations, starting over, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, iceland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Like a young bird yet to find the courage to lift its wings, Fúsi (43) lives alone with his mother, where they've always lived.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, poetic ...
Plot:
bachelor, shyness, depression, shy man, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, society, life turned upside down, mental disorder, police, model, airport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, lgbt cinema, thought provoking, social ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, coming of age, teenage boy, friendship between boys, gay teenager, lgbt teen, unrequited love, lgbtq, boy, first love, children ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
iceland, denmark
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot:
professor, redemption, schizophrenia, insane asylum, mental patient, biopic, friendship, direction and purpose, winston churchill, society, shared dream, book ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, oxford university
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44K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, scary, modern fairy tale, psychedelic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parenthood, folk horror, farm, creature, body horror, grief, husband wife relationship, mountain, supernatural, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fatherhood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, small town, childhood friend, gay, older woman younger man sex, female nudity, alcoholism, nudity, boyhood, lgbt ...
Place:
iceland, reykjavik iceland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company jointly announced that Marvel Studios and its President Kevin Feige will produce the third film in the "Spider-Man: Homecoming" series, starring Tom Holland. The film is scheduled to ...
Style:
exciting, saga, disturbing, psychotronic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, multiverse, peter parker character, double life, costumed hero, teenage boy, supernatural power, spider man, superhuman powers, teenager, villain, teenage superhero ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, america, north america, manhattan new york city, mexico
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246K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It's the year 1970 and as Black Sabbath record their first album and mark the birth of Heavy Metal, Hera Karlsdottir is born on the cowshed floor at her parents farm in rural Iceland. The years of her youth are carefree until a tragedy ...
Style:
emotional, gothic, realistic, serious, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
heavy metal, grief, black metal, husband wife relationship, loss of child, priest, countryside, coming of age, lifestyle, rebel, women, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, period piece, powerful ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, cold, arctic, snow, island, winter, captain, crew, camp, ship, blaster ...
Time:
edwardian era, 2020s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland, denmark
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, uplifting, weird
Plot:
storm at sea, ocean, fisherman, shipwreck, struggle for survival, drowning, against the odds, danger, hopes, sea disaster, survivor, disaster ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
iceland, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, visually stunning, saga, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, warrior, legends and myths, norse mythology, mythology, comic book, wizards and magicians, medieval, supernatural, vigilante, viking ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, seattle, usa, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize ...
Style:
scary, spooky, suspense, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
fear, ghost, haunted house, cold case, supernatural, ghost child, nervous breakdown, psychiatrist, supernatural power, violence, trapped, dead mother ...
Place:
reykjavik iceland, iceland
Is relevant?
66K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style:
sincere, sad, suspenseful, romantic drama, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, water, sailboat, sea adventure, power of love, death, storm, sea, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
tahiti, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Iceland, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, ...
Style:
saga, humorous, action adventure, epic, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
superhero, revenge, disagreement, vigilante, costumed hero, ex soldier, heroes, super powers, female agent, friendship between men, supernatural power, chase ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1991, future, 90s
Place:
africa, eastern europe, vienna, europe, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
297K
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Iceland, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, dark fantasy, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
witch, magic, true love, fantasy world, magical, curses spells and rituals, sword fight, love and romance, imaginary kingdom, fall in love, chase, imaginary ...
Time:
19th century, year 2007, 2000s, future, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe
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40K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, dramatic, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, mass murder, tragedy, island, cruelty, trial, brutality, massacre, car bomb, hospital, criminal ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
209K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Morocco
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Four immortal mercenaries who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
Style:
visually appealing, action adventure, perverse, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
immortality, immortal, strong female lead, black ops, female protagonist, anti heroine, traitor, female warrior, female killer, regeneration, existentialism, assassination attempt ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, afghanistan, london, morocco, sudan ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature ...
Style:
uplifting, visually stunning, emotional, psychotronic, teen comedy
Audience:
family friendly, teen fantasy
Plot:
dragon, viking, friendship, island, warrior, coming of age, bonding, misfit, inventor, courage, loyalty, self discovery ...
Time:
medieval times
Place:
fictional island, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Comedian Ari Eldjárn pokes fun at Nordic rivalries, Hollywood’s take on Thor, the whims of toddlers and more.
Style:
light hearted, witty, laugh out loud, one man show
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
satire, irreverent, stand up comedy, stand up, stage performance
Is relevant?
7K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
first love, love, looking for love, love and romance, romantic relationship, love interest, obsessive quest, love story, newborn baby, baby, job interview, birthday ...
Time:
2020s, year 1969
Place:
iceland, japan, london, hiroshima japan
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224K
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
Style:
fairy tale, absurd, sinister, crying, powerful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bullying, wizard of oz, witch, magic, feminism, abuse of power, talking animal, prejudice, based on broadway musical, dancing, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
583K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Iceland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, visually appealing, visually stunning, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, cloning, danger, space travel, dystopia, resistance, mysterious character, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future, year 2013, near future, year 2000, distant future ...
Place:
peru, seattle, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Iceland, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, epic fantasy, action adventure, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
wizard, dragon, witchcraft, magic, gang of thieves, dungeons and dragons, artifact, father daughter relationship, druid, magical power, black magic, cemetery ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Iceland, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Style:
feel good, romantic, funny, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
musician, contest, father son relationship, small town, rivalry, competition, ambition, fisherman, love, ethnic stereotype, one night stand, underdog ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
iceland, edinburgh scotland, europe, reykjavik iceland
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Country: USA, China, Iceland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, absurd, intense, saga ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, snow white, evil queen, love, female warrior, sorceress, strong female lead, medieval, good versus evil, sex, runaway, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2016, medieval times, 2010s, 16th century
Place:
egypt
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Iceland, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, bleak, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
culture clash, on the road, winter, death, snow, journey, arctic, spirit, fish out of water, self discovery, misfit, society ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
japan, iceland, europe, asia, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A pair of former brothers-in-law embark on a road trip through Iceland.
Style:
mumblecore, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
aging, road trip, human spirit, buddies, elderly, self discovery, friendship, disorder, on the road, old age, travel, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
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