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- All farms except one in a beautiful Icelandic valley have been abandoned because of constant harassment from ferocious trolls. The only remaining family, however, is protected by a magical ring that the trolls are eager to get.
- A decaying man's acceptance of time.
- An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
- This is a documentary on the town Hafnarfjörður in Iceland, its history as one of the most important commercial centers in the country for centuries and its present status in the early 1960s.
- Story of a Murder targets sexism, as well as the emerging Icelandic middle class, its consumerist proclivities and this families, perversity. Daughter Anna is in her early twenties, and at loose ends. She works an office job that bores her, and is in a romance with a pompous pseudo-intellectual. Anna's father, Robert, is a brutal tyrant who terrorizes his poor, put-upon wife Margret. On the surface, Robert is appalling enough, but underneath he's far, far worse. Just how far he'll go and how Anna and Margret will respond gets more shocking as the film progresses.
- An Icelandic farmer's son has to move from his farm during the depression. He leaves everything to start a new life elsewhere. Set in the crisis years, it describes tension between the farms and cities.
- We follow Andra and his friends at play and at school, he goes to the countryside and gets to know a strange environment there. During the teenage years, school activities, parties and shopping sprees take over. There will be fateful events in his family. Then Andri experiences love - and the reality of life. Dot dot dot dot dot is a movie for everyone, children, teenagers and adults alike. The film was shown to moderate popularity in Iceland in 1981 and received unanimous praise from critics. It has also been shown around the world.
- From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.
- The twins Jon Oddur and Jon Bjarni are growing up in Reykjavik in the early 1980s, where opinions and relationships between people are in a state of flux.
- As the Danish Church comes to collect on a debt, a young farmer runs away and ends up in a mysterious land where he meets Sóley, an elf-maiden.
- The basic plot revolves around the break-up of a band and the subsequent competition between the two new bands to get contracts and attention. One of the new bands is all-female, the other all-male.
- Rokk í Reykjavík (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film consists of performances by a wide variety of rock-groups in various clubs in Reykjavik in 1981-82. There are also interviews with members of the groups representing different views on such features of the rock scene as sex, drugs and politics. 19 groups appear in the film.
- Midlife crises as seen by Iceland's most controversial film director.
- The old house acquired by Bjorg and her husband Petur slowly takes on menacing proportions once Bjorg is left alone for a few days while Petur is away on business. While she is in the house, she experiences terrible visions of faces screaming - are these ghosts, or unclear memories from her own past? The situation continues to deteriorate, until it looks as though Petur will never return in time to help Bjorg out of her terrors - if he could help at all.
- Two friends working at a restaurant get fired from their jobs and after seeing an advertisement for the fishing industry of the Westman Islands, decide to go there and make some money.
- An Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.
- "The Atom Station" deals with the most controversial issue in Iceland after World War II: the attitude towards the NATO base in Keflavik.
- The inventive scoundrels from New Life, Thor and Danny, return in this sequel with a new bag of tricks. Here they present themselves as experts on agriculture and hoax an unfortunate farmer into trusting them with his animals while going abroad. Obviously, he shouldn't have.
- In the summer of 1984, Iceland's king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration of western culture took place in Skagaströnd, a village of 700 inhabitants in the north of Iceland, and was attended by Iceland's leading country singers. This documentary describes, in an objective fashion, the general atmosphere of the festival and gives a portrait of the star of the show, Hallbjörn Hjartarson and his views on life and stardom.
- Two con men are enlisted in the Icelandic Police force after one of their cons. They police chief is forced to set them loose on the streets without any training or preparation, much to Thor's and Danni's delight. On their first duty shift they arrest drunk, pretty woman, and both set their mind on getting to know here better. Helping them with their police work is a local drunk, while their biggest case is to rescue a kidnapped city worker from two elderly ladies.
- Comedy farce from the minds of Stuðmenn, about reunion of friends and old romantic love triangle. Married couple that live in a small village on the east coast, pays visit to their friends that are actors.
- A young widow moves from abroad to an isolated farm in Iceland.
- When her husband breaks his arm, Stella is forced to go in his place with his Swedish colleague on a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to her, she picks up the wrong man on the airport; a man coming to Iceland to attend a rehab facility. She, along with her children, go to a cabin with the strange man, where comedy ensues.
- Helgi is a young man that dreams about becoming a writer and returns to his childhood home with his girlfriend Lára. While he's there he becomes obsessed with shooting a reindeer for unclear reasons.
- Based on an interview with Ingmar Bergman and footage taken during the director's visit to the Reykjavík Art Festival in 1986, this film focuses on Mr. Bergman's methods and philosophy on film direction. The longer version also deals with the director's career in the theatre.
- A dramatized documentary about the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík. The city is seen through the eyes of a visitor, a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent, who marvels at the many charms and peculiarities of Reykjavík. The film was made on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city of Reykjavík. Among those who appear in the film as themselves are Halldór Laxness, Auður Sveinsdóttir Laxness and Davíð Oddsson.
- Two friends, who are experienced whale hunters, decide to settle down in Rekyavik at the end of the whaling season. During a night on the town, the duo lands in a heap of trouble after they are thrown out of one establishment after another. As events escalate the two men break into a weapons shop and arm themselves with rifles for a confrontation with the police.
- Profiles of six people in their early twenties in Iceland in 1897, an up and coming actor, a stewardess/model, a graphic designer, a basketball player, a swimming champion, a bank clerk. Depicts their view of life, their achievements so far and their hopes for the future. Shows them at home, at work and around town. Includes an overview of the culture of young people from the fifties up to the eighties.
- While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
- Tommy and his half brother Kiddy travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lisa.
- 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...
- Politician Auður Auðuns (1911-1999) discusses her career, along with several others. Auður was in many ways a pioneer in the history of women in Iceland in the 20th century. She was the first woman to study law at the University of Iceland, graduating in 1935. She became the president of Reykjavík City Council in the fifties and was co-Mayor of Reykjavík 1959-1960. In 1959 she became a member of Iceland's parliament, Alþingi. In 1970 she became the first female minister in the Icelandic government.
- A hapless guy from the city visits an isolated Icelandic seaside settlement. He gradually realizes that the seals are not what they seem, and that two of the inhabitants are magicians, vieing for the favour of a mysterious woman. Liberated from a spell, she proves to be a magician too. Then he falls in love....
- A comedy with a serious undertone about a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer.
- Follows the adventure of a group of kids and a paper boy named Peter. Plane ride, box car racing and bad neighbors are all included.