Opacity

Opacity 1994

1

A modern businessman surrounded by all the trappings of success, picks up a beautiful woman who is hitchhiking along a lonely stretch of road in the south. Quiet, mysterious, the woman is an artist on the way to Meðalland to sketch. Always ready to take advantage of an opportunity, the young man adjusts his itinerary to help the beautiful artist, and with luck, he thinks, help himself add another notch to his sexual belt. But all is not what it seems in this world. The question arises as to whether all the expensive aids of modern affluent society can help him avoid what appear to be forces that transcend time - or is it all imagination, or hallucination, or both?

1994

Heartstone

Heartstone 2016

7.20

A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján 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 Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

2016

A Kingly Smile

A Kingly Smile 2004

1

A mockumentary follows the life of Friðrik as he tries to make women fall in love with them, but when as soon as they confess their love to him he breaks up with them and takes a picture of their reaction.

2004

Mihkel

Mihkel 2018

5.80

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an 
Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into swallowing seventy drug capsules to take on to Iceland. He arrives in Iceland and is picked up by Igor and his two Icelandic accomplices, Jóhann and Bóbó. However, in the next two days it becomes clear that something is wrong and Mihkel cannot pass the drugs. The Icelandic criminals become very nervous, and more and more frantic activity ensues as the situation becomes more serious.

2018

Marriage, a Card Game

Marriage, a Card Game 1992

1

A boy growing up in the country in the sixties is fascinated by card games and ancient poetry.

1992

Storm Alerts

Storm Alerts 2025

1

Is a world obsessed with medical diagnostics and pharmaceutical prescription ready for the vivid testimony of Marteinn Helgi Sigurðsson, who defies the label of ‘bipolar disorder’ to give us a glimpse into his shaman-like wisdom? This inventive docu-drama takes us right inside complex mental experiences.

2025

Concord

Concord 2022

1

Sigga, an Icelandic artist, is performing abroad at a high end party. Afterwards she goes to the hotel bar and runs into an Icelandic flight crew there on a stopover. Sigga decides to party with them with unforeseen consequences.

2022

Delirium

Delirium 2023

5.14

A young father is haunted by an evil force that threatens to tear his life apart after he finds a mysterious box inside his rental apartment where the previous guest killed himself.

2023

Artun

Artun 2014

5.90

A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. One day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for.

2014

Njalssaga

Njalssaga 2003

1

TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga. The first part of Njálssaga is a half-hour long drama based on a part of Brenna-Nálssaga. It tells the story of Hallgerður Langbrók having food stolen in Kirkjubær and the horse she received as a reward from Gunnar. This is followed by Gunnar's quarrel with Otkel in Kirkjubær and his advisor Skammkel. Their business ends with Gunnar killing both of them. The second part is a half-hour long documentary where scholars bring out something interesting about this part of the story.

2003

The Wish

The Wish 2020

1

Karen, a 9 year old Icelander has always wanted to meet her London based actor father. Having fantasied about him for years, she realizes when they meet that he's perhaps not the father that she had wished for. This uncomfortable experience gives Karen both the strength and confidence to tackle the local bullies.

2020

The Rooties

The Rooties 1998

1

A band's and their crew's miscommunication leading them to being on the opposite sides of the country leads to comic consequences.

1998

Plan B

Plan B 2000

2.75

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.

2000

Woman at War

Woman at War 2018

7.21

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

2018

Echo

Echo 2019

6.70

Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.

2019

The Silvermoon

The Silvermoon 1978

1

The television adaptation of the 1954 play Silfurtúnglið by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson updates the interwar story of Lóa, a housewife with a beautiful singing voice who delights in serenading her newborn son. Discovered by the dubious Feilan, manager of the nightclub “Silver Moon,” she’s cast as his emblem of purity for the club’s jaded clientele, only to find her talent erased and her performances reduced to humiliation. In the same production, Gunnlaugsson also modernizes Lilja’s 1933 short story “Fótatak manna,” relocating its 1920s setting to the present: medical students exhume the body of a poor, friendless man in the name of science, callously stuffing his coffin with rocks.

1978

Eleven Men Out

Eleven Men Out 2005

5.30

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

2005

Ikingut

Ikingut 2000

6.70

In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed

2000

Quake

Quake 2021

5.50

Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.

2021

Gettu betur

Gettu betur 1970

1

Gettu betur is an Icelandic team quiz show, broadcast on public television channel RÚV. Each team consists of three students from each of Iceland's gymnasiums. Two teams play against each other in each episode. Two preliminary rounds are broadcast on radio station Rás 2, followed by televised quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds on RÚV. Thirty schools participated in the 2011 season. The current host is Edda Hermannsdóttir. Gettu betur was first held in 1986. Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík has won the contest seventeen times overall, first in 1988, and then eleven times in a row, from 1993 to 2003, from 2007 to 2010 and in 2012. The only other school to win more than once is Akureyri Junior College, with three wins.

1970

Ástríður

Ástríður 1970

1

This is the Icelandic equivalent of The Office, with a much more interesting twist: the protagonist is a woman.

1970

The Center

The Center 2022

1

The eighteen-year-old Kolbeinn lives with his grandmother and grandfather and dreams of becoming the best in football, but that dream goes further away when he does not make it into the main team. He sets a goal to join the team next year, but many obstacles in his personal life stand in his way.

2022

Krautz in Seltjarnarnes

Krautz in Seltjarnarnes 2025

1

An Icelandic drama series about German Karl Krautz, who has the important job of traveling the world and producing television content for the German state. He is forced to spend the summer in Iceland with his assistant, Heinrich, producing cultural programs about the small village of Seltjarnarnes.

2025

Jól á leið til jarðar

Jól á leið til jarðar 1970

1

Jól á leið til jarðar is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1994. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised advent calendars. It was created by Sigurður Örn Brynjólfsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, and was the first stop-motion advent calendar on Icelandic television. The show was produced at Nukufilm studios in Tallinn, Estonia. The show was voiced by actors and comedians Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Laddi and Örn Árnason. Jól á leið til jarðar was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 1999 and 2007. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series.

1970

Fréttir

Fréttir 1970

1

Fréttir, is the principal nightly television news program of the Icelandic public television channel RÚV. The program has been broadcast since the channel was launched in 1966 and is the second most watched news program in Iceland. The show airs at 7 p.m. with news coverage for about 25 minutes followed by sports for about 5 minutes.

1970

Kviss

Kviss 2020

1

A great quiz show hosted by the stand-up comedian and TV personality Björn Bragi Arnarsson, where well-known Icelanders compete on behalf of the sports clubs they support. Although the teams are divided according to sports clubs, it is not a sports event, but questions from all directions. Competitors are not athletes, it is enough that they grew up in the district of the sports club or practiced sports with the club in their younger years. The teams that win their matches will continue to play until one team stands out as the winner and will be crowned Icelandic Champion in the Kviss quiz.

2020

Pabbahelgar

Pabbahelgar 2019

1.00

A six-part Icelandic series about Karen, a 38-year-old marriage counselor and mother of three, who faces difficult decisions when she finds out that her husband has been unfaithful to her. She has trouble forgiving her husband, but the worst she can think of is the so-called "Dad holidays".

2019

Ævintýri Tulipop

Ævintýri Tulipop 2022

1

Join a colorful group of friends for their adventures on the magical island of Tulipop.

2022

Mid-Iceland

Mid-Iceland 2012

1

Sketch comedy show from the Icelandic comedy-group Mid-Iceland.

2012

Sjálfstætt Fólk

Sjálfstætt Fólk 1970

1

Independent People, is a television interview series hosted by Jón Ársæll Þórðarson, journalist and psychologist. The program has been aired on the TV channel Stöð 2 in Iceland since autumn 2001. It has been nominated eight times to the Edda Awards: in 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011, and it received the awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Independent People is produced by Steingrímur Jón Þórðarson and Sky Productions and is aired weekly early Sunday nights on Stöð 2 / Channel 2, from September until May. Jón Ársæll interviews people of all ages. His youngest was 15-year-old singer Yohanna and the oldest interviewees have been in their nineties. All the guests have a story to tell. Normally, but not always, they are also well known in Iceland.

1970

Ísland: bíóland

Ísland: bíóland 2021

1

In films from the first half of the 20th century and up to the late 1950s, there is a desire to tackle this new form of expression with optimism and audacity, but also difficult circumstances and broken dreams. Films examined include Fjalla-Eyvindur, Saga of the Citizenship, The Adventures of Jon and Gvendir, Hadda Padda, The Rescue at Látrabjarg, Between the Mountain and the Sea, The Last Farm in the Valley, Greed, and Salka Valka.

2021