LOGIN, AMIGO!
View account info, rate movies, connect with fans, + more!
Crew: Producer
Actors: Baltasar Kormákur, Victor Löw, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Jorundur Ragnarsson, Lilja Nott Thorarinsdottir, Throstur Leo Gunnarsson, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Theodor Juliusson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
Synopsis: An Icelandic crime thriller with the gloss stripped away - leaving a bleak, sad and despairing narrative - director Oskar Jonasson's Reykjavik-Rotterdam hones in on a down-and-outer at the very end of his rope. For Kristofer (Baltasar Kormakur) life has been little more than a never ending series Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Olafia Hronn Jonsdottir
Synopsis: In 1974, a young Icelandic girl met a grim fate at the hands of a murderer -- and the crime was never solved. So begins celebrated director Baltasar Kormákur's procedural thriller Jar City (or Mýrin), adapted from Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason's 2000 best-seller, Tainted Blood. In the Read More
Crew: Director
Synopsis: With Bruoguminn (AKA White Night Wedding), Icelandic cause-célébré director Baltasar Kormákur updates the Chekhov play Ivanov and geographically transports it to the island of Flatey, just off the Icelandic coast. At the outset of the tale, literature professor Jon prepares to wed onetime student Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Peter Coyote
Synopsis: Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after Read More
Actors: Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Hilmir Snær Gudnason, Hélène de Fougerolles, Kristbjorg Kjeld, Herdís Thorvaldsdóttir
Synopsis: A family reunion staged to welcome an exiled relation turns out to be a study in tension and unpleasant feelings in this family drama. Thórdur (Gunnar Eyjólfsson) is the aging owner of a fishing business that has seen better days. Working alongside Thórdur is his oldest son, Haraldur (Sigurdur Skúlason Read More
Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Didda Jonsdottir, Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Christophe Sermet
Actors: Sarah Polley, Robert Burke, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Baltasar Kormákur
Synopsis: Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal Hartley. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works with the office staff of a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a harridan Read More
Actors: Sigurbjorg Alma Ingolfdottir, Benedikt Clausen, Baltasar Kormákur, Halldora Geirhardsdottir, Solveig Arnarsdottir
Synopsis: Directed by Maria Sigudardottir, Regina is a feature-length children's musical from Iceland. A little girl named Regina (Sigurbjorg Alma Ingolfsdottir) is stuck at home while all her friends are away at summer camp. She spends her time singing and trying to find a boyfriend for her mom. One day Read More
Actors: Irina Björklund, Samuli Edelmann, Roope Karisto, Eva Rose, Titta Jokinen
Synopsis: Finnish filmmaker Lenka Hellstedt makes her directorial debut with the comedy drama Minä ja Morrison, based on a novel by Kata Kärkkäinen. Irina Björklund plays Milla, a young woman who becomes romantically involved with Aki (Samuli Edelmann). After spending the night together, Milla discovers Read More
Synopsis: Ever since the Sugarcubes burst onto the international stage in the late 1980s, Iceland's capital of Reykjavik has been bustling with a hip and happening music scene. This documentary takes a look at Reykjavik's vibrant musical underground. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Baltasar Kormákur
Synopsis: Noted Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson directs this darkly humorous tale about a man's descent into mental disease and self-destruction. Screenwriter Einar Mar Gudmundsson adapted the script from his book about the true story of his brother. Paul (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson) lives with his Read More
Actors: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Gudnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Olafur Darri Olafsson
Synopsis: A slacker finds himself dealing with girl trouble he never knew existed in this offbeat comedy set in Iceland. Hlynur (Hilmir Snær Gudnason) is a 28-year-old layabout who lives with his mother, Berglind (Hanna María Karlsdóttir), in a run-down section of Reykjavík. Though he doesn't have a job Read More
Actors: Bennu Gerede, Mahir Gunsiray, Baltasar Kormákur, Rebecca Haas, Sibel Baykam
Synopsis: When a couple breaks up, their children are torn between two cultures in the drama The Split. Sol Jensen (Bennu Gerede), a woman from Iceland raised as a Catholic, meets Halil Atesh (Mahir Gunsiray), a Turkish man and a student of Islam. They fall in love and eventually have two daughters Read More
Synopsis: This tale is set in Iceland immediately after WW II when the American forces abandoned the island, leaving behind a considerable number of empty bunkers which were immediately appropriated by hundreds of poverty-stricken Icelanders. The film follows the daily exploits of the Tomasson family, who Read More
Synopsis: Set in early 19th-century Iceland, this moving drama pays tribute to the courage of a young woman who fought back against the sexual repression and misogyny of the times and paid for that fight with her life in a public execution, the last ever held in the country. The story begins as Agnes works Read More
Actors: Baltasar Kormákur, Flosi Olafsson
Synopsis: Sveppi (Steinn Arman Magnusson) has watched his father's nightclub for Reykjavik teens go on a downward spiral due to his dad's perverse insistence on keeping an entertainer on the payroll who is widely disliked. Now he is being given his chance to manage things in a way which he feels is more Read More
Movie data provided by
© 2007 Getty Images