Movies: Gunnar Þórðarson

Two city folk go on a trip to deserted villages around the country, laden with spirits, guns, and other ammunition. The trip is intended as an outing in nature, but quickly the journey turns into pure horror....

In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated with...

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 o...

A story based on the folk tale of the ghost Djákninn from Myrká set in modern day Iceland....

A country boy has to quit school in Reykjavík and move back home....

A woman arrives to Iceland and decides to travel into the country with her daughter to take one last look into her past....

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Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn....

At the beginning of the film, three medical students are hunting for a body to use for research purposes. They hear of a tramp that has been found dead. The body is in the mortuary and as no-one seems to know who he is; they decide to take the body f...

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A stylized account of an Icelandic country dance. The film features the Icelandic pop group Hljómar (Thor's Hammer)....

The story of a herring enterprise in Árneshreppur á Ströndum which began in 1934 with the construction of the country's biggest herring plant in the village of Djúpavík. The plant brought great prosperity to the community, in the mids of world depres...

A documentary film about the remote island of Grímsey, the people that live there and the islands copious birdlife....

A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he visited. Iceland before he started drawing the outlines of the famous Ring Trilogy. Thorsmork can only be r...

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