Þorsteinn Bachmann Movies

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On...

A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution...

When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings...

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress...

During the invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009 by the Israeli army, 1400 people were killed - there of 400 children. By the time the last cries of protest...

Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.

The job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards...

The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to...

Joe, fed up with his in-laws, runs away from home. Enjoying his newly gained freedom and his father-in-laws credit card, he seduces a number of...

The tale of Goldilocks is sometimes viewed as a cautionary tale that imparts a lesson about the hazards of wandering off and exploring unknown...

A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at...

A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favorite football team. He...

The charismatic captain of a fishing trawler in the North Atlantic has just boarded young deckhand Hákon, who takes on the job to provide for...

The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or...

Marta and Johann, a retired couple, invest their life savings with banker Bjarni who has promised to double their money in a convoluted financial...

An elderly woman feels that she's leading a too lonely a life so she decides to turn things around.

Vigdís, a young and ambitious partner at a law firm, mysteriously wakes up one day to a disturbing dystopian reality.

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub,...