Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at 'Life' magazine who daydreams of adventures to get away out of the tedium of his boring job. When he and a colleague are about to lose their jobs, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he ever imagined. With the help of clues in the missing negatives of a famous photojournalist, Walter travels to Greenland, Iceland, and the Himalayas to find him and the missing photograph.
After a trip to Iceland, a young couple wake up to find that everyone else has vanished. They are left to confront their solitude, as well as their own doubts, fears, and desires, in the midst of an eerie and beautiful landscape. As they struggle with their new reality, they also question their purpose and their belief in a higher power. With no one else to rely on, they must navigate the emptiness and isolation in order to find a way to survive and make sense of their existence.
Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirtatious Sirsa (Pálína Jónsdottir) marries Harald (Dofri Hermannsson), son of a wealthy landowner on the island. Offshore, a ship is sinking, so the men form a rescue party, returning with the captain, the engineer, and several sailors. With a storm gathering, the engineer dies. The clergyman requests an end to the festivities as a mark of respect. Sirsa protests, but her new husband brings the celebration to a halt. The group then fragments into different activities, drunken or otherwise, and the sensual Sirsa directs her attention toward the handsome Ívar (Baldur Trausti Hreinsson). The film's score features traditional folk music.
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 endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.
A college student begins working as a cam girl, with support from her best friend.
Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.
Snow is a free-spirited individual who meets the reserved and introverted Salóme. Despite their differences, the two form a bond and discover the true meaning of friendship.
1999's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.
The time is 20 years and a few months to the millennium, and the unrecognized, self-proclaimed genius Orm Odins has to deal with the age-old existentialist dilemma that is teenage hood. With his final exams looming, his hormones in overdrive and love just around the corner what can a great poet do to survive? Our setting is Reykjavik in the eighties, a city that is going through a growth spur not unlike our eloquent hero. The mullet is just about to put its mark on a unsuspecting generation, there is no TV on Thursdays, only one radio station, beer is still and outlawed commodity and somewhere within the city limits the first female president in the world will see has a dream.
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