Joi Johannsson

Joi Johannsson

Born: November 23, 1971
in Reykjavík, Iceland

Movies for Joi Johannsson...

Title: Fractures
Character: Ragnar
Released: April 17, 2022
Type: TV
Drama series about Kristín, an emergency doctor who moves with her teenage daughter back to her parents' home in a small fishing village, following her own husband's affair. Kristín, who is grounded and rational, quickly realises she is out of her comfort zone communicating with her mother, a medium, and finds herself forced to look the ghosts of her past directly in the eye.
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Áramótaskaup 2021
Title: Áramótaskaup 2021
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
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Title: Sisterhood
Character: Palli
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: TV
A fourteen year old vanishes without a trace at the turn of the millenium. Twenty five years later her body is discovered and three friends have to face the horror of their past.
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Everything in the End
Title: Everything in the End
Character: Kristjan
Released: March 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Stranded in a small village during Earth's final days, a man seeks solace in the brief human connections he encounters.
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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Title: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Character: Jorn
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
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Love on Iceland
Title: Love on Iceland
Character: Editor
Released: January 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Searching for a fresh podcast idea for work, Chloe heads on a spontaneous trip to Iceland with her college friends. She doesn’t expect to run into her ex, Charlie, but what starts as begrudgingly spending more time together, results in new beginnings for them both.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Iofur Raknison
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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Title: Arctic Circle
Character: Jens Mathiesen
Released: December 21, 2018
Type: TV
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within the endless white expanse of the arctic circle, Nina and Thomas must rely on each other to have any hope of saving the ones they love. But what takes precedence? A deadly virus or an active serial killer?
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Scenario
Title: Scenario
Character: The Fisherman
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
A mysterious encounter between a woman and what appears to be an alien, reveals itself as a play, a prison our protagonists are doomed to live within forever.
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Title: Rig 45
Character: Vidar
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: TV
When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a hurricane and all communications lost. Soon, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a murder, and they now know that they are in real danger.
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The Falcons
Title: The Falcons
Character: Tóti
Released: March 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. Ten-year-old Jón and his team go to compete, but he will have to grow up faster than expected, both on and off the pitch.
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Miss Iceland
Title: Miss Iceland
Character: Jóhann
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Gríma is the newly crowned Miss Iceland with her life seemingly firmly on track. But after a sudden misstep, Gríma is forced to take a hard look at herself and decide what kind of person she really is.
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Summer Children
Title: Summer Children
Character: The Carpenter
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
The siblings Eydis and Kari are only five and six years old when their parents' marriage breaks apart. As their mother struggles to find her footing following the divorce, they are sent temporarily to a countryside children's home. But the stay turns out to be longer than they had ever expected.
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Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau
Title: Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord
Title: Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord
Character: Finsen
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Oath
Title: The Oath
Character: Cop
Released: September 6, 2016
Type: Movie
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
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The Shamer's Daughter
Title: The Shamer's Daughter
Character: Dres
Released: March 26, 2015
Type: Movie
The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, it is up to Dina to uncover the truth, but soon she finds herself whirled into a dangerous power struggle with her own life at risk.
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Title: The Lava Field
Character: Gísli
Released: September 27, 2014
Type: TV
When Reykjavik crime detective Helgi Marvin Runarsson is called in to investigate a suicide case on Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the case turns out to be far from simple. Pulled into a sinister trail of evidence, Helgi's own deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. Will Helgi turn a blind eye to murder in order to save the life of his daughter.
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Title: True Detective
Character: Crab Plant Manager
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: TV
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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Polite People
Title: Polite People
Character: Askur
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: Movie
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
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Title: Shetland
Character: Andreas Hagan
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: TV
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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The Deep
Title: The Deep
Character: Palli
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
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City State
Title: City State
Character: Store owner
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.
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Title: The Cliff
Character: Gisli
Released: October 4, 2009
Type: TV
The Cliff is a dramatic mystery about a Crime Detective who is sent to a small community in Iceland to help a local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident. Together they unravel a mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths.
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Circledrawers
Title: Circledrawers
Character: Schubert
Released: January 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.
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The Higher Force
Title: The Higher Force
Character: Ásgeir
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Title: Flags of Our Fathers
Character: Sergeant on Beach
Released: October 18, 2006
Type: Movie
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Title: Búbbarnir
Released: August 26, 2006
Type: TV
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When Children Play in the Sky
Title: When Children Play in the Sky
Released: May 25, 2006
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Greenland and tells us two parallel stories about two boys, one from the start of the 20th century and the other from the 21st century.
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Title: LazyTown
Character: Johnny SportsCandyseed
Released: August 16, 2004
Type: TV
A pink-haired girl named Stephanie moves to LazyTown with her uncle (the mayor of LazyTown), where she tries to teach its extremely lazy residents that physical activity is beneficial.
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Angels of the Universe
Title: Angels of the Universe
Character: Police Mman (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.
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The Dance
Title: The Dance
Character: Vítus
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Behind Schedule
Title: Behind Schedule
Character: Teenage gang memeber #1
Released: April 6, 1993
Type: Movie
A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.