Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Born: April 23, 1961
in Reykjavík, Island

Movies for Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson...

Solitude
Title: Solitude
Character: Gunnar
Released: April 3, 2024
Type: Movie
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.
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Operation Napoleon
Title: Operation Napoleon
Character: Jóhannes
Released: January 26, 2023
Type: Movie
A modern-day lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of freedom lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII aeroplane, long buried deep beneath the ice, before the CIA.
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Driving Mum
Title: Driving Mum
Character: Jón
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
The death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
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A Letter from Helga
Title: A Letter from Helga
Character: Jósteinn
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
In a remote fjord in 1940s Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.
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The Very Last Fishing Trip
Title: The Very Last Fishing Trip
Character: Hansi
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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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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Alma
Title: Alma
Released: May 7, 2021
Type: Movie
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
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Heartless
Title: Heartless
Character: Pétur
Released: December 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple faces their biggest fear in the face of life with a new partner.
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Round 0
Title: Round 0
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Kolbeinn and his friends are young Icelandic boxers, training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks compromising their future, both as boxers and young men.
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The Last Fishing Trip
Title: The Last Fishing Trip
Character: Hansi
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really hard work. What was supposed to be a cozy fishing trip, turns out to be a downward spiral to Hell. Let's go fishing.
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I Remember You
Title: I Remember You
Character: Skipstjóri
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Dad
Released: November 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Brynhildur is excited; the 12-year-old has a good chance of getting a solo part in the choir for her class Christmas concert. If only it weren’t for Silja, who is making Brynhildur’s life difficult with her bullying. Even though Brynhildur hasn’t done a thing to provoke Silja. It’s not until she gets up the courage to talk to her father about it that Brynhildur begins to understand what’s behind Silja’s behaviour. At her father’s suggestion, Brynhildur invites the entire class to her birthday party. She sees it as a possible way to win sympathy from Silja and become friends with her. But the plan appears to fail – Silja organises a competing party!
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The Oath
Title: The Oath
Character: Eldri Maður
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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Pale Star
Title: Pale Star
Character: Ari
Released: June 23, 2016
Type: Movie
PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.
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Chum
Title: Chum
Character: Fannar
Released: August 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom and beautiful woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
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Metalhead
Title: Metalhead
Character: Einar
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
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Vikingar
Title: Vikingar
Character: Erik
Released: May 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Iceland, in the year 1000. Magnus, a fearless Viking warrior, confronts Bjarni the Berserker who abducted his wife and child. Their rivalry is only beginning.
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The Deep
Title: The Deep
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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Gói og baunagrasið
Title: Gói og baunagrasið
Released: July 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Black's Game
Title: Black's Game
Character: Jói Faraó
Released: March 11, 2012
Type: Movie
In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
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Gói og Eldfærin
Title: Gói og Eldfærin
Released: November 5, 2011
Type: Movie
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Volcano
Title: Volcano
Character: Janitor
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
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The Secret Spell
Title: The Secret Spell
Character: Jón Gamli
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Sveppi and Villi go on summer holiday to an old country hotel. Soon they realize a dark and beautiful secret concerning a ghost, a secret spell and a grumpy hotel manager.
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King's Road
Title: King's Road
Character: Kári
Released: March 26, 2010
Type: Movie
After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
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Title: The Cliff
Character: Freyr
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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Try Again
Title: Try Again
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
The short film Reyndu aftur (Try Again) follows a young man whose suicide attempt is interrupted by an ex-girlfriend. By mistake, he tells a spontaneous lie that has unpredictable consequences, forcing him to deal with various problems of everyday life and face up to the fact that everybody is burdened with issues of their own. Should he give life a second chance or the just give in to the rope?
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Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Title: Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Character: Jensen
Released: September 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur.
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Country Wedding
Title: Country Wedding
Character: Svanur
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.
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Support
Title: Support
Character: Suicidal patient
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A dying man in an intensive care unit decides to take his fate into his own hands.
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White Night Wedding
Title: White Night Wedding
Character: Börkur
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
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The Quiet Storm
Title: The Quiet Storm
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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 for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
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Parents
Title: Parents
Character: Addi
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
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Hver var Jónas?
Title: Hver var Jónas?
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson
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Cold Trail
Title: Cold Trail
Character: Baldur
Released: December 29, 2006
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover what really happened.
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Carjackin
Title: Carjackin
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A run down boxer meets his faith outside a supermarket.
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Wine of the House
Title: Wine of the House
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.
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The Third Name
Title: The Third Name
Character: Arnar
Released: June 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A stranger highjacks a boat close to the Icelandic shore, and demands to speak to his ex-girlfriend, but she has never heard of him.
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Noi the Albino
Title: Noi the Albino
Character: B. Kristmundsson
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
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Njalssaga
Title: Njalssaga
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga
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Full House
Title: Full House
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Plan B
Title: Plan B
Released: November 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Two men in their late twenties, Jim and Frank, old friends from childhood, both emaciated and very grunge guys, meet again after many years. Jim, trying hard to get his life back on track, is pulled in to his old habits of drugs and crimes by Frank and his friends from their old neighbourhood. They set out to help Frank's father to brake out of jail who in return finances their "shopping trip" to Amsterdam.
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101 Reykjavik
Title: 101 Reykjavik
Character: Brúsi
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
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Pearls and Swine
Title: Pearls and Swine
Character: Erlingur
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?
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Oiko Logos
Title: Oiko Logos
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Oiko logos takes place in an ecosystem which is totally silent. But the inhabitants use sounds as a basic nourishment and therefore they have to travel to other ecosystems to collect sounds. In the film we see how particular sounds affects the life of the ecosystem.
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Camera Obscura
Title: Camera Obscura
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Mines That Explode Later (Than Expected)
Title: Mines That Explode Later (Than Expected)
Released: October 26, 1991
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Magnús
Title: Magnús
Character: Gísli
Released: August 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
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Flugþrá
Title: Flugþrá
Released: May 27, 1989
Type: Movie
No plot found