Þorsteinn Bachmann Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

When a new neighbour arrives at Rannveig´s doorstep, her frustrated everyday life suddenly changes. The cloud of hopelessness that surrounds...

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert...

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...

Ex-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into rehab by his political rival, following a well...

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...

Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads...

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

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...

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,...

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 streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know...

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...

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...

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