Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Movies

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...

When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they...

An over confident teen with a magical weapon and a handful of imperfect gods join forces against an evil queen and her army of giants

Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Guti and Sig wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, after a fight with skinheads...

Two childhood friends decide to drive around Iceland backward to raise money for charity. Soon after they set out, however, they discover that...

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 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...

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....

A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.

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...

TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga. The first part of Njálssaga is a half-hour long drama based on...

A single father wants to fulfil his young daughter's wish to throw a slumber party for her friends, but it turns out to be more of a challenge than...

The excitedly physical staging of Georg Buchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has...

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father,...

A hit man falls for his client's wife, who happens to be the target of the assassin's latest assignment.

The film tells the tale of a man named Kalli, a scruffy looking 30 year old, that lives in his brother’s garage. As he wakes up hung-over on...

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...

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...

A soldier, which army, which era, unclear. What’s clear is the evil he’s done. Faced with his impending mortality, he fears being judged...