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Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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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.
Dir. Ragnar Bragason · With Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir

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.
Dir. Dagur Kári · With Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir

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.
Dir. Óskar Thór Axelsson · With Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Thorvaldur Kristjansson

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.
Dir. Óskar Thór Axelsson · With Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox, Iain Glen
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.
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur · With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Joi Johannsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir

A 30-year-old slacker who lives with his mother finds his life turned upside down when his mother's flamenco-dancing friend moves in.
Dir. Baltasar Kormákur · With Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir
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