01 A choir conductor secretly wages a one-woman sabotage campaign against an industrial power company.
12 Best Icelandic Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 13, 2026
Iceland Drama slow and atmosphericthought provoking
Icelandic cinema turns its own bleak, sparsely populated landscape into a genuine character, whether that’s two feuding sheep farmers who haven’t spoken in decades or a detective working a case in the country’s brutal winter dark.
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02 A grieving police chief becomes obsessed with proof that his late wife had an affair.
03 An elderly widower and an old flame escape their nursing home for one last road trip together.
04 A retired janitor's troubled marriage takes on new urgency after his wife suffers a stroke.
05 A fisherman is the sole survivor of a shipwreck, swimming for hours through freezing Icelandic waters.
06 A restless, brilliant teenager in an isolated fjord town longs to escape somewhere, anywhere, else.
07 A detective's cold-case murder investigation uncovers a genetic secret tied to Iceland's medical research.
08 A neighborhood dispute over a shading tree spirals into an absurd, escalating suburban war.
09 An aimless man in his late twenties still living with his mother falls for her new girlfriend.
10 Two estranged sheep-farmer brothers are forced to cooperate when a disease threatens both their flocks.
11 A grieving farming couple raise an unsettling newborn that isn't entirely the lamb it appears to be.
12 A Japanese businessman treks across Iceland's remote highlands to perform a memorial ritual for his parents.
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