Best award winning movies with a rare glimpse from Iceland

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a rare glimpse from Iceland! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a rare glimpse from Iceland, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 A White, White Day (2019)

In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

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2019-07-25 | Drama

Cast

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    consoling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deceptively simple
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ably portrayed

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2 Lamb (2021)

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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2021-08-12 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Rating

rating icon 6.472
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    gorgeous landscape
  2. Ranked #2 for
    bizarre
  3. Ranked #2 for
    undefinable subject

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3 Rams (2015)

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.

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2015-05-28 | Drama

Cast

Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson

Rating

rating icon 6.981
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  2. Ranked #164 for
    elegiac
  3. Ranked #178 for
    unhurried pace

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4 Of Horses and Men (2013)

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.

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2013-08-30 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ingvar Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving

Rating

rating icon 7.007
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #165 for
    dry dialogue
  2. Ranked #376 for
    plush
  3. Ranked #484 for
    sweeping vista

Trailer

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5 Against the Ice (2022)

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

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2022-02-10 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole

Rating

rating icon 6.759
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    hostile
  2. Ranked #1 for
    glacial pace
  3. Ranked #2 for
    worth checking out

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6 Last and First Men (2020)

As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.

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2020-02-25 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Tilda Swinton

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    monochromatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    completely mesmerized
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hypnotic

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7 Virgin Mountain (2015)

Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.

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2015-03-20 | Drama

Cast

Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #157 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #242 for
    chivalry
  3. Ranked #243 for
    instantly gratifying

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8 White Night Wedding (2008)

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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2008-01-18 | Drama

Cast

Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #90 for
    flashback sequence
  3. Ranked #96 for
    juxtaposition

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9 Everest (2015)

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

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2015-09-10 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin

Rating

rating icon 6.823
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #129 for
    vertiginous
  2. Ranked #149 for
    daunting challenge
  3. Ranked #199 for
    cruel twist

Trailer

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10 Noi the Albino (2003)

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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2003-02-28 | Drama

Cast

Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Rating

rating icon 6.953
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    cruel twist
  2. Ranked #88 for
    lugubrious
  3. Ranked #137 for
    wayward

Trailer

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