Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Nascimento : 1961-04-23, Reykjavík, Island

Perfil

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Filmes

Operation Napoleon
Jóhannes
In 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland during a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. Flash forward to the present. The U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of an airplane from an Icelandic glacier. A young Icelander, Elías, inadvertently stumbles upon the excavation and then promptly disappears. But before he vanishes, he manages to contact his sister, Kristín. She embarks on a thrilling and perilous adventure, determined to discover the truth of her brother's fate
Driving Mum
Jón
The death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
The Very Last Fishing Trip
Hansi
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 endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.
Áramótaskaup 2021
Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
Alma
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
Heartless
Pétur
Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple faces their biggest fear in the face of life with a new partner.
Round 0
Kolbeinn and his friends are young Icelandic boxers, training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks compromising their future, both as boxers and young men.
Se Beber Não Pesque
Hansi
Seis amigos em sua viagem anual de pesca percebem que deixar esposas, trabalho e preocupações em casa é realmente um trabalho árduo. O que deveria ser uma viagem de pesca relaxante, acaba sendo o inferno na terra.
Fantasmas do Passado
Skipstjóri
Um psiquiatra atormentado com a perda de seu filho de oito anos descobre uma mulher idosa que cometeu suicídio e era obcecada pelo desaparecimento do menino. Um grupo que está renovando sua casa acaba libertando uma sinistra força sobrenatural. Esses estranhos não sabem ainda, mas estão conectados por um antigo mistério que é responsável por uma série de terríveis eventos.
Face to Face
Dad
Brynhildur is excited; the 12-year-old has a good chance of getting a solo part in the choir for her class Christmas concert. If only it weren’t for Silja, who is making Brynhildur’s life difficult with her bullying. Even though Brynhildur hasn’t done a thing to provoke Silja. It’s not until she gets up the courage to talk to her father about it that Brynhildur begins to understand what’s behind Silja’s behaviour. At her father’s suggestion, Brynhildur invites the entire class to her birthday party. She sees it as a possible way to win sympathy from Silja and become friends with her. But the plan appears to fail – Silja organises a competing party!
O Juramento
Eldri Maður
Para tentar retirar sua filha do mundo das drogas e dos pequenos crimes, Finnur, um renomado cirurgião, inicia uma cansativa missão. No meio do caminho, no entanto, ele acaba descobrindo que o perigo pode ser encontrado nos lugares mais inesperados e que será forçado a tomar medidas drásticas.
Pale Star
Ari
PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.
Chum
Fannar
Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom and beautiful woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
Mudando o Destino
Einar
Uma garota, além de problemas familiares muito graves, tem um irmão extremamente egoísta e incapaz. Na sua dor e na sua angústia, ela tenta encontrar consolo na música. O sonho dela é ser uma estrela do heavy metal.
Vikingar
Erik
Iceland, in the year 1000. Magnus, a fearless Viking warrior, confronts Bjarni the Berserker who abducted his wife and child. Their rivalry is only beginning.
Gói og baunagrasið
Black's Game
Jói Faraó
Nos anos 90, o mundo do crime e das drogas de Reykjavik passou por uma mudança drástica, de um mundo relativamente pequeno e inocente para um muito mais agressivo e violento, que assumiu o controle do submundo da Islândia. O protagonista, Stebbi, depois de reencontrar um amigo de infância, se junta ao mundo do tráfico de drogas para pagar sua dívida. Inspirado em eventos reais.
Gói og Eldfærin
Volcano
Janitor
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
The Secret Spell
Jón Gamli
Sveppi and Villi go on summer holiday to an old country hotel. Soon they realize a dark and beautiful secret concerning a ghost, a secret spell and a grumpy hotel manager.
King's Road
Kári
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 he had expected.
Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Jensen
Kristofer está preso em uma tediosa rotina trabalhando como guarda de segurança de um navio cargueiro. Um dia ele é detido ao ser pego roubando garrafas de bebida. Passando por problemas financeiros, Kristofer é seduzido pela oportunidade de ganhar dinheiro rápido quando um velho amigo, Steingrímur, lhe garante os meios de voltar ao seu antigo trabalho. É quando Kristofer inicia uma onda de roubos em Rotterdam.
Support
Suicidal patient
A dying man in an intensive care unit decides to take his fate into his own hands.
White Night Wedding
Börkur
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?
The Quiet Storm
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 for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
Parents
Addi
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 is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
Hver var Jónas?
A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson
Cold Trail
Baldur
Cold Trail is a thriller that revolves around a ruthless tabloid reporter, Baldur, who goes to any lengths to dig up a sensational story. In the beginning of the story, a Security Guard is killed by an apparent accident in a remote and apparently haunted dam in the highlands of Iceland. At first, Baldur has no interest in the story; that is, until he discovers from his mother that the Security Guard was his biological father – a Man he never knew. Baldur becomes determined to find out more about his father and what happened to him, and leaves to investigate against the will of his editor.
Carjackin
A run down boxer meets his faith outside a supermarket.
Wine of the House
A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.
The Third Name
Arnar
A stranger highjacks a boat close to the Icelandic shore, and demands to speak to his ex-girlfriend, but she has never heard of him.
Noi the Albino
B. Kristmundsson
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.
Full House
No plot found
Óskabörn þjóðarinnar
101 Reykjavik
Brúsi
Hlynur, de 30 anos, ainda vive com sua mãe e passa seus dias bebendo, assistindo pornografia e navegando na Internet enquanto vive de cheques de desemprego. Uma garota está interessada nele, mas ele se afasta do compromisso. A professora de flamenco espanhola de sua mãe, Lola, vai morar com eles no Natal. Na véspera de Ano Novo, enquanto sua mãe está fora, Hlynur descobre que Lola é lésbica, mas também acaba fazendo sexo com ela. Hlynur logo descobre que ela e sua mãe estão compartilhando mais do que uma casa. Eventualmente, ele deve descobrir onde se encaixa no quebra-cabeça e como viver a vida menos egoisticamente.
Pearls and Swine
Erlingur
Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?
Oiko Logos
Oiko logos takes place in an ecosystem which is totally silent. But the inhabitants use sounds as a basic nourishment and therefore they have to travel to other ecosystems to collect sounds. In the film we see how particular sounds affects the life of the ecosystem.
Camera Obscura
No plot found
Mines That Explode Later (Than Expected)
No plot found
Magnús
Gísli
Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
Flugþrá
No plot found
Solitude
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.