
Acting
Sigurður Skúlason
Acting credits
6.6A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Faust
2011
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.
Chum
2014
NRGuðrún is a ten year old girl. One day at school she is called in to the principal´s office. The principal informs her that her S.U.V. burnet to the ground earlier that same morning. While Guðrún spends recess trying to figure out what the principal had meant, an investigation on the alleged arson is taking place and Guðrún is the main suspect.
Bad Apples
2010
6.8Dís, 23, is still to decide what to do with her life. Obsessed by the thought of being "abnormally normal", a mere photocopy of long lost original, she wanders from one odd job to another and tries out various cources at the University. A guiding light comes her way from an unexpected direction.
Dís
2004
9.0Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.
Áramótaskaup: 2013
2013
6.0An elderly man goes about his daily routine until his grandson shows up and is eager to play football with him. Their mismatch on the football pitch is quickly apparent, with the youngster running rings around his senior. The old man with a bruised ego and full of reminiscence of his youth begins to prepare for their next encounter.
Footsteps
2017
7.1An Oscar nominated Icelandic short film about an old man who might leave his farm but keeps a secret.
The Last Farm
2004
10.0On a sunny summer day a Range Rover stumbles across the lava and moss down to lake Þingvallavatn. A husband and wife step out of the vehicle along with their children, fishing partner and his daughter. While the men fish and the wife enjoys the sun the children notice a man that seems to have something to hide.
The Fishing Trip
1980
6.3Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
The Sea
2002
A man isolates himself from his environment and finally disappears into a white wall in his home.
Þeli
1987
6.4Searching for a fresh podcast idea for work, Chloe heads on a spontaneous trip to Iceland with her college friends. She doesn’t expect to run into her ex, Charlie, but what starts as begrudgingly spending more time together, results in new beginnings for them both.
Love on Iceland
2020
5.3The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism
Eleven Men Out
2005
6.1Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she is oblivious to what’s going on with her twelve year old Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund’s only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his fourties who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marinó starts to lose grip on reality.
Children
2006
5.5Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
The Seagull's Laughter
2001
5.0Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.
Foxtrot
1988
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Story of the Sea
1973
6.0Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
Paris of the North
2014
NRThe job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards as they do their job of guarding the prisoners.
Prisonguards
2017
5.6Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.
Thicker Than Water
2006
NRBjössi, an eight year old living with his divorced mother reflects on the past when his father was still with them.
These blessed children
1984
No synopsis available yet.
Auga fyrir auga
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Tilfelli
1970
NRA Teleplay about the role of women in society.
Hvað er í blýhólknum
1971
6.3In Iceland, Elf Commissioner Isolda Thorsdóttir is found shot in an elf park. Crime writer Solveig Karlsdóttir and Inspector Finsen discover a terrified girl, Yrsa, holding the murder weapon. As Solveig calms Yrsa, she uncovers the child’s silence, the mother’s secrets, and a lethal clash of elf lore and corporate schemes behind Isolda’s death.
Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau
2016
Behind the camera
NRThis is the story of the ’68 generation in Iceland. Icelanders who participated in the turmoil that characterized this period tell of their experiences, their backgrounds, and explain why thousands of young people fought for their values in defiance of the prevailing attitudes of previous generations.
You Say You Want a Revolution
2018
NRIn 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that filmmaking in Iceland was at the time. But the memory of the film haunted Sigurður for years, and now almost fifty years later, the film is finished.
Paradox
2011
NRIn 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that filmmaking in Iceland was at the time. But the memory of the film haunted Sigurður for years, and now almost fifty years later, the film is finished.
Paradox
2011