Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir

Acting

Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir

Acting credits

The Fires poster
6.9

Top volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir faces two disasters at once: a volcanic eruption that threatens the safety of the capital city and a love affair that could destroy her marriage.

The Fires

2025

The Magician poster
NR

The Magician is a strong and personal story, about how one‘s imagination can help make unbearable situation bearable.

The Magician

2005

Áramótaskaup: 2015 poster
9.0

Áramótaskaup: 2015 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the year.

Áramótaskaup: 2015

2015

The Quiet Storm poster
4.0

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.

The Quiet Storm

2007

Dís poster
6.8

Dís, 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

Áramótaskaup: 2013 poster
9.0

Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2013

2013

A Man Like Me poster
7.0

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.

A Man Like Me

2002

The Last Stich'n Bitch poster
5.0

A group of middle-aged women decide to go out to a cabin in the countryside to relax and forget about the struggles of daily life. But under the nice surface lies a world of long-kept secrets that risks sending the trip into chaos.

The Last Stich'n Bitch

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kissing

2003

The Third Name poster
7.0

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.

The Third Name

2003

Jar City poster
5.9

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

Jar City

2006

The Deposit poster
5.0

Gisella dreams about writing important things, genuine things, and quits her job at the newspaper after yet another article is insensitively edited. She contacts a recently started alternative paper, where she is given the proposition of writing an article about the living situation among immigrants. Through her research she meets Marisol, Abeba and her daughter Lucinda, who live in a barrack by the harbor. To help solve their financial troubles, she invites them to live in her large house that she inherited from her grandmother. At first everything works well, but soon the mutual respect between the three women turns into a power struggle and hospitality is replaced with rules and a system of punishments.

The Deposit

2019

Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord poster
5.7

Crime writer Solveig Karlsdottir is pretty successful - although that's not particularly easy in Iceland. After all, with only two murders a year in the entire country, there aren't many sources of inspiration, but she makes up for this with a lot of imagination and her special feeling for things that aren't quite right. And this feeling kicks in strongly when she travels from Reykjavik to her old home village to look after her mother Margret, who is suffering from dementia. When an old friend from her youth is found dead at the harbor, she doesn't believe the official conclusion that it was an accident.

Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord

2016

Permille poster
NR

Erik likes to have a drink once in a while. The day after a good party, sitting with his girlfriend having a chat, he meets people he doesn't remember. Has he arrived at a crossroads? Is Erik in deeper trouble than usual?

Permille

2010

Caramels poster
7.0

A short comedy about a mad small town scientist who makes deadly explosive caramels. While he distributes them through the local candy store, a rough-neck detective closes in.

Caramels

2003

XL poster
4.3

Ex-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into rehab by his political rival, following a well publicized art exhibition brawl. Full of denial, Leifur throws a party before checking in, but when it´s time to leave – very few do, turning the night into an adventure exclusively for those old enough to vote.

XL

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beauty of Small Things

2006

Volcano poster
6.9

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.

Volcano

2011

Our Own Oslo poster
4.0

The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.

Our Own Oslo

2011

Thicker Than Water poster
5.6

Pétur 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

Stormland poster
6.0

The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.

Stormland

2011

Áramótaskaup 2021 poster
6.0

Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.

Áramótaskaup 2021

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Scratches: Part 3

2006

Frost poster
3.9

A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.

Frost

2012