Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson

Acting

Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson

Born 1970-10-11

Acting credits

Dramarama poster
6.6

Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?

Dramarama

2001

Alone? poster
NR

A former police officer gets an unexpected guest on Christmas day.

Alone?

2015

Black's Game poster
5.9

In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.

Black's Game

2012

Angels of the Universe poster
7.2

The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.

Angels of the Universe

2000

Odd Fish poster
8.1

Two childhood friends get a long-awaited opportunity to found and run a seafood restaurant together. When one of them comes out of the closet as a trans woman, their friendship gets tested.

Odd Fish

2024

Stella Runs for Office poster
5.3

Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.

Stella Runs for Office

2002

No artwork available
7.0

1999's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 1999

1999

Remote Control poster
6.6

Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.

Remote Control

1992

Ikingut poster
7.2

In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed

Ikingut

2000

Behind Schedule poster
8.0

A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.

Behind Schedule

1993

Fiasco poster
5.0

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.

Fiasco

2000

No artwork available
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ragnar í Smára

2005

The Beatle poster
NR

Gunnar owns a car sale where he works everyday, and even lives there along with his two sons, and his ex-girlfriend.

The Beatle

2000