Best award winning movies with mild diversion from Iceland

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

1 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 6.476
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People's Taste Ranking

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

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2 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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3 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 6.777
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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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4 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
    dramatic structure
  2. Ranked #1 for
    abstract
  3. Ranked #1 for
    soothing voice

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5 Heartstone (2016)

A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

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2016-12-28 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #130 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #145 for
    cogent narrative
  3. Ranked #294 for
    impelling and reinforcing

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6 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 6.969
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  2. Ranked #162 for
    elegiac
  3. Ranked #178 for
    unhurried pace

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7 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 6.993
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #164 for
    dry dialogue
  2. Ranked #377 for
    plush
  3. Ranked #484 for
    sweeping vista

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8 Under the Tree (2017)

When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

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2017-09-06 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    self-parodic cast
  2. Ranked #41 for
    implacable
  3. Ranked #74 for
    seriocomedy

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9 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 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    cruel twist
  2. Ranked #90 for
    lugubrious
  3. Ranked #139 for
    wayward

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10 Black's Game (2012)

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.

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2012-03-11 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Thor Kristjansson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    cross-cut editing
  2. Ranked #148 for
    potboiler
  3. Ranked #167 for
    Courtroom Drama

Trailer

Black's Game trailer
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