Hace tiempo que Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) dejó el mundo de la delincuencia, pero cuando su cuñado Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) mete la pata en un asunto de drogas encargado por su implacable jefe Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris se ve obligado a volver a hacer lo que mejor se le da, pasar contrabando, para pagar la deuda de Andy. Chris es un legendario contrabandista y no tarda en reunir a un equipo de primera con la ayuda de su mejor amigo, Sebastian (Ben Foster), y realizar un último viaje a Panamá para traer millones de dólares en billetes falsos. Pero las cosas no salen como estaba previsto y con solo unas horas para hacerse con el dinero, Chris deberá hacer uso de sus oxidadas habilidades y superar una traicionera red criminal con brutales narcos, polis y sicarios, antes de que su esposa Kate (Kate Beckinsale) y sus hijos se conviertan en objetivos.
Película compuesta de dos historias basadas en la novela criminal de Arnaldur Indriðason: la primera, sobre un hombre que irrumpe en una base de datos genética de una información médica sobre gente islandesa. Tras haber perdido a su hija por una enfermedad hereditaria, intenta trazar sus propias raíces. La segunda historia trata sobre la investigación del asesinato de un anciano que conduce a una prueba forense poco común, desvelando secretos guardados en la genética de toda la nación.
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.
La trama del film se centra en un guardia de seguridad y ex-contrabandista de alcohol en la ruta de Islandia-Países Bajos que, tras atravesar difíciles problemas financieros, se siente tentado de volver a sus negocios ilegales al reencontrarse con un viejo amigo. Seleccionada por Islandia como candidada al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa.
Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...
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 psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment.
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.
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf stone, which is sacred to the wife Lara, who is blessed with a sixth sense. When they get an offer to sell the stone at a high price, her husband Óskar is really tempted.