The best Eggert Þorleifsson’s movies

Eggert Þorleifsson

Eggert Þorleifsson

18/07/1952 (71 años)
We present our ranking of the best Eggert Þorleifsson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Eggert Þorleifsson.
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The Higher Force

The Higher Force
5.5/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 28/03/2008
  • Character: Haraldur
Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.

Fiasco

Fiasco
3.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/03/2000
  • Character: Samúel
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.

Polite People

Polite People
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/2013
  • Character: Markell
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

Stella Runs for Office

Stella Runs for Office
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/2002
  • Character: Council member 1
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.

New Life

New Life
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1983
  • Character: Þór
The film is the first of three about the misadventures of two friends, Þór and Danni. Two friends working at a restaurant get fired from their jobs and after seeing an advertisement for the fishing industry of the Westman Islands, decide to go there and make some money. The islands become a perfect setting for many funny and strange situations, especially after word gets around that the two are spies from the Ministry of Fisheries.

Behind Schedule

Behind Schedule
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/04/1993
  • Character: Egill
A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.

On Top

On Top
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 18/12/1982
  • Character: Dúddi
Two rock groups, one male, the other female, decide to do a combined effort to hit the road of stardom by doing a show together. As the show is getting on the road, the lead singers of the two groups have a disagreement which brings about a parting of ways, in love as in life. A historic tour of the country begins, which through the music and performances of the two groups as well as the reactions of their audiences, reveals, beneath the comedy, glimpses of today's real competition between the sexes, seen against the background of Icelandic life.

Remote Control

Remote Control
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1992
  • Character: Aggi Flinki
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.

A Policeman's Life

A Policeman's Life
7.1/10
  • Release: 21/12/1985
  • Character: Þór
Lukkuriddararnir Þór og Danni reka sérkennilega gæludýraþjónustu og eru auk þess í sambandi við alþjóðlegan fálkaræningja og ætla að selja honum kjúklinga uppdubbaða sem fálkaunga fyrir stórfé. Eftir röð einkennilegra tilviljana eru þeir komnir í lögregluna og farnir að fylgjast með hegðun borgarbúa. Við löggæslustörfin lenda þeir félagar í ótrúlegustu ævintýrum: Þeir eiga í útistöðum við glæpagengi sem samanstendur af eldri konum, komast í kast við næturdrottninguna og útigangsmann á Arnarhóli og taka þátt í æsilegasta kappakstri sem sést hefur í íslenskri kvikmynd.

Pastoral Life

Pastoral Life
7.6/10
  • Release: 04/10/1984
  • Character: Þór
This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.

Foxtrot

Foxtrot
6.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 25/08/1988
  • Character: Fox Hunter
Tommi 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.

Dream Hunters

Dream Hunters
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/03/1996
  • Character: Kvikmyndagerðarmaður
The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged documents wreak havoc on the lives of everyone involved.

Deep Winter

Deep Winter
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1985
  • Character: Einar
A young widow moves from abroad to an isolated farm in Iceland.

In Tune with the Time

In Tune with the Time
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/12/2004
  • Character: Dúddi
Continues the story of the characters from the movie On Top (1982), now 22 years older.

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