The best Lilja Þórisdóttir’s movies

Lilja Þórisdóttir

Lilja Þórisdóttir

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Lilja Þórisdóttir’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Lilja Þórisdóttir.

A Policeman's Life

A Policeman's Life
7.1/10
  • Release: 21/12/1985
  • Character: Sóley
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.

Magnús

Magnús
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/08/1989
  • Character: Svala friend of Teddi
Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.

Foxtrot

Foxtrot
6.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 25/08/1988
  • Character: Dóra
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.

The House

The House
5.9/10
A young couple moves into an old house. She teaches deaf children, he is a musician, working on his own compositions. Their separate worlds, one silent, the other full of sounds, create a vivid pattern of contrasts, which affect their emotional lives and their living together. From the time they move into the house, they are strangely aware of something odd, especially she, while he concentrates more and more upon his work. A series of incidents adds to her growing uneasiness about the house. Its past seems to creep in on her. She feels as if some tragedy must have befallen the people that lived there before, but when she starts asking around she gets few answers. There is something about the house that seems to be on the verge of overpowering her - something that in an unexpected way is related to her origins and permanently affects her life and destiny.

Story of a Child

Story of a Child
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1990
A woman arrives to Iceland and decides to travel into the country with her daughter to take one last look into her past.

Munda

Munda
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/2017
Munda is a 70 year old priest who has to find herself again once she's suddenly made to renounce her priesthood.

Everything in the End

Everything in the End
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/03/2021
  • Character: Ana
Stranded in a small village during Earth's final days, a man seeks solace in the brief human connections he encounters.

The Wedding Gift

The Wedding Gift
The Wedding Gift tells a tale of a mother, a son and his wife and a sewing machine. Filmed almost entirely in a car, the cramped space gives tension to both the bumpy journey to a wedding and the characters’ psychology.

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