Best Icelandic mystery movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch mystery films from Iceland, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for I Remember You

    I Remember You 2017

    After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.

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  • Poster for One Point O

    One Point O 2004

    Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.

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  • Poster for Rift

    Rift 2017

    Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.

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  • Poster for Quake

    Quake 2021

    Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.

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  • Poster for Ástarsaga

    Ástarsaga 2012

    A story of love, madness, and 24-hour daylight. Solange's boyfriend Baldur mysteriously takes off for Iceland. She follows, but an even deeper mystery awaits her.

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  • Poster for No Country for the Young Ones

    No Country for the Young Ones 2012

    Strýta is a story of two twelve year old boys, who live in a small town in the east of Iceland. Just outside of town is an abandon house and rumor has it, there is a gun there. The boys, having nothing better to do, decide to steal a car and take a journey to the abandon house to find the gun.

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  • Poster for In the Arm of the Sea

    In the Arm of the Sea 2001

    The story revolves around the seacaptain Valdimar who marries Unnur, but on the night of their wedding strange things start to happen which leads them out to sea.

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  • Poster for The House

    The House 1983

    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.

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  • Draconian Cloudsters 2023

    Two assassins, known for their roughness and tenacity, are unexpectedly asked to put their long awaited vacation aside to go and assassinate a new drug lord in Iceland. As things ensue, they start to suspect that somebody might be playing tricks on them.

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  • IXHA 2020

    A being enters our world in a humanoid form and searches for its purpose.

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  • Static Tears 2020

    Overwhelmed with the guilt and grief of his best friend's death, his own reality gets incredibly distorted

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