Best Icelandic drama series

A year after a subglacial volcano erupts, mysterious elements from prehistoric times emerge from the melting ice, bringing unforeseen consequences.

The body of a murder victim turns up in a small Icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world.

An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.

Stella is a young, cute, libertine, tough, confident, intelligent, cunning Icelandic lawyer with a flexible moral compass who takes on mysterious and often dangerous cases and only loves rules when she's breaking them.

A dramatic thriller about a broken lawyer who seeks redemption through his investigation into the suspicious suicide of a teenage ballet prodigy.

When Reykjavik crime detective Helgi Marvin Runarsson is called in to investigate a suicide case on Snaefellsnes Peninsula, the case turns out to be far from simple. Pulled into a sinister trail of evidence, Helgi's own deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. Will Helgi turn a blind eye to murder in order to save the life of his daughter.

Police investigate the disappearance of a cult member.

The Cliff is a dramatic mystery about a Crime Detective who is sent to a small community in Iceland to help a local policewoman investigate a suspicious accident. Together they unravel a mystery that involves bizarre incidents and unexplained deaths.

A troubled police officer is forced back to her hometown. Confronting her abusive mother is inescapable but the discovery of a body changes everything. She's forced to search for a dangerous serial killer while stuck in a dark pit.

VIGDIS is a four part drama-series based on the inspiring true story of the first woman in the world to be democratically elected president. The series tells Vigdis' story from when she was a teenager in the late 1940s up until she decides to run for president against three male candidates in 1980. Vigdis carries the aura of a winner, someone that has always succeeded without difficulty but the opposite is true in Vigdis' life. Despite endless obstacles she never stops dreaming of a brighter future. VIGDIS is an inspirational story of hope and integrity.

A look into the life of the newly elected Prime Minister of Iceland, who starts losing his grip on reality and the effect that has on his family and the Icelandic nation.

After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.

Follows a young married couple who see their livelihoods threatened when the government starts enforcing restrictive fishing quotas after they build a small fishing empire in a village.

Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.

Fangavaktin is the sequel to the Icelandic television series Dagvaktin and the final series in the trilogy. The three main characters from Næturvaktin, Georg Bjarnfreðarson, Ólafur Ragnar and Daníel, have become imprisoned in the infamous Litla-Hraun prison following the murder of the hotel owner in Dagvaktin. The story is continued, and brought to a conclusion, in the feature film Bjarnfreðarson.The first episode was broadcast on Stöð 2 on Sunday, 27 September 2009, and an episode was broadcast each following Sunday until the final seventh episode aired on 8 November 2009. The series has been released on DVD.

A woman is brutally murdered in front of her young daughter, the sole witness to the crime. The challenging case is assigned to Detective Huldar, who must unravel a web of perplexing clues while dealing with a traumatized child who has been rendered mute. To help unlock the girl's memories, Huldar seeks the expertise of a child psychologist-only to discover it's Freyja, a woman he recently had an awkward date with. Forced to collaborate, Freyja and Huldar must race against time to stop a killer who strikes again and remains perilously close.

Drama series about Kristín, an emergency doctor who moves with her teenage daughter back to her parents' home in a small fishing village, following her own husband's affair. Kristín, who is grounded and rational, quickly realises she is out of her comfort zone communicating with her mother, a medium, and finds herself forced to look the ghosts of her past directly in the eye.

A fourteen year old vanishes without a trace at the turn of the millenium. Twenty five years later her body is discovered and three friends have to face the horror of their past.

When Lára, a journalist on maternity leave finds herself newly single and in deep financial trouble, her outlook is bleak. Enter handsome and notorious businessman Hrafn: aware of her intuitive skills as an investigator, he hires her to prove his innocence in a case involving the murder of a young woman. Lára is saved from her desperate financial situation, but at what cost?

A struggling mom in a stale marriage, longs for thrills of her past life. When a young man enters her home and introduces her and her husband to flirting games, the couple's relationship gets rekindled. But can their marriage survive?

Years after burning out and falling from grace, a middle aged, 90s handball legend seeks to redeem himself by returning to his childhood club to coach the women's team where he clashes with a new generation of women in a post #MeToo society.

On a deserted island off the western coast of Iceland in 1970. A body is discovered by three seal hunters, and after it is found to be a missing Danish cryptographer, the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between the researcher and a medieval manuscript known as The Book of Flatey.Before long another body is found on the tiny island. This time, in the ancient Viking tradition, the victim’s back has been mutilated with the so-called blood eagle. Kjartan, the district magistrate’s representative sent to investigate the crime, soon finds himself descending into a dark, dangerous world of ancient legends, symbolism, and secret societies to find a killer.

Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.

A story about four Icelandic detectives, working in the gloomy everyday life in Reykjavik where international crime rings are starting to operate.

After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sent to serve time in Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a coma. But no-one knows that she harbours a dark secret that could tear her family apart, a secret that could set her free.

An Icelandic drama miniseries created by Þráinn Bertelsson. The series takes place in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and follows the lives of an influential family in the fishing industry.

Set in 1992, Heimsendir is an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as ‘World’s End’ is a last resort for many mental patients, many of whom consider it a home. Elementary school teacher, Einar, is committed against his will after a severe nervous breakdown and is critical about how things are run at the hospital and before long he has most of the patients on his side, rooting for change. Einar, along with the other patients, stages a revolution and takes over the hospital, declaring its a state within a state, a Utopia for the mentally ill.

Show that takes place in Húsdýragarðurinn and is about the staff and the parks owner who wants the park to be as big as Disney World.

Comedy-drama following the ups and downs of a friendship between two young women who get offered their own TV show.

A buddy love story about two men going on a road trip to reshape their longtime friendship. The journey takes an unexpected turn which forces them to face their own feelings, manhood, and pride.

The ten-episode series “Borgarstjórinn” (“The Mayor”) follows comedian, former real-life Reykajvík mayor, and prior Grapevine cover model Jón Gnarr, as he returns to a role he knows quite well. However, this time round, cameras are rolling. Jón co-wrote the series with Hrefna Lind Heimisdóttir, Ólafur S.K. Þorvaldz and longtime collaborator Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon. Pétur and Jón are well-known for their work together on “Næturvaktin” (“The Night Shift”), a television show focusing on employees of a Laugavegur gas station. Jón, who is set to direct five of the ten episodes, plays the Major of Reykjavík in this satirical take on politics in Iceland. “It’s a tragi-comedy, much like actual Icelandic politics,” Jón says.