Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur
Date of Birth: 27 Feb 1966
Country: Iceland
Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Actor), 16 (Director), 6 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
Biography submitted by Phil Clowns
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (6) | Director (16) | Writer (6) | Creator (2)
The Sea
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed sexual abuse, lingering suspicions, sibling rivalries and incestuous passions. Ultimately, it's a heartless battle between the past and the future that culminates in a night of explosive rage. (imdb)
101 Reykjavík
A young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just been to bed with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover, and may be carrying his child. (101 ltd.)
Mýrin
A worn-down cop (Sigurdsson) works to piece together the recent murder of a little girl to a similar case from over 30 years ago.
A Little Trip to Heaven
A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother's million-dollar insurance policy. (imdb)
White Night Wedding
The groom's last night before his wedding. A loose adaption of Ivanov by Chekhov.
Inhale
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter. (imdb)
Contraband
A security guard with financial troubles considers a return to his smuggling ways when an associate offers a potentially lucrative opportunity. (imdb)
The Deep
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. (tiff.net)
2 Guns
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from. (imdb)
Everest
A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm. (imdb)
Trapped
Trapped (2015) - TV Series
In a remote town in Iceland, Police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.
The Oath
Icelandic auteur Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest) directs and stars in this psychological thriller about a father who tries to pull his daughter out of her world of drugs and petty crime, only to find that danger can be found in unexpected places. (xyzfilms.com)
Adrift
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. (imdb)
Katla
Katla (2021) - TV Series
One year after the violent eruption of the subglacial volcano Katla, the peace and tranquility in the small town of Vik is dramatically disturbed. (imdb)
Beast
A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.
Touch
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out. (imdb)