Jar City
About Jar City
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
Jar City is a 2006 crime thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Its themes are nordic noir and murder.
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson appears as Erlendur, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir as Eva Lind, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson as Sigurður Óli, and Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir as Elínborg. It runs 93 minutes and was released in October 2006.
The screenplay is by Baltasar Kormákur. The story is adapted from a novel.
It, The Revenant, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire make useful companions to Jar City. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 80 votes.