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Finnish-Language Films
Top 430 Finnish-language films from a catalog of 430, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Linnaisten vihreä kamari | 1,945 | Valentin Vaala | Drama, Mystery, Horror | 7.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities and a haunted wing of his mansion. |
| Eight Deadly Shots | 1,972 | Mikko Niskanen | Drama | 7.7 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story. |
| Drifting Clouds | 1,996 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 197 | Finnish | Finland | The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope. |
| Tale of the Sleeping Giants | 2,020 | Marko Röhr | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Tale of the Sleeping Giants is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a journey into the rich mythology of ancient Scandinavians and Lapps told in the form of a nature movie. |
| Sisu | 2,022 | Jalmari Helander | Action, War, Thriller | 7.4 | 2,693 | Finnish | Finland | When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him. |
| Sisu: Road to Revenge | 2,025 | Jalmari Helander | Action, War | 7.4 | 547 | Finnish | Finland | Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues. |
| The Man Without a Past | 2,002 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 421 | Finnish | Finland | Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer. |
| The Match Factory Girl | 1,990 | Aki Kaurismäki | Drama | 7.4 | 289 | Finnish | Finland | Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge. |
| Unknown Soldier | 2,017 | Aku Louhimies | War, Drama | 7.4 | 212 | Finnish | Iceland | The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel). |
| Gas, Inspector Palmu! | 1,961 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Crime | 7.4 | 28 | Finnish | Finland | A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep? |
| Shadows in Paradise | 1,986 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 | 434 | Finnish | Finland | Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them. |
| The Unknown Soldier | 1,955 | Edvin Laine | Drama, War | 7.3 | 72 | Finnish | Finland | It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun. |
| Niko: Beyond the Northern Lights | 2,024 | Kari Juusonen | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 | 40 | Finnish | Denmark | Niko the reindeer joins his father in Santa's Flying Forces, but when Santa's sleigh is stolen by an acquaintance, Niko must find it in time for Christmas. |
| The Year of the Hare | 1,977 | Risto Jarva | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life |
| Quest for a Heart | 2,007 | Pekka Lehtosaari | Animation, Family | 7.3 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family. |
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | 2,004 | Pirjo Honkasalo | Documentary | 7.3 | 13 | Finnish | Denmark | A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp. |
| Canned Dreams | 2,012 | Katja Gauriloff | Documentary | 7.3 | 11 | Finnish | Denmark | Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands? The film not only traces the various stages of the production process, but gives a voice to the people who work as part of it. |
| Christmas Story | 2,007 | Juha Wuolijoki | Fantasy, Family | 7.2 | 139 | Finnish | Finland | Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today. |
| The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005 | 2,005 | Jalmari Helander | Action, Comedy | 7.2 | 55 | Finnish | Finland | Not meant for the public eye, this film reveals the dark reality of what's wrong with company's product. With its primitive instincts triggered by bad behaviour of people around it, the seemingly tame Father Christmas will forget the intensive training and turn into a brutal beast. You better watch out, you better not cry, There's no room for mistakes. |
| The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic | 2,021 | Teemu Nikki | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 | 53 | Finnish | Finland | Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong? |
| Letters to Father Jacob | 2,009 | Klaus Härö | Drama | 7.2 | 37 | Finnish | Finland | With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role. |
| Fallen Leaves | 2,023 | Aki Kaurismäki | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 697 | Finnish | Finland | In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog. |
| Ariel | 1,988 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime | 7.1 | 369 | Finnish | Finland | A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide. |
| Steam of Life | 2,010 | Joonas Berghäll | Documentary | 7.1 | 40 | Finnish | Finland | Finnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart. |
| Inspector Palmu's Error | 1,960 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 37 | Finnish | Finland | A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate. |
| The Punk Syndrome | 2,012 | J-P Passi | Documentary, Music | 7.1 | 35 | Finnish | Finland | The Punk Syndrome is a film about Finland’s most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami, are mentally handicapped and they play their music with a lot of attitude and pride. We follow these professional musicians on their journey from obscurity to popularity. We watch them fight, fall in love and experience strong emotions. We witness long days in the recording studio and on tour. They laugh, cry, drink and fight over who gets to sit in the front on the tour bus. Then it’s time to make up and go talk to people in the audience and tell them how great their band is. |
| 100 Liters of Gold | 2,025 | Teemu Nikki | Comedy | 7.1 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is getting married, and she asks her sisters if they can make 100 liters of sahti for the wedding. Unfortunately, it’s too good not to drink it. The sisters wake up in a horrible hangover and realize they have drunk it all. They have 24 hours to find 100 liters of good sahti, or they will lose all the respect. |
| Tale of a Lake | 2,016 | Kim Saarniluoto | Documentary | 7.1 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Tale of a Lake is a film about the thousands of lakes that Finland is known for. It takes the viewers on an unprecedented adventure, ranging from the crystal clear springs all the way to the basins of the big lakes. It opens a whole new world of underwater nature for the viewers, and tells about the many old tales and beliefs in the land of thousands of lakes. The story of the film is told through tales that are based around the myths, legends and old beliefs that are part of the Finnish mythology. |
| Born in Heinola | 2,016 | Tuukka Temonen | Drama, Music | 7.1 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | A story of five Finnish youth growing up during the devastating '90s recession. They live in the small timber industrial town of Heinola. As the parents of these young teens struggle through hard economic times, the five very different youths meet by coincidence to form the punk band Apulanta. |
| The Reporter | 2,020 | Ari Matikainen | Documentary | 7.1 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Documentary about a Finnish reporter, Hannu Karpo. The movie follows Karpo's decades-long career as a journalist, and how he became a phenomenon and known by the whole nation. |
| Kuningas Litmanen | 2,012 | Arto Koskinen | Documentary | 7.1 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | The film aims to reveal what the general public has been unable to see: the modest and mysterious inner world of Jari Litmanen. In addition to reviewing the stages of the great soccer player and "artist's" own life, the film also examines the experiences and thoughts of other people connected to his life, such as his teammates and supporters, about Jari Litmanen, soccer, and life itself. |
| Helsinki, Forever | 2,008 | Peter von Bagh | Documentary | 7.1 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years. |
| The Winter War | 1,989 | Pekka Parikka | Drama, War | 7 | 91 | Finnish | Finland | After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon. |
| Calamari Union | 1,985 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 87 | Finnish | Finland | A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights. |
| Rare Exports Inc. | 2,003 | Jalmari Helander | Comedy, Action | 7 | 80 | Finnish | Finland | An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season. |
| Master Cheng | 2,019 | Mika Kaurismäki | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 68 | Finnish | China | Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai. |
| Forest Giant | 2,020 | Ville Jankeri | Drama | 7 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people. |
| Joulubileet | 1,996 | Jari Halonen | Comedy | 7 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A story of Mike, just out of prison, and his buddies throwing a Christmas party under the most obscure circumstances is filled with juicy dialogue and plot twists that will definitely make your jaw drop – and have you chuckle for days after. |
| The Saimaa Gesture | 1,981 | Mika Kaurismäki | Documentary, Music | 7 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu Normaali and Hassisen Kone) are shown playing songs in their gigs and, in between, the members give intimate interviews or just act plain silly and have a good time. |
| Compartment No. 6 | 2,021 | Juho Kuosmanen | Drama | 6.9 | 448 | Finnish | Estonia | A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection. |
| The Other Side of Hope | 2,017 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 347 | Finnish | Finland | A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland. |
| Heavy Trip | 2,018 | Juuso Laatio | Comedy, Music | 6.9 | 241 | Finnish | Belgium | Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality. |
| Leningrad Cowboys Go America | 1,989 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Music | 6.9 | 198 | Finnish | Finland | The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band. |
| Dogs Don't Wear Pants | 2,019 | J-P Valkeapää | Drama | 6.9 | 186 | Finnish | Finland | A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine. |
| Crime and Punishment | 1,983 | Aki Kaurismäki | Crime, Drama | 6.9 | 87 | Finnish | Finland | Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. |
| Land of Hope | 2,018 | Markku Pölönen | History, Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 60 | Finnish | Finland | Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test. |
| Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland | 2,010 | Joonas Neuvonen | Documentary | 6.9 | 48 | Finnish | Finland | Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani. |
| Tale of a Forest | 2,012 | Kim Saarniluoto | Documentary, Family | 6.9 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A documentary that unveils the primeval forests of Northern Finland, some of Europe's sole remaining, old-growth forests. The main characters of the film are the various inhabitants of the forest: the bears and the elk, the snakes and the owls, the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and many, many others. |
| The Stolen Death | 1,938 | Nyrki Tapiovaara | Thriller | 6.9 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman. |
| Purge | 2,012 | Antti J. Jokinen | Drama, History | 6.8 | 61 | Finnish | Estonia | Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history. |
| Heavier Trip | 2,024 | Jukka Vidgren | Comedy | 6.8 | 44 | Finnish | Belgium | The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven. |
| The Island of Secrets | 2,014 | Taavi Vartia | Family, Adventure, Romance | 6.8 | 41 | Finnish | Finland | It was supposed to be just an ordinary holiday on sunny Kos, but Toni has to rescue a beautiful local girl, a talented free-diver, from the clutches of kidnappers. When it appears that nobody else can be trusted, Toni must reluctantly rely on his step-brothers' assistance. |
| The Boys | 1,962 | Mikko Niskanen | Drama, War | 6.8 | 28 | Finnish | Finland | When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys co... |
| Light Light Light | 2,023 | Inari Niemi | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 22 | Finnish | Finland | Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light. |
| The Mine | 2,016 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Drama | 6.8 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom. |
| The Finnish Flash - A Teemu Selänne Story | 2,013 | JP Siili | Documentary | 6.8 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Selänne is a documentary about Teemu Selänne—the best Finnish ice hockey player of all time. It's directed by JP Siili, whose previous films include such hits as Härmä and Ganes. We've followed the heroic tales of Selänne for over two decades. His exploits are famous, but now we get to know Selänne the man. In this documentary Teemu lets the viewer get close and under his skin. The film follows Selänne's journey from childhood to the latest NHL season. We see the life story of an exceptional athlete inside and out, not only through Teemu's words, but through the views of his loved ones and colleagues. Selänne is charismatic, social, irritating, charming, happy and always late. Welcome to the life of Teemu Selänne! |
| When Heroes Lie | 2,012 | Arto Halonen | Documentary | 6.8 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | A huge doping scandal erupted at the 2001 cross-country skiing world championship in Lahti, Finland, leading to large numbers of disqualifications. Athletes from the host country in particular had made generous use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. It was to be the precursor of more drug cases at the Winter Olympics a year later in Salt Lake City. When Heroes Lie analyzes the history of doping from the 1970s to the present day, using archive footage and interviews with skiers, coaches and experts. |
| A Summer by the River | 1,998 | Markku Pölönen | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho. |
| Santa Claus and the Magic Drum | 1,996 | Mauri Kunnas | Animation, Family | 6.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | A few days before Christmas Eve the last sack of letters arrives to Santa. At the bottom is a letter that is a bit older than the others, it's a drawing. While the curious Santa tries to figure out what the drawing looks like, strange things begin to happen. |
| Here, Beneath the North Star | 1,968 | Edvin Laine | History, Drama | 6.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war. |
| Radio tekee murron | 1,951 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Thriller, Crime | 6.8 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila. |
| Recipes For Disaster | 2,008 | John Webster | Documentary | 6.8 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don't do, or that we can't help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness. |
| The Classic | 2,001 | Kari Väänänen | Comedy | 6.8 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen. |
| Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made | 1,994 | Mika Kaurismäki | Documentary | 6.8 | 12 | Finnish | Brazil | In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life. |
| Lights in the Dusk | 2,006 | Aki Kaurismäki | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 157 | Finnish | Finland | Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend. |
| Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana | 1,994 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 88 | Finnish | Finland | Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor. |
| Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning | 2,005 | Timo Vuorensola | Science Fiction, Action, Comedy | 6.7 | 73 | Finnish | Finland | Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew. Orig... |
| Juha | 1,999 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 69 | Finnish | Finland | A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel. |
| Frozen Land | 2,005 | Aku Louhimies | Drama | 6.7 | 65 | Finnish | Finland | When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person. |
| Hamlet Goes Business | 1,987 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 49 | Finnish | Finland | When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter? |
| The Eternal Road | 2,017 | Antti-Jussi Annila | History, Drama, War | 6.7 | 44 | Finnish | Estonia | Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last. |
| The Unknown Soldier | 1,985 | Rauni Mollberg | Drama, War | 6.7 | 41 | Finnish | Finland | Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). |
| The Gravedigger's Wife | 2,021 | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | Drama | 6.7 | 30 | Finnish | Finland | Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet. |
| One Last Deal | 2,019 | Klaus Härö | Drama | 6.7 | 30 | Finnish | Finland | Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it. |
| Little Wing | 2,016 | Selma Vilhunen | Drama | 6.7 | 23 | Finnish | Denmark | Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world. |
| Dog Nail Clipper | 2,004 | Markku Pölönen | Drama | 6.7 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside l... |
| The Harvest Month | 1,956 | Matti Kassila | Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal. |
| Tom of Finland | 2,017 | Dome Karukoski | Drama | 6.6 | 138 | Finnish | Iceland | Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution. |
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | 2,016 | Juho Kuosmanen | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 103 | Finnish | Finland | Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija. |
| The White Reindeer | 1,952 | Erik Blomberg | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 | 82 | Finnish | Finland | A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results. |
| Heart of a Lion | 2,013 | Dome Karukoski | Drama | 6.6 | 76 | Finnish | Finland | Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings. |
| Tove | 2,020 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama | 6.6 | 71 | Finnish | Finland | Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame. |
| The Grump | 2,014 | Dome Karukoski | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 47 | Finnish | Finland | A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law. |
| Mother of Mine | 2,005 | Klaus Härö | Drama, War | 6.6 | 44 | Finnish | Finland | 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea. |
| Diving Into the Unknown | 2,016 | Juan Reina | Documentary | 6.6 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | After a terrible accident deep inside an underwater cave, the survivors are forced to risk their own lives to bring the bodies of their friends home. |
| The Earth Is a Sinful Song | 1,973 | Rauni Mollberg | Drama | 6.6 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows |
| Zombie and the Ghost Train | 1,991 | Mika Kaurismäki | Drama, Comedy, Music | 6.6 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down? |
| Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods | 2,001 | Olli Saarela | Fantasy, Family | 6.6 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys. |
| Hirttämättömät | 1,971 | Spede Pasanen | Comedy, Western | 6.6 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin. |
| The Snow Queen | 1,986 | Päivi Hartzell | Fantasy, Family | 6.6 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu. |
| Law of the Land | 2,017 | Jussi Hiltunen | Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border. |
| Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People | 2,017 | Arto Koskinen | Documentary | 6.6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones. Nokia’s annual budget was larger than that of the Government of Finland and their phones spread everywhere and changed the whole culture of communication. But then something changed. Film portrays the rise and fall of Nokia and the Finnish mobile phone industry. Nokia engineers, designers and managers tell their story about the creation, success and downfall of the Finnish mobile phone. |
| Bordertown: The Mural Murders | 2,021 | Juuso Syrjä | Crime | 6.5 | 100 | Finnish | Finland | A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge. |
| Girl Picture | 2,022 | Alli Haapasalo | Romance, Drama | 6.5 | 74 | Finnish | Finland | Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down. |
| Euthanizer | 2,017 | Teemu Nikki | Thriller, Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 57 | Finnish | Finland | Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself. |
| A Long Hot Summer | 1,999 | Perttu Leppä | Comedy, Music | 6.5 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s. |
| Death Is a Problem for the Living | 2,023 | Teemu Nikki | Comedy, Drama, Action, Thriller | 6.5 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed. |
| Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu | 1,962 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Crime | 6.5 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police. |
| The Wedding Waltz | 1,988 | Matti Ijäs | Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | 6.5 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either. |
| Distractions | 2,015 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Comedy | 6.5 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached. |
| Pikkupojat | 1,986 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 6.5 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake! |
| The Missile | 2,024 | Miia Tervo | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 14 | Finnish | Estonia | Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village. |
| I Hired Two Contract Cleaners | 1,997 | Tapio Piirainen | Comedy, TV Movie | 6.5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and “impossible” stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun. |
| Never Alone | 2,025 | Klaus Härö | Drama, History | 6.5 | 12 | Finnish | Estonia | 1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo. |
| Hobbyhorse Revolution | 2,017 | Selma Vilhunen | Documentary | 6.5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses. |
| The Clan: Tale of the Frogs | 1,984 | Mika Kaurismäki | Drama, Crime | 6.5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps. |
| Man and a Junior | 2,019 | Tiina Lymi | Comedy | 6.5 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Antti Pasanen juggles between taking care of Paavo, his work and personal life, until Enni has an accident and he has two kids to take care of. |
| Lapland Odyssey | 2,010 | Dome Karukoski | Comedy | 6.4 | 99 | Finnish | Finland | Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself. |
| Hellsinki | 2,009 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Crime, Drama | 6.4 | 50 | Finnish | Finland | In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business. |
| Jackpot | 2,006 | Pekka Karjalainen | Comedy | 6.4 | 37 | Finnish | Finland | Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting. |
| Happier Times, Grump | 2,018 | Tiina Lymi | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 30 | Finnish | Finland | The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret. |
| Under the North Star | 2,009 | Timo Koivusalo | Drama, History | 6.4 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War. |
| The Matriarch | 2,007 | Markku Pölönen | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother. |
| The Life of Aleksis Kivi | 2,002 | Jari Halonen | Drama, History | 6.4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all. |
| Super Furball Saves the Future | 2,022 | Joona Tena | Family, Adventure | 6.3 | 53 | Finnish | Finland | To save the world, Super Furball has to save the bees. In order to do so, the heroic guinea pig has to redeem the biggest bully in school. |
| Kummeli Kultakuume | 1,997 | Matti Grönberg | Comedy | 6.3 | 43 | Finnish | Finland | Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters. |
| Forbidden Fruit | 2,009 | Dome Karukoski | Drama | 6.3 | 34 | Finnish | Finland | Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job. |
| Void | 2,018 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it. |
| Last Cowboy Standing | 2,009 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Finnish | Germany | In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. |
| Stars Above | 2,012 | Saara Cantell | Drama, Romance, History | 6.3 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla – each lives in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30 and 40. This deep and beautiful, yet humorous film pictures the encounters between people and the possibilities for choice. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our ability to hold on to our dreams? What are those things which we pass on from one generation to the next? What changes, what remains the same? And to what extent do mothers´ choices, let alone their unspoken secrets, affect their daughters´ lives? |
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | 2,010 | Jalmari Helander | Fantasy, Horror | 6.2 | 651 | Finnish | Finland | Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed… |
| Hatching | 2,022 | Hanna Bergholm | Horror, Fantasy, Drama | 6.2 | 477 | Finnish | Belgium | 12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief. |
| Sauna | 2,008 | Antti-Jussi Annila | Horror | 6.2 | 127 | Finnish | Czech Republic | It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians. |
| The Tough Ones | 1,999 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Crime | 6.2 | 47 | Finnish | Finland | The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail. |
| Beauty and the Bastard | 2,005 | Dome Karukoski | Music, Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 40 | Finnish | Finland | Even though Nelli's parents have the perfect career and man planned for her, she dreams of becoming a singer. In a studio, she meets a young hip hop artist Sune and asks him to help her make a demo tape. |
| For the Matches | 1,980 | Risto Orko | Comedy, Adventure, History | 6.2 | 38 | Finnish | Finland | In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunat... |
| The Worthless | 1,982 | Mika Kaurismäki | Crime, Drama | 6.2 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit. |
| Laugh or Die | 2,018 | Heikki Kujanpää | Drama, History, War | 6.2 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. Instead, they will be given a new trial. Preparing a comedy in the horrible circumstances, in the midst of hunger and death, seems quite an overwhelming task. Only a handful of real actors are still alive, the rest of the troupe consists of stagehands. Parikka has to use all his inventive skills to be able to produce something funny. |
| The Visitor | 2,008 | J-P Valkeapää | Drama | 6.2 | 20 | Finnish | Estonia | A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge. |
| The Land of Happiness | 1,993 | Markku Pölönen | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he scores the hottest girl in the village. A hot romance flares up between Tenho and the sensuous milkmaid Virva, accompanied by popular Finnish tango tunes. |
| Helene | 2,020 | Antti J. Jokinen | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 17 | Finnish | Estonia | Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He becomes Helen's trusted and lover. |
| Above Dark Waters | 2,013 | Peter Franzén | Drama | 6.2 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear. |
| The Rose of the Rascal | 2,001 | Timo Koivusalo | Drama, Music | 6.2 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer. |
| Kikka! | 2,022 | Anna Paavilainen | Drama, Music | 6.2 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists. |
| Vesku from Finland | 2,010 | Mika Kaurismäki | Documentary | 6.2 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | "Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums. |
| Home Sweet Home | 2,011 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones. |
| The Interrogation | 2,009 | Jörn Donner | Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics. |
| Lapin kullan kimallus | 1,999 | Åke Lindman | Drama, History | 6.2 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for. |
| A Moment in the Reeds | 2,018 | Mikko Mäkelä | Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 87 | Finnish | Finland | Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria. |
| Vares: Private Eye | 2,004 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Crime, Action | 6.1 | 44 | Finnish | Finland | On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions. |
| Kummeli Stories | 1,995 | Matti Grönberg | Comedy | 6.1 | 29 | Finnish | Finland | The war between Luxembourg and Finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team, gay couple's fishing trip, two hoodlums' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others. |
| Lost Boys | 2,020 | Joonas Neuvonen | Documentary | 6.1 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | Lost Boys tells the true, undisguised story of what happened ten years ago, after group of friends continued their eternal afterparty following the success of their movie premiere, Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland, which depicted group of drug users from Rovaniemi, Finland. The partying ends when friends of Joonas goes missing and Jani dies violently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Joonas takes his camera and sets out to find out what happened to his friend. Was it all about drugs, women and money or do the traces lead somewhere deeper? |
| 2 Nights Till Morning | 2,016 | Mikko Kuparinen | Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | A one-night stand between two strangers without a mutual language in a foreign country takes an unexpected turn when an ash cloud from a volcano prevents all flights from taking off. |
| Aalto | 2,020 | Virpi Suutari | Documentary | 6.1 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design, Aino and Alvar Aalto gave their signature to iconic Scandic design. The first cinematic portrait of their life love story is an enchanting journey of their creations and influence around the world. |
| Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä | 1,984 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 6.1 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden. |
| Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? | 2,012 | Selma Vilhunen | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.1 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself. |
| The Witch | 1,952 | Roland af Hällström | Horror, Fantasy | 6.1 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appear... |
| The Liar | 1,981 | Mika Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses. |
| Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro | 1,975 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 6.1 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany. |
| Family Time | 2,023 | Tia Kouvo | Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral. |
| Invisible Hero | 2,021 | Juha Wuolijoki | Family, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.1 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | 10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well. |
| East of Sweden | 2,018 | Simo Halinen | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Three men meet on a night train on the border of Finland and Sweden. All three are concealing something, and a sudden confrontation amongst them leads to disastrous consequences, with two of them being forced to make a joint decision. |
| Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble | 2,012 | Kari Juusonen | Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy | 6 | 62 | Finnish | Denmark | Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother. |
| Screwed | 2,018 | Nils-Erik Ekblom | Romance, Drama | 6 | 37 | Finnish | Finland | Seventeen-year-olds Miku and Elias find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside. |
| They Have Escaped | 2,014 | J-P Valkeapää | Drama | 6 | 31 | Finnish | Netherlands | Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home. |
| Raid | 2,003 | Tapio Piirainen | Crime, Thriller, Action | 6 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye. |
| My Stuff | 2,013 | Petri Luukkainen | Documentary | 6 | 30 | Finnish | Finland | Twentysomething Petri got over a break-up by pushing his credit card limit in order to buy stuff. Still, after three years, the anxiety remains, so all things must go into a storage container. For a year, Petri allows himself to retrieve only one item per day. New life begins naked next to a radiator. |
| Tears of April | 2,008 | Aku Louhimies | Romance, Drama, War | 6 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A lieutenant is enforced into a homosexual relationship with his commanding officer to save the Red female with whom he is infatuated. |
| One-Way Ticket to Mombasa | 2,002 | Hannu Tuomainen | Drama, Comedy | 6 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Pete loses his consciousness while playing in a pop band. The diagnosis is harsh and the doctor cannot say for sure whether Pete will celebrate his 18th birthday. One night, encouraged by the vodka on Jusa's 18th birthday, Pete confesses his love to Kata, his dream girl. Together with Jusa, they go to Lapland where Kata has her summer job. In Jusa's wild company, Pete experiences something which he never felt before as they decide to take a trip to Mombasa via Lapland. |
| Carnage | 2,024 | Esa Jussila | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | When an underground marketplace of illegal activities is besieged by an army of bloodthirsty assassins, a ragtag group of criminals must band together to fight for survival. |
| Bad Family | 2,010 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Drama | 6 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children. |
| Vares: The Sheriff | 2,015 | Hannu Salonen | Crime | 6 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is hired to investigate these homicides. Cable Wires take Varesta towards Turku underworld dominant invisible godfather, sheriff. Sheriff is the man whom nobody knows and we do not discuss. Vares drifts dangerously close to the "jury", the secret underworld lord clubs, the members of the human spirit is a cheap commodity. Rummaging through the case Vares get too close to the truth. |
| Fucking Bunnies | 2,017 | Teemu Niukkanen | Comedy | 6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Raimo’s comfortable, middle-class bubble is burst when a Satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door. |
| People in the Summer Night | 1,948 | Valentin Vaala | Drama | 6 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover. New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life. |
| On the Road to Emmaus | 2,001 | Markku Pölönen | Comedy, Music | 6 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic. |
| Little Siberia | 2,025 | Dome Karukoski | Comedy, Thriller, Drama | 5.9 | 70 | Finnish | Finland | A pastor's faith turns upside down when a meteorite lands in his small Finnish town, its impact stirring up chaos and criminal intentions. |
| Devil's Bride | 2,016 | Saara Cantell | Drama, History | 5.9 | 59 | Finnish | Latvia | Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s. |
| The Wait | 2,022 | Aku Louhimies | Romance, Drama | 5.9 | 55 | Finnish | Finland | The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend arrives at the island. |
| Ambush | 1,999 | Olli Saarela | Drama, War | 5.9 | 42 | Finnish | Finland | It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions. |
| Upswing | 2,003 | Johanna Vuoksenmaa | Comedy | 5.9 | 37 | Finnish | Finland | Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki. |
| Road North | 2,012 | Mika Kaurismäki | Drama, Comedy | 5.9 | 34 | Finnish | Finland | A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again. |
| 1944 The Final Defence | 2,007 | Åke Lindman | War, Drama, History | 5.9 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories. |
| The Home of Dark Butterflies | 2,008 | Dome Karukoski | Drama | 5.9 | 29 | Finnish | Finland | Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be. |
| The Violin Player | 2,018 | Paavo Westerberg | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | A celebrated violin player, Karin, has to end her stellar career after a car accident makes her fingers stop working their magic. She starts teaching students who are twenty years younger than her, only to find herself falling in love with Antti, one of her students. They are not an easy match, both being passionate about the music and overly ambitious about their careers. |
| The Grump: In Search of an Escort | 2,022 | Mika Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be scrapped. A new, modern vehicle is no match for quality and the nearest Escort, a 1972 model, can be found in Germany. When the Grumps's sons refuse to help, he must travel to Germany alone. |
| The Look of a Killer | 2,016 | Lauri Nurkse | Crime, Thriller | 5.9 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei. |
| Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro | 1,976 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.9 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop. |
| Heavy Metal | 2,007 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama | 5.9 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | The end of the 80s, a village in the middle of Finland. 15-year-old Hevari, the only long-haired boy in town, is the coolest guy in the world - at least according to Kake from next door. No-one else seems to agree. Short-tempered Hevari is used to being the laughing stock among the gang and the girls. But when the Friday night comes and there's a disco at the community hall, it's time to go again. Maybe tonight everything will be different. |
| Eden | 2,020 | Ulla Heikkilä | Drama | 5.9 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest. |
| The Handcuff King | 2,002 | Arto Koskinen | Drama, Comedy | 5.9 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang. |
| Gotta Run! | 1,982 | Mikko Niskanen | Drama | 5.9 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm but wants to break free from his father who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies and, together with drifter Late, take a job in a steel mill in southern Finland. |
| The Flight Before Christmas | 2,008 | Michael Hegner | Animation, Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 5.8 | 154 | Finnish | Belgium | A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel. |
| Rocky VI | 1,986 | Aki Kaurismäki | Comedy, Music | 5.8 | 82 | Finnish | Finland | Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses. |
| Naked Harbour | 2,012 | Aku Louhimies | Drama | 5.8 | 49 | Finnish | Finland | In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt. |
| Supercool | 2,021 | Teppo Airaksinen | Comedy, Action | 5.8 | 46 | Finnish | Finland | Best friends, Neil and Gilbert start their senior year of high school with high hopes and aspirations. Neil has always fantasized about being cool enough to date his long time crush and Gilbert has always dreamed of being a social media super star. After what is, by all accounts, a very disappointing and embarrassing first day in school, Neil makes a magical wish to be cool just at the magical moment when the clock strikes 11:11. The next morning, Neil wakes up to a reality that is straight from the comics of his dreams. |
| Moomins on the Riviera | 2,014 | Xavier Picard | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 42 | Finnish | France | The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test. |
| Pearls and Pigs | 2,003 | Perttu Leppä | Comedy | 5.8 | 38 | Finnish | Finland | When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. |
| The Midwife | 2,015 | Antti J. Jokinen | Drama, Romance, War | 5.8 | 36 | Finnish | Finland | Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war. |
| 8-Ball | 2,013 | Aku Louhimies | Drama, Crime | 5.8 | 36 | Finnish | Finland | 8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her. |
| Concrete Night | 2,013 | Pirjo Honkasalo | Drama | 5.8 | 35 | Finnish | Finland | A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother. |
| 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage | 2,013 | Johanna Vuoksenmaa | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 | 34 | Finnish | Finland | The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis. |
| Princess | 2,010 | Arto Halonen | Drama | 5.8 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945. |
| Vares: The Kiss of Evil | 2,011 | Anders Engström | Crime, Action | 5.8 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case. |
| The Last Wedding | 1,995 | Markku Pölönen | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day. |
| Skin, Skin | 1,966 | Mikko Niskanen | Drama | 5.8 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki. |
| Almost 18 | 2,012 | Maarit Lalli | Drama | 5.8 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents. |
| Miss Blue Jeans | 2,012 | Matti Kinnunen | Comedy, Drama, Music | 5.8 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician. |
| Backwood Philosopher | 2,009 | Kari Väänänen | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery. |
| Gold Digger | 2,016 | Ville Jankeri | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Marja (Minka Kuustonen) is a blogger. Olavi is one of the richest men in the country. She might be able to save her blog if she dates him, but what if she falls for him for real? |
| The River | 2,001 | Jarmo Lampela | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality. |
| The Year of the Wolf | 2,007 | Olli Saarela | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works." |
| Plainlands | 1,988 | Pekka Parikka | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own. |
| Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle | 1,986 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this. |
| The Scarlet Dove | 1,961 | Matti Kassila | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect. |
| Poliisin poika | 1,998 | Tapio Piirainen | Comedy, Crime, TV Movie | 5.8 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver. |
| Star Boys | 2,017 | Visa Koiso-Kanttila | Drama, Family | 5.8 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland. |
| Eternal Flame of Gehenna | 2,011 | Sami Kettunen | Documentary | 5.8 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Finnish black metal is known for its extreme views and merciless no-compromise approach. As a music genre, black metal often has a strong ideological aspect. Satanic values, glorification of evil and unsolidarity, as well as pure hatred towards Christian and multicultural society, are more than just childish rebellion for the people involved. Eternal Flame of Gehenna examines the phenomena through interviewing the key figures of the moment. It gives a face to a subculture seen as a threat to common safety by Finnish Security Intelligence. In this movie, one will find out about the thoughts of a grave violator, grave robber, and hear what they feel when an old wooden church is burning down. Eternal Flame of Gehenna is also a view on the history and the current state of Finnish black metal, featuring bands like Azaghal, Azazel, Barathrum, Beherit, Enochian Crescent, Goatmoon, Horna, Satanic Warmaster etc. |
| Promise | 2,005 | Ilkka Vanne | Drama, War | 5.8 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women. |
| Farewell, Mr. President | 1,987 | Matti Kassila | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.8 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president. |
| Four Little Adults | 2,023 | Selma Vilhunen | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative. |
| Umur | 2,002 | Kai Lehtinen | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Umur tells a love story strongly connected to the nature of Lapland, in which Poika, a young border guard played with sensitivity by Heikki Rantanen, falls passionately in love with the mysterious Lapland beauty Umuri. |
| Ulvova mylläri | 1,982 | Jaakko Pakkasvirta | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse. |
| Bad Boys: A True Story | 2,003 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 5.7 | 48 | Finnish | Finland | The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. |
| Man's Job | 2,007 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Drama | 5.7 | 38 | Finnish | Finland | Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside. |
| The Moonlight Sonata | 1,988 | Olli Soinio | Horror, Comedy | 5.7 | 28 | Finnish | Finland | A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties. |
| Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men | 2,012 | Anders Engström | Crime, Action | 5.7 | 26 | Finnish | Finland | The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation. |
| Once Upon a Time in the North | 2,012 | JP Siili | Drama | 5.7 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | 19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose. |
| Uuno Epsanjassa | 1,985 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.7 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun. |
| Bad Luck Love | 2,000 | Olli Saarela | Drama, Crime | 5.7 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy. |
| Love and Fury | 2,016 | Alli Haapasalo | Drama | 5.7 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness. |
| Ragged Life of Juice Leskinen | 2,018 | Teppo Airaksinen | Drama, Music | 5.7 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Juice Leskinen was a singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, folk artist – the father figure of Finnish rock lyrics. The most important factor of Juice's life was his love life. Everything else – booze, lyrics and fame – came as its by-product. The movie tells the story of love professional, of a man who felt deeply and extremely sensitively, but wounded many people, including himself. |
| Goodbye, Trainmen | 1,992 | Kari Paljakka | Drama | 5.7 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both find themselves searching for their place in the world. |
| Moomins and the Comet Chase | 2,010 | Maria Lindberg | Animation, Adventure, Family | 5.7 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds. |
| The Potato Venture | 2,020 | Joona Tena | Comedy | 5.7 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions. |
| King of Hearts | 2,019 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010. |
| Three Wise Men | 2,008 | Mika Kaurismäki | Drama | 5.7 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret. |
| Tommy and the Wildcat | 1,998 | Raimo O. Niemi | Adventure, Drama, Family | 5.7 | 13 | Finnish | Denmark | Twelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small Lapp village - the childhood home of his mother, who has recently died. The village is close to the northernmost wildlife reserve in the world, where Tommy's father will be working on a project to release a captive lynx into the wild. The boy gradually falls under the spell of his new surroundings, and discovers that his mother was involved in protecting the local lynx, and, when his father's project fails, and the lynx is about to be sold, he decides to set it free himself. A dramatic series of events ensues, and Tommy, through his brave actions, regains the trust and respect of his family and the village. |
| The Song of the Scarlet Flower | 1,938 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama | 5.7 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger. |
| Simo Times Three | 2,012 | Teemu Nikki | Comedy | 5.7 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A caper comedy about two friends, Simo and Lasse, who try to earn their living as burglars. But now there's also Baby Simo. |
| Attack on Finland | 2,021 | Aku Louhimies | Action, Thriller | 5.6 | 75 | Finnish | Estonia | The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security. |
| V2: Dead Angel | 2,007 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Crime, Action | 5.6 | 43 | Finnish | Finland | The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion. |
| Lapland Odyssey 2 | 2,015 | Teppo Airaksinen | Comedy | 5.6 | 35 | Finnish | Finland | It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own. |
| Stupid Young Heart | 2,018 | Selma Vilhunen | Drama | 5.6 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists. |
| The Hijack That Went South | 2,013 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Thriller, Crime | 5.6 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story. |
| Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei | 1,975 | Risto Jarva | Comedy, Romance | 5.6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers. |
| Fuck Off! Images from Finland | 1,971 | Erkki Seiro | Documentary | 5.6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | F*** Off! shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing country/welfare state Finland. It is a cinematic parallel to Donner's New Book of Our Land (1967). The travelogue focuses especially on Finland's outsiders, low-paid workers and the unemployed. In desolate provinces, the inhabitants of a cold and barren country either humbly abide their fate, choose to move to Sweden or take refuge in excessive drinking. These images are accompanied by protest songs based on Donner's own prose and the lyrics of poet Jarkko Laine. Perkele is embodied in big business and the political elite.The jagged (anti)aesthetics of the film correspond to the underground movement and the radical politics of the time. The camera agilely penetrates everyday life. Though opposed to censorship, Fuck Off! itself transgresses the boundaries of privacy. |
| Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika | 1,970 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy, Western | 5.6 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Speedy Gonzales arrives in a small village in New York to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Moses, with the help of the lively Rita. In the village, they are met by Hämeen Hitain, Manolito, Bat Mastersson, and Clyde, among others, with whom Speedy must compete. His curiosity ultimately leads him to become the target of a manhunt. |
| Off the Map | 2,016 | Tiina Lymi | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.6 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying to make it to her grandmothers house. |
| Mosku: The Last of His Kind | 2,003 | Tapio Suominen | History, Drama | 5.6 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard. |
| Hit Big | 2,022 | J-P Valkeapää | Crime, Comedy, Drama | 5.6 | 10 | Finnish | Estonia | Marjaleena, a 60-year-old drunk ex-beauty pageant, runs a low end bar in Spain’s Costa del Sol. She discovers that her criminal husband Worm is about to get out of jail and is planning a dream life with his new cell-mate lover. Together with an uncanny crew Marjaleena sets off to get her share of her husbands millions. |
| Rendel | 2,017 | Jesse Haaja | Action, Fantasy, Crime | 5.5 | 260 | Finnish | Finland | Rendel, a masked superhero, becomes blinded by his desire for revenge against a sinister criminal organization. |
| Matti: Hell Is for Heroes | 2,006 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Comedy | 5.5 | 44 | Finnish | Finland | Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on. |
| The Woodcutter Story | 2,022 | Mikko Myllylahti | Drama, Comedy, Mystery | 5.5 | 33 | Finnish | Denmark | An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp. |
| The House of Branching Love | 2,009 | Mika Kaurismäki | Comedy, Drama | 5.5 | 30 | Finnish | Finland | A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer. |
| Aurora | 2,019 | Miia Tervo | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 28 | Finnish | Finland | A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies. |
| Open Up to Me | 2,013 | Simo Halinen | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define. |
| Young Love | 2,001 | Arto Lehkamo | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 22 | Finnish | Denmark | Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest. |
| Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit | 1,979 | Spede Pasanen | Comedy | 5.5 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä. |
| Uuno Turhapuro | 1,973 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.5 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro is a lazy man who abhors manual labor, but has the ability to talk himself out of any sticky situation, usually with his long-suffering wife. In this, his first feature film appearance, Uuno embarrasses his wife in public, tricks his best friend, accidentally goes on a diet, and becomes a famous violinist. |
| Badding | 2,000 | Markku Pölönen | Drama | 5.5 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer. |
| Any Day Now | 2,020 | Hamy Ramezan | Drama | 5.5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is about to enter an entirely new school, junior high. The Mehdipours use their last chance to appeal but continue their everyday lives, fuelled by their exceptionally positive outlook and attitude. |
| Body of Water | 2,011 | Joona Tena | Thriller, Drama | 5.5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake. |
| Loma | 1,976 | Risto Jarva | Comedy | 5.5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria. |
| The Leaning Tower | 2,006 | Timo Koivusalo | Drama, Comedy | 5.5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments. |
| Man and a Baby | 2,017 | Marja Pyykkö | Comedy | 5.5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about. |
| The Collector | 1,997 | Auli Mantila | Drama, Thriller | 5.5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again. |
| Milka: A Film About Taboos | 1,980 | Rauni Mollberg | Drama | 5.5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end. |
| Scarlet Week | 1,954 | Matti Kassila | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend. |
| Absolution | 2,015 | Petri Kotwica | Thriller, Drama | 5.5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one hand and another in his stomach - the birth has started ahead of schedule. Surprisingly, the vehicle collides with something. Kiia fright and brakes, the car swerves before coming to a stop. Lauri rises to the car to check the situation and says he did not see anything. Kiia give birth to a healthy child in the hospital and befriends Hannah with. Hanna's husband has been in the same region hit by a car and drove onto the driver fled from the scene. |
| Trench Road | 2,004 | Veikko Aaltonen | Drama | 5.5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house. |
| Lakeuden kutsu | 2,000 | Ilkka Vanne | Drama | 5.5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence? |
| Pähkähullu Suomi | 1,967 | Jukka Virtanen | Comedy | 5.5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves. |
| Rakkauden risti | 1,946 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting. In English known as Cross of Love. |
| Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit | 1,944 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama | 5.5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Once a naïve, love-struck girl now forsaken by her lover, Maija leaves her island home to work as a housemaid in the city, only to be seduced by her employer's son Erkki, then forced to leave the household in order to avoid the scandal of a pregnancy. With few prospects for a decent job, Maija is reduced to working as a bar hostess to make ends meet, ever fending off the advances of disreputable clients, even as she continues to hold out hope for an enduring love that will redeem her from her fate. |
| The Knocking | 2,023 | Joonas Pajunen | Horror, Thriller | 5.4 | 39 | Finnish | Estonia | Three adult siblings return to their childhood home, where their parents were allegedly murdered many years ago. Their plan is to get the house and estate ready to be sold but an evil force tries to prevent them from doing so. |
| Vares: Garter Snake | 2,011 | Lauri Törhönen | Crime, Action, Drama, Mystery | 5.4 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake. |
| Towards the Day of Doom | 2,014 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Science Fiction, Comedy | 5.4 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences. |
| Ganes | 2,007 | JP Siili | Drama, Music | 5.4 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes. |
| A Patriotic Man | 2,013 | Arto Halonen | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team. |
| Fanatics | 2,012 | Teppo Airaksinen | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to notice that his dream-girl supports the wrong football team. Now he has to befriend the enemy or forget the girl he loves. |
| Vodkaa, komisario Palmu | 1,969 | Matti Kassila | Comedy, Crime | 5.4 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder. |
| Rumble | 2,002 | Jani Volanen | Adventure, Comedy | 5.4 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the Finnish countryside in a red Cadillac. The film centers on the bromance of middle-aged men, booze, and pizza, which they decide to order to their moving car. Not even a Russian truck driver, Stakes' alcohol recommendations, or the police can stop this gang. |
| Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva | 1,990 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.4 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so. |
| One Half of Me | 2,020 | Tuukka Temonen | Drama | 5.4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Jaana is a restaurant owner and mother of two, who spends her free time riding. Jaana lives with her charismatic, but short-tempered partner Marko. Jaana's life changes in a flash when she becomes paralyzed in a serious accident. |
| If You Love | 2,010 | Neil Hardwick | Drama, Romance | 5.4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed. |
| On Thin Ice | 2,022 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama | 5.4 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, paranoia and self-loathing over old wrongs eventually lead to a traffic accident. Jarna can no longer escape, his pace slows and he is on the verge of giving up. The moment has come when a near-lifetime of running must come to an end. |
| Maria's Paradise | 2,019 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama, History | 5.4 | 10 | Finnish | Estonia | A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her. |
| The Painting Sellers | 2,010 | Juho Kuosmanen | Drama | 5.4 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. Moreover there is a problem: how to cope with an emerging friendship? |
| Lake Bodom | 2,016 | Taneli Mustonen | Horror | 5.3 | 298 | Finnish | Estonia | Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery. |
| FC Venus | 2,005 | Joona Tena | Comedy, Romance | 5.3 | 42 | Finnish | Finland | Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) would play against FC HeMan. If the women's team wins, the men will have to give up football, and if the men's team wins, the women will never complain about their hobby. |
| Priest of Evil | 2,010 | Olli Saarela | Thriller, Mystery | 5.3 | 34 | Finnish | Finland | Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer. |
| Vares: The Girls of April | 2,011 | Lauri Törhönen | Crime, Action | 5.3 | 29 | Finnish | Finland | Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls. |
| Games People Play | 2,020 | Jenni Toivoniemi | Drama, Comedy | 5.3 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | Group of old friends gather in a summer villa to celebrate a surprise birthday party for Mitzi, who is the dramatic focal point of the group. The weekend starts ominously when Mitzi does not respond well to the surprise party. It turns out that Mitzi has just filed for divorce and has been looking forward to a peaceful weekend. The tense situation takes a new turn when Mitzi's best friend brings her new boyfriend for a visit, who happens to be a Swedish film star. Familiar surroundings and the old rituals get to the core of the group and make them forget their adulthood. Revelations, not meant to harm the balance, make them reassess their past as well as their present. |
| Memory of Water | 2,022 | Saara Saarela | Fantasy, Thriller, Science Fiction | 5.3 | 20 | Finnish | Estonia | Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true. |
| Romanovin kivet | 1,993 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Action, Crime | 5.3 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter. |
| Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara | 2,017 | Hannaleena Hauru | Comedy, Romance | 5.3 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties. |
| Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon | 1,977 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 5.3 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law. |
| Frozen City | 2,006 | Aku Louhimies | Drama | 5.3 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core. |
| Täältä tullaan, elämä! | 1,980 | Tapio Suominen | Drama, Romance | 5.3 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically. |
| The Renovation | 2,020 | Taneli Mustonen | Comedy | 5.3 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | A couple inherit a 'house of their dreams' and for a while they think they got lucky, but soon find themselves in the middle of a renovation nightmare. |
| The Human Part | 2,018 | Juha Lehtola | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 | 13 | Finnish | Denmark | Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together. |
| Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa | 1,957 | Armand Lohikoski | Comedy | 5.3 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics. |
| Vares: Tango of Darkness | 2,012 | Lauri Törhönen | Crime, Drama | 5.2 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough… |
| Love and Other Troubles | 2,012 | Samuli Valkama | Comedy, Romance | 5.2 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher. |
| Run Sister Run! | 2,010 | Marja Pyykkö | Drama | 5.2 | 21 | Finnish | Finland | Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her to take a leap, shake the rules and leave princess dreams behind. These two will have fun together, but not only good times |
| Ladies of Steel | 2,020 | Pamela Tola | Drama, Comedy | 5.2 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s? |
| Lapland Odyssey 3 | 2,017 | Tiina Lymi | Comedy, Adventure | 5.2 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing. |
| Fucking with Nobody | 2,021 | Hannaleena Hauru | Comedy | 5.2 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Hanna teams up with her sister and counterculture friends to create a parody romance on Instagram between herself and young actor Ekku. Hanna starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the public, only to find herself tangled up in the unresolved past with her “you were never my boyfriend” friend Lasse, who also happens to be the real-life co-writer and cinematographer of Fucking with Nobody. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director Hanna. |
| Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre | 2,018 | Ilja Rautsi | Horror, Comedy | 5.2 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks. |
| The Storage | 2,011 | Taru Mäkelä | Comedy | 5.2 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise. |
| Things We Do for Love | 2,013 | Matti Ijäs | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.2 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness. |
| Fire-Eater | 1,998 | Pirjo Honkasalo | Drama | 5.2 | 13 | Finnish | Sweden | The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care o... |
| Kuuma kissa? | 1,968 | Erkko Kivikoski | Drama, Romance | 5.2 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally. |
| Sixtynine | 1,969 | Jörn Donner | Drama | 5.2 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children. |
| Suburban Virgin | 2,003 | Hanna Maylett | Drama | 5.2 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Two teenage girls, one of them desperate to lose her virginity, take a hitchhiking road trip. |
| Witness the Fitness | 2,022 | Aleksi Delikouras | Comedy | 5.2 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Kerttu is assigned to a gym due to back problems, where it turns out she is a genetic super-talent. Suddenly, she finds herself aiming for an incredible goal: a fitness championship. She is aided by a former genetic prodigy, journeyman bodybuilder Vili, who has lost his purpose in life. The mismatched duo have a lot to learn from each other. Before Kerttu can get into shape for the competition and Vili back on the road to life, both must grow as people and overcome steep prejudices. |
| Täydellinen joulu | 2,019 | Taru Mäkelä | Comedy | 5.2 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Woman whom have kids with 4 different guys invites her ex-husbands and kids to Christmas party. |
| Viimeinen savotta | 1,977 | Edvin Laine | Drama | 5.2 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol. |
| Reunion | 2,015 | Taneli Mustonen | Comedy | 5.1 | 41 | Finnish | Finland | Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion. |
| Black Ice | 2,007 | Petri Kotwica | Drama, Thriller | 5.1 | 39 | Finnish | Finland | Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover. |
| The Border | 2,007 | Lauri Törhönen | Drama, Romance, History | 5.1 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse. |
| Producing Adults | 2,004 | Aleksi Salmenperä | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.1 | 25 | Finnish | Finland | Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor. |
| Flowers of Evil | 2,016 | Antti J. Jokinen | Drama, Crime | 5.1 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious. |
| Moomins and the Winter Wonderland | 2,017 | Jakub Wroński | Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy | 5.1 | 19 | Finnish | Poland | This winter is extraordinary; Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of hibernating as usually. And winters are certainly totally different than he had imagined. Strangest creatures wander amidst the snowdrifts; midwinter darkness surrounds the Moominvalley, and on top of that, an eccentric guest is soon to appear. This guest requires many measures, and is called Christmas, Hemulen tells to a surprised Moomintroll. |
| Wonderland | 2,017 | Inari Niemi | Comedy, Drama | 5.1 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford. |
| Rat King | 2,012 | Petri Kotwica | Thriller | 5.1 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | 18 year old Juri is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and pushes his girlfriend to the brink of leaving him. He decides to quit, but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki, who - when they meet for the first time - turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki has a web-address tattooed on his arm and when Juri types it into his computer, he gets drawn into a curious game that grants him the username RAT KING. As the game becomes increasingly dangerous, Niki vows to help Juri get through it. But the game triggers a series of life-threatening events and pretty soon Juri realizes that he is gaming for his life. |
| Samurai Rauni | 2,016 | Mika Rättö | Comedy, Drama | 5.1 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Villagers are afraid of Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, who keeps them on their toes every day. When someone places a bounty on Rauni's head, he goes after this mysterious person. |
| Man Exposed | 2,006 | Aku Louhimies | Drama, Comedy | 5.1 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku. |
| Jackpot 2 | 1,982 | Mika Kaurismäki | Comedy, Science Fiction | 5.1 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine. |
| Headfirst | 2,014 | Antti Heikki Pesonen | Drama, Comedy | 5.1 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare. |
| The Magic Crystal | 2,011 | Antti Haikala | Animation, Adventure, Family | 5.1 | 12 | Finnish | Belgium | A magic crystal causes double the number of gifts Santa can deliver all over the world and this makes for many happy gezinnetjes. His criminal assistant Basil however has a diabolical plan: he wants to steal the crystal so as to gain control over the minds of the children. The brave boy Yotan act to prevent and concocts a plan. |
| Pölhölä | 1,981 | Heikki Kinnunen | Comedy | 5.1 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Masochists are in for a treat when Spede Productions' most vulgar folk farce hits the screen. Created by no fewer than three first-time directors, the film tells the story of the village of Pölhölä, "where people are even more foolish than in Hölmölä." |
| Jade Warrior | 2,006 | Antti-Jussi Annila | Fantasy, Action | 5 | 57 | Finnish | China | Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a man fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in modern Finland. |
| Restless | 2,000 | Aku Louhimies | Drama, Romance | 5 | 54 | Finnish | Finland | Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love. |
| Rally On! | 2,009 | Markku Pölönen | Comedy | 5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan. |
| Lovemilla | 2,015 | Teemu Nikki | Science Fiction, Comedy, Romance | 5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Aimo and Milla live together at her alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place, while saving money to move out. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles, and eventually to turn himself into a robot. Milla doesn't like this new Aimo and leaves him. Aimo's heartache leads him to give up his heart for a metal one, one that doesn't hurt. Milla decides to steal Aimo heart: after all, a woman needs to have a man's heart. Lovemilla is an anarchic comedy trip, a story about love, robots and bodybuilding. |
| Korso | 2,014 | Akseli Tuomivaara | Drama | 5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse. |
| Liian iso keikka | 1,986 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy, Crime | 5 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Nikolai Savitsenko, aka Nig, runs Crimes for You Ltd, whose other employees are Hikka, Pete and Nig's little sister Mandi. While they are planning the heist of the century, robbing a bank's cash transport vehicle, the gang continues with their usual scams. They divert parking fines to the wrong account, one belonging to Inspector Koistinen, arrange a pre-arranged lottery line by bribing the authorities, and break into a political party's secret office to blow up the safe. Inspector Koistinen is in a tight spot. To make matters worse, he is assigned a new partner, Eevariita, who soon figures out that the same gang is behind all the scams. |
| Winning Ticket | 2,018 | Lenka Hellstedt | Drama, Comedy | 5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all? |
| The Women of Niskavuori | 1,938 | Valentin Vaala | Drama, Romance | 5 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher Ilona arrives in the village and causes complications when Aarne falls in love with her. |
| SF-paraati | 1,940 | Yrjö Norta | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical. |
| Valkoiset ruusut | 1,943 | Hannu Leminen | Romance, Drama | 5 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten. |
| Dark Floors | 2,008 | Pete Riski | Fantasy, Horror | 4.9 | 144 | Finnish | Finland | A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters. |
| Body Fat Index of Love | 2,012 | Mikko Kuparinen | Comedy | 4.9 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Stigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn't believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it. |
| Tuftland | 2,018 | Roope Olenius | Horror, Mystery | 4.9 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Headstrong textile student Irina tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä. As Irina begins to get a grip of herself, the harmless and offbeat hillbillies begin to reveal their true nature. |
| Terminator Commando | 2,017 | Ville Lähde | Action, Comedy, Horror | 4.9 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Jake Crusher is a cop from the 80's who gets sucked into a VCR where he becomes Video Cop. |
| Village People | 2,013 | Marja Pyykkö | Comedy | 4.9 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality! |
| Off Key | 2,016 | Lauri Nurkse | Comedy, Drama | 4.9 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned. |
| Black on White | 1,968 | Jörn Donner | Drama | 4.9 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family. |
| Tup akka lakko | 1,980 | Spede Pasanen | Comedy | 4.9 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | 'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is a sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in which doctor Jyrä invented a test-tube-adult who looked exactly like Mutikainen, a mathematician. When the test-tube-adult's body emerged, his voice moved into Mutikainen's body because of the doctor's error. Problems ensue. |
| Levoton veri | 1,946 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama, Romance | 4.9 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Sylvi's child is run over by a bus, prompting her to drink poison. She goes blind in the process, causing her husband to lust after her much younger sister. After undergoing a dangerous operation to regain her sight, she hides her repaired vision behind dark eyeglasses, so she can spy on her sister and husband as they carry on their affair. Known in English as Restless Blood. |
| Vares: Gambling Chip | 2,012 | Lauri Törhönen | Crime, Drama | 4.8 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable |
| Miami | 2,017 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama | 4.8 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their father dies, Anna looks for and finds Angela. The fascinating, high-strung Angela asks the timid Anna to accompany her on tour and, before long, trouble from Angela’s past catches up to them and the sisters’ love is put to the test. |
| Summertime | 2,014 | Inari Niemi | Comedy | 4.8 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | 25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland! |
| Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat | 1,994 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Comedy, Action, Crime | 4.8 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door. |
| Nimby: Not in My Backyard | 2,020 | Teemu Nikki | Comedy, Drama | 4.8 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town. |
| Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi | 1,981 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.8 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage. |
| Time of Roses | 1,969 | Risto Jarva | Science Fiction, Drama | 4.8 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media. |
| Silence | 2,011 | Sakari Kirjavainen | Drama, War | 4.8 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres near enemy lines. Silence is a story of a group of people in a limbo between life and death, in a mental no-man's- land, where heaven and hell, horror and joy, love and fear touch each other. |
| Lampaansyöjät | 1,972 | Seppo Huunonen | Comedy | 4.8 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry. |
| A Mate | 2,008 | Teemu Nikki | Comedy | 4.8 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon… |
| Freakin' Beautiful World | 1,997 | Jarmo Lampela | Drama | 4.8 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | The Helsinki-based teenagers Ippe, Papu and Mia have become entangled in drug circles. Their problems get even worse when violent dealer Kalle starts blackmailing the indebted Ippe. |
| Ricky Rapper | 2,008 | Mari Rantasila | Comedy, Music, Family | 4.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Ricky Rapper is a ten year old boy who lives with his aunt Serena and likes to play drums and rap. His aunt breaks her leg, leading to cousin Fanny moving in to take care of the household. Fanny is very strict and that means no more drums for Ricky. With the help of his downstair neighbor Nelly, Ricky seeks to restore the normal order to the apartment. |
| Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut | 1,969 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | TV studio organizer Mikko Syvärinen becomes the admired comedian K. Ovimikko through a series of mishaps. However, Mikko's popularity wanes when he switches from door comedy to window comedy. His show is taken off the air, his girlfriend leaves him, and he loses his apartment. Once again, Mikko sets out to rebuild his TV career by becoming a producer again. |
| Portraits of Women | 1,970 | Jörn Donner | Comedy, Drama | 4.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast. |
| Onnenpeli | 1,965 | Risto Jarva | Drama, Comedy | 4.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena. |
| Sensuela | 1,973 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama, Romance | 4.7 | 22 | Finnish | Finland | Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During World War II, Laila rescues a crashed German fighter pilot, Hans, and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to the capital, Helsinki, to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father, Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila, and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral. |
| Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti | 1,992 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.7 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom. |
| No Thank You | 2,014 | Samuli Valkama | Drama, Comedy | 4.7 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain. |
| Playing Solo | 2,007 | Lauri Nurkse | Comedy, Romance | 4.7 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions. |
| The Good Son | 2,011 | Zaida Bergroth | Drama | 4.7 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality. |
| Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä | 1,954 | Armand Lohikoski | Comedy | 4.7 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait. |
| Hella W | 2,011 | Juha Wuolijoki | Drama, History | 4.7 | 12 | Finnish | Estonia | The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work. |
| Other Girls | 2,015 | Esa Illi | Drama | 4.7 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Other Girls tells the story of four young girls nearing graduation, all of them struggling with various issues. |
| Shades of Happiness | 2,005 | Claes Olsson | Drama | 4.7 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Story about human relationships, love and forgiveness. |
| Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra | 1,991 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.7 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland. |
| The Day the Earth Froze | 1,959 | Aleksandr Ptushko | Adventure, Fantasy | 4.6 | 27 | Finnish | Finland | Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness. |
| Reunion 2: The Bachelor Party | 2,016 | Taneli Mustonen | Comedy | 4.6 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing. Niklas and Antti decide to throw Tuomas the bachelor party of all times – but things don’t always turn out as planned – and the dudes end up in the funeral service of their old classmate. |
| Hustlers | 2,010 | Lauri Nurkse | Comedy, Drama | 4.6 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst. |
| Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin | 1,983 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.6 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them. |
| Reunion 3: Singles Cruise | 2,021 | Renny Harlin | Comedy | 4.6 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise. |
| Land of Love | 2,003 | Ilkka Vanne | Comedy, Romance | 4.6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love. |
| Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni | 1,994 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.6 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events. |
| Honeybunnies | 2,017 | Maarit Lalli | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 4.6 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker. |
| Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina | 1,959 | Armand Lohikoski | Comedy | 4.6 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom. |
| Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä | 1,955 | Armand Lohikoski | Comedy | 4.6 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas. |
| Lapua 1976 | 2,023 | Toni Kurkimäki | Drama | 4.6 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | On April 13th 1976, a devastating munitions factory accident shook the town of Lapua, Finland. Hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder ignited, causing an explosion that took the lives of 40 workers. Lapua 1976 tells a story of love, life, perseverance, grief and hope in the face of unbelievable calamity. |
| Kun Hunttalan Matti Suomen osti | 1,984 | Markku Onttonen | Comedy | 4.6 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Matti Hunttala is a businessman who buys, sells, exchanges, and steals—whatever best suits his plans. The men of Hukansalmi municipality do not suspect Hunttala's grand promises. Business representative Koistinen, municipal manager Kiiskinen, and bank manager Ruotsalainen believe they have met someone who can boost the municipality's poor economy and factory projects. Hunttala buys Hukanharju from the municipality for free, promising to build factories there to create jobs for the municipality, but Hunttala sells the ridge to the gravel magnate and flees Hukansalmi himself. |
| The Subtenant | 2,008 | Matti Grönberg | Comedy | 4.5 | 23 | Finnish | Finland | A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships. |
| The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories | 2,013 | Timo Koivusalo | Comedy, Music | 4.5 | 22 | Finnish | Finland | The movie is about the Lokomo laborer, and group of friends that dreams come true and a thirst for fast-paced life that take decades. |
| Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha | 2,000 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.5 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide. |
| Lovers & Leavers | 2,002 | Aku Louhimies | Drama, Romance | 4.5 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams? |
| The South | 2,000 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Crime, Romance | 4.5 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun. |
| August | 2,011 | Oskari Sipola | Drama | 4.5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into. |
| Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät | 1,992 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.5 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland. |
| 95 | 2,017 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Drama, Comedy, History | 4.5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation. |
| Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers | 1,991 | Olli Soinio | Horror, Comedy | 4.5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | A sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buried revolutionaries. When Arvo drifts to Helsinki and falls into illicit moonshining and wild pursuits of a celebrity, Sulo and their revived mother set out to retrieve him from his urban excesses. |
| The Last Ones | 2,020 | Veiko Õunpuu | Drama, Thriller | 4.5 | 13 | Finnish | Estonia | Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives. |
| Bunny the Killer Thing | 2,015 | Joonas Makkonen | Action, Comedy, Horror | 4.4 | 80 | Finnish | Finland | A group of seven young friends travel to a cabin in the dark woods of Finland for the weekend, where they have the misfortune of encountering a creature that's half-human, half-rabbit. In addition to satisfying its killer instinct, the ferocious creature also needs to satiate another pressing appetite. |
| Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa | 1,982 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.4 | 18 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods. |
| Tits | 2,014 | Teemu Nikki | Drama, Comedy | 4.4 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | Pipsa wants a better life. She is sure that new breasts will help her to achieve it. But where to get the money for the surgery? |
| 8 Days to Premiere | 2,008 | Perttu Leppä | Comedy, Romance | 4.4 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere. |
| Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet | 1,991 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.4 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies. |
| Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti | 1,987 | Spede Pasanen | Comedy | 4.4 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno. |
| Armi Alive! | 2,015 | Jörn Donner | Drama | 4.4 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Armi Ratia is the woman behind the legendary design company Marimekko and a worldwide celebrity. A theatre company has taken on the task of trying to portray the life and work of this complex person. The sets mainly consist of the well-known patterns that we all have grown to love. Armi is a brave, risk-taking businesswoman and her passion for her company repeatedly takes its toll on her employees, finances and family. The company grows while Armi's personal life is shaken by suicide attempts and turbulence. In Armi Alive!, Oscar-nominated film producer and director Jörn Donner portrays a fascinating woman with fervent ideas about the new Finnish man, her company, fabrics and clothes. |
| Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava | 1,997 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.4 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy. |
| Blackout | 2,008 | JP Siili | Thriller, Mystery | 4.4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia. |
| Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy | 1,978 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno's father-in-law is running for president and to avoid embarrassment pressures Uuno to finally get a job, which he does at a hardware store. Meanwhile, a political rival sends a bionic female agent to seduce Uuno in hopes of creating a scandal, and Uuno develops a ploy where he pretends to be his long-lost brother from America. |
| Gloriously Wasted | 2,012 | Lauri Maijala | Comedy | 4.3 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left? |
| My Brother's Keeper | 2,018 | JP Siili | Drama, Music | 4.3 | 16 | Finnish | Finland | The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother. |
| Paradise America | 1,990 | Lauri Törhönen | Drama, Comedy | 4.3 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida. |
| Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä | 1,957 | Armand Lohikoski | Comedy | 4.3 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers. |
| Sixpack | 2,011 | Ville Jankeri | Comedy | 4.2 | 17 | Finnish | Finland | Sixpack is a positive story on the outskirts of society. The story takes place in Helsinki on rock and following the advent of exclusion of the story regarding one of summer days. The film's protagonist, Marshal, is stuck in a shabby home. Lihi and Henninen attract the Marshal out and tired of opposition after the Marshal finds them to spend a hot summer day in the park in the world with amazement. The trio crash -day pass to the young, rutjakkeisiin sense of humor to the police. Day lasts from early morning until the evening the rain to bring sorrow alhoon. Eventually, however, the sun began to rise again it's time to become sensitized and look deep into the eyes of friendship. |
| Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life | 2,004 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 4.2 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story. |
| The Undressing | 1,986 | Lauri Törhönen | Drama | 4.2 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | Minister Korkolainen happens to bump into his ex-girlfriend from years ago. They end up spending the night together, discussing the past and politics. |
| Me and Morrison | 2,001 | Lenka Hellstedt | Romance, Crime, Drama | 4.1 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen |
| Tupla-Uuno | 1,988 | Hannu Seikkula | Comedy | 4.1 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life. |
| Love Records | 2,016 | Aleksi Mäkelä | Music, Comedy, Drama | 4.1 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland. |
| Suolaista ja makeaa | 1,995 | Kaisa Rastimo | Comedy, Romance | 4.1 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve. |
| The Creeps | 2,025 | Marko Mäkilaakso | Horror, Comedy, Action | 4 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | When a mysterious gateway between dimensions unleashes a horde of nasty little creatures into Vuokatti Ski Resort, Zach and his friends’ dream holiday takes a turn for the terrifying. What was supposed to be an epic party—filled with sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and Hollywood legend Christopher Lambert—spirals into pure chaos as the Creeps run wild. Now, Zach must rise to the occasion, battle the pint-sized terrors, and prove that being a hero isn’t so different from the ‘80s movies he worships. |
| Preludes to Ecstasy | 1,961 | T.J. Särkkä | Drama, Romance | 4 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover. |
| Playground | 2,009 | Toni Laine | Drama, Romance | 4 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working. |
| Ski Girls | 2,023 | Marja Pyykkö | Comedy | 4 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Ski Girls tells about four friends who have visited different ski resorts every year since their youth. They call themselves Ski Girls, even though they never ski and can no longer be called girls either. This time they are reunited for Emma's wedding. Emma's fifth wedding, that is. Their friendship will be tested as the other Ski Girls decide to stop Emma from making another mistake by getting married. |
| Bunny the Killer Thing | 2,011 | Joonas Makkonen | Comedy, Horror | 4 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Four youngsters bump into a weird creature, which looks to be half human, half rabbit. This creature is called Bunny the Killer Thing, and it haunts anything which reminds of women's genitals. |
| Akallinen mies | 1,986 | Edvin Laine | Comedy | 4 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | The farmer now has found a wife. |
| Young Gods | 2,003 | JP Siili | Drama, Thriller, Romance | 3.9 | 24 | Finnish | Finland | Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all! |
| Fingerpori | 2,019 | Mikko Kouki | Comedy | 3.9 | 19 | Finnish | Finland | Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla. |
| All Boys | 2,009 | Markku Heikkinen | Documentary | 3.9 | 13 | Finnish | Czech Republic | A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom. |
| Lapland Odyssey 4 | 2,022 | Juha Wuolijoki | Comedy | 3.9 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle. |
| Kreivi | 1,971 | Peter von Bagh | Comedy | 3.9 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed. |
| Swingers | 2,018 | Pamela Tola | Comedy | 3.8 | 10 | Finnish | Finland | A tough crisis comedy on a swing weekend where four different age couples face each other mentally and physically. Everyone has a crisis, either on the surface or hidden, and hence their own reasons to try to save their relationship. The weekend's dress code is with or without a bathrobe, and falling in love and jealousy are forbidden. |
| Addiction | 2,004 | Minna Virtanen | Drama, Romance | 3.6 | 45 | Finnish | Finland | 30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction |
| Onks' Viljoo näkyny? | 1,988 | Hannu Seikkula | Comedy | 3.6 | 12 | Finnish | Finland | The hosts of the television program Oma maa mansikka promise 10 million to anyone who manages to turn the remote village of Taka-Surkee into a popu... |
| Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies | 1,998 | Ere Kokkonen | Comedy | 3.5 | 14 | Finnish | Finland | Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties. |
| Game Over | 2,005 | Pekka Lehto | Crime, Drama | 3.5 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001. |
| Baby Jane | 2,019 | Katja Gauriloff | Drama, Romance | 3.3 | 31 | Finnish | Finland | Jane, a small-town girl, has moved to Helsinki and the world is finally open for her. Passionate and excited, she seeks adventure, all the things she has yearned for so long. Jane gravitates to a gay bar at night, staggers in her nervous state of mind, and suddenly there, right next to her, Jane finds her savior: Piki, the most dashing butch in town. Piki is perfect. Jane is hypnotized by Piki's dark-toned voice. Piki offers her an entire new universe, and even more - dreams. |
| Nightmare | 2,012 | Marko Äijö | Thriller | 3.2 | 20 | Finnish | Finland | Newlywed Peppi (age 21) is about to embark on a honeymoon cruise with her husband and closest friends. The journey starts off in good spirits but then Peppi runs into some old friends who bring back unpleasant memories from her past. Suddenly strange things start to happen on the ship. Members of Peppi´s group begin to disappear. Peppi starts to realize that the disappearances are payback from her past; a drug related death she was a part of. The situation gets gradually worse and even Peppi´s closest friends seem to have motives to hurt her. Who can you trust when you can't trust anyone? |
| Akvaariorakkaus | 1,993 | Claes Olsson | Drama, Romance | 3 | 15 | Finnish | Finland | Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town. |
| The Unhanged | 2,023 | Andrei Alén | Comedy, Western | 3 | 11 | Finnish | Finland | The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity. |
| Ponterosa | 2,001 | Pasi Kemmo | Comedy | 2.9 | 13 | Finnish | Finland | A sleazy sex comedy about a blind man who wants to become a life guard, his friend with a tiny willy, and three beautiful models who all meet at the sloppy camping ground run by a homophobic manager |
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