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- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsSamuli VauramoPihla ViitalaEero AhoThere is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsVesa-Matti LoiriSamuli EdelmannLeena UotilaA father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.
- CreatorTimo VarpioOlli HaikkaStarsRauno AhonenKari HietalahtiLeena PöystiROBA is a 6-season Finnish television police series with Kari Hietalahti, Leena Pöysti, Riku Nieminen, Annika Aapalahti, Alex Anton, Andrei Alén, Ilari Johansson, Mari Perankoski, Rauno Ahonen and Tiina Lymi.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannJuha VeijonenTeemu LehtiläHäjyt 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.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannPeter FranzénKari HietalahtiProfessional criminals in Finland from 1966 to 1979.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsPeter FranzénNiko SaarelaLauri NurkseFour well-mannered but poorly grown brothers drift into a life of crime when their schizophrenic father is sent to the mental hospital.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaSamuli VauramoJoonas SaartamoA woman dulled with praise, Nelli is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsNiilo SyväojaTommi KorpelaKristiina HalttuA boy is sent to Saari, an isolated island and home to a home for troubled boys, where he falls in love with the daughter of the school's superintendent.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJasper PääkkönenElina HietalaJuha VeijonenA ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsKrista KosonenLauri TilkanenPirkka-Pekka PeteliusA Finnish midwife falls in love with a German-Finnish SS-officer during the Lapland War, in the middle of WWII.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJuha VeijonenHannu-Pekka BjörkmanJussi LampiThe 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.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPeter FranzénLaura BirnJasper PääkkönenNeo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJasper PääkkönenMikko LeppilampiPamela TolaOne bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.
- DirectorJukka-Pekka SiiliStarsEero MilonoffJussi NikkiläOlavi UusivirtaIn early days Remu Aaltonen was young musician and his band named Hurriganes were unknown. This story is all about the Finnish rock band and how they became famous.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsAarno SulkanenTitta KarakorpiRisto TauloTäällä 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.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsIlkka KoivulaVera KiiskinenRisto TuorilaA new film-adaptation of Väinö Linna's famous book here Beneath the North Star.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsIlkka KoivulaVera KiiskinenRisto TuorilaContinues to follow the life of a Finnish family from aftermath of the Finnish Civil War to the Second World War which unites the country. But at what cost?
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsTopi MajaniemiMarjaana MaijalaMaria LundqvistDuring World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMatti OnnismaaJari VirmanHannamaija NikanderA man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- DirectorLauri TörhönenStarsMartin BahneMinna HaapkyläTommi Korpela"Raja 1918", also known as "The Border", is a Finnish war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen set in the immediate aftermath of the Finnish Civil War of 1918. It is spring of 1918. A young scientist and officer, captain von Munck (Martin Bahne), is sent to the village of Rajajoki to close the border between the newly independent Finland and Russia under Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsKari HeiskanenJussi PuhakkaJussi Lehtonen"The Redemption". In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJuha VeijonenLaura MalmivaaraJari HalonenOn the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsKaarina HazardHeikki NousiainenJukka KeinonenWith 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.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsIlmari JärvenpääOnni TommilaLauri TilkanenIn 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. 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. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- DirectorPetri KotwicaStarsOuti MäenpääMartti SuosaloRia KatajaUpon discovering that her husband is having an affair, a Helsinki gynecologist attempts to gather more knowledge about her rival and, in the process, becomes hopelessly entangled in the other woman's life.