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- DirectorJoonas BerghällMika HotakainenStarsTimo AaltoPekka AhonenAarne AksilaFinnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- 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.
- DirectorArto KoskinenStarsMarkus AllbäckDanny BlindFrank de BoerFinnish football player Jari Litmanen openly shares about his life as an international sports icon, what it was like playing for several European football teams, and the sacrifices he made due to a lot of injuries.
- DirectorSimo HalinenStarsLeea KlemolaPeter FranzénRia KatajaMaarit has successfully managed to live her life as a transgender, attractive and intelligent woman. However, this new life has come at a considerable price, as many transgender individuals have come to discover. Estranged from her wife and daughter, Maarit feels like a stranger in a cold but familiar world, that is, until the day she meets Sami. In the midst of a marital crisis, Sami has come to seek the help of Maarit's employer, a therapist. In the therapist's absence, Maarit feels compelled to help the man, even if it means impersonating the therapist to get through to Sami.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsJoonas SaartamoJani VolanenPeter FranzénFictionalized story about the founding of the ill-fated Finnish mining company Talvivaara.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsTommi KorpelaElina KnihtiläEero RitalaA series of absurd comedy sketches seemingly without a common story.
- DirectorMatti IjäsStarsVesa VierikkoSulevi PeltolaMarkku MaalismaaViltteri, 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaKauko HelovirtaMarkku HuhtamoYoung 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.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaJussi VatanenJasper PääkkönenJanne has made a career out of living on welfare; suddenly, his girlfriend gives him an ultimatum: Buy a new digital TV box or she will leave him.
- DirectorAlli HaapasaloStarsAamu MilonoffEleonoora KauhanenLinnea LeinoThree young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPeter FranzénLaura BirnJasper PääkkönenNeo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJanne HyytiäinenMaria JärvenhelmiMaria HeiskanenIn Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
- DirectorJalmari HelanderStarsJorma TommilaOnni TommilaPeeter JakobiIn the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPekka StrangSeumas F. SargentChris MylandAward-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsTommi KorpelaSidse Babett KnudsenHannu-Pekka BjörkmanOne night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenOiva LohtanderMari RantasilaA hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.
- 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.
- DirectorMatti GrönbergStarsHeikki HelaTimo KahilainenHeikki SilvennoinenThe 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.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsPeter FranzénIrina BjörklundKari HeiskanenSet during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.
- DirectorJ.-P. ValkeapääStarsPekka StrangEster GeislerováEllen KarppoJuha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
- DirectorMauri KunnasStarsEsa SaarioUlla TapaninenHenna HaverinenStrange accidents start to happen in Santa's village when he receives a mysterious letter.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku ToikkaAino SeppoEsko NikkariA slaughterhouse worker and former law student, takes vengeance on the man who killed his fiancée in a hit and run accident.
- DirectorPerttu LeppäStarsUnto HeloHanna-Mari KarhinenMikko HakolaThe story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsHeikki NousiainenPirjo LonkaAmos BrotherusAn elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.
- DirectorMikko MakelaStarsJanne PuustinenBoodi KabbaniMika MelenderA young Finnish man returns for the summer to help renovate his father's lake house. He meets and befriends Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, and the two spend the summer bonding.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSakari KuosmanenKati OutinenAndré WilmsA farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsSilu SeppäläMarjo LeinonenMatti PellonpääAntti "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?
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsNatalie MinnevikBibi AnderssonMarjaana MaijalaElina is sinking in the quicksand and she is going under and she got the white thing on her hair.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenAri-Kyösti SeppoAlain AzerotAfter his release from prison, a petty criminal assembles a ragtag group to rob banks.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannPeter FranzénKari HietalahtiProfessional criminals in Finland from 1966 to 1979.
- 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.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsAlma PöystiKrista KosonenShanti RoneyDepiction on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanA newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
- DirectorTiina LymiStarsHeikki KinnunenSatu Tuuli KarhuElina KnihtiläThe Grump prepares to die: everything is done and his wife is dead. He's making his own coffin when life suddenly walks in: his granddaughter needs the wisdom and stubbornness of her grandpa. In return, The Grump finds meaning for his life--and a big secret.
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsTiina LymiPetteri SummanenKari-Pekka ToivonenKatri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsPirkka-Pekka PeteliusEsko SalminenKati OutinenPlayboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsPak Hon ChuAnna-Maija TuokkoLucas HsuanFollowing the death of his wife, professional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai.
- DirectorJuan ReinaStarsPatrik GrönqvistKai KänkänenSami PaakkarinenAfter 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.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaTapio HämäläinenUuno is called to serve the rest of his military service. His father-in-law, Director Tuura has been appointed as a defence minister but he hasn't got any interest to free Uuno from his service. Tuura orders Uuno to army immediately to get a rest from him for a while. In the army Uuno makes the officers go mad and soon he is been transferred as a horseman.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsAntti LitjaPetra FreyMari PerankoskiThe Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days. Pretty much everything that's been done after 1953 has always managed to ruin The Grump's day. Our story unfolds as The Grump takes a fall from his basement steps, hurting his ankle. He has to spend a weekend in Helsinki to attend physiotherapy. The Grump doesn't like this for four reasons: 1) He has to take a taxi. 2) He can't take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer's patient. 3) He can't drive, which means he might have to sit in a car with a female driver. 4) He has to spend time with his family. The daughter-in-law is a career woman, not keen to spend time with The Grump when he comes to the city. Her boss has given her the task to look after Russian businessmen supposed to close a major deal over the weekend. It doesn't make her any happier when The Grump decides to help with the deal. Then The Grump has to face his useless son to become the father he never was, teaching his son how to take care of his loved ones. A thing The Grump has never been able to do. And somebody's day will be ruined.
- DirectorJenni ToivoniemiStarsIida-Maria HeinonenPaula VesalaEmmi ParviainenA comedy about the tragedy of being forever young.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénTaisto ReimaluotoAhti KuoppalaBright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
- DirectorMiia TervoStarsMimosa WillamoAmir EscandariElá YildirimAurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsJoanna HaarttiSanttu KarvonenRanja OmaheimoA chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaInspector Palmu investigates the death of an old astronomer, whose body is found on Helsinki's Observatory Hill, but the investigation is complicated by the media's spreading of false information concerning the case.
- DirectorHeikki KujanpääStarsMartti SuosaloJani VolanenLeena PöystiIn a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the imprisoners have to perform a comedy - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. A story about zest for life and power of laughter. Based on true events.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsMartti SuosaloIlkka KoivulaVexi SalmiThe life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorPernilla AugustStarsNoomi RapaceOla RapaceOuti MäenpääA drama set in 1970s Sweden and centered on a young woman's experiences growing up in a home riddled with abuse and alcoholism.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKosti KlemeläHeikki SavolainenReino TolvanenThe tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenAnnikki TähtiM arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
- DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo TorikkaIn 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsPriit VõigemastIndrek SammulHele KõrveThis movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenKari VäänänenElina SaloThe recession hits a couple in Helsinki.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsTuro PajalaSusanna HaavistoMatti PellonpääA Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
- 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.
- DirectorTimo VuorensolaStarsAntti SatamaTiina RoutamaaSamuli TorssonenThe future looks bleak for Captain Pirk. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the 21st century. The world of the past is a dangerous place and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. To make things right Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...
- 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.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsPetri PoikolainenMarjaana MaijalaSamuli JaskioJaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but they talk on the phone every day. When he hears about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city; a challenge if you can't see and are paralyzed from the chest down.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiRisto OrkoStarsEvgeniy LeonovVyacheslav NevinnyyRita PolsterIn Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected.
- DirectorPeter LichtefeldStarsJoachim KrólOuti MäenpääPeter LohmeyerHannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKati OutinenSakari KuosmanenAn episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.
- DirectorJuuso LaatioJukka VidgrenStarsJohannes HolopainenSamuli JaskioAntti Tuomas HeikkinenAfter years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsSeidi HaarlaYura BorisovDinara DrukarovaAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
- DirectorJalmari HelanderStarsOtso TarkelaTommi KorpelaJorma TommilaAn elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.
- DirectorMargus PajuStarsPriit VõigemastKaspars ZnotinsAgnese BudovskaA spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsLo KauppiEllen JelinekAnn-Sofie NurmiThe film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.
- DirectorMatti GrönbergStarsHeikki HelaHeikki SilvennoinenTimo KahilainenAn escaped mental patient, two losers and a gay nurse go onto a roadtrip in order to find a secret gold treasure.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsRisto TuorilaPirkka-Pekka PeteliusPaavo LiskiThis film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. 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 film tells the story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war. Many of the characters are based on author Linna's brothers in arms.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneElina PohjanpääMatti RaninA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
- DirectorJuha WuolijokiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanOtto GustavssonJonas RinneThe touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMaria HeiskanenMikael PersbrandtJesper ChristensenIn a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJean-Pierre LéaudMargi ClarkeKenneth ColleyHenri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- DirectorJalmari HelanderStarsJorma TommilaAksel HennieJack DoolanWhen 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.
- DirectorJoonas NeuvonenStarsJani RaappanaThis documentary tells the story of Jani, a 19-year-old drug addict living on social welfare among with his friends. Tired of his life in a remote city in Rovaniemi, he decides to travel by train to various parts of Europe before being sent to imprisonment for several petty crimes.
- 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.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKari VäänänenSakke JärvenpääSiberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.
- DirectorJukka KärkkäinenJ-P PassiStarsPertti KurikkaKari AaltoSami HelleA Finnish punk-rock band formed by four mentally disabled guys.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsJarkko LahtiOona AirolaEero MilonoffThe true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenMatti PellonpääKirsi TykkyläinenLugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsTimo EränköKari HeiskanenAsmo HurulaAn exodus to a better life in Eira.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaA rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- DirectorKaige ChenVíctor EriceWerner HerzogStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenMarko HaavistoThis series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
- DirectorMichael MadsenStarsCarl Reinhold BråkenhjelmMikael JensenBerit LundqvistA documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.
- DirectorJalmari HelanderStarsOtso TarkelaOnni TommilaTommi KorpelaIn this sequel to 'Rare Exports Inc' we are shown the horrendous results of abusing Father Christmas.
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsLaura BirnLiisi TandefeltAmanda PilkeA tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlma PöystiJussi VatanenJanne HyytiäinenIn 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.