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- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannPeter FranzénKari HietalahtiProfessional criminals in Finland from 1966 to 1979.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsVesa-Matti LoiriArmi ToivanenPeter FranzénTiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
- DirectorZsuzsa BöszörményiStarsEszter BagamériAnna GyörgyiDezsö GarasIrma Varró is 18 years old and leaves an orphanage. All she knows about her past is that she was a foundling. She knows only a few sure, hard facts about her life. She is pregnant. She has just got the first opportunity in her life: a job as a cleaning woman. And she has arranged the "best deal" of her life: she will get money for her child from a woman who is an intermediary for mothers-to-be like her. But who is she? Who was her mother? She begins searching for her mother she has never seen, because she wants to pay her back for the grievances she has suffered. During her investigation Irma finds out that nothing is true of what she knew. She is not who she believed herself to be. Mystery and secrets cover everything.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsPeter FranzénIrina BjörklundSampo SarkolaDetective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop; one of the city's very best. He loses his daughter in tragic circumstances and is unable to recover from his loss despite the support he receives.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPeter FranzénLaura BirnJasper PääkkönenNeo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
- DirectorPierre MorelStarsSean PennIdris ElbaJasmine TrincaA sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsBel PowleyLisa Loven KongsliMartin WallströmIn 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
- 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.
- 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).
- DirectorRichard HolmStarsJakob EklundJens HulténMarie RichardsonIn the final movie about Swedish special force policeman Johan Falk, he tries to solve the problem with the Eastern European mafia, who is threatening his family. Meanwhile, his co-workers get hold of some papers that is critical in the chase of a big, multinational criminal network.
- 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...
- DirectorPeter LindholmStarsPirkka-Pekka PeteliusPaavo KerosuoPekka StrangEpic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsMinna HaapkyläAnna-Leena HärkönenLaura MalmivaaraThis movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari HeiskanenPertti SveholmTimo TorikkaThree friends facing a midlife crisis go on an unforgettable night of boozing in this drama/comedy. Matti, a man anxiously awaiting his firstborn, Erkki, a ladies' man who has lost his family, and Rauno, a failed actor, come together on Christmas Eve. Looking to shake their loneliness, the crew heads to a karaoke bar, kicking off a night that'll change all three forever.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsJoonas SaartamoJani VolanenPeter FranzénFictionalized story about the founding of the ill-fated Finnish mining company Talvivaara.
- 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.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsOlavi UusivirtaHeikki SilvennoinenPeter FranzénTwo opposing racing teams arrange a race to settle their disagreements.
- DirectorAnne NordaStarsIrina BjörklundPeter FranzénEliza Pryor NagelThe tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront desires and frustrations that threaten to destroy the illusions of their lives.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénSanna-Kaisa PaloSamuli VauramoWhen her husband dies, Martta has to look after her three outlandish sons single-handedly, whilst she tries to journey with them in their family-home caravan to the Finnish city of Lieksa. The return of Laszlo to the family threatens to usurp Martta's authority.
- DirectorPeter LindmarkStarsSofia HelinMikael PersbrandtStefan SaukA group of very efficient robbers strikes banks in downtown area of Stockholm. Detective Klara and commanding officer Krona takes on the case.
- DirectorIlmar TaskaStarsCarmen KassPriit VõigemastMaria AvdjushkoOn one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime ivestigation turns out to be something more: a tale of love, alienation and new hope.
- DirectorPeter FranzénStarsOlavi AngervoMatleena KuusniemiMilja TuunainenA ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsJanne ReinikainenKaroliina BlackburnPeter FranzénThe life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorAnders EngströmStarsAntti ReiniPeter FranzénMerja LarivaaraJussi Vares goes in a small town to investigate a murder of young girl. This little goodloving town isn't as pure as it seems.
- DirectorArto HalonenStarsKatja KüttnerSamuli EdelmannKrista KosonenPrincess 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.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsSamuel L. JacksonEd HarrisEva MendesA former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsHenry ThomasIrina BjörklundHelmut BergerA road movie based on the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice...
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPuntti ValtonenPeter FranzénLotta LehtikariA cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
- DirectorSulevi PeltolaStarsPekka ValkeejärviRiitta HavukainenPeter FranzénA young man is going to rob a bank. Only too bad that the bank teller and the customer don't approve his intentions. All three end up in the robber's home, with his wife and the baby boy, and there things lead to a strange end.
- 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.
- DirectorKjell SundvallStarsShanti RoneyMaria BonnevieStefan SaukA programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the war veteran Haglund who is a leader of a special taskforce.
- DirectorJames CheanStarsLisa K. CrosatoMarie ZielckeJoe EstevezPain, not just war, makes strange bedfellows. In bed, APRIL SANCHEZ and JENNA BRYANT hatch a plan to turn the plot of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" into reality. The two women, who met by accident in a bar, quickly became secret lovers, and shared not only their bodies, but their innermost anger and sorrow. Now, they will each kill the others' "spouse"; and since there is no connection between the two, no one will suspect them. The Perfect Murder. But, true to any Hitchcock movie, things are not always what they seem to be.
- DirectorPekka MilonoffStarsKai LehtinenTiina LymiTomi Salmela
- DirectorMathieu TuriStarsGaia WeissPeter FranzénRomane LibertA woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJasper PääkkönenNanna BlondellSverrir GudnasonAfter Finland's Independence Day celebration is interrupted by a terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace and distinguished guests are taken hostage, a security service officer tries to uncover who is trying to destabilize Europe.
- DirectorPeter LindmarkStarsJakob EklundJens HulténAlexander KarimGSI (Group of Special Investigations) investigates a weapon deal made by the mafia. GSI sends in an undercover agent to investigate what the mafia is up to. At the same time Johan Falk confronts a mysterious woman who threatens his family.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsKrista KosonenKai LehtinenViljami NojonenJulia moves back to her childhood village to help a group of ecologists save a lake from an industrial project, but strange things start to happen as she must confront her deepest repressed secrets.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsJorma TommilaTommi EronenMaria JärvenhelmiA murderer tries to leave his criminal past in East Helsinki and make a new life for his family