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- 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.
- In Lapland's cold Arctic Circle, under the eternal midnight sun, unfavourable circumstances reunite two kindred spirits. And governed by circular motifs woven by faith and love, they must answer a pivotal question. Can they deny destiny?
- Four well-mannered but poorly grown brothers drift into a life of crime when their schizophrenic father is sent to the mental hospital.
- Three 30-something Finnish filmmakers travel around Finland to interview ordinary people and paint a picture of Finland in the year 1970.
- An escaped mental patient, two losers and a gay nurse go onto a roadtrip in order to find a secret gold treasure.
- The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
- A man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- A 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.
- The farm girl Hilja falls meet Yrjö, a student visiting the country side. They fall madly in love, which leads to consequences.
- An employee of a forestry company is tasked to plan the redundancies of his home village's plywood factory, which employs many of his old friends.
- 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.
- Samuli Edelmann stars as Viktor Kärppä, a former Russian special agent haunted by his past. He settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors, and tries to make a living as both a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself continually involved with organized crime. Kärppa isn't a killer, even if he looks like one. Can a man change his identity - or shed his loyalties - merely by crossing a border?
- A distressed family man finds unexpected solace in his predicament of randomly teleporting around the world, leaving his wife to provide for their small daughter.
- Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military operations and aboard vessels, but preferably near a lake, to dive in even on ice days, with trees to cut whisking birches from. Weekly, usually on Saturday, is considered a hygienic minimum, daily the good life, especially in summer and holidays. It's a family and/or social activity, relaxing and removing social barriers, but also linked to sports and all kinds of bonding.
- Colonel Carolus Rutger Von Haestman awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his youthful love, Amelie. Meanwhile, the children and grandchildren set out to find the runaway lovers. Eventually, the funeral turns into a wedding and a honeymoon.
- Despite winning the Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale, a Finnish glass designer returns to Helsinki with a bad case of burnout. His psychiatrist recommends taking a few weeks off and seeing the Finnish countryside. Over a few sunny days and light-filled nights around the Midsummer, our hero enjoys the company of a mysterious tramp bearing surprising resemblance to his psychiatrist, and gradually falls in love with a beautiful female student crossing his path in several places because of her summer job as a tour bus guide.
- Agronomist Paul arrives at Siltala Manor to become the new superintendent. He knows his worth, and that causes tension among the gentry and in the owner of the manor, widower Lilli. Eventually, Lilli and Paul begin to find common ground.
- About a farm boy who leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
- A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.
- Freed from prison, Eeva returns to her old home region to look for her grown-up daughter.
- "Everything In Between" follows a group of filmmakers that are passionate about their work. An intimate portrait of film making and the deep trust that develops in these exceptional circumstances.
- A young couple from Helsinki are visiting the Finnish countryside. Things don't go as smoothly as expected because of the tree worshiping neighbors.
- The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare who first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnu. After the studies, Vappu and Jali get married, but the marriage is disappointing.
- Prophetess finds her calling to save the world from the living dead through difficult choice.
- The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
- Ulla Järvinen gets a telegram about the death of her aunt and that she has inherited a manor. But the aunt is very much alive.
- The five remaining teams travel from Antananarivo, Madagascar to Helsinki, Finland. At the Road Block, one person from each team has to put their ability to stay calm in a claustrophobic setting to the test, while one person has to overcome their fear of heights at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.