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- A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
- Playboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.
- A story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.
- A hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.
- This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
- 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?
- 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?
- Two teenagers from Helsinki are sent on a mission by their drug dealer.
- Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination and the help of Härski Hartikainen, he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamed 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.
- The life of early-20th-century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala, and several more pseudonyms), one of the most enigmatic figures in Finnish literature. Different time levels are mixed in the film to give it an equally enigmatic structure. Untola lives periods of his life in the Finnish countryside as a teacher, then in St. Petersburg as a businessman; he also becomes a Socialist, then dies during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
- A chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.
- Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law unwittingly gives all his money to Uuno, who goes on a spending spree with his younger brother Peni.
- 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.
- A summer romance remembered.
- A look at the work and working methods of famed Finnish film director Rauni Mollberg.
- A documentary plea for social change centering on destitute drunks who disgrace the harbor setting of Helsinki.
- While experimenting with gravity scientist Erik Rankamaa accidentally gets frozen for nearly 30 years. When he awakens in 1999 he discovers that the world has become severely polluted.
- Adopted from an American model into a Finnish version of the candid camera programs. The same jokes/comedy are still in use, and foreign influences are so obvious that you don't even have to start searching for their source.
- Undisciplined children are sent to their retired general uncle after their father finds about their pranks.
- Esko is going to a neighboring village to marry Kreeta after her father arranged the marriage with Esko's father. Esko takes Mikko as his travel companion and that's where Esko's ordeals begin.
- A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
- Set in Helsinki, the story follows Lauri Haapa and Anna Kauhto as they are released from prison.
- Cat's disappearance gets old poor old hippy filmmaker to reminiscing old times.
- An all-female adaptation of the Oresteian Trilogy by the Finnish theatre group "Raivoisat Ruusut" from July, 1991. A trilogy of Greek tragedies, written by Aeschylus, includes "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers", and "The Eumenides".
- Losing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The result becomes a comedic cavalcade of Finnish promotional clichés - Lapland, sauna, moose hunting, beautiful blond women etc. - as presented by a slick entourage following on the heels of William Nurmi, a Finnish-American hair tonic millionaire on a visit to his ancestors' homeland. Add some half-baked criminal hanky-panky, and towards the end even one of the main characters has to confess to the camera that he's lost track of this movie's plot about fifteen minutes ago.
- 2016– 1h4.4 (5)TV Episode
- Shocking news from home causes a disruption in Harjunpää's concentration on a case, where a series of homicides come into light around the Helsinki-area. Someone arranges dead women's bodies on their beds.