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- DirectorTapio SuominenStarsMarkku SuominenKari KuuvaKauko HakalaA semi-documentary satire that follows the life of the offbeat pop singer Markku Suominen on tour of the Finnish countryside, while Markku's girlfriend Anja waits patiently at home.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneJussi JurkkaTamara LundJune 1944. The attention of the world is focused on Normandy, but the change of the tide can be felt in Finland also. Rumours of preparations of a massive Soviet attack in the Karelian region are heard everywhere. In the Finnish HQ many officers know the attack is coming, but Marshal Mannerheim is not even informed of the most frightening news. The old marshal is turning 77, but the Soviet Union has an unpleasant gift for him. The army is not all prepared, but who is guilty, and to whom belongs the honor?
- DirectorSakari RimminenStarsMeri OravistoErik UddströmPekka LehtoTeenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions. The dramatic plot is frequently interrupted by absurd comic relief.
- DirectorMaunu KurkvaaraStarsAarre KarénMarkku SalonenEsko MannermaaOssi Virtanen is accused of murdering a teenage girl at the end of a brawl and drunkenness, for which he is sentenced to imprisonment despite insufficient evidence.
- DirectorEija-Elina BergholmStarsLiisamaija LaaksonenHannu LauriElvi SaarnioA young bank clerk tries to pursue her dreams of a better future, but by doing so her life starts to crumble.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsPertti MelasniemiMarjukka ArasolaAune Hurme-VirtanenA glib log driver, Olavi, keeps sowing his wild oats. When the time comes for him to settle down he finds it difficult to trust anyone in view of his fickle past.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEeva-Maija HaukinenErkki PajalaHeikki HämäläinenA physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaTuula NymanEija PokkinenA shy Finn boards a wrong plane and ends up on a beach holiday instead of skiing.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsUrpo PoikolainenAarne HakulinenPentti ViljakainenThe events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenStarsLeo LastumäkiHeikki KinnunenPentti AuerValtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.
- DirectorJotaarkka PennanenStarsReino KalliolahtiHannu KahakorpiEero KosteikkoThe last day of Alfred Kordelin.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsMaritta ViitamäkiPauli JauhojärviAimo SaukkoA young woman has an intense affair with a womanizing reindeer herdsman.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsTea IstaPaul OsipowRiitta ElsteläSanna, a middle-aged widow, has moved from Finland to Sweden with her two children. She starts a correspondence with doctor Peter Mackus, who is married and with two children. Their meeting leads to an awkward love affair.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenStarsMikko MajanlahtiArja VirtanenPauli VirtanenA middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.
- DirectorEsko FavénTarja LaineStarsVesa-Matti LoiriLeena UotilaRitva ValkamaKrokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsPaavo PentikäinenIrma MartinkauppiKaisa MartinkauppiConstruction worker Urho Suomalainen, his factory-worker wife Sirkka, and their two school-age children dream about getting away from their cramped rental apartment and moving to a house of their own. Urho decides to build one from scratch, starting from hauling trees from the forest to the sawmill. As the building progresses, a serious fault is discovered in its foundations. The family also has problems with their mortgage. Urho develops pneumonia and passes away before he sees his house completed. At his grave, a fellow worker gives a powerful speech praising socialism.
- DirectorTiina LymiStarsPetteri SummanenMarja SaloOlavi von BaghSequel / follow up to 'Yösyttö' ['Man and a baby', although literally 'Nightfeeding'], in which abandoned, single parent, Antti, with his son, now takes on a daughter, too: of the girl (after an accident to her) he's always truly fancied.
- DirectorTeppo AiraksinenStarsJake ShortMiles J. HarveyDamon Wayans Jr.Lifelong friends Neil and Gilbert's undeniable bond is tested to the limits when Neil makes a magical wish that comes true. With the assistance of Neil's charismatic neighbor, Jimmy, and Gilbert's wild ideas, Neil endures one epic night.
- DirectorMarkus LehmusruusuStarsSilmu StåhlbergLumi KallioEelis KesäläinenIt's summer and Risto takes his friend Nella, Aunt Rita and neighbor Lennart to a holiday village. There they meet Bill and Sylvester Pöntinen, father and son who are preparing for a competition and flexing their muscles to be the best.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsJoonas NordmanMikko PenttiläAlex AntonComedy about a start-up entrepreneur who tries to import potato to Finland in the 17th century.
- DirectorMatti IjäsStarsPaavo PentikäinenMikko ReitalaKristiina ElsteläA divorced poet struggling with his creativity embarks on a poetry tour with younger colleague.
- DirectorOlli SoinioStarsSoli LabbartKari SorvaliMikko Kivinen
- DirectorKari PaljakkaStarsSanteri KinnunenSamuli EdelmannLiisa MustonenThe lives of two close childhood friends drift apart after they choose different career paths.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääEvelyne DidiAndré WilmsThree struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsHeikki KinnunenPentti SiimesTom PöystiSoldiers of the third squad get their holidays denied so they devise a great plan. The discovery of the plan leads the headquarters to start an operation called Shhh.
- DirectorTimo LinnasaloStarsIrma JunnilainenErkki HaapanenMinna KiveläA woman gives an outspoken monologue about her life as she gets drunk in a restaurant.
- 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?
- DirectorSpede PasanenStarsSpede PasanenSimo SalminenHannele LauriA sketch comedy loosely tied together by the idea of comparing "female" and "male" logic.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriTapio HämäläinenMarjatta RaitaUuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
- DirectorIlkka Ruuhijärvi
- DirectorOlli SoinioStarsAllan TuppurainenSari MällinenRolf LabbartTrollforest is in grave danger, so Rölli the Troll must unite with a Forest Fairy to save their home.
- DirectorAsko TolonenStarsVirpi UimonenRitva OksanenJuha HyppönenLiisa arrives on an island to serve as a nurse at a military installation. She needs solitude to reconcile with herself.
- DirectorKatariina LahtiHeikki PartanenRiitta RautomaStarsMarkku BlomqvistPertti HilkamoMaritta ViitamäkiA traditional ballad tells of a rich trader in furs who tries to thwart a poor farmer's son, prophesied to inherit his fortune, by exiling him to a mythical country.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaRitva ValkamaA prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies that tells the story of how Uuno found his wife and got her to marry him.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsOlavi AhonenLauri ArajuuriOssi AronenRhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsJyrki KovaleffOlavi AhonenLeni KatajakoskiThe life and death of Vikke Nilo, a lumberjack from the good old times.
- 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.
- DirectorLars G. ThelestamStarsKate O'MaraBruno O'YaÅke LindmanThe cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruna and Karen make sure that it pays off.
- DirectorAntti PeippoStarsAntti LitjaMartti PennanenSaara PakkasvirtaOlli Ruusunen is the data-expert that proposes the serious measures that will save the company from an economic collapse. His drastic savings programs forces the board to resign. Olli must go underground.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsMarja-Leena KoukiVesa RepoAdolf HitlerA small finnish village gets occupied by the soviets in the fall of 1939. The villagers end up working together with the occupants, especially since the soviets have among them finnish speaking propaganda people.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsOla JohanssonMatti MäntyläMarjukka ArasolaWhen Soviet cow Natalia jumps west, it must of course be returned to the USSR as soon as possible. Does the grass look greener behind the border? Whatever the reason for the jumping cow's trip, cattle that migrates across the border to Finland must be returned to their home so that good neighborly relations are not endangered.
- DirectorRalf LångbackaStarsLasse PöystiPekka LaihoArja Saijonmaa
- 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.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsAsko SarkolaRea MauranenKari FranckThe 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.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsIrma HuntusLeena SuomuMatti TurunenIn a small Finnish Lapland community, Milka, an innocent 14-year-old girl lives with her mother, misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. For haymaking, they employ a simple but hard-working field hand, nicknamed Christ-Devil, who decides to stay and become the man of the house, courting both the mother and daughter. Eventually he leaves them both, and Milka has his child.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsPertti PaloSirkku GrahnPauli VirtanenGenerations and social classes clash in a seaside party.
- DirectorTapio SuominenStarsKimmo LiukkonenMarkku ToikkaKai HonkanenTwo childhood friends return to their fading home village in the countryside, where a future reservoir threatens to suffocate the land and its people. Everything is slowly spiraling out of control.
- DirectorMatti KuorttiStarsJukka SipiläMarja-Sisko AimonenJouni LukusThe Kiljunen family wins a holiday to the city. Helsinki will never be the same again.
- DirectorTaavi KassilaStarsKari HeiskanenÅke LindmanEeva ElorantaDrug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love with Eino's daughter Lena who works at the ambulance switchboard. But no hiding place is good enough to last forever.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsVesa-Matti LoiriEija AhvoYrjö JärvinenMiller Gunnar Huttunen falls so heavily in love that he starts to howl.
- DirectorVeikko KerttulaStarsKirsti OtsamoKimmo TuppurainenRisto SalmiThe summer of an ice hockey player.
- DirectorJaakko PyhäläStarsKari VäänänenVesa-Matti LoiriPia TellefsenStory of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
- DirectorHeikki PartanenStarsEija AhvoRiitta-Anneli ForssRaimo GrönbergThe fairy Illusia and the goblin Pessi meet. Pessi, who has only recently become independent, is a member of the Pessimists' family. They are proud of their practical and sensible attitude to life. Illusia's father, on the other hand, is Mr Illusioni, a famous visionary living on a rainbow.
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsPaavo PiskonenRiitta HavukainenTiina BergströmA married man, bored of his wife and family, and a lonely younger woman meet at a bar and spend a night together.
- DirectorEija-Elina BergholmStarsIda-Lotta BackmanMathieu CarrièreJörn DonnerAngela serves during Finland's Continuation War (1941-1944) as a nurse at a war hospital. There she meets Thomas Schmidt, a German officer who, in part, lost his memory due to her injuries. They fall in love.
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsLiisa HalonenAntti LitjaMarkku ToikkaThe Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsErland JosephsonCharlotta LarssonNils BrandtThe director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsRaimo KarppinenJan SöderblomTarmo ManniA story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- 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.
- DirectorTimo HumalojaStarsKari HeiskanenLilga KovankoJaana RaskiThe story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
- DirectorLauri TörhönenStarsErkki SaarelaEeva ElorantaAarno LaitinenA prominent minister and his old flame share a night in a hotel room. Through passion and rejection, they undress the past together.
- DirectorJaakko PyhäläStarsHeidi KilpeläinenPetri AaltoVille VirtanenAimless Mårten, almost thirty, spends his days in an unspecified hospital job and his nights around Helsinki's bars. He meets edgy and distant Ursula who still goes to high school, yet has a young son whom she pretty much ignores. Mårten and Ursula drift into a get-rich scheme concocted by Mårten's eccentric friend Harri, involving cocaine smuggling and taking the trio to Copenhagen. Bad idea.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsMartti KainulainenPirjo LeppänenTeuvo RemesA curious and stubborn boy Kalle has to grow up fast in northern Finland in the 1920s. When his lumberjack father gets ill, Kalle has to take his place as a provider for the family.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenStarsLeo LastumäkiErkki LiikanenRitva ValkamaTwo middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKauko HelovirtaElsa TurakainenJorma Falck
- DirectorSpede PasanenStarsSpede PasanenVesa-Matti LoiriSimo SalminenA scientist creates a fully grown test tube baby from the cells of a mathematician, and the two are frequently mistaken for each other by gangsters, private investigators, the police, and the baby's creator himself.
- DirectorTapio SuominenStarsEsa NiemeläTony HolmströmKati OutinenIn the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
- DirectorTimo LinnasaloStarsPaavo PiskonenLilga KovankoAntti LitjaWhile 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.
- DirectorJános ZsombolyaiStarsMari KissTom WentzelÁgi Margitai
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsEsko SalminenIrina MilanTom WentzelFollows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.
- 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.
- DirectorLauri TörhönenStarsRiitta ViiperiElina HurmeTom WentzelA newly graduated nurse Tuulikki starts a job in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital. Her innocence is being challenged by both her colleagues and patients. A new patient Katariina has a fire burning deep inside of her.
- DirectorTimo LinnasaloStarsKristiina ElsteläMarkku HuhtamoRagni GrönblomEccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsRauni LuomaEsko SalminenSatu Silvo
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsAnssi MänttäriCaroline KrügerClaes AnderssonRedboard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.
- 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.
- DirectorPäivi HartzellStarsSatu SilvoOuti VainionkulmaSebastian KaatrasaloIn this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's longest story, the beautiful Snow Queen has captured two children and now keeps them apart. She has inserted a sliver of her own special ice into the eye of the boy, so that his heart will turn to ice and will be a proper match for hers. The boy's sister, meanwhile, has won free and attempts to find her brother. When she does, the warmth of her love for him melts his frozen heart and defeats the Snow Queen decisively.
- DirectorAnssi MänttäriStarsAino SeppoLasse PöystiJuuso HirvikangasWhen a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.