The 50 finnish cult films, you have to see.
Finnish cinema is waste of your time. When i heard that i just knew i have to make this list. I want to show the oddities, so bad they are great, underrated, rare and lesser known finnish movies. ps. I also include some mini tv-series on this list.
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- DirectorErik BlombergEstrellasMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanUna mujer recién casada acude al chamán local en busca de ayuda con su vida amorosa, pero en vez de eso se convierte en un vampiro reno blanco.
- DirectorJari HalonenEstrellasJorma TommilaAntti ReiniRauno JuvonenMike is getting out of prison after serving four years for a bank robbery. Bona is arranging the party of all parties for him: a Christmas party.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioEstrellasMarianne MardiOssi ElsteläMauritz ÅkermanA Lappish girl, the only daughter of a reindeer herder, rescues a crashed German fighter pilot during WW2. The two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenEstrellasLeo 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.
- DirectorVisa MäkinenEstrellasKauko HelovirtaIlmari SaarelainenMatti MäntyläA small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
- DirectorMatti KassilaEstrellasTauno PaloGunvor SandkvistHelen EldeDoctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
- EstrellasEero MelasniemiAnna-Leena HärkönenEsa AnttilaPainter Kai Merilä wakes up from a 7-month coma after being in a road accident while Driving Under the Influence. Suffering from amnesia, he returns to his villa in the Finnish countryside, where the accident took place the previous year. Every villager remembers the painter, but he remembers no one. Merilä receives an assignment from one Mrs. Sundel to paint a portrait of their daughter Nina, who has gone missing. The horrible memories from his past come back to him little by little as he paints Nina's portrait using only photographs of her.
- DirectorOlli SoinioEstrellasTiina BjörkmanKari SorvaliKim GunellA female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as the home of Santa Claus) for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties..
- DirectorOlli SoinioEstrellasSoli LabbartKari SorvaliMikko Kivinen
- DirectorJari HalonenEstrellasJorma TommilaTarja-Tuulikki TarsalaHannu HuuskaThe 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims.
- DirectorMatti KassilaEstrellasHannu LauriLaila RäikkäAntti LitjaAsko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president.
- DirectorJörn DonnerEstrellasRitva VepsäJörn DonnerKirsti WallasvaaraFinnish porn-movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly-small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late-1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
- DirectorJack WitikkaEstrellasMartti KatajistoHillevi LagerstamHeikki SavolainenA wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
- DirectorRoland af HällströmEstrellasMirja ManeToivo MäkeläHillevi LagerstamArchaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy. Everybody is certain that this really is the witch killed in days of yore. At the end the wild happenings during those few days appeared to be a dream of the professor leading the excavations.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioEstrellasRegina LinnanheimoOscar TengströmVille SalminenThe daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she finds herself selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiEstrellasJolyon BakerJürgen ProchnowFanny BastienOne man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
- DirectorIsmo SajakorpiEstrellasSatu SilvoEero MelasniemiGeorg DolivoAfter a suicide attempt, a woman finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure.
- DirectorPekka LehtoEstrellasMerja LarivaaraAuvo VihroLiisamaija Laaksonen
- DirectorRisto JarvaEstrellasArto TuominenRitva VepsäTarja MarkusA historian in a futuristic dystopian world is researching the death of a free-spirited model who died under mysterious circumstances. He finds Saara's identical double Kisse and convinces her to re-enact Saara's life and death for TV.
- DirectorTapio SuominenEstrellasEsa 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.
- DirectoresJörn DonnerErkki SeiroJaakko TalaskiviEstrellasJörn DonnerIrmeli LoikalaJussi NiininenThree 30-something Finnish filmmakers travel around Finland to interview ordinary people and paint a picture of Finland in the year 1970.
- DirectorJari HalonenEstrellasJorma TommilaUlla KoivurantaSanna-Maria SalmiIt is glasnost in the USSR. Reima August is the last communist. A lonely outcast that does not agree with the new world around him.
- EstrellasMerja LarivaaraTaisto ReimaluotoKai LehtinenAbout three cops, one married couple--Marita and Hessu--and Marita's old love Oiva. After years, Marita and Oiva meet and escape into the woods during a police operation. In the soft heat of August, the cops are trying to find a place of fulfillment and save the world from evil. In the whirlwind of a triangle drama, they encounter missions, murderers, priests and betrayers--rage, crime, tears.
- DirectorLars G. ThelestamEstrellasKate 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.
- DirectorTeuvo PuroEstrellasEinar RinneHeidi BlåfieldIrmeli ViherjuuriA newlywed couple suffer from the effects of a curse a witch put on the place they live in centuries earlier.