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- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsTitta KarakorpiHannu OravistoVeikko HonkanenYoung photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsRitva 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.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriLeena BrusiinSimo SalminenJussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsSpede PasanenTarja MarkusOlavi AhonenLonely rider Speedy Gonzales (Spede Pasanen) arrives to small town of New York to revenge the murder of his brother. Who shot Moses Gonzales? Was it the dishonest sheriff (Leo Jokela), mysterious Bat Masterson (Ville-Veikko Salminen), ladies' man tsai-jai-jai-Manolito (Esko Salminen) or maybe bank robber Clyde (Pertti Melasniemi). Slowest shooter of Häme (Simo Salminen) it hardly could have been.
- DirectorVeli-Matti SaikkonenStarsHillevi LagerstamTapio HämäläinenAila ArajuuriAaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsPertti MelasniemiLilga KovankoUlf TörnrothTwo men and a woman, all rally drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsHarriet AnderssonPertti MelasniemiMarja PackalénThirty-eight-year-old Anna Kivi, a Finnish anesthesiologist at Turku University Hospital and divorcee recently awarded a doctorate after her thesis, retreats to a summer studio on an island for the summer holiday.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsAarno SulkanenUlla EklundRisto TauloA former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
- DirectorPeter von BaghStarsPertti Ylermi LindgrenIrma MartinkauppiTitta KarakorpiSleazy impostor, then dance-band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, educationalist, Italian bank executive, or priest, "The Count" always manages to escape with the bride's or her father's money just when the wedding bells start to chime.
- DirectorSpede PasanenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriKauko KokkonenElina KatainenJalmar "Jalli" Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
- DirectorJörn DonnerErkki SeiroJaakko TalaskiviStarsJörn DonnerIrmeli LoikalaJussi NiininenThree 30-something Finnish filmmakers travel around Finland to interview ordinary people and paint a picture of Finland in the year 1970.
- DirectorHeikki HuopainenTimo NissiHeikki NousiainenStarsPaavo PiironenHeikki NousiainenTimo NissiAccustomed to the heat of the sauna, four dead Finns enjoy their days in Hell so much that they are sent on a temporary leave back to Earth. Blessed with a specific ban on doing any honest work while down there, yet cursed with an inability to enjoy alcohol any longer, the quartet lands in modern-day Finland with a briefcase full of cash. Of course, in only a matter of minutes the guys misplace the briefcase, and after that they are pretty much on their own. However, you can't blame them for running out of ideas too quickly.
- DirectorMatti SokkaStarsUlla KivipatoEugene HolmanMaria WolskaRacial tensions arise from a love affair between a Finnish nurse and and a Somali doctor in the late sixties, when African immigrants were very rare in Finland.
- DirectorVesa-Matti LoiriSpede PasanenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriSimo SalminenSpede PasanenTwo outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
- 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.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsHeikki KinnunenJuha HyppönenMarja-Leena KoukiTwo young men, Heikki and Jussi, and the local railway stationmaster cause havoc in a small village when a fugitive from prison (Granberg) steals their clothes and they have to run around naked. In their birthday suits, the young bachelors manage to wake up the motherly instincts of local police chief's daughter and her friend, and a romance or two ensues. The fourth film from a farce by Agapetus.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsKirsti WallasvaaraJörn DonnerMeri OravistoPetteri and Liisa wake up with an hangover realizing they were married last night. During the day, the couple quarrels and remembers their previous love relationships, but is ready for reconciliation when the evening comes.
- DirectorHannu PeltomaaA documentary plea for social change centering on destitute drunks who disgrace the harbor setting of Helsinki.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEeva-Maija HaukinenErkki PajalaHeikki HämäläinenA physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
- StarsTarja-Tuulikki TarsalaMikko NiskanenPaavo PentikäinenSmall-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.
- 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 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.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsOlavi AhonenDagi AngervoPekka AutiovuoriA combination of Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968) and Akseli and Elina (1970), edited together by István Szintai for foreign markets.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsUrpo PoikolainenAarne HakulinenPentti ViljakainenThe events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsMarianne 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.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaSpede PasanenUuno Turhapuro is a man who can convince anyone of anything by simply talking them into submission. Uuno learns to play the violin and becomes famous, but discovers that fame is both a gift and a curse.
- 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.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEero RinneTuula NymanTauno HautaniemiMan leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenStarsMikko MajanlahtiArja VirtanenPauli VirtanenA middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsLeo LastumäkiJyrki KovaleffSeppo LaineInvisible spacemen, a scatterbrained professor and the National Conciliator of Finland all come together in this screwball comedy.
- 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.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVappu JurkkaEre KokkonenJyrki KovaleffUuno 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaKirsti WallasvaaraMatti RuoholaA young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
- 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.
- DirectorEdvin LaineViktor TregubovichStarsKirill LavrovVladimir TatosovIgor DmitrievThe story of the formation of the Finnish Republic and its independence from Russia.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaTapio HämäläinenUuno Turhapuro wins 1,5 million Finnish Marks in Lotto
- 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.
- DirectorJussi ItkonenStarsRemu AaltonenCisse HäkkinenIle Kallio
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaTuula NymanEija PokkinenA shy Finn boards a wrong plane and ends up on a beach holiday instead of skiing.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsMikko NiskanenErkki RuokokoskiAapo VilhunenA group of farmers start to rebel against the authorities after it is announced that their malnourished horse will be killed. Based on the events of Nivala rebellion of 1932.
- DirectorJon LindströmStarsLasse HjeltGunvor SandkvistGunnel FredStory of a young Finnish worker who comes to Sweden, gets married, has a child, gets into a fight that costs another man his life, and returns to Finland.
- 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.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsIngmar BergmanJörn Donner
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsAnna GodeniusGösta BredefeldtToni RegnerA woman is raped. She starts to follow and study her rapist.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaMarita NordbergUuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsEsko SalminenKatja SalminenElina SaloSemi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
- DirectorSeppo HuunonenStarsLeo LastumäkiErkki LiikanenRitva ValkamaTwo middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
- DirectorRisto VanariStarsSeija IgnatiusSusanne OlssonLiisa PaatsoAdopted 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMarkku LehmuskallioStarsPertti KalinainenPaavo KatajasaariHilkka MatikainenFilm about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself and his wife
- 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.
- DirectorVisa MäkinenStarsLeo LastumäkiTenho SaurénKauko HelovirtaTwo idiot ex-policemen turns out to be private detectives. Comedy follows their mistakes.
- DirectorSpede PasanenStarsSpede PasanenVesa-Matti LoiriSimo SalminenA postman tells the wild story about a test tube adult and gangsters after a secret formula. There are also secret agents and some filmmaking. A crazy comedy from Spede Pasanen.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsAki KaurismäkiPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasTalkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
- DirectorSakari RimminenStarsTerhi PanulaPekka MandartJukka VilhunenA man suffering from paranoia and delusions is convinced that the city water source is contaminated.
- DirectorVisa MäkinenStarsPekka AutiovuoriAnitta NiemiKauko HelovirtaA bumbling reporter gets mixed up in a prison break plot.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiMika KaurismäkiStarsJuice Leskinen SlamEppu NormaaliHassisen KoneA documentary of three Finnish bands on tour around lake Saimaa. Bands on boat are Hassisen Kone, Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen Slam.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsEsko SalminenIrina MilanTom WentzelFollows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaElli CastrénUuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.