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- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaSamuli VauramoJoonas SaartamoA woman dulled with praise, Nelli is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer.
- DirectorJarmo LampelaStarsSari MällinenIlkka KoivulaHannes SuominenA cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenOiva LohtanderMari RantasilaA hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.
- DirectorHannu TuomainenStarsAntti TarvainenJoonas SaartamoJohanna RönnlöfA cancer patient meets a new friend at the hospital, and together they escape on the adveture of their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääEvelyne DidiAndré WilmsThree struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite setbacks and tragedies.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsPirkko HämäläinenKari VäänänenHannu LauriAnna Kelanen is an ex-model who has just been released from prison. She thinks back on her life as a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
- DirectorJ.-P. ValkeapääStarsRoosa SöderholmTeppo MannerPetteri PenniläTwo teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsTimo EränköKari HeiskanenAsmo HurulaAn exodus to a better life in Eira.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsJanne ReinikainenKaroliina BlackburnPeter FranzénThe life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanElina KnihtiläKati OutinenA sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsVesa-Matti LoiriEija AhvoYrjö JärvinenMiller Gunnar Huttunen falls so heavily in love that he starts to howl.
- DirectorArto LehkamoStarsSanteri KinnunenVera KiiskinenMinna SoisaloYoung Ari Nykänen joins a board of inquiry investigating a mysterious freight train accident which at first seems just a case of vandalism. Ari delves deeper into the case and discovers a secret conspiracy revolving around his father-in-law, the director of the railway company.
- DirectorOlli SoinioStarsTiina 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 SaarelaStarsPeter FranzénIrina BjörklundKari HeiskanenSet during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.
- DirectorClaes OlssonStarsTiina LymiNicke LignellMinna PiriläWaitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old hometown.
- DirectorRaimo O. NiemiStarsMarja PyykköKalle AholaKaija KangasIn the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell. When things get worse, one of the boys starts his own investigations on the case.
- DirectorChristian LindbladStarsSam HuberMari VainioMerja LarivaaraA week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a wannabe filmmaker whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenAri-Kyösti SeppoAlain AzerotAfter his release from prison, a petty criminal assembles a ragtag group to rob banks.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJasper PääkkönenMikko LeppilampiPamela TolaOne bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannPeter FranzénKari HietalahtiProfessional criminals in Finland from 1966 to 1979.
- DirectorJoonas BerghällMika HotakainenStarsTimo AaltoPekka AhonenAarne AksilaFinnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart.
- DirectorTuukka TemonenStarsTaru TujunenMikko KortelainenOlli-Pekka NiskanenFollows the (succesful) presidential campaign of _Sauli Niinistö_ from inside of the campaign office.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénTaisto ReimaluotoAhti KuoppalaBright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannKatariina KaitueSanteri KinnunenHome Sweet Home is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsEero AhoTiina LymiElla LymiMatti Virtanen is trying to get his family back by buying a house.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsAlma PöystiAino LouhimiesSean PertweeNaked Harbour tells the story of people who seek love and acceptance at any cost.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsJorma TommilaTommi EronenMaria JärvenhelmiA murderer tries to leave his criminal past in East Helsinki and make a new life for his family
- DirectorJarmo LampelaStarsJoonas BraggeArttu KapulainenPihla PenttinenTwo teenagers from Helsinki are sent on a mission by their drug dealer.
- DirectorMinna VirtanenStarsMi GrönlundNicke LignellJasper PääkkönenJonna, successful ad executive with husband Niklas and two small children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she meets Aleksi, things start going awry in her personal and professional life.
- DirectorLauri TörhönenStarsMats LångbackaJonna JärnefeltSari PuumalainenSummer 1944 in Finnish Karelia; after a long lull, the Soviet army launches an overwhelming offensive that throws everything into disarray. Martta has barely time to marry Aarne before she is evacuated with relatives Hilkka who has just given birth to a son Helmi Elisa, the children, and their grandmother. In the confusion of the retreat, the women try to hold together and cross the paths of Aarne and Arttu, the only surviving brother of war-widow Helmi Elisa. Implacably, war takes its toll of suffering and death among civilians and soldiers.
- DirectorPamela TolaStarsLeena UotilaSaara PakkasvirtaSeela SellaAfter gravely injuring her husband and realising that she might face consequences for it, Inkeri, an elderly woman, embarks on one last road trip.
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsHannele LauriMikko NousiainenMisa PalanderAn aging pop queen loved by the people struggles between her private and professional lives.
- 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.
- DirectorNyrki TapiovaaraStarsTuulikki PaananenIlmari MäntySanteri KariloA thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsJohannes BrotherusJari VirmanAnneli KarppinenA fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsMinna HaapkyläPetteri SummanenLaura MalmivaaraFC Venus is a romantic comedy about men, women and soccer.
- DirectorJarmo LampelaStarsSanna HietalaAntti IkkalaJyri OjansivuEpisodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
- DirectorArto KoskinenStarsMiikka EnbuskeMaija JunnoHeikki HelaIn the 1970s, a 12-year-old boy Esko lives in Tornio, northern Finland, a town bordering Sweden across the river. Esko befriends a Swedish boy, Pate, and learns to share his obsession for Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist. While standing handcuffed on the railway bridge, contemplating a stunt jump into the icy river, he reminisces the dramatic events of the summer before. For the viewer, his problems are presented with warm humour # gang fights, feeling guilty for lying, Father losing his job, Mother losing her nerves, not to mention Grandfather having lost his willingness to speak since a traumatic war experience 30 years earlier.
- DirectorPerttu LeppäStarsMikko LeppilampiLaura BirnAmanda PilkeWhen their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy...
- DirectorPerttu LeppäStarsUnto HeloHanna-Mari KarhinenMikko HakolaThe story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.