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- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsEero MelasniemiKristiina HalkolaPekka AutiovuoriTwo student couples go camping in the Finnish countryside; partner swapping and interpersonal dynamics - with a touch of their philosophy - between them all arise.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsMartti SuosaloHenrika AnderssonMatti VarjoPekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village.
- 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.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsEila PehkonenMartti KatajistoEmma VäänänenA visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsIrma SeikkulaTauno PaloTopo LeisteläPoor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never loses her common sense, and starts taking evening classes. Keeping her studies secret from her employer for years, she eventually graduates from the university and becomes candidate in the parliamentary election, stressing women's and working people's rights. Romance with Judge Soratie finally ensues.
- 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.
- DirectorAuli MantilaStarsLeea KlemolaElina HurmeRea MauranenEevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
- DirectorJack WitikkaStarsLeif AaltonenAapeliKaarlo HalttunenIn a small Finnish town in the 1920s, 12-year-old Pietari Jormalainen lives in a lively courtyard surrounded by wooden houses. While God sees everything and everyone - and takes care of his Mother up in heaven - Pietari too has a lot of interesting and eccentric people to observe. The newest addition to the bustling neighbourhood is Father's new wife Karoliina who is determined to put all things in order.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsAarne LaineMirjam NoveroAnnika Sipilä
- DirectorVeikko KerttulaStarsAhti KuoppalaPekka RätyLeni KatajakoskiImppa has to leave home and finds a job at the farm. There he meets an enigmatic hired hand known as Simpauttaja.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEeva-Maija HaukinenErkki PajalaHeikki HämäläinenA physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
- 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.
- DirectorHannu LeminenStarsHelena KaraTauno PaloAku KorhonenThe uncredited adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel (1922), made five years before Max Ophüls' more widely recognized "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948).
- 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.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsHeikki PaavilainenTimo TorikkaTero NivaJuuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil-drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm, but he wants to break free from his father, who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm, but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies, and he and drifter Late take jobs in a steel mill in southern Finland.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMarkku HalmeMinna SoisaloSakari RouvinenThe great merit of film is that it never starts to moralize or give forced explanations, as is customary in many films about crimes.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsTarmo ManniEmma VäänänenSalli KarunaA handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then take their money.
- DirectorJukka VirtanenStarsSpede PasanenSimo SalminenEsko SalminenLosing 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.
- DirectorJari HalonenStarsJorma 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.
- DirectorMaunu KurkvaaraStarsSointu AngervoNils BrandtKyllikki ForssellA young colleague of a successful architect tries to find a reason for the architect's unexpected suicide.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsElina HurmeTiina WeckströmElena LeeveTwin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother Sirkka leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old Communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe, and she becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from heights, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from one another. In present-day Helsinki, middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate, and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being.
- DirectorWilho IlmariStarsKaisu LeppänenEino KaipainenAku KorhonenThe landlady Astrid Jönsson of a forest farm, hires a job seeker posing as Aaltonen as a farm manager when her mentally ill husband Alfred is unable to work.
- DirectorJukka SipiläStarsSiiri AngerkoskiSelma MiettinenVarma LahtinenAliisa is a poor pensioner struggling to survive in the 1970s' Helsinki. This was the last role of the prolific finnish actor Siiri Angerkoski.
- DirectorTeuvo PuroStarsEinar RinneHeidi BlåfieldIrmeli ViherjuuriA newlywed couple suffer from the effects of a curse a witch put on the place they live in centuries earlier.
- 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.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsKirsti HurmeLauri KorpelaNestori LampiInnocent girl gets lead astray by Lothario, not only into adultery, because he's already married, but devilish drink, too. Lothario's good friend, the fine upstanding seaman takes a fancy to make her his wife, but he's not enough to save her. On the way, her daughter becomes a victim of her wayward drunken ways. Romance and warnings on the perils downfall of drink, delivered in melodramatic, 'eye popping' (by lead actress) style.
- 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.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsEeva LitmanenMinna HaapkyläMatti OnnismaaMiddle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life. Gradually, however, persistent Maire convinces her that the man must be made to pay for what he did.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorHeikki KujanpääStarsPekka AutiovuoriAarno SulkanenMarjukka HalttunenAfter bank confiscates an old-timer's lands and threatens to take his house he is forced to question his morale.
- DirectorPeter LindholmStarsPirkka-Pekka PeteliusPaavo KerosuoPekka StrangEpic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
- DirectorKari VäänänenStarsTaisto ReimaluotoSari HavasTaneli MäkeläAfter his predecessor on a long-festering wilderness village murder case resigns for "reasons of health", a young police detective decides it's time for more forceful methods. But there's still those "we don't know nuthin" villagers to contend with, and ultimately his own personal lust for revenge. Based on a true story.