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- A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
- After Finland's Independence Day celebration is interrupted by a terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace and distinguished guests are taken hostage, a security service officer tries to uncover who is trying to destabilize Europe.
- A story of renowned Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, and the love affair between her and a younger art critic Einar Reuter.
- A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
- A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
- Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.
- A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
- Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends' lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world. "Urban Family" is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world. The movie's engaging songs are written precisely for this movie by the very top Finnish songwriters including Paula Vesala, Lauri Ylönen, Olavi Uusivirta, Terhi Kokkonen.
- A workaholic deliveryman struggles not to be terminated by the flashy social butterfly screaming inside him.
- The 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.
- Me and my Little Sister is a personal film about sisterhood, homosexuality and the search for acceptance.
- Guard of a prison-camp Celebici during Bosnian war, Esad Landzo, convicted for war crimes, is looking for redemption.
- Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
- Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
- Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
- While 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.
- A young cleaning girl, Kukka-Maaria, goes to work in the city and rent a luxury apartment. In return, the landlord gradually subjugates the girl as a sex partner to himself and his acquaintances.
- The Kiljunen family wins a holiday to the city. Helsinki will never be the same again.
- It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. Hans hires Samu to go on a mission with him: to find Laura, the daughter of his recently deceased best friend and brother in arms. The quest to find Laura leads the men around the wintry city, to places and people from Hans's past. As Samu watches Hans confront his past, he begins to open his eyes to his own future. When the eventful mission reaches its end, both of the men's lives are forever changed.
- Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
- Uuno'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.
- A romantic comedy about a woman who finally finds her "Only One", but then the man mysteriously disappears. Her next great love appears, but happens to also be the Prime Minister of Finland.
- Cat's disappearance gets old poor old hippy filmmaker to reminiscing old times.
- A film about a powerful and difficult but equally fascinating man of many careers, achievements and failures. A phenomenon who, during an entire lifetime, has used his intellect but also power and control to achieve his ends. And so he does with us, the film team. This makes the confrontation between Donner and the filmmakers titillating, exasperating and filled with both uncomfortable but also humoristic moments.
- A triangle drama involving a young unlucky drifter, a nightclub singer and a corrupt police officer.
- Adopted 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.
- Documentary on Finnish burlesque star and shows, with (doc)maker's associated performance empowerment.
- Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.
- Photos of restaurants from the outside and inside the restaurant lounges. Wanha-Hokki on the corner of Yrjönkatu. Little Hokki on City Street. Central Hokki on Esplanade. The Pika-Pala restaurant in the Sokos building.
- The Maoists of Finland were critical of the Soviet Union, opposed the occupation of Czechoslovakia and were among the first to speak of Finnishization. They opposed Kekkonen's supremacy and his re-election by way of exception.