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- A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.
- Country boy Mikko Syvärivi lands a job as a floor manager at the TV studios in Helsinki. He finds no place to stay in the capital, so he works as night guard. Ambitious Mikko writes some material of his own, but becomes an instant TV success after failing comically in a small role, which leads to a series of TV shows based on slapstick door tricks. But when he decides to raise his act onto a new level - window tricks! - his ratings plummet and the show is put off the air. Love and money fly out the window too, but Mikko won't give up easily.
- Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
- A 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.
- Lieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A subplot alleges sexual liaisons between soldiers and female volunteers, which caused controversy when the film and the novel it's based on were released in the early 1960s.
- 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.
- The Vorna brothers are scouting for a hidden valley rumored to be bathing in gold. The Vorna's collide with a another gold digger who claims to know about a map of the entrance to the valley.
- A 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.
- Two 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.
- Helinä is tired of her monotonous life revolving around her young children, while her husband is away on business. At the hair salon she meets other frustrated housewives. Together the find an attractive solution to the problem.
- A combination of Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968) and Akseli and Elina (1970), edited together by István Szintai for foreign markets.
- A biopic of Vili Vesterinen, a popular Finnish accordion virtuoso (1907-61). After years of playing by the ear and for free at local country dances in his home province Karelia, he is accepted at the Viipuri Conservatory to study double bass. Accordion is frowned upon in classical music circles, and Vili is frustrated for having to learn to read music and pick up notes from his large 'cupboard', as he calls his assigned instrument. Depressed even more after his childhood sweetheart Mirja gets engaged to his best friend, he finally manages to join Dallapé, the most prestigious dance band of pre-war Finland.
- A customs detective infiltrates a smuggling organization.
- The story of the formation of the Finnish Republic and its independence from Russia.
- Klaus Grahn is a young law student in his early twenties. He has a loyal and nice blonde girlfriend Anita, but is drawn towards a new love interest, the dark haired and more exciting Eija. Frustrated by his small earnings writing bits and pieces for a newspaper he gets the idea for a perfect crime. He forges a check and cashes it in a bank, but the money runs out and now the police are after him. Desperate he boards a train to Tampere and robs a taxi there and shoots the driver with his sawn-off rifle. Getting back to Helsinki he succeeds in avoiding the police who have come to meet him at the train station. He contacts both his girlfriends, who still do not know of the killing. Anita tries to talk some sense to him but fails. Eija tries to comfort him with he loving feelings. After drinking in a bar, Klaus runs amok through the city. He thinks he has been turned in to the police by the girls. He confronts them for the last time - with the gun in his hands.
- Two brothers, one frivolous but fun, the other industrious but dull, both rivals to one woman worker on their farm they both fancy, told in black and white classic melodrama way.
- Leftist welder and right wing clerk get married. Soon enough they find themselves covered with financial and emotional problems.
- Tanja Bulkova, who arrives in Finland under the name Toini Salonen with the help of spy chief Rosenberg, becomes secretary to engineer Rautavuori and finds out about the blueprints of a secret invention.
- Western spoof set in the "Wild North", the Finnish Lapland. A young woman whose gold-digger father was killed two years earlier thinks the killer was Tundra-Tauno. She goes after him but soon realizes that she may be wrong and that Tauno may not be such a repulsive character after all.
- Pertti works as a telegraph operator on a ship. When it arrives in Helsinki, Pertti looks forward to seeing his mother again, and also the neighbor girl, with whom he is in love. But his plans change when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship when they go ashore.
- Finnish military farce about elderly man who is commanded back to service.
- Marja is a prostitute who has to run away, when her pimp Jussi robs and kills one of her costumers. She finds a hiding place in a mansion on the country side. Marja falls in love with the master of the mansion, but Jussi finds out Marjas whereabouts and comes to meet her.
- Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love/hate relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her deathbed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly-happy family life with someone else.
- Matti escapes his chaotic family to the tavern and ends up in bed making love to his ex-girlfriend. It's a typical one-night stand but is not so easy to shake.
- Based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
- A girl has disappeared. Her cheerful sister and policeman fiance try to solve the mystery.
- The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the Norht.
- Based on Maria Jotuni's play, a sharp comedy about greed and speculation. The inhabitants of a small Finnish town try to survive despite the difficulties during the First World War. There is a shortage of everything and speculation flourishes. Everything collapses when peace is unexpectedly made. Maria Jotunin näytelmään perustuva kirpeä komedia ahneudesta ja keinottelusta. Suomalaisen pikkukaupungin asukkaat yrittävät selviytyä vaikeuksista huolimatta ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana. Kaikesta on pulaa ja keinottelu kukoistaa. Kaikki romahtaa, kun rauha yllättäen solmitaan.
- Two men steal a precious candelabra at a mansion they accidentally burn down. Two years later, one of the thieves is a wealthy property owner. But he is tormented by his memories and debt.
- A police inspector on his summer vacation is dragged into a small town murder case.
- 1800-luvun lopulla Längelmäellä tehtiin raaka veriteko jossa kaksi miestä tappoi postelijoonin ja ryösti postilaukun rahat. Perustuu tositapahtumiin.
- A vagabond sings and seduces maids in Finnish countryside at 1800s.
- The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.
- A disillusioned visual artist and student girl find magnetic attraction for one night. She temporarily quenches his burn of alcohol and hunger for love, while he makes her forget her fatal illness.
- When the Winter War of 1939 begins but an evacuation order never arrives in Karelia, a local family must assemble the townspeople to flee their homes from the impending destruction.