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1. Milka: Elokuva tabuista (1980)
110 min | Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Rauni Mollberg | Stars: Irma Huntus, Leena Suomu, Matti Turunen, Eikka Lehtonen
Votes: 386
2. Poromafia (2023)
40 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When the matriarch Brita Nelihanka, long-time ruler of the northern wastelands, dies, the relatives gather to distribute the inheritance. However, the testament offers big surprises, and soon the family is embroiled in a power struggle.
Stars: Samuli Edelmann, Anna-Maija Tuokko, Aake Kalliala, Olavi Uusivirta
Votes: 583
3. The Hunters (1996)
R | 113 min | Crime, Thriller
A Stockholm cop moves back home to his brother near Norway and Finland. He investigates out of control reindeer poaching. He confiscates rifles with no permits. Everybody, even his brother and local cops, are against him. Things escalate.
Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Jarmo Mäkinen, Tomas Norström
Votes: 9,427
4. Sunday in the Country (1974)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at ... See full summary »
Director: John Trent | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Michael J. Pollard, Hollis McLaren, Louis Zorich
Votes: 702
5. Siberiade (1979)
190 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 2,317
6. Tuftland (2017)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A headstrong textile student tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer in Kyrsyä, an offbeat, remote village.
Director: Roope Olenius | Stars: Veera W. Vilo, Saara Elina, Miikka J. Anttila, Ria Kataja
Votes: 463
7. False Trail (2011)
129 min | Mystery, Thriller
A Stockholm cop returns again to his hometown in the northern wilderness to investigate a murder.
Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Peter Stormare, Annika Nordin, Kim Tjernström
Votes: 5,779
8. Bunny the Killer Thing (2015)
88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A group of Finnish and British people get stuck at a cabin when they are attacked by a creature that is a half human, half rabbit.
Director: Joonas Makkonen | Stars: Enni Ojutkangas, Jari Manninen, Orwi Manny Ameh, Veera W. Vilo
Votes: 1,795
9. The Trader (2018)
TV-PG | 23 min | Documentary, Short
A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.
Director: Tamta Gabrichidze
Votes: 3,449
10. The Moonlight Sonata (1988)
86 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Olli Soinio | Stars: Tiina Björkman, Kari Sorvali, Kim Gunell, Mikko Kivinen
Votes: 1,030
11. Once Upon a Time in the North (2012)
128 min | Drama, History
On the West Coast on Finland in nineteenth-century Ostrobothnia. Esko is the leader of a local gang of troublemakers and an uneven battle ensues over the estate, honor a father's last wishes.
Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili | Stars: Lauri Tilkanen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Aku Hirviniemi
Votes: 1,648
12. Pastorale (1975)
95 min | Drama
Members of a music band spending summer in the countryside watch the petty dramas play out among the local folks and among themselves.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Nana Ioseliani, Tamar Gabarashvili, Mikhail Naneishvili, Nukri Davitashvili
Votes: 571
13. The Forgotten Ones (2021)
93 min | Documentary
Israeli society is marked by a taboo. That of the systematic discrimination against Jews from Arab countries on arriving in the Promised Land, a wound that has not healed to this day. In ... See full summary »
Director: Michale Boganim | Stars: Reuven Abergel, Erez Biton, Maayane Elfassy Boganim
Votes: 47
14. Here and Now (I) (2018)
R | 90 min | Drama
Here and Now is an authentic social drama told through the eyes of Andrey, a young immigrant living with her little sister in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society.
Director: Roman Shumunov | Stars: Vlad Dubinsky, Renat Khassanov, Eduard Khmelnitsky, Ifat London
Votes: 37
15. Simpauttaja (1975 TV Movie)
151 min | Comedy, Drama
Imppa has to leave home and finds a job at the farm. There he meets an enigmatic hired hand known as Simpauttaja.
Director: Veikko Kerttula | Stars: Ahti Kuoppala, Pekka Räty, Leni Katajakoski, Esko Hukkanen
Votes: 191
16. Kätkäläinen (1980 TV Movie)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of villagers battle an local entrepreneur that poison the air with toxic emissions.
Director: Markku Onttonen | Stars: Martti Kainulainen, Maija-Liisa Majanlahti, Maritta Viitamäki, Mikko Nousiainen
Votes: 89
17. Bull by the Horns (2021– )
22 min | Drama
16 year old Allu Korva is sent to work on the family farm in Torvenkylä, north of Finland. A summer of punishment changes when Allu meets local girl Kerttu, gets to know the local ... See full summary »
Stars: Carola Hakola, Rebekka Baer, Noa Lange, Sulo Laukkanen
Votes: 155
18. The Sixth Part of the World (1926)
68 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 593
19. Punainen kohina (2021)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
A lonely man living on a secluded farm invites his childhood friends for a visit. He has a plan that will shock everyone who ever knew him and change their lives forever.
Director: Sami Pöyry | Stars: Jari Manninen, Roope Olenius, Veera W. Vilo, Jere Saarela
Votes: 94
20. Fantasia (2016)
9 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Teemu Nikki | Stars: Jimi Ylöstalo, Henna Hakkarainen, Hannu Salminen, Jukka Alanko
Votes: 86
21. Ajolähtö (1982)
107 min | Drama, Romance
Juuso, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Heikki Paavilainen, Timo Torikka, Tero Niva, Sanna Majanlahti
Votes: 240
22. Kalervo Palsa ja kuriton käsi (2013)
73 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Pekka Lehto | Stars: Janne Reinikainen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Antti Raivio, Markku Peltola
Votes: 179
23. She Has It (2018– )
40 min | Comedy, Drama
Natalie, a small-town girl with big ambitions, and an equally big attitude, gets her first break in fashion, only to discover that her dreams come with a price to pay - in love, in her ... See full summary »
Stars: Niv Sultan, Oz Zehavi, Magi Azarzar, Maor Schwietzer
Votes: 59
24. ¡Vivan las antípodas! (2011)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 719
25. Curses of the Witch (1927)
82 min | Drama, Horror
A newlywed couple suffer from the effects of a curse a witch put on the place they live in centuries earlier.
Director: Teuvo Puro | Stars: Einar Rinne, Heidi Blåfield, Irmeli Viherjuuri, Kaisa Leppänen
Votes: 160
26. The Painting Sellers (2010)
58 min | Drama
It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. There is an issue: how to cope with an emerging friendship?
Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Teppo Manner, Auli Mantila, Tuomas Airola, Marketta Immonen
Votes: 231
27. Turksib (1929)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia... See full summary »
Director: Victor A. Turin
Votes: 461
28. Painajainen (1988)
183 min | Horror, Mystery
Painter Kai Merilä wakes up from a 7-month coma after being in a road accident while Driving Under the Influence. Suffering from amnesia, he returns to his villa in the Finnish countryside,... See full summary »
Stars: Eero Melasniemi, Anna-Leena Härkönen, Esa Anttila, Mikko Hänninen
Votes: 138
29. Red Fields (2019)
90 min | Drama, Musical
This is the story of Mami, a young woman who was born and raised in a small impoverished town down south. She works at the snack bar at the local gas station and is in love with Nissim, her... See full summary »
Director: Keren Yedaya | Stars: Neta Elkayam, Ami Abu, Riki Gal, Yuval Banai
Votes: 81
30. Herzl's Susita (2018)
84 min | Drama
A film teacher had to teach in Sderot and change the lives of his students.
Director: David Kreiner | Stars: Noa Astanjelove, Miki Leon, Evelin Hagoel, Matan Lax
Votes: 24
31. Havukka-ahon ajattelija (1971– )
24 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Lauri Leino, Seppo Karjalainen, Olavi Johansson, Harri Tirkkonen
Votes: 26
33. The Ancestral Sin (2017)
109 min | Documentary, History
The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice ... See full summary »
Director: David Deri | Stars: Elisha Efrat, Erez Tzfadia
Votes: 33
34. Birds in the Earth (2018)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama
Two sister ballerinas dance through the villages and forests of the Sámi land in this whimsical and disarming commentary on indigenous sovereignty and land ownership (The Sámi are the only indigenous people within the European Union area).
Director: Marja Helander | Stars: Birit Haarla, Katja Haarla
Votes: 117
35. The Last League (2019–2022)
40 min | Documentary, Sport
The Last League - the lowest league in soccer in Israel, focuses on people from the peripheries for whom soccer is their last chance of making it big and giving meaning to their lives. Why ... See full summary »
Stars: Avi Peretz, Liat Efrati, Ephraim Siyada, Mohamed Tawfiq
Votes: 21
36. Yön kätkössä (1988 TV Movie)
38 min | Thriller
Director: Juha Karikoski | Stars: Soli Labbart, Esa Anttila, Paavo Piskonen, Tiina Virtanen
Votes: 5
37. Village People (2013)
85 min | Comedy
The long-time president of the Republic of Finland, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen is scheduled to visit Alli's Bar on his way to northern Finland.
Director: Marja Pyykkö | Stars: Wilma Rosenqvist, Merja Larivaara, Marjaana Maijala, Konsta Mäkelä
Votes: 430
38. Joensuun Elli (2004)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Summer in the 1970's. Small Eastern-Finland village. One pretty young woman (Elli) and all the men wanting her...
Director: Anssi Mänttäri | Stars: Jenni Banerjee, Maija-Liisa Majanlahti, Paavo Liski, Santeri Kinnunen
Votes: 92
39. Kuolema savolaiseen tapaan (1983)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspector Martti Halla and the mystery of the dead woman with red boots in the Savonian countryside.
Stars: Katriina Rinne, Martti Järvinen, Anu Panula, Sylvi Koponen
Votes: 13
40. Punainen viiva (1959)
97 min | Drama, History
In 1906, a poor farmer in the backwoods of Finland -- then part of Russia -- struggles to make a living for his wife and four children. He hears about a new law that will allow equal voting... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Holger Salin, Liisa Nevalainen, Petri Tanner, Jukka Eklund
Votes: 214
41. Body of Water (2011)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Julia moves back to her childhood village to help a group of ecologists save a lake from an industrial project, but strange things start to happen as she must confront her deepest repressed secrets.
Director: Joona Tena | Stars: Krista Kosonen, Kai Lehtinen, Viljami Nojonen, Peter Franzén
Votes: 750
42. My Family's Pizza (2003)
52 min | Documentary
Maksim, a sleep addict, asks his parents to help him buy a pizza place he co-owns. As soon as the work begins, the parents realize they will have to invest a lot more than just money. With ... See full summary »
Director: Ronen Amar
43. Diva of Finland (2019)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Henna, 18, becomes literally blind because of envy for a new girl, Silja. Henna stalks Silja with a pair of binoculars, falls over and temporarily loses all eyesight. When Henna starts seeing again she doesn't tell anyone.
Director: Maria Veijalainen | Stars: Suvi-Tuuli Teerinkoski, Linda Manelius, Jutta Myllykoski, Sonja Sippala
Votes: 218
44. The Idle Ones (2001)
78 min | Documentary
A documentary about a group of young unoccupied social outcasts and their daily routines.
Directors: Susanna Helke, Virpi Suutari | Stars: Harri Moilanen, Tero Kinnunen, Jaakko Lähdesmäki, Matti Puoskari
Votes: 271
45. The Raven's Dance (1980)
79 min | Drama
Film 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
Director: Markku Lehmuskallio | Stars: Pertti Kalinainen, Paavo Katajasaari, Hilkka Matikainen, Eero Kemilä
Votes: 78
46. Lottovoittajien maa (1990)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Markku Toikka, Carl-Kristian Rundman, Jussi Lampi, Tero Jartti
Votes: 14
47. One Hundred Percent (2019)
70 min | Documentary
The village of Beit Jann in the mountains of the Galilee holds the highest record of high school graduates in Israel, and possibly in the world. While the school only held a 12% graduation ... See full summary »
Directors: Yael Kipper Zaretzky, Ronen Zaretsky
Votes: 7
48. Routasydän (1993)
83 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the ... See full summary »
Director: Tuomas Sallinen | Stars: Mats Långbacka, Katja Kiuru, Konsta Väänänen, Reeta Vestman
Votes: 293
49. The Truck (2002– )
52 min | Drama
Stars: Ze'ev Revach, Sami Huri, Shalom Assayag, Maayan Harush
Votes: 20
50. Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)
118 min | Drama
It tells about the collision between the Sami and Finnish culture and two different world views in Lapland, Käsivar.
Director: Markku Lehmuskallio | Stars: Jouni S. Labba, Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Jukka Häyrinen, Eija Ojanen
Votes: 43