Markku Maalismaa

Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)

A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, "Making the world a better place", is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where peop ...

Maria's Paradise (2019)

A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her. ...

Linnan juhlat (2017)

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, b ...

Flowers of Evil (2016)

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towa ...

The Mine (2016)

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entir ...

Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved ...

The Interrogation (2009)

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics. ...

Legend of the Lake Bodom (2006)

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bo ...

Linnut (2006)

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila. ...

Nainen kedolla (2003)

Museum conservator Laura Malkaluoto is a top professional in her field. She studies art forgeries at a large museum. One morning, Sami Pirilä, a Finnish-born museum director living in Ecuador, is impressed by Laura's professional skills; Laura's ability t ...

Mosku: The Last of His Kind (2003)

A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is als ...

Raid (2003)

Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a ...

Poliisin poika (1998)

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver. ...

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners (1997)

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and "impossible" stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun. ...

Viimeiset siemenperunat (1993)

Kissa ja Varjo (1993)

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, th ...

The Wedding Waltz (1988)

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repair ...

Huomenna (1986)

The story of an unspecified country ravaged by civil war, with its rebels and spies. ...

Katso ihmistä (1981)

A film about a man whose foundations of life were shaken. "Look at me! I was the man who believed in the system. ...