Merja Larivaara

Village People (2013)

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli's Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in t ...

The Hijack That Went South (2013)

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story. ...

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 ...

Bad Family (2010)

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair b ...

Rock'n Roll Never Dies (2006)

The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guitar and loving parents. ...

Game Over (2005)

A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001. ...

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life (2004)

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile S ...

Hayflower and Quiltshoe (2002)

The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe. ...

Vuoden viimeinen kesä (1998)

The story of a woman who leaves her family in Finland because she is offered a job at a refugee camp in Africa. ...

Viisi tytärtäni (1997)

Tie naisen sydämeen (1996)

Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. The ...

Marja (1994)

When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone. Marja ends up with an illegal abortion when there are only bad options ahead. ...

Aapo (1994)

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins. ...

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät (1993)

Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert. ...

Ripa Hits the Skids (1993)

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cr ...

The Well (1992)

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obse ...

Rengasmatka (1988)

Divorced Asta and her daughter Anni go on a summer holiday touring Finland with Asta's sister and her husband. On the trip they visit a submarine, a mine, a dinosaur land and search for Santa Claus in Lapland. ...