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Highway Society (2000)

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background. ...

The Minister of State (1997)

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love. ...

Onkel Vanja (1994)

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. ...

The Last Border (1993)

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world ...

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers (1991)

A sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buri ...

Paper Star (1989)

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong. ...

Cha Cha Cha (1989)

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He m ...

The Moonlight Sonata (1988)

A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of t ...

Yön kätkössä (1988)

Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri (1987)

A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal. ...

Elämän vonkamies (1986)

Portrait of rural life in 1920s Northern Finland. The film follows the early life of a boy called Kalle and his family in the shores of river Iijoki. ...

Valkoinen kääpiö (1986)

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia. ...

The Wrestler (1985)

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own. ...

The Honest Deceiver (1985)

A strange woman insinuates her way into the life and home of an elderly artist. By the time the snow thaws, both their lives will have changed irrevocably. ...

The Clan: Tale of the Frogs (1984)

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with ...

Sista leken (1984)

In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summe ...

Iso vaalee (1983)

Young hockey player Illu spends his summer in local restaurants, just like the stunning blonde Salme, with whom he and every man in town is in love. ...

Aidankaatajat (1982)

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter ...

Flame Top (1980)

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult ...

Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti (1979)

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants h ...

Charlotte Löwensköld (1979)

1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur str ...