En Laponie, les parents de Nikolas périssent dans un accident. Les familles du village décident de l'élever chacune leur tour pendant un an. Pour les remercier, Nikolas leur fabrique des objets en bois qu'il donne le jour de Noël. Ainsi commence l'histoire du Père Noël...
Pete est un passionné de football qui joue comme gardien de but pour le FC HeMan, une équipe qui joue dans la ligue la plus basse possible. Sa petite amie, Anna, déteste ce sport. Pete et ses coéquipiers prévoient de se rendre en Allemagne pour assister à la Coupe du monde de football. Anna n'est pas très enthousiaste à l'idée que Pete la laisse seule pendant l'été. Anna décide donc de lancer un défi à Pete : elle formera une équipe avec les épouses et les petites amies des joueurs du FC HeMan, et l'équipe féminine (FC Venus) jouera contre le FC HeMan. Si l'équipe féminine gagne, les hommes devront abandonner le football, et si l'équipe masculine gagne, les femmes ne se plaindront plus jamais de leur hobby.
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.
The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Venla et Antero sont un couple moderne, ensemble depuis longtemps, elle psychologue et lui sportif de haut niveau. Mais leur relation entre en crise quand Venla désire avoir un enfant, ce qu'Antero refuse catégoriquement. Il va même en secret jusqu'à pratiquer une vasectomie. Venla va alors tout faire pour avoir un enfant, et avec l'aide de Satu, femme médecin spécialisée dans les grossesses assistées, elle va opter pour une insémination artificielle..
Taru lives with her husband and this teenage daughter Ninni. The family's life is shaken when Ninni has an accident and Ninni's biological mother and Taru's half-sister Eve show up. Soon things from the women's past will surface.
Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
Räkä deliver pizzas for a living and spends his free time on moped meetings. In one meeting he meets Liima and together they start working towards the first place in the upcoming race. The moped club MC Helper is born.
The year is 1972. Finnish endurance running is in its golden age. The head physician of a mental hospital goes on a bike ride with a marathon runner who has been forgotten in hospital for years. But the ride doesn't follow the expected route...
Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
Une ville au bord de l'Atlantique, hors saison. Trois jours, sept personnages, sept vies en mouvement, en quête d'elles-mêmes, qui se croisent, se ratent, se frôlent, se percutent et qui en se quittant, ne seront plus jamais les mêmes.
Armi Ratia is the woman behind the legendary design company Marimekko and a worldwide celebrity. A theatre company has taken on the task of trying to portray the life and work of this complex person. The sets mainly consist of the well-known patterns that we all have grown to love. Armi is a brave, risk-taking businesswoman and her passion for her company repeatedly takes its toll on her employees, finances and family. The company grows while Armi's personal life is shaken by suicide attempts and turbulence. In Armi Alive!, Oscar-nominated film producer and director Jörn Donner portrays a fascinating woman with fervent ideas about the new Finnish man, her company, fabrics and clothes.
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
Vincent Mandel, photographe et père de famille en instance de divorce, voit sa vie s'effondrer à cause d'une manipulation orchestrée par un ancien camarade de classe, Joseph Plender.Meurtre, enlèvement et chantage vont conduire Vincent dans une véritable descente aux enfers... Il ne lui reste qu'un seul espoir, battre Plender à son propre jeu.
One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it.
Somebody Should Do Something tells a story of insecurity and longing for freedom, of fear that drives people to poor choices. The main character, Elvis, falls for the new girl in class, Onerva. Seeking acceptance from his friends, Elvis lies and tells them he’s had sex with Onerva. Due to the lies and misunderstandings, the whole town is soon at a point where somebody should do something.
Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.
Dans un monde futuriste où l’eau se fait rare, Noria est devenue la Maîtresse du thé de son village, suivant à la lettre les traditions héritées de son défunt père. Elle détient également un secret bien gardé depuis des générations. La jeune femme doit faire appel à sa force tranquille pour la guider à travers une dangereuse odyssée pour la survie de son peuple.
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.
Eveliina, 16 ans, voit par hasard sa mère embrasser une autre femme. Craignant le divorce de ses parents, elle décide d'intervenir, par tous les moyens, et sans autorisation. Selon elle, le meilleur moyen de détruire la liaison extraconjugale de sa mère et de réconcilier ses parents est de se mettre dans le pétrin. C'est donc ce qu'elle fait de toutes les façons possibles...
Winter 1975 - author Jeanette Aspen arrives at Lapinlahti Mental Hospital to meet her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, 36 years after sending her daughter to Sweden as herself traveled to Southern Europe, at the start of the Winter War. The encounter triggers a drama between the mother and daughter, who are now total strangers to each other.
Räkä deliver pizzas for a living and spends his free time on moped meetings. In one meeting he meets Liima and together they start working towards the first place in the upcoming race. The moped club MC Helper is born.
Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
After losing her father, Vilma can't find her place in the life of her foster family. As a result of her struggles, Vilma ends up in a juvenile home, where she refuses to be subdued by the arbitrary and abusive staff who run it.
Quelques mois à peine après avoir perdu un être cher, l'inspectrice Sofia Karppi enquête sur le meurtre d'une femme liée à une entreprise en bâtiment d'Helsinki.
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.
Two murders shake the Finnish community of Fuengirola, a group that made this tiny corner of Málaga their own little Finnish paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean. Hilkka Mäntymäki, a veteran crime detective aged 60, is travelling from Helsinki to help the local police on a case that will soon claim new victims. Because escaping the cold and the dark is much easier than leaving your own past behind.
A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world.
In early 1980s a young child disappears. The lack of police support pushes the concerned parents to take justice into their own hands and launch a desperate manhunt that is seen from the perspective of the local children.