Riisuttu mies
Sep 15, 2006A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.
Drama
Sulevi Peltola
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Last cowboy standing
Sep 04, 2009En Finlande dans les années soixante-dix, Rupert et Evert sont deux frères à l'imagination débordante. Malgré une mère instable, leur père fait tout pour que leur enfance soit la plus heureuse possible. Un jour, leur mère quitte le domicile et est très vite remplacée par une nouvelle femme qu'ils n'apprécient pas. Entre crise de larmes et tensions, Rupert va tenter l'impossible pour préserver l'équilibre familial.
Drama
Helsinki, ikuisesti
Aug 15, 2008Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
Documentary
Katsastus
Sep 01, 1988Viltteri, 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 repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
Drama
Siriuksen vieraat
Apr 09, 1987Drama
Sügisball
Sep 13, 2007Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray.
Drama
Frozen Land
Jan 14, 2005Tuomas est un jeune hacker qui aimerait mener une opération mémorable et utile à la société. Son meilleur ami, Niko, mène une vie plus agitée pleine de drogue et d'alcool. Elina a vingt ans, vient d'un milieu aisé et étudie l'histoire et les sciences politiques à l'université. Elle est aussi la petite amie de Tuomas depuis plus d'un an et ils envisagent de se marier. En contrefaisant un billet de 500 euros, Niko va déclencher une réaction en chaîne et bouleverser leurs existences ainsi que celles d'un ouvrier, d'un vendeur d'aspirateurs au porte-à-porte et d'un concessionnaire automobiles. Pendant ce temps, Hannele, agent de police et mère de trois enfants est sur la piste de Tuomas qui s'est introduit dans le système informatique d'une multinationale.
Drama
Mestari
Mar 06, 1992Drama
Tears of April
Aug 29, 20081918. La guerre civile fait rage en Finlande ; les Rouges sociaux-démocrates affrontent les Blancs antisocialistes. Le soldat Aaro Harjula, jeune recrue parmi les Blancs, est le témoin impuissant des exactions commises sur les femmes soldats Rouges qui sont violées puis exécutées sans aucun jugement. Il décide d'emmener à un tribunal militaire proche l'une des femmes qui a échappé au massacre.
Romance
Il prossimo tuo
Jun 19, 2009Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Drama
Aikalainen
Mar 16, 1984
Koomikko
Mar 11, 1983Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.
Comedy
Pala valkoista marmoria
Dec 21, 1998Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.
Drama
Herr Puntila och hans dräng Matti
Dec 21, 1979Based 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 her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Comedy
Likaiset kädet
Oct 05, 1989A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
TV Movie
Kuningasjätkä
Feb 13, 1998Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
Drama
Helmiä ja sikoja
Aug 29, 2003When 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.
Comedy
Räpsy & Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa
Feb 02, 1990Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.
Comedy
Legenda - Pieni ihmetarina valtatien varrelta
Jun 26, 1989A small gas station is held in the grip of a sinister trio of men until a rugged stranger, acting as the protector of truckers, appears on the scene. He puts the villains in order. At the same time, a legend of wonder is born, and the gas station begins to attract the crippled and burdened, awaiting healing
Tuhlaajapoika
Oct 30, 1992Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Drama
Aikuisten poika
Aug 29, 2014A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
Drama
Kuoleman hellä kosketus
Oct 21, 1982Drama
Les Sept frères
Oct 20, 1979Dans les forêts et les hautes plaines finlandaises, sept frères un peu bagarreurs se cachent, dans le but d'échapper à l'école et aux travaux dans la ferme familiale. Leurs centres d'intérêts se situent davantage dans la chasse, la pêche et l'oisiveté. Leur mode de vie engendré par leur volonté d'échapper aux autorités va les conduire à vivre de nombreuses aventures, à mi-chemin entre le magique et le merveilleux...
Animation
Dinosaurus
Mar 10, 2021Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.
Documentary
Jussi Pussi
Apr 17, 1970Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Comedy
Raamit ränniin
Jan 01, 1985A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with no parking brake hooked back up. The baby happens to be Puikkonen's son.
Drama
Tulennielijä
Oct 30, 1998The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...
Drama
Kanelia kainaloon, Tatu ja Patu!
Oct 19, 2016Une jeune fille et ses deux amis du pays exceptionnellement étrange d'Oddsville envisagent de célébrer Noël ensemble, mais quand elle est en retard pour les récupérer à la gare, le couple se promène seul, ce qui entraîne une délicieuse série d'accidents hilarants. , inventions et envolées de fantaisie - jusqu'à ce qu'ils trouvent leur petit ami, qui leur montre enfin le vrai sens de Noël.
Comedy
Petos
Mar 18, 1988The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
Drama
Pelon maantiede
Jan 21, 2000When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
Crime
Johanneksen leipäpuu
May 02, 1994
The Temptation of St. Tony
Oct 10, 2009Un cadre moyen qui développe une aversion à être une bonne personne remet en question sa moralité alors qu'il fait face aux défis de l'âge moyen et perd le contrôle de sa vie.
Drama
Vaiennut kylä
Jan 31, 1997Drama
Ilosia aikoja, Mielensäpahoittaja
Aug 24, 2018The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Drama
Kissan kuolema
Sep 02, 1994In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.
Drama
Rikos & rakkaus
Feb 05, 1999Comedy
Bad Luck Love
Sep 29, 2000A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
Drama
Viimeiset
Nov 13, 2020Au sein d'une communauté de travailleurs des mines en Laponie finlandaise, Rupi, fils d'éleveur de rennes, tente de trouver sa place.
Drama
Yöjuna
Sep 13, 1996Thriller
Les lumières du faubourg
Feb 03, 2006Koistinen, gardien de nuit, arpente le pavé à la recherche d'une petite place au soleil, mais l'indifférence générale et la mécanique sans visage de la société se liguent pour briser ses modestes espoirs les uns après les autres. Un groupe de bandits exploite sa soif d'amour et son poste de veilleur de nuit avec l'aide d'une femme calculatrice. Ils organisent un cambriolage dont Koistinen est rendu seul responsable. Et voilà celui-ci privé de son travail, de sa liberté et de ses rêves.
Drama
L'Homme sans passé
Mar 01, 2002En débarquant à Helsinki, un homme se fait voler et frapper à mort. Lorsqu'il reprend conscience, il a perdu la mémoire. Sans argent et sans identité, il est aidé par les SDF de la ville.
Comedy
Kovat miehet
Jan 01, 1999The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.
Comedy
Tuulikaappimaa
Dec 29, 2003Drama
Vuosaari
Feb 03, 2012Vuosaari, banlieue triste d'Helsinki, est un alignement de tours à proximité d'un port de marchandise. C'est dans cette cité-dortoir que les destins de plusieurs personnes s'entrecroisent, comme celui de Milla, 17 ans, qui rêve de devenir une vedette, et celui de Make, petit délinquant endetté jusqu'au cou...
Drama
Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois
Comedy
Ihmemies
Nov 02, 1979Comedy
L'Autre côté de l'espoir
Feb 03, 2017Helsinki. Deux destins qui se croisent. Wikhström, la cinquantaine, décide de changer de vie en quittant sa femme alcoolique et son travail de représentant de commerce pour ouvrir un restaurant. Khaled est quant à lui un jeune réfugié syrien, échoué dans la capitale par accident. Il voit sa demande d’asile rejetée mais décide de rester malgré tout. Un soir, Wikhström le trouve dans la cour de son restaurant. Touché par le jeune homme, il décide de le prendre sous son aile.
Comedy
Au loin s'en vont les nuages
Jan 26, 1996Ilona et son mari Lauri, respectivement maitre d'hotel et conducteur de tramway, menent une vie tranquille en compagnie de leur chien. Jusqu'au jour ou Ilona perd son travail, quelque temps apres le licenciement de son mari.
Comedy
The Grump
Sep 05, 2014Lorsqu'un vieil homme tombe dans sa cave, son quotidien est bouleversé. Afin de faire soigner sa cheville douloureuse, il doit se rendre à Helsinski. C'est à sa belle-fille qu'est confiée la rude tâche de s'occuper de lui.
Comedy
Haaveiden kehä
Oct 11, 2002Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.
Drama
Sokkotanssi
Mar 12, 1999Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Drama
Lupaus
Dec 02, 2005The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Drama
Täällä Pohjantähden alla II
Sep 24, 2010Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Drama
Risto Räppääjä ja yöhaukka
Feb 19, 2016Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here.
Family
Painija
Sep 26, 1985An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Comedy
Lahja
Oct 13, 1997A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
Drama
Vares – Yksityisetsivä
Jul 23, 2004On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Crime
Kahlekuningas
Oct 04, 2002It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Drama
Kolme suudelmaa
Dec 11, 2006Drama
Kunnanjohtaja
Mar 09, 2007Juupio is a small town losing population somewhere in Finland. Town Manager Koskinen is facing a tough situation: the people in Juupio are old and the financial situation is tight. A consolidation of municipalities with Pyhälä seems like the only option. It would take a miracle to save Juupio.
Comedy
Deadwind
Dec 19, 2021Quelques 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.
Drama
Kotikatu
Dec 06, 2012Drama
Presidentin mies
Jan 01, 1998Drama
