Finnish Movies
List activity
293 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
26 titles
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsKaarina HazardHeikki NousiainenJukka KeinonenWith few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsTopi MajaniemiMarjaana MaijalaMaria LundqvistDuring World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorMarja PyykköStarsWilma RosenqvistMerja LarivaaraMarjaana MaijalaThe long-time president of the Republic of Finland, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen is scheduled to visit Alli's Bar on his way to northern Finland.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsAntti LitjaPetra FreyMari PerankoskiThe Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days. Pretty much everything that's been done after 1953 has always managed to ruin The Grump's day. Our story unfolds as The Grump takes a fall from his basement steps, hurting his ankle. He has to spend a weekend in Helsinki to attend physiotherapy. The Grump doesn't like this for four reasons: 1) He has to take a taxi. 2) He can't take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer's patient. 3) He can't drive, which means he might have to sit in a car with a female driver. 4) He has to spend time with his family. The daughter-in-law is a career woman, not keen to spend time with The Grump when he comes to the city. Her boss has given her the task to look after Russian businessmen supposed to close a major deal over the weekend. It doesn't make her any happier when The Grump decides to help with the deal. Then The Grump has to face his useless son to become the father he never was, teaching his son how to take care of his loved ones. A thing The Grump has never been able to do. And somebody's day will be ruined.
- DirectorPeter FranzénStarsOlavi AngervoMatleena KuusniemiMilja TuunainenA ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsIlmari JärvenpääOnni TommilaLauri TilkanenIn 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsAlma PöystiAino LouhimiesSean PertweeNaked Harbour tells the story of people who seek love and acceptance at any cost.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsTeppo MannerAuli MantilaTuomas AirolaIt's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. There is an issue: how to cope with an emerging friendship?
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsTiina LymiPetteri SummanenKari-Pekka ToivonenKatri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
- DirectorHanna MaylettStarsTiina LymiMinna HaapkyläJorma TommilaAn injury changes a thirtysomething woman's life.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsVille VirtanenTommi EronenViktor KlimenkoAs a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsKrista KosonenKai LehtinenViljami NojonenJulia moves back to her childhood village to help a group of ecologists save a lake from an industrial project, but strange things start to happen as she must confront her deepest repressed secrets.
- DirectorTaavi VartiaStarsAllan TuppurainenLinnéa RöhrKrista KosonenOne day they hear incredible news from Malcolm the Maggot: somewhere far away, beyond mountains, forests and the sea, lies a place called The Beginning of All Time. Rolli and little girl Juniper decide to find out the secret route to The Beginning of All Time. They are in for the greatest adventure of their lives.
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsLaura BirnLiisi TandefeltAmanda PilkeA tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past.
- DirectorPetri KotwicaStarsLaura BirnEero AhoMari RantasilaA couple are rushing to hospital for a premature birth when they commit a hit-and-run. When the new mother befriends a woman whose comatose husband was hit by a car, a nightmarish spiral of guilt and revenge unfolds.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsEero AhoTiina LymiElla LymiMatti Virtanen is trying to get his family back by buying a house.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsVesa-Matti LoiriSamuli EdelmannLeena UotilaA father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsHeikki NousiainenPirjo LonkaAmos BrotherusAn elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanA newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsJussi JurkkaAnneli SauliEmmi JurkkaPitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love/hate relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her deathbed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly-happy family life with someone else.
- DirectorT.J. SärkkäStarsElina PohjanpääEino KaipainenVeikko UusimäkiJuha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsEila PehkonenMartti KatajistoEmma VäänänenA visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
- DirectorIlkka VanneStarsLaura BirnKaroliina VanneHanna LekanderThe film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.