Cast: Matti Pellonpää

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Evelyne Didi · André Wilms · Kari Väänänen

Plot Three artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Winona Ryder · Giancarlo Esposito · Gena Rowlands · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Plot An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Turo Pajala · Susanna Haavisto · Matti Pellonpää · Eetu Hikamo

Plot In Kaurismäki's drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto must find a way to live in the big city after the mine closes and his father, also a...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Kati Outinen · Sakari Kuosmanen · Esko Nikkari

Plot Aki Kaurismäki’s austere and oddly moving third feature – the first instalment in a “Proletarian Trilogy” that also includes Ariel and The Match Factory Girl — is a moody, melancholic,...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Kati Outinen · Matti Pellonpää · Kirsi Tykkyläinen · Mato Valtonen

Plot Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Markku Toikka · Aino Seppo · Esko Nikkari · Hannu Lauri

Plot An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man apparently without motives, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Leningrad Cowboys · Sakke Järvenpää · Heikki Keskinen

Plot The odd comedies of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki may be an acquired taste, but it is one which more and more people are getting. The story concerns the exploits of...

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Pirkko Hämäläinen · Juuso Hirvikangas · Esko Nikkari

Plot A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Puntti Valtonen · Sakke Järvenpää · Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Plot 15 men who are all named Frank, plus one called Pekka. Life in the cramped Helsinki district of Kallio has become intolerable. Tradition has it, however, that there is a...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Sulevi Peltola · Matti Pellonpää · Kati Outinen · Kaija Pakarinen

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Silu Seppälä · Marjo Leinonen · Matti Pellonpää · Vieno Saaristo

Plot Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Leningrad Cowboys · Silu Seppälä · Mato Valtonen · Kirsi Tykkyläinen

Plot Paris, 1994, night: as the Leningrad Cowboys sing "Those were the days," a solitary man leading a donkey is turned away at a restaurant door. He and the beast walk...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Leningrad Cowboys · Kari Väänänen · André Wilms

Plot This comedy is a sequel to Aki Kaurismaki's successful Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The Lenigrad Cowboys are billed as the "worst rock'n'roll band in the world." In the last film...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Silu Seppälä · Sakari Kuosmanen · Matti Pellonpää · Mato Valtonen

Plot Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era...

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Martti Syrjä · Asmo Hurula · Anssi Tikanmäki

Plot Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life...

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Jolyon Baker · Jürgen Prochnow · Fanny Bastien · Kari Väänänen

Plot After an environmental disaster, the arctic regions of Scandinavia have become a wasteland, a battlefield for the army and rebels' guerrilla troops. A bunch of crooks with motorbikes, lead by...

Direction Matti Ijäs

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Raija Paalanen · Kari Väänänen · Pertti Sveholm

Plot Räpsy is a loser who tries to take advantage other losers.

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Kari Väänänen · Kari Heiskanen · Vesa Vierikko · Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Plot Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

Direction Gilles Charmant

Cast Dominic Gould · Laura Favali · Kari Väänänen · Nicky Tesco

Plot While fleeing througout northern California from a 60s biker gang, Bad Trip - an outcast cyclist - has a variety of encounters.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Juice Leskinen · Puntti Valtonen · Anssi Tikanmäki · Pantse Syrjä

Plot Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.