Cast: Matti Onnismaa

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Onnismaa · Kari Väänänen · Elina Salo · Kati Outinen

Synopsis Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare system, they strive to find new jobs. But they are...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Alma Pöysti · Jussi Vatanen · Janne Hyytiäinen · Nuppu Koivu

Synopsis Fallen Leaves (2023) follows the poignant journey of two lonely souls, Holappa and Ansa, who cross paths in Helsinki. Both struggling with life's hardships—alcoholism, dead-end jobs, and isolation—they find a fragile connection. Their budding romance is tested by personal demons...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Janne Hyytiäinen · Maria Järvenhelmi · Ilkka Koivula · Maria Heiskanen

Synopsis "Lights in the Dusk" concludes the trilogy began by "Drifting Clouds" and "The Man Without a Past." Where the trilogy's first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, this final installment is about loneliness. Shy night-watchman Koistinen is...

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Petri Poikolainen · Marjaana Maijala · Hannamaija Nikander · Matti Onnismaa

Synopsis Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but used to talk on the phone every day. When he heard about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city, and that is when she saw...

Direction Pekka Parikka

Cast Taneli Mäkelä · Vesa Vierikko · Timo Torikka · Heikki Paavilainen

Synopsis Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Osttrobottnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on...

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Matti Onnismaa · Jari Virman · Ilari Johansson · Santtu Karvonen

Synopsis Veijo, a true animal lover, lives in a poor, suburban Finnish region and is a black-market pet euthaniser. He’s also an animal whisperer and prefers to personally deliver justice to careless owners who neglect their pets. His unconventional but meticulously...

Direction Tatiana Elf · Saara Cantell · Teppo Airaksinen · Jalmari Helander

Cast Pirjo Lonka · Pelle Heikkilä · Deogracias Masomi · Matti Onnismaa

Synopsis FAST tells the case-by-case story of a team tasked with improving domestic safety by locating and apprehending dangerous fugitives. For each case, the team has 48 hours to locate the target before the trace turns cold.

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Antti Reini · Pelle Heikkilä · Elina Knihtilä · Ville Jankeri

Synopsis Aimo and Milla are living together at Milla's alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place. They save money to move out of the house. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles. As conventional body building is...

Direction Jesse Haaja

Cast Bianca Bradey · Sheila Shah · Kristofer Gummerus · Johnny Vivash

Synopsis The Rendel movie will be a story of a man blinded by his desire for a revenge and hatred. Even though Rendel can be considered as a super hero, he is somewhat darker than the traditional representatives of the genre....

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Pekka Strang · Krista Kosonen · Olli Rahkonen · Matti Onnismaa

Synopsis There are enough love and surprises in Maria's relationships. And no wonder she has a different man for each day of the week. Maria meets Juho and falls in love, but sadly there is no eighth day in a week.

Direction Samuli Valkama

Cast Jussi Vatanen · Eiji Mihara · Saara Kotkaniemi · Sara Soulié

Synopsis Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies.

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Kai Wiesinger · Marie Zielcke · Jochen Nickel · Michaela Rosen

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

Direction Aleksi Mäkelä

Cast Jasper Pääkkönen · Elina Knihtilä · Peter Franzén · Elina Hietala

Synopsis Ski jumper descends from 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with stories of Domestic Violence are fictionalized sympathetically in dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation due to...

Direction Arto Halonen

Cast Katja Kukkola · Krista Kosonen · Samuli Edelmann · Peter Franzén

Synopsis Based on real-life events, tells the moving story of Anna Lappalainen, claiming to be "Princess", spent 50 years of her life as a patient at Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her...

Direction Kate Ashfield · Mikko Kuparinen

Cast Jussi Vatanen · Andrei Alén · Asta Friman · Elias Gould

Synopsis The life of the Kurtti family changes completely on one fateful, midsummer night. Years later, secrets start to unravel and show how far each of them are willing to go for their loved ones.

Direction Peeter Simm

Cast Marko Matvere · Anastasiya Makeeva · Renars Kaupers · Tõnu Kark

Synopsis A movie about the life of legendary Estonian singer Georg Ots.

Direction Samppa Batal

Cast Jaana Saarinen · Matti Pajulahti · Matti Onnismaa · Jonathan Hutchings

Synopsis Freed from prison, Eeva returns to her old home region to look for her grown-up daughter.

Direction Jarmo Lampela

Cast Carla de Otero · Raül Llopart · Arántzazu Ruiz · Santiago Melis

Synopsis Alma de Sant Pere is about the clash between "tradition" and "progress", between what is morally acceptable and what is acceptable to the law of profit and benefit, between the dream of having the first million before turning 30 and...

Direction Anders Engström

Cast Antti Reini · Matti Onnismaa · Eppu Salminen · Jasper Pääkkönen

Synopsis A young student is found stabbed, and her family hires Vares to investigate the case.

Direction Teemu Nikki

Cast Pekka Strang · Kati Outinen · Jari Virman · Sampo Sarkola

Synopsis In a comic adventure, brothers Snot and Splash aim to apprehend a thief who is robbing holes in the city but wind up saving the planet from being pulled into a crumbling waste disposal system.