Cast: Elina Salo

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 Kati Outinen · Elina Salo · Esko Nikkari · Vesa Vierikko

Synopsis This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "proletarian trilogy" (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). Iris works on a factory assembly line and lives with her unloving mother and stepfather in a tiny apartment where she has...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Markku Peltola · Kati Outinen · Juhani Niemelä · Kaija Pakarinen

Synopsis The Man Without a Past (2002) follows an unnamed man who arrives in Helsinki and is brutally attacked, leaving him with complete amnesia. Struggling to rebuild his identity, he befriends a group of homeless people and finds shelter in a...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast André Wilms · Kati Outinen · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Blondin Miguel

Synopsis In Le Havre (2011), a humble shoeshiner named Marcel Marx befriends Idrissa, a young African refugee who arrives illegally in the French port city of Le Havre. When authorities threaten to deport Idrissa, Marcel rallies his eclectic community to protect...

Direction Guy Girard

Cast Aki Kaurismäki · Kati Outinen · Elina Salo · Peter von Bagh

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis 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 arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Sakari Kuosmanen · Kati Outinen · André Wilms · Markku Peltola

Synopsis A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Pirkka-Pekka Petelius · Esko Salminen · Kati Outinen · Elina Salo

Synopsis A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Joel Rinne · Elina Pohjanpää · Matti Ranin · Leo Riuttu

Direction Kjell Grede

Cast Jan Nielsen · Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt · Gun Jönsson · Georg Adelly

Synopsis Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend...

Direction Matti Kassila

Cast Joel Rinne · Matti Ranin · Leo Jokela · Elina Salo

Synopsis Kaasua, Komisario Palmu! AKA Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961) is based loosely on the short novel written by the critically acclaimed Finnish author, Mika Waltari. This black and white thriller, shot on location in Helsinki, Finland, still continues to stand even...

Direction André S. Labarthe · Janine Bazin · Jean-Pierre Limosin · Chris Marker

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Mathieu Amalric · Jean-François Stévenin · Daniel Auteuil

Synopsis TV Series (1988-Present Day).

Direction Ralf Långbacka

Cast Lasse Pöysti · Pekka Laiho · Arja Saijonmaa · Martin Kurtén

Synopsis Based 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...

Direction Risto Jarva

Cast Elina Salo · Paul Osipow · Titta Karakorpi · Pentti Irjala

Synopsis A factory worker battles ennui as he struggles to balance his job and his home life. To advance his career, he accepts a position at a distant factory, leaving his wife behind.

Direction Jaakko Pakkasvirta

Cast Esko Salminen · Irina Milan · Tom Wentzel · Hannu Lauri

Synopsis Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.

Direction Lars G. Thelestam

Cast Clu Gulager · Ernst Günther · Per Oscarsson · Anne-Lise Gabold

Synopsis An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists.