Cast: Elina Salo

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Kati Outinen · Elina Salo · Esko Nikkari · Vesa Vierikko

Plot 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...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Plot The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy. 'The Man Without a Past' delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in 'Drifting Clouds'....

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Plot Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer...

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

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 Sakari Kuosmanen · Kati Outinen · André Wilms · Markku Peltola

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Matti Kassila

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot TV Series (1988-Present Day).

Direction Ralf Långbacka

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

Plot 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...

Direction Risto Jarva

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

Plot 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...

Direction Jaakko Pakkasvirta

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

Plot 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

Plot 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.