Cast: Kari Väänänen

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis 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 noise. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a barmaid. The...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

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

Synopsis Night on Earth (1991) is a captivating anthology film by Jim Jarmusch that unfolds over the course of a single night in five different cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. Each segment follows a taxi driver and...

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 Matti Pellonpää · Leningrad Cowboys · Sakke Järvenpää · Heikki Keskinen

Synopsis 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 an extremely inept but dedicated troupe of accordian musicians, "The...

Direction Peter Lichtefeld

Cast Joachim Król · Outi Mäenpää · Peter Lohmeyer · Kati Outinen

Synopsis Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis 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 district of trees and green parks somewhere far away, on...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Kari Väänänen · Roberta Manfredi · Jean-Pierre Castaldi · Margi Clarke

Synopsis Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches. With two dead men and a suitcase filled with hundred dollar bills, he has difficulty disposing of the bodies....

Direction Juha Wuolijoki

Cast Hannu-Pekka Björkman · Otto Gustavsson · Kari Väänänen · Minna Haapkylä

Synopsis The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa. A big hit in Finland.

Direction Olli Saarela

Cast Peter Franzén · Irina Björklund · Kari Heiskanen · Taisto Reimaluoto

Synopsis It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a...

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Pak Hon Chu · Lucas Hsuan · Vesa-Matti Loiri · Annamaija Tuokko

Synopsis Following the death of his wife, professional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai. Upon arrival, nobody in the village seems to...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis 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 they went to the U.S. In this film they travel...

Direction Mikael Buch

Cast Nicolas Maury · Carmen Maura · Jean-François Stévenin · Amira Casar

Synopsis At a major turning point in his life Ruben doesn’t know whether he should follow his people or his heart.

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Elina Knihtilä · Hannu-Pekka Björkman · Anna Easteden · Antti Reini

Synopsis Family therapist Juhani Helin, and business trainer Paula Helin, decide to divorce in a civilised manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house and Juhani...

Direction Olli Saarela

Cast Jorma Tommila · Tommi Eronen · Maria Järvenhelmi · Elmeri Karlsson

Synopsis In a movie loaded with religious symbology, Ali, a hardened criminal, is sentenced to jail for murder. Shortly afterwards, his girlfriend gives birth to his child. When Ali is released he is determined to leave his criminal past and make...

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 Mika Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis 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 'Duke', is terrorizing the civilians. An escaped prisoner, Jake, has...

Direction Matti Ijäs

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

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

Direction Tiina Lymi

Cast Jussi Vatanen · Pamela Tola · Timo Lavikainen · Santtu Karvonen

Synopsis Janne is having an emotional crisis and decides to go for a hike in the beautiful nature of Lapland - alone. As usual, things don't work out that easily. Inari wants to return to work life and sees an opportunity...