Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki

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 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 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 Jean-Pierre Léaud · Margi Clarke · Charlesa Cork · Serge Reggiani

Plot After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life rather than allow himself to sink into further despair....

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 Alma Pöysti · Jussi Vatanen · Janne Hyytiäinen · Nuppu Koivu

Plot Ansa is single and lives in Helsinki. She works on a zero-hours contract at a supermarket, stocking the shelves; she then sorts recyclable plastic. One night she accidentally meets the...

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 Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Ilkka Koivula

Plot A day in the life of a lonely tavern man in an old Portuguese town.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Sakari Kuosmanen · Sherwan Haji · Kati Outinen · Tommi Korpela

Plot A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived from Finland.

Direction Wim Wenders · Víctor Erice · Werner Herzog · Chen Kaige

Cast Chloë Sevigny · Amber Tamblyn · Ana Sofía Liaño · Pelayo Suárez

Plot Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their...

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 Janne Hyytiäinen · Maria Järvenhelmi · Ilkka Koivula · Maria Heiskanen

Plot "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,...

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 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 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 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...