Paavo Piskonen

The Worthless

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After M...

Toto

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Viimeiset rotannahat

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that...

Some of You May Have Heard of Me

Kari Uusitalo, a regular visitor to the Tampere Film Festival, delved into the state of Finnish cinema of the m...

Näkemiin, hyvästi

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wi...

Jumalia ei uhmata

A well-known Finnish man is found murdered in a popular Sicilian resort, and a Finnish police officer who happe...

Calamari Union

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neigh...

Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Mata...

Rakkauselokuva

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have lo...

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri...

Macbeth

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches tha...

Ylösnousemus

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

Jackpot 2

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has b...

Aikalainen

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Kiljusen herrasväki

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

Kello

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers...

Aurinkotuuli

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999,...

Regina ja miehet

According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters.

Päätepysäkki

Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father's eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange peo...

Menestyksen maku

A young advertising executive decides to focus on success in his life. As he concentrates on building his caree...

Kolme yötä

Ihmemies

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the...

Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but w...

Aidankaatajat

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Hepskukkuu

Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth....

Isku vasten kasvoja

Hanhivaara investigates the murder of an Olympic champion.

Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's...

Vartioitu kylä 1944

In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend...

Onnellinen mies

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaa...

Yön kätkössä

Slumbering Tones

Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. B...