Matti Pellonpää

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

The relationship between a priest’s wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a ...

Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

Sutki travels around Finland selling his wife’s knitted mittens at market stalls. Business is slow, and Sutki’s boisterous lifestyle ...

Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.

One man’s quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor ...

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki’s “La vie de Boheme”

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Antti “Zombie” Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months’ sleeping on the streets of ...

Detective Karisto releases Auno ‘Räpsy’ Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal ...

A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. ...

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, ...

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an ...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father’s eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange people cling to him like flies ...

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he ...

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his ...

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone’s classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki ...

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return ...

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests ...

Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski’s documentary, we meet ...

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

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who ...

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

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

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The ...