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7.5
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/9/
72
/25/
3.5
/608/

The Year of the Hare (1977)
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
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67
27
6.8
/1375/
70
/36/
62
/38/
3.4
/372/

For the Matches (1980)
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
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66
23
7.2
/1069/
55
/6/
68
/28/
3.5
/386/

The Boys (1962)
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
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68
17
7.5
/1105/
57
/7/
67
/16/
3.5
/364/

Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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57
14
5.9
/1023/
52
/9/
54
/16/
3.3
/347/

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
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54
10
5.7
/959/
54
/7/
44
/10/
3.2
/254/

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy (1978)
Uuno's father-in-law is running for president and to avoid embarrassment pressures Uuno to finally get a job, which he does at a hardware store. Meanwhile, a political rival sends a bionic female agent to seduce Uuno in hopes of creating a scandal, and Uuno develops a ploy where he pretends to be his long-lost brother from America.
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3.6
/96/
10
/1/
51
/4/

Mitäs me sankarit (1980)
Two idiot ex-policemen turns out to be private detectives. Comedy follows their mistakes.
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29
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3.5
/106/
10
/1/
45
/3/

Likainen puolitusina (1982)
A group of men arriving to their military refresher training are tasked with finding a lost football bomb meant for a film shoot.
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3.5
/82/
43
/3/
42
/5/

Kaikenlaisia karkulaisia (1981)
A loose comedy about escaped convicts.
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47
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5.5
/179/
60
/2/
40
/3/

An Unknown Friend (1978)
The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
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67
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5.9
/141/
75
/2/
68
/6/

Natalia (1979)
Sammeli from Näljängä and Einari from Haataja, who were hunting bears, encounter Natalia, a cow that has crossed the eastern border. In the name of friendship between neighboring countries, Natalia is asked to return to the Soviet Union.
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3.9
/74/
25
/2/
30
/2/

Vapaa duunari Ville-Kalle (1984)
Ville-Kalle Mölsä, a devoted rural environmentalist, accidentally blows up his family’s toxic storage and must flee to the city, where he stays with his eccentric cousin “Pikkusedä” and falls for Liisa despite her godfather’s plans.
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20
/1/

Visa Mäkinen - My movie (2002)
Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.
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4.0
/39/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Kesäyön lapset (1955)
Antti Kiikka has a one night thing with a local girl. Antti goes away and marries a girl from another village. Later that local girl delivers a baby, but she never tells who is the father. 20 years later daughter of Antti Kiikka fells in love with a guy without knowing that they quite likely are a brother and a sister.
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38
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6.0
/114/
10
/1/
45
/2/

Härmästä poikia kymmenen (1950)
Based upon the popular folk song, the film tells the story of two men who want to test the new Sheriff, who has new policies to put in place.
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5.3
/58/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Vaarallista vapautta (1962)
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
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45
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4.7
/148/
60
/3/
20
/2/

Piilopirtti (1978)
Two middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
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42
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5.4
/122/
30
/3/
37
/3/

Pilvilinna (1970)
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.
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6.1
/190/
63
/6/
60
/9/

Akaton mies (1983)
Farmer wants a wife. He places an ad in the personal section of the newspaper and also searches for potential wives on a computer at an agricultural exhibition. But is it worth looking for a woman so far away when a beautiful woman has arrived at the village bank—Liisa, who attended business school and the Sibelius Academy!
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41
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4.7
/143/
35
/2/
40
/10/

Akallinen mies (1986)
The farmer now has found a wife.
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44
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5.2
/212/
45
/2/
30
/4/

Yön saalistajat (1984)
A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
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50
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5.6
/240/
40
/4/
55
/9/

Back to the USSR (1992)
Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
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37
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6.3
/247/
36
/3/
40
/5/

Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin (1971)
A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.
poster
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5.3
/93/
40
/1/
40
/4/

Ruskan jälkeen (1979)
It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
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39
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5.2
/181/
27
/4/
37
/3/

Meiltähän tämä käy (1973)
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5.9
/68/
10
/1/
50
/2/

Johan nyt on markkinat! (1966)
The life of First Lieutenant Heikki Lilja, who is dating Colonel Taipale's daughter Tiina, is turned upside down when his company is ordered to search for the dangerous escaped convict Kahle-Kustaa. Things are complicated by Lilja's friend, the artist Paaso, and Paaso's admirer Merja Metsä, Lilja's strict superior Colonel Taipale, and Police Chief Mäkinen.
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38
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5.3
/219/
20
/2/
41
/9/

Kreivi (1971)
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.
poster
59
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6.2
/168/
52
/10/

Viimeinen savotta (1977)
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
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60
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6.9
/553/
50
/6/
64
/9/

Akseli and Elina (1970)
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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6.4
/66/
10
/1/

The Parisian Tie (1965)
Based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at Espalla, and a long, boozy evening ensues. Relations with his wife are strained, and there is a young, charming secretary working at the bank. Valter feels a longing for the adventures of his youth.
poster
39
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5.4
/121/
20
/1/
45
/2/

Villin Pohjolan kulta (1963)
A western set in the "Wild North". The Vornan brothers Joel, Tommi, and Kai are framed for the robbery of a gold-laden carriage and the murder of its drivers. Behind the accusations are Kristo, the saloon owner, and Markus, the bank manager, who wants to marry Karin, the daughter of Jäära, the richest man in the north.
poster
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5.6
/45/
10
/1/

Pikku suorasuu (1962)
N/A
poster
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6.5
/79/
10
/1/

Turkasen tenava! (1963)
Architect Matti picks up Ritva and her young son while on a business trip. When the car runs out of gas, the travelers are forced to spend the night at a guesthouse, pretending to be a married couple. During the night, Ritva runs away, leaving the child in Matti's care. Matti tries to cope with looking after the child and keeps it a secret from his wife Maija.
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4.7
/35/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Ihana seikkailu (1962)
N/A
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5.1
/42/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Me (1961)
N/A
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40
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5.9
/150/
50
/3/
53
/6/

Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
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4.6
/94/
10
/1/
37
/3/

Mestari (1992)
Eero Tyrni, a reporter for Iltapäivä newspaper, is in Austria doing a story on ski jumper Teemu Kimpilä. Kimpilä's jumps fail and he disappears from the scene. Left behind are his third wife Sari, his sponsors, the Ski Association, and the Finnish people. Tyrni is tasked with finding out where Kimpilä disappeared to.


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