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Criterion Channel
77
7.7
/70494/
76
/1285/
75
/1009/
4.0
/123319/
77
/26/
91
/943/
68
/20/

Night on Earth (1991)
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.4
/9603/
68
/239/
71
/367/
3.9
/20967/
87
/67/

Ariel (1988)
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
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Hoopla
72
62
6.7
/7931/
67
/322/
68
/184/
3.5
/34383/
90
/30/
70
/10/

Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine.
poster
74
62
7.6
/9189/
65
/108/
70
/91/
3.6
/1578/
88
/112/

The Winter War (1989)
After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.
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67
49
7.1
/4087/
65
/79/
67
/61/
3.4
/1238/

Purge (2012)
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
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48
6.4
/3529/
59
/22/
57
/38/
3.5
/2065/
62
/54/

Pearls and Pigs (2003)
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
32
6.5
/1193/
68
/23/
69
/60/
3.1
/858/

Land of Hope (2018)
Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.
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66
20
6.9
/655/
62
/22/
67
/11/
3.4
/1084/

Never Alone (2025)
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
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16
6.3
/969/
60
/10/
60
/21/
3.3
/247/

Bad Family (2010)
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
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5.4
/10/

Postia marsalkalle (1991)
Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943.
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5.7
/26/
10
/1/

Hang in There, Boy (1985)
A young man grapples with the weight of societal expectations and personal choices. As his relationships fracture and his identity is tested, he embarks on a poignant journey of self-discovery, confronting what it means to truly belong.
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4.6
/572/
40
/1/
30
/15/

Akvaariorakkaus (1993)
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
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6.4
/14/
20
/1/

Palava rakkaus (1997)
A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.
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4.8
/68/
26
/3/

Iso vaalee (1983)
Young hockey player Illu spends his summer in local restaurants, just like the stunning blonde Salme, with whom he and every man in town is in love.
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49
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5.4
/113/
55
/2/
38
/6/

Anita (1994)
Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
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50
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4.9
/682/
50
/5/
53
/20/

Romanovin kivet (1993)
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.
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44
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5.7
/264/
30
/2/
42
/6/

Paper Star (1989)
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
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50
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6.0
/345/
50
/8/
42
/9/

Where Once We Walked (2011)
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
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45
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6.0
/567/
36
/3/
40
/8/

Rikos & rakkaus (1999)
In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish’s housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that the man is a petty criminal. Under the leadership of hard-hitting Inspector Rautapää, the city’s police force will have to investigate many kinds of crimes, of which Marsipaani’s close friends know one or another.
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47
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3.6
/419/
65
/2/
40
/6/

Shadow of the Eagle (2005)
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
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4.2
/88/
35
/2/
30
/2/

Ursula (1986)
18-year-old Ursula wants to be an adult, but Mårten and Harri, both in their thirties, do not. Ursula ends up becoming a drug courier for the men.
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46
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40
/9/

Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
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34
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5.4
/249/
45
/2/
30
/3/

Yöjuna (1996)
A midnight freight train collides with a mysteriously abandoned truck at Rajamäki station, derailing and revealing that its cargo manifests were falsified. Investigation secretary Ari Nykänen uncovers a scheme smuggling explosives out of the country, with evidence pointing to collusion among senior VR executives.
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46
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5.4
/196/
37
/4/
48
/4/

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand (2014)
A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.
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52
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4.5
/168/
60
/1/

Iron Horsemen (1995)
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
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5.7
/41/
10
/1/
40
/3/

Punainen huone (1991)
Young cleaning woman Kukka-Maaria comes to town and gets an awesome rental apartment. In exchange of that, however, her landlord gradually subjects her to be his and his friends' sexual partner.
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56
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5.5
/451/
65
/2/
48
/15/

Village People (2013)
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!
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56
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5.8
/1030/
53
/11/
58
/25/

Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
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Skin Deep (1998)
A quiet and clumsy Eki works at the shipyard and wants to be like his masculine and outspoken co-workers. To become a real man, he needs some tattoos. A real ones.


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