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Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/10447/
74
/157/
76
/194/
4.0
/18773/
100
/11/
90
/77/

Drifting Clouds (1996)
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/13409/
71
/279/
73
/286/
4.0
/34387/
100
/6/
85
/96/

The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
poster
83
7.6
/28603/
75
/388/
74
/416/
4.0
/38107/
98
/97/
90
/375/
84
/29/

The Man Without a Past (2002)
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
poster
82
7.5
/9017/
74
/115/
71
/122/
3.9
/9424/
91
/85/
87
/174/
80
/29/

Saraband (2003)
A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
poster
MUBI
79
7.3
/35680/
70
/1157/
71
/692/
3.8
/202370/
97
/169/
62
/69/
86
/30/

Fallen Leaves (2023)
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.2
/14725/
70
/366/
69
/345/
3.8
/19666/
92
/108/
75
/30/
84
/23/

The Other Side of Hope (2017)
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.7
/70474/
76
/1285/
75
/1007/
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
MUBI
76
7.2
/5239/
68
/80/
66
/103/
3.7
/6203/
98
/56/
76
/10/
83
/17/

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)
Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.4
/9595/
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.
poster
74
7.2
/7980/
74
/157/
65
/79/
3.6
/2915/
79
/39/
91
/452/
71
/22/

Without Limits (1998)
The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.
poster
MGM Plus
72
7.0
/95112/
69
/1985/
66
/1231/
3.4
/42287/
79
/164/
75
/1918/
67
/33/
cc age 17+

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
6.8
/6220/
68
/145/
68
/100/
3.4
/1866/
87
/83/
67
/269/
68
/26/

The Yes Men (2003)
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
69
7.4
/8441/
72
/171/
72
/429/
3.9
/29335/
87
/52/

Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.8
/6756/
71
/238/
66
/138/
3.3
/5532/
83
/69/
70
/33/
56
/13/

Tom of Finland (2017)
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
poster
71
59
6.9
/4441/
66
/59/
69
/85/
3.5
/6219/
81
/40/

Calamari Union (1985)
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.
poster
74
57
7.2
/2996/
74
/80/
74
/60/
3.9
/5202/

Kamome Diner (2006)
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
poster
Kanopy
72
55
6.8
/4257/
67
/97/
66
/71/
3.6
/8957/
93
/40/
75
/3/
63
/10/

Tove (2020)
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.
poster
MGM Plus
55
5.9
/6573/
62
/178/
56
/111/
3.1
/3818/
57
/7/
41
/93/

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
poster
71
53
6.9
/3025/
70
/63/
62
/66/
3.6
/1318/
82
/74/

Aaltra (2004)
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
poster
70
51
7.0
/3671/
66
/64/
69
/85/
3.5
/7547/
79
/18/

Crime and Punishment (1983)
Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
poster
50
6.4
/131271/
68
/3820/
64
/2043/
3.0
/38027/
24
/33/
51
/1682/
36
/20/

The Jackal (1997)
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
poster
Hoopla
51
47
6.2
/9580/
63
/225/
58
/142/
3.1
/5028/
19
/64/
55
/387/
38
/19/

Blow Dry (2001)
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
poster
70
46
6.7
/3147/
68
/70/
66
/47/
3.3
/1039/
100
/7/
58
/3/

The Grump (2014)
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
poster
62
43
6.7
/3966/
64
/18/
63
/50/
3.4
/939/
49
/48/

Hellsinki (2009)
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
poster
71
39
7.7
/2296/
66
/21/
71
/37/
3.5
/1093/

Inspector Palmu's Error (1960)
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
poster
52
34
5.9
/4397/
57
/21/
54
/44/
3.2
/860/
26
/49/

Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
poster
61
33
6.3
/2236/
64
/29/
62
/34/
3.3
/590/
52
/31/

Forbidden Fruit (2009)
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
poster
71
32
7.7
/1797/
64
/13/
74
/28/
3.6
/831/

Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961)
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
poster
Fandor
61
31
6.4
/1345/
64
/24/
57
/35/
3.4
/1006/
60
/5/
54
/5/

Concrete Night (2013)
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
poster
65
28
7.3
/1397/
53
/9/
62
/27/
3.6
/826/

The Worthless (1982)
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
poster
47
28
4.0
/4193/
47
/81/
47
/17/
2.8
/1226/

The Jonsson Gang (2021)
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
poster
69
27
7.2
/1213/
62
/13/
66
/19/
3.6
/831/
77
/15/

Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
poster
73
27
7.5
/1489/
76
/9/
72
/25/
3.5
/631/

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
poster
Criterion Channel
68
26
6.8
/1032/
65
/18/
62
/26/
3.6
/1370/
76
/5/

Total Balalaika Show (1994)
A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman."
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
26
7.2
/801/
73
/71/
62
/19/
3.4
/874/

Zátopek (2021)
Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.
poster
67
25
7.2
/1391/
60
/13/
65
/26/
3.5
/619/

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu (1962)
A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
poster
63
24
6.1
/836/
82
/4/
58
/16/
52
/74/

The Year of the Wolf (2007)
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."
poster
61
24
6.2
/666/
54
/11/
58
/20/
3.4
/203/
64

Almost 18 (2012)
Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents.
poster
57
24
6.2
/1048/
66
/19/
55
/31/
3.2
/1529/
40
/1/

Stupid Young Heart (2018)
When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.
poster
Plex
64
22
6.9
/1370/
61
/43/
61
/17/
3.3
/522/

Dawn of War (2020)
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
poster
53
21
5.8
/1821/
55
/14/
52
/34/
3.2
/261/
38
/14/

Priest of Evil (2010)
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
21
6.2
/943/
60
/18/
62
/17/
3.4
/800/

Helene (2020)
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He becomes Helen's trusted and lover.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
38
21
4.3
/2359/
35
/14/
39
/30/
2.8
/707/
22
/12/
35
/5/

Born American (1986)
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
poster
55
21
5.4
/1412/
50
/14/
51
/21/
3.3
/786/

Run Sister Run! (2010)
Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her to take a leap, shake the rules and leave princess dreams behind. These two will have fun together, but not only good times
poster
57
21
6.0
/1780/
59
/31/
49
/19/
3.1
/569/

Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
poster
58
20
5.8
/473/
57
/8/
54
/10/
3.3
/436/
57
/7/

Maria's Paradise (2019)
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.
poster
59
18
6.8
/910/
50
/6/
53
/15/
3.4
/726/

Täältä tullaan, elämä! (1980)
In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
poster
57
17
6.0
/1143/
48
/8/
58
/6/
3.1
/1023/

Luottomies-elokuva: All in (2024)
When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works.


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