Matti Pellonpää

Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Roma ve Helskinki... Birbirlerinden ne kadar uzak olurlarsa olsunlar, bu şehirlerin birçok ortak öğeleri vardır. Bunlardan bir tanesi de elbette ki sokakları gündüz-gece turlayan taksi şoförleridir. Beş şehirde, beş farklı taksi şoförü, müşterileriyle ilginç bir yolculuğa çıkacaklardır. Los Angeles'ta taksiyle evine giderken iş bağlamaya çalışan bir menajer, aradığı yıldızı taksi şoföründe keşfeder… New York'ta palyaçoya benzeyen ve şair gibi konuşan Alman bir taksi şoförü direksiyonu müşterisine bırakır… Paris'te yakışıklı Afrikalı bir adamın taksisine binen kör bir kadın arasında beklemediği bir etkileşim olur… Roma'da arabasına binen rahibe günah çıkarmaya çalışan şoför, müşterisinin ölmek üzere olduğunun farkında bile değildir…

Film kısa süre önce babası intihar eden ve kendisi de işlemediği bir cinayet yüzünden suçlanan Finlandiyalı maden işçisi Taisto Kasurinen'in hikayesini anlatır. Hapisteyken ülkeyi terk etmek ve yeni bir hayata başlamakla ilgili hayaller kurmaya başlar. Sonunda hapisten kaçar ama işler planladığı gibi gitmez...

Puccini'nin eserine de ilham kaynağı olan 19. yüzyıl romanından (Scenes de la vie de boheme - Henri Murger) uyarlanan film, yoksulluk ve sanatsal takıntılara mahkum üç kaybedenin hikayesini anlatıyor: Arnavut ressam Rodolfo, oyun yazarı Marcel ve besteci Schaunard. Üçünün de problemleri aynıdır: kira ve yemek paraları yoktur ve farkedilmeleri için nafile bir çaba içindedirler. Bütün bunların arasında Rodolfo ve sakin, sürekli olarak perişan halde dolaşan bir kadın olan Mimi arasında gelişen bir ilişki son derece gerçek bir hal alır, özellikle de yoksulluk (ve Rodolfo'nun göçmenlik problemleri) onları ayırdığında.

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.

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.

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...

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 country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

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.

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

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.

Sutki travels around Finland selling his wife's knitted mittens at market stalls. Business is slow, and Sutki's boisterous lifestyle doesn't help matters. Sutki is an enterprising salesman. In addition to mittens, he even manages to sell lottery tickets for the disabled. However, as his name suggests, Sutki gets himself into all kinds of trouble, both possible and impossible.

Dostoyevski'nin büyük eseri Suç ve Ceza'nın serbest bir Fin uyarlaması. Rikos ja rangaistus 1983 filmi, değerli yönetmen Aki Kaurismaki'nin ilk uzun metrajlı filmi olma özelliğini de taşımaktadır.

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

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

Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone.

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

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 American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!

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 to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.