Esko Nikkari

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...

Iris, bir kibrit fabrikasında sıkıcı bir işte çalışan utangaç ve rüküş genç bir kadındır ve yerel dans salonunda aşkı bulmanın hayalini kurar. Tek gecelik bir ilişkiden sonra hamile kalıp babası tarafından terk edilince, Iris nihayet intikam zamanının geldiğine karar verir ve planını yapmaya başlar.

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.

Bir adam kendisine yeni bir hayat kurmak için Helsinki'ye gelir. Amacı yeni bir iş bulmaktır. Fakat ölesiye dayak yedikten sonra tüm hafızasını kaybeder.. Soğukkanlılığını korumaya çalışarak, ayakta durmaya çalışır. Kendisine yardımcı olmak isteyen çok fazla gönüllü çıkmaz. İş ve işçi bulma kurumundan da herhangi bir sonuç çıkmayınca, Kurtuluş Ordusu'na yardımcı olmaya başlar. Ordunun bandosu yeni bir uğraşın kapısını aralayacaktır. Fakat hatırlayamadığı geçmişi, kendisine pusu kurmuş beklemektedir!. Aki Kaurismäki'nin Finlandiya üçlemesinin ikinci ayağı olan yapım, 2002 yılının en başarılı filmlerinden biri oldu. Cannes'da Jüri Büyük Ödülü'nü kazanmasının ardından gösterildiği tüm festivallerde olağanüstü bir heyecanla karşılandı...

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.

Tramvay şoförü Lauri işsiz kalır. Kısa bir süre sonra eşi Ilona’nın şef garson olarak çalıştığı restoran kapanır. Sosyal sigorta sisteminden para almak konusunda çok gururlu oldukları için yeni işler bulmaya çalışırlar. Ama tamamen şanssız ve beceriksizdirler, felaketin biri diğerini takip eder.

Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day.

Ilona, a young teacher, arrives in a village in Tavastia. She and Aarne, the wealthy owner of the Niskavuori farm, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, wants to hold on to her husband until the last. For Loviisa, the matriarch of Niskavuori, the most important thing is the reputation and honor of the family.

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.

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with both tears and laughter.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.

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.

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.

The musical characters Rampe and Naukkis became popular from the TV series Hymyhuulet and Pulttibois, where they told jokes to each other in the cleaning closet during breaks. In reality, the characters only appeared in the Pulttibois series.

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.

Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

Mean girls bully Anna-Maija after she is seen kissing a boy. Her parents notice that the girl's affairs are not in order, but they did not know the reason for their melancholy. Mother buys eight mirrors, one for each member of the family.

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?

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.

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

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!

Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.

Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.

Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

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. A five-part television miniseries extension of Pekka Parikka's 1989 film of the same name.

Influenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of destruction.