The Potato Venture (
2020) | IMDb:
6.3
A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions.
Starring:
Joonas Nordman
,
Kari Hietalahti
,
Kari Ketonen
,
Mikko Penttilä
,
Linnea Leino
,
Alex Anton
Happier Times, Grump (
2018) | IMDb:
7.2
The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Starring:
Heikki Kinnunen
,
Satu Tuuli Karhu
,
Elina Knihtilä
,
Jani Volanen
,
Iikka Forss
,
Mari Perankoski
The Eternal Road (
2017) | IMDb:
7.1
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Starring:
Tommi Korpela
,
Sidse Babett Knudsen
,
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
,
Irina Björklund
,
Sampo Sarkola
,
Ville Virtanen
Raspberry Boat Refugee (
2014) | IMDb:
6
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.
Starring:
Jonas Karlsson
,
Josephine Bornebusch
,
Frida Hallgren
,
Erik Johansson
,
Björn Bengtsson
,
Suzanne Reuter
Directed by:
Leif Lindblom
Purge (
2012) | IMDb:
7.1
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, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
Starring:
Laura Birn
,
Liisi Tandefelt
,
Amanda Pilke
,
Peter Franzén
,
Kristjan Sarv
,
Krista Kosonen
Priest of Evil (
2010) | IMDb:
5.8
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.
Starring:
Peter Franzén
,
Irina Björklund
,
Sampo Sarkola
,
Jenni Banerjee
,
Rosa Salomaa
,
Niilo Syväoja
Backwood Philosopher (
2009) | IMDb:
6.8
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
Starring:
Kai Lehtinen
,
Tommi Korpela
,
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
,
Ilkka Heiskanen
,
Konsta Pöyliö
,
Aake Kalliala
Last Cowboy Standing (
2009) | IMDb:
6.6
In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
Starring:
Lauri Tilkanen
,
Iiro Panula
,
Tommi Korpela
,
Elina Knihtilä
,
Ilmari Järvenpää
,
Onni Tommila
Forbidden Fruit (
2009) | IMDb:
6.3
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Starring:
Marjut Maristo
,
Amanda Pilke
,
Malla Malmivaara
,
Joel Mäkinen
,
Jarkko Niemi
,
Olavi Uusivirta
Hellsinki (
2009) | IMDb:
6.7
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
Starring:
Samuli Edelmann
,
Peter Franzén
,
Pihla Viitala
,
Kari Hietalahti
,
Juha Veijonen
,
Jasper Pääkkönen
The Flight Before Christmas (
2008) | IMDb:
6.1
A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.
Starring:
Olli Jantunen
,
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
,
Vuokko Hovatta
,
Vesa Vierikko
,
Jussi Lampi
,
Risto Kaskilahti
The Home of Dark Butterflies (
2008) | IMDb:
6.8
Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.
Starring:
Niilo Syväoja
,
Kati Outinen
,
Pertti Sveholm
,
Eero Milonoff
,
Tommi Korpela
,
Niko Vakkuri
The Border (
2007) | IMDb:
6.6
The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Starring:
Martin Bahne
,
Tommi Korpela
,
Minna Haapkylä
,
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
,
Leonid Mozgovoy
,
Pauli Poranen
Raid (
2003) | IMDb:
7.1
Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.