Attack on Finland (
2021) | IMDb:
5.4
The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.
Starring:
Jasper Pääkkönen
,
Nanna Blondell
,
Sverrir Gudnason
,
Cathy Belton
,
Nika Savolainen
,
Pertti Sveholm
95 (
2017) | IMDb:
5.1
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
Starring:
Jens Hultén
,
Lauri Tilkanen
,
Joel Hirvonen
,
Jon Jon Geitel
,
Akseli Kouki
,
Kustaa Tuohimaa
Law of the Land (
2017) | IMDb:
5.4
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
Starring:
Ville Virtanen
,
Antti Holma
,
Mikko Neuvonen
,
Malin Buska
,
Outi Mäenpää
,
Pernilla August
The Fencer (
2015) | IMDb:
7.1
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Starring:
Märt Avandi
,
Ursula Ratasepp
,
Hendrik Toompere Jr.
,
Liisa Koppel
,
Joonas Koff
,
Egert Kadastu
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
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
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
Dark Floors (
2008) | IMDb:
4.4
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Starring:
Skye Bennett
,
Noah Huntley
,
Dominique McElligott
,
Ronald Pickup
,
William Hope
,
Leon Herbert
Frozen Land (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Starring:
Jasper Pääkkönen
,
Mikko Leppilampi
,
Pamela Tola
,
Petteri Summanen
,
Matleena Kuusniemi
,
Mikko Kouki