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- Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
- A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
- An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.
- Henri is depressed after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with suicide. He hires a contract killer to do the job for him instead - but what happens if he changes his mind?
- Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.
- A slaughterhouse worker and former law student, takes vengeance on the man who killed his fiancée in a hit and run accident.
- An exodus to a better life in Eira.
- The all-star American boxer Rock'y defends the Free World by fighting against a gigantic opponent from Siberia named Igor. A musical parody uses the song by Sleepy Sleepers.
- 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?
- The Cowboys are lured from Mexico to Coney Island by their former manager who disappeared at the end of Leningrad Cowboys Go America. He believes he is the reincarnation of Moses, sent to lead them back to the promised land - Siberia.
- A Finnish couple murders a young boy and his parents when they prevent the theft of their son's bicycle.
- Playboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.
- Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
- Finlander Alex works as a taxi-driver in Berlin and is married to an Italian. One night, two men get into his taxi with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. They get killed in a shoot-out and Alex must get rid of their bodies.
- Nicky escapes from prison somewhere between Alabama and Utah, sometime in the future. He looks for his girl in the bars and hotels. All he can see in his new freedom is that no one cares for the future of human culture.
- A documentary of three Finnish bands on tour around lake Saimaa. Bands on boat are Hassisen Kone, Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen Slam.
- The great merit of film is that it never starts to moralize or give forced explanations, as is customary in many films about crimes.
- A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- While fleeing througout northern California from a 60s biker gang, Bad Trip - an outcast cyclist - has a variety of encounters.
- After his predecessor on a long-festering wilderness village murder case resigns for "reasons of health", a young police detective decides it's time for more forceful methods. But there's still those "we don't know nuthin" villagers to contend with, and ultimately his own personal lust for revenge. Based on a true story.
- Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the Finnish civil war begins.
- Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
- Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- The lives of two close childhood friends drift apart after they choose different career paths.
- Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.
- Music video to accompany Leningrad Cowboys' version of "L.A. Woman"
- The crew aboard a freight ship are stuck at sea, shunned at all ports because of the toxic waste the ship carries.
- Anna Kelanen is an ex-model who has just been released from prison. She thinks back on her life as a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
- Young sailor Juhani returns to his childhood home, an abandoned farm in the Finnish countryside. He takes his old senile father out of the local nursing home and brings him back to see the farm once more. Haunted by a dark secret since his childhood, Juhani wants to settle accounts with his father and lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But in the desolate village he meets a young woman with a child and finds a possibility for a new life.
- Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.
- A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a wannabe filmmaker whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
- 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.
- Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
- A criminal organization, mainly operating in the seaside of Helsinki at night, goes into alert mode when their trusted member betrays the boss at the instigation of his girlfriend. When Pihlajasaari attacks, you're doomed.
- Classic lifestyle swaps to get the inheritance, via (kick) alcoholism with classic Finnish angst lifestyle take. Note: Very (very) marginal dance reference.
- A triangle drama involving a young unlucky drifter, a nightclub singer and a corrupt police officer.
- Redboard leaves Finland to spend time in Berlin wandering in and out of bars. He meets up with a beautiful Italian waitress, who spends one night with him but is then dismissed.
- A documentary about the rise of rock music in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's.
- For the past 20 years, a cleaner Anna has been living an honest life. She takes charge of the life of her alcoholic lover, a retiree Harri. Chased by the loan sharks, Harri has one more heist to pull off. Like two old thieves.
- A two-part documentary about Finnish film music and sound design.
- A documentary profile of the Finnish director Veikko Aaltonen, shot during the production of his international film "Seasick" in Malta and Helsinki in the fall of 1994.
- The music video for the song "Viimeisellä rannalla" by the Finnish rock band Sir Elwoodin hiljaiset värit from the 1993 album "Kymmenen tikkua laudalla".