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- The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
- An escaped mental patient, two losers and a gay nurse go onto a roadtrip in order to find a secret gold treasure.
- A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.
- A sequel to the smash hit Luokkakokous (2015).
- Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where Once We Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
- A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.
- The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
- The farm girl Hilja falls meet Yrjö, a student visiting the country side. They fall madly in love, which leads to consequences.
- Summer 1944 in Finnish Karelia; after a long lull, the Soviet army launches an overwhelming offensive that throws everything into disarray. Martta has barely time to marry Aarne before she is evacuated with relatives Hilkka who has just given birth to a son Helmi Elisa, the children, and their grandmother. In the confusion of the retreat, the women try to hold together and cross the paths of Aarne and Arttu, the only surviving brother of war-widow Helmi Elisa. Implacably, war takes its toll of suffering and death among civilians and soldiers.
- The summer of an ice hockey player.
- Finland's education system has consistently ranked among the best in the world for more than a decade. The puzzle is, why Finland? Documentary filmmaker, Bob Compton, along with Harvard researcher, Dr. Tony Wagner, decided to find out. The result of their research is captured in a new film, "The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System". In the 60-minute film, Dr. Wagner guides the viewer through an inside look at the world's finest secondary education system. A life-long educator and author of the best-selling book "The Global Achievement Gap," Dr. Wagner is uniquely qualified to explore and explain Finland's success. From within classrooms and through interviews with students, teachers, parents, administrators and government officials, Dr. Wagner reveals the surprising factors accounting for Finland's rank as the #1 education system in the world.
- After being presented with a treasure map, two men travel to the harsh northern wastelands of Lapland in the hopes of finding gold.
- The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona (Elena Leeve) is coming to work in same courier company.Eetu falls in love to Oona. K is annoyed about this, because Oona interferes with their training.
- The entire Finnish Defence Forces are laid off, excluding Sargeant First Class Körmy and their regiment. During this time Sweden shows interest in a piece of land in Finland, sparking conflict between the two nations.
- Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.
- Erkki has just been released from the army, but he refuses to receive the summer job that his father is offering to him and starts to think what he really wants to do with his life.
- Singer/ songwriter Troy Freeman heads to the frozen wilderness of Finland in search of solitude and inspiration, only to find more than he bargained for when his guitar awakens something hungry and evil from it's winter slumber.
- Sven Tuuva, the simple son of an elderly sergeant, takes part in the battles of the Finnish war with General Sandels.
- "The Redemption". In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.
- The Spy School selects a group of unlucky morons for a suicide mission with an inhuman pruning mechanism that only a blind priest and a cleaner survive. Even though they are there by accident. They are drawn into a world of international terror. There is confusion, mayhem, splatter and intense action. Can the heroes avoid certain death and save the world while the school's egoistic general, sadistic secret agent and suicidal education planner breathe down their necks?
- Despite winning the Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale, a Finnish glass designer returns to Helsinki with a bad case of burnout. His psychiatrist recommends taking a few weeks off and seeing the Finnish countryside. Over a few sunny days and light-filled nights around the Midsummer, our hero enjoys the company of a mysterious tramp bearing surprising resemblance to his psychiatrist, and gradually falls in love with a beautiful female student crossing his path in several places because of her summer job as a tour bus guide.
- When the Winter War of 1939 begins but an evacuation order never arrives in Karelia, a local family must assemble the townspeople to flee their homes from the impending destruction.
- Klaus Grahn is a young law student in his early twenties. He has a loyal and nice blonde girlfriend Anita, but is drawn towards a new love interest, the dark haired and more exciting Eija. Frustrated by his small earnings writing bits and pieces for a newspaper he gets the idea for a perfect crime. He forges a check and cashes it in a bank, but the money runs out and now the police are after him. Desperate he boards a train to Tampere and robs a taxi there and shoots the driver with his sawn-off rifle. Getting back to Helsinki he succeeds in avoiding the police who have come to meet him at the train station. He contacts both his girlfriends, who still do not know of the killing. Anita tries to talk some sense to him but fails. Eija tries to comfort him with he loving feelings. After drinking in a bar, Klaus runs amok through the city. He thinks he has been turned in to the police by the girls. He confronts them for the last time - with the gun in his hands.
- Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.
- A happy and spirited lady is being courted by two gentlemen. Eventually she marries the other and leads a content family life - until through unlikely events she ends up in a prison, suffering from amnesia.
- Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.
- Photographer Caj Bremer returns to Muonio, Lapland to meet some of the people he photographed there 30 years earlier.