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- An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
- British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
- Follows the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.
- A young boy becomes a crime-fighting superhero with the help of a mysterious pharmacist's invisibility powder.
- Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life.
- In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. 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. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
- Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of Sweden in the 1930s. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
- When Ricky's aunt Serena goes on a vacation with her boyfriend, her cousin Fanny returns to look after Ricky and Nelly. Ricky's new bike disappears, and they must figure out what happened to it.
- A confused movie about children in a world from which adults have disappeared.
- Author Tove Jansson and graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä spent 20 summers on the island of Klovharu in the Gulf of Finland. This documentary is based on 20 hours of Super 8 film footage shot by Tuulikki Pietilä between 1970 and 1991.
- Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
- A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
- A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
- Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge.
- The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
- After a suicide attempt, a woman finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure.
- In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
- An ex-POW gets romantically involved with his friend's wife, but a get-together in the countryside results in tragedy that sends their illicit affair into a downward spiral.
- Small town butchers and florists grow tired of local sausage factory owner. They want to teach him a lesson but things get out of hand.
- Pakkaspoika (Polar Boy) is a short look into the life of a young Finnish boy who is ready to take the matter of climate change into his own hands. It's a small story of an undeniably big issue that concerns the whole world in one way or another. We act on things we see but knowledge empowers us with a powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. Don't let the future say: "There will be no presents from Santa this year. It's not that you've been bad but Santa's workshop sank to the bottom of the ocean.
- 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?
- A government official decides to steal a $25-million markka payroll (=$78,000 USD) and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
- A what-if story of authors Lauri Viita and Aila Meriluoto as told by their daughter of an alternative time line.
- Based on Maria Jotuni's play, a sharp comedy about greed and speculation. The inhabitants of a small Finnish town try to survive despite the difficulties during the First World War. There is a shortage of everything and speculation flourishes. Everything collapses when peace is unexpectedly made. Maria Jotunin näytelmään perustuva kirpeä komedia ahneudesta ja keinottelusta. Suomalaisen pikkukaupungin asukkaat yrittävät selviytyä vaikeuksista huolimatta ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana. Kaikesta on pulaa ja keinottelu kukoistaa. Kaikki romahtaa, kun rauha yllättäen solmitaan.
- Orphaned northern girl moves to Helsinki to stay with a distant relative Mauri Teräs, who has been appointed her guardian. She irritates, amuses, and charms Mauri, who is used to socializing, and his bachelor friends.
- Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.
- A lieutenant and the colonel's daughter flirts. The colonel does not like his daughter's intentions. When a prison fugitive arrives at the scene everything is turned upside down and inside out.
- Sampo introduces his girlfriend Heli to his whole family for the first time at his parents' wedding anniversary party. Heli finds out that the family is a musical one and that it's not the easiest task to make a good impression. As the night goes on, they learn new and unexpected traits of each other.
- A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves.
- Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
- An inward little town in Finland transforms into a melting pot of nationalities, religions and cultures when Finnish Basketball Federation opens the borders for foreign players. The Board of a local team puts all their eggs in the new season trebling their budget. Unknowingly it hires an uneasy twosome as the new manager and new coach for the team. The airlift from America, Europe and even Africa hauls in player after player when the coach burns the money that never realizes. The tragicomic efforts of the manager to gather the unrealistic budget and even to find a washing-machine for the players evolve into an anatomy of inflamed working environment. The manager's power-struggle with the coach has a bitter end where there's only space for one of them in the town. The player-candidates come with high hopes and end up being the pawns in the game. Their life among the locals create absurd encounters that originate from all walks of life.
- A scientist creates a fully grown test tube baby from the cells of a mathematician, and the two are frequently mistaken for each other by gangsters, private investigators, the police, and the baby's creator himself.
- 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.
- A handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then take their money.
- 1800-luvun lopulla Längelmäellä tehtiin raaka veriteko jossa kaksi miestä tappoi postelijoonin ja ryösti postilaukun rahat. Perustuu tositapahtumiin.