Flowers of Evil

2016

Finnish

5.0

♡ 5

Antti Jokinen Director

Tommi Korpela as Koski

Alma Pöysti as Laura

Krista Kosonen as Opettaja

Deogracias Masomi as Tsidi

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.

Rööperi

2009

Finnish

6.7

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Aleksi Mäkelä Director

Jasper Pääkkönen as Korppu

Peter Franzén as Krisu

Pihla Viitala as Monika

Maria Järvenhelmi as Pankkivirkailija

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

Tove

2020

Finnish

6.8

♡ 1

93%

Zaida Bergroth Director

Sara Soulié as Coco

Kajsa Ernst as Signe 'Ham' Jansson

Alma Pöysti as Tove Jansson

Krista Kosonen as Vivica / Kurt's wife

Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.

Hyväveli

4.7

Sami Laitinen Director

Tommi Korpela as

Sampo Sarkola as

Deogracias Masomi as

Anton Kettunen as Nuorempi konstaapeli

Patrolman Loyan tries to find his place in the new police department while keeping his friend Warsame, newly released from prison, on the right track. Loyan's ambition is to get into detective training, but his supervisor Jokisalo thinks he'd be better off patrolling the familiar neighbourhoods with his partner Johanna. The patrol gets down to business when they start investigating what looks like a suicide. Antero Päiviö, a professional criminal and racial bigot involved in drug trafficking, has jumped from his balcony. The man who was first pronounced dead suddenly wakes up and is taken to hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man's story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As the plot unravels, it's hard to know who to trust anymore, when Warsame seems to be up to something behind Loyan's back.

Lights in the Dusk

2006

Finnish

6.8

♡ 6

68%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Marja Packalén as Chef

Tommi Korpela as Lecturer

Maria Järvenhelmi as Mirja

Silu Seppälä as Vandal

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Calamari Union

1985

Finnish

6.9

♡ 9

81%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Kari Väänänen as Frank

Aki Kaurismäki as Ruumisauton kuljettaja

Pirkko Hämäläinen as Sihteeri

Casablanca Vox as Yhtye

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.

Hamlet Goes Into Business

1987

Finnish

6.8

♡ 10

79%

based on play or musical

shakespeare in modern dress

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Pertti Sveholm as 2. näyttelijä

Matti Pellonpää as Guard

Kari Väänänen as Lauri Polonius

Jaakko Talaskivi as Restaurant Customer

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?

A Man and a Woman

2016

Korean

6.7

♡ 11

86%

Yoon-ki Lee Director

Byung-eun Park as Ahn Jae-Suk

Yoo Gong as Ki-Hong

Do-yeon Jeon as Sang-Min

Veera W. Vilo as Waitress

Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.

The Match Factory Girl

1990

Finnish

7.5

♡ 11

100%

parent child relationship

poison

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Silu Seppälä as Iris Rukka's brother

Erkki Friman as Member of dance band

Ismo Keinänen as Policeman

Marja Packalén as The doctor

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

Shadows in Paradise

1986

Finnish

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Ari Korhonen as

Neka Haapanen as Cook

Aki Kaurismäki as Hotel receptionist

Pentti Koski as Singer

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.

Ariel

1988

Finnish

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Marja Packalén as Judge

Juuso Hirvikangas as Man in the Harbor

Matti Pellonpää as Mikkonen

Sakari Kuosmanen as Prison Gatekeeper

The Man Without a Past

2002

Finnish

7.6

♡ 16

98%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Sakari Kuosmanen as Anttila

Konsta Väänänen as Avustaja

Markku Pätilä as Jokinen

Silu Seppälä as Ruffian

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.

Night on Earth

1991

English

7.7

♡ 44

Jim Jarmusch Director

Béatrice Dalle as Blind Woman

Winona Ryder as Corky

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Helmut Grokenberger

Giancarlo Esposito as YoYo

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Drifting Clouds

1996

Finnish

7.6

♡ 10

100%

husband wife relationship

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Markku Pätilä as

Joni Wirama as

Matti Pellonpää as Lapsi valokuvassa

Silu Seppälä as Rakennusmies

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.

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Rööperi

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Lights in the Dusk

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Hamlet Goes Into Business

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The Match Factory Girl

Shadows in Paradise

Ariel

The Man Without a Past

Night on Earth

Drifting Clouds