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6.9
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3.5
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Calamari Union (1985)
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.
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7.3
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53
/9/
62
/27/
3.6
/826/

The Worthless (1982)
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
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5.3
/29/

Isku vasten kasvoja (1988)
Hanhivaara investigates the murder of an Olympic champion.
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6.3
/15/

Slumbering Tones (1978)
Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.
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5.1
/30/
10
/1/
10
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Jumalia ei uhmata (1988)
A well-known Finnish man is found murdered in a popular Sicilian resort, and a Finnish police officer who happens to be there begins to investigate the case on his own.
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7.8
/13/
10
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Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää (1984)
Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's documentary, we meet Pellonpää in 1984, after Kaurismäki's Arvottomat film, but before his actual big breakthrough.
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5.5
/16/
10
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20
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Päätepysäkki (1986)
Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father's eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange people cling to him like flies to sticky flypaper. At the same time, Matti's girlfriend Leila waits for him somewhere.
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5.2
/47/
60
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Ihmemies (1979)
Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.
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4.7
/30/
10
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30
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Menestyksen maku (1983)
A young advertising executive decides to focus on success in his life. As he concentrates on building his career, both his family and his colleagues are pushed aside.
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5.4
/93/
33
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Vartioitu kylä 1944 (1978)
In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend Anna for a break in his home village in Kainuu, located near the Soviet border and the war zone, which is protected from partisans by a military unit led by Sergeant Tolvanen.
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3.7
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10
/1/

Yön kätkössä (1988)
N/A
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6.3
/58/
80
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Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti (1979)
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
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4.2
/131/
10
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42
/5/

Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut (1990)
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
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5.5
/44/
45
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Macbeth (1987)
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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3.9
/126/
46
/3/
68
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Kiljusen herrasväki (1981)
The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.
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5.5
/33/
10
/1/
60
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Näkemiin, hyvästi (1986)
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.
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4.5
/58/
10
/1/
16
/3/

Aikalainen (1984)
A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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5.0
/116/
10
/1/
40
/4/

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin (1983)
April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.
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4.6
/52/
10
/1/
36
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Kello (1984)
Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.
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5.9
/71/
10
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33
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Rakkauselokuva (1984)
The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.
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5.2
/42/
10
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Regina ja miehet (1983)
According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters.
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Onnellinen mies (1979)
Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.
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Jackpot 2 (1982)
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.
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5.2
/37/
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50
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Kolme yötä (1989)
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4.5
/71/
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55
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Ylösnousemus (1985)
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
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5.3
/56/
45
/4/

Viimeiset rotannahat (1985)
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
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5.2
/39/
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70
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Toto (1982)
A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
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4.4
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26
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Aurinkotuuli (1980)
Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.
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4.8
/60/
10
/1/
40
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (1986)
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
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5.4
/28/
10
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Aidankaatajat (1982)
Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter
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Some of You May Have Heard of Me (2025)
Kari Uusitalo, a regular visitor to the Tampere Film Festival, delved into the state of Finnish cinema of the mid-1980s, while getting to know the new generation of filmmakers in Anssi Mänttäri's comedic short documentary. Deep in Reppufilmi's cellar, in addition to director Mänttäri, we meet Pirkko Hämäläinen, Markku Toikka, Matti Pellonpää, Paavo Piskonen and Pauli Pentti. The film poses the question: why is a person, an artist, willing to risk everything over and over again?


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