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58
8.0
/8118/
75
/66/
73
/72/
3.6
/1772/

The Unknown Soldier (1955)
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
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68
17
7.5
/1106/
57
/7/
67
/16/
3.5
/364/

Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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71
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8.3
/1154/
62
/12/
77
/18/
3.8
/571/

Eight Deadly Shots (1972)
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
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51
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6.6
/322/
25
/2/
59
/11/

Gotta Run! (1982)
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm but wants to break free from his father who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies and, together with drifter Late, take a job in a steel mill in southern Finland.
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6.7
/60/

Pulakapina (1977)
Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises the farmers in open rebellion against the authorities.
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6.1
/37/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Elokuva jalostavasta rakkaudesta (1967)
Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.
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46
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6.3
/252/
10
/1/
66
/5/

Girl of Finland (1967)
A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.
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44
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5.8
/152/
26
/3/
48
/7/

Mona ja palavan rakkauden aika (1983)
Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.
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61
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6.9
/313/
54
/5/
68
/5/

Elämän vonkamies (1986)
Portrait of rural life in 1920s Northern Finland. The film follows the early life of a boy called Kalle and his family in the shores of river Iijoki.
poster
57
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5.6
/110/
58
/4/

Syksyllä kaikki on toisin (1978)
A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.
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5.0
/50/
10
/1/
35
/2/

Tähtisilmä (1955)
Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delivery girl tries to help the painter to get forward in his career, but meanwhile a rich woman becomes too interested towards the painter.
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33
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5.3
/372/
53
/3/
38
/8/

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä (1957)
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5.5
/74/
10
/1/

Herra sotaministeri (1957)
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39
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5.4
/130/
10
/1/
55
/5/

Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta (1971)
Olavi Koskela, a ladies' man, joins the loggers. As a log driver, Olavi travels from place to place, seducing one girl after another and then abandoning them. Only Kyllikki, the daughter of a wealthy family, is able to resist his advances and incites him to challenge another log driver to a race down the rapids. Through Kyllikki, Olavi is forced to face the consequences of his actions and reflect on the meaninglessness of his life.
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42
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6.4
/124/
10
/1/
53
/3/

Ryysyrannan Jooseppi (1955)
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
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46
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7.1
/204/
10
/1/
57
/3/

Hän varasti elämän (1962)
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll 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.
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5.0
/88/
10
/1/

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut (1960)
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5.1
/57/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Naiset, jotka minulle annoit (1962)
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45
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7.0
/146/
10
/1/
57
/3/

Älä nuolase… (1962)
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5.9
/87/
10
/1/
30
/2/

Verta käsissämme (1958)
After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
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5.4
/60/
10
/1/
50
/2/

Kaunis Kaarina (1955)
Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina.
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4.5
/48/
10
/1/

Kahden ladun poikki (1958)
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4.5
/48/
10
/1/

Autuas eversti (1958)
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48
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5.4
/373/
55
/4/
50
/7/

Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla (1958)
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
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4.8
/52/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Köyhä laulaja (1950)
Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding house where the siblings and the poetic accountant live. Since the landlady does not allow music in her nursing home, the musicians practice at Iltatähti and revolutionize the life of the cafe.
poster
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6.9
/90/
25
/2/
70
/2/

1918 (1957)
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
poster
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5.0
/93/
10
/1/
40
/3/

Tanssi yli hautojen (1950)
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.


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