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Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/10456/
74
/157/
76
/194/
4.0
/18773/
100
/11/
90
/77/

Drifting Clouds (1996)
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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MUBI
79
7.3
/35720/
70
/1163/
71
/693/
3.8
/203003/
97
/169/
62
/69/
86
/30/

Fallen Leaves (2023)
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/2157/
74
/57/
72
/52/
3.8
/3681/
93
/29/
85
/2/
76
/7/

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021)
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
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Criterion Channel
78
7.2
/14730/
70
/366/
69
/346/
3.8
/19666/
92
/108/
75
/30/
84
/23/

The Other Side of Hope (2017)
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
poster
70
6.8
/8739/
70
/119/
67
/155/
3.6
/11622/
68
/41/
72
/157/
57
/12/

Lights in the Dusk (2006)
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.
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74
62
7.6
/9191/
65
/108/
70
/91/
3.6
/1578/
88
/112/

The Winter War (1989)
After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.
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Kanopy
71
48
6.7
/2453/
67
/59/
65
/57/
3.4
/1543/
81
/16/
78
/2/
71
/7/

Euthanizer (2017)
Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself.
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62
48
6.4
/3529/
59
/22/
57
/38/
3.5
/2065/
62
/54/

Pearls and Pigs (2003)
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
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43
6.7
/3967/
64
/18/
63
/50/
3.4
/945/
49
/48/

Hellsinki (2009)
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
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62
42
5.6
/1092/
53
/28/
55
/33/
3.2
/1842/
83
/6/

The Woodcutter Story (2022)
An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
35
4.6
/2577/
50
/281/
54
/260/
2.5
/1210/
40
/13/

Rendel (2017)
Rendel, a masked superhero, becomes blinded by his desire for revenge against a sinister criminal organization.
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34
5.9
/4397/
57
/21/
54
/44/
3.2
/860/
26
/49/

Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
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57
33
6.2
/2686/
60
/25/
55
/43/
3.2
/465/
45
/41/

V2: Dead Angel (2007)
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
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59
32
5.9
/2160/
62
/43/
55
/35/
3.1
/943/

Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
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30
6.8
/1168/
54
/18/
61
/14/
3.4
/2296/

Family Time (2023)
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral.
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24
6.6
/519/
56
/34/
65
/26/
3.4
/873/

Death Is a Problem for the Living (2023)
The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
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56
22
6.1
/1373/
60
/19/
51
/25/
3.2
/208/
48
/31/

Producing Adults (2004)
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
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57
19
6.0
/1575/
50
/6/
57
/23/
3.2
/223/

Bad Luck Love (2000)
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
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19
6.2
/1208/
60
/11/
57
/31/
3.4
/466/
44
/5/

Princess (2010)
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
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53
18
6.0
/1432/
56
/22/
57
/27/
3.2
/253/
29
/13/

Vares: The Kiss of Evil (2011)
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
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57
17
6.0
/1146/
48
/8/
58
/6/
3.1
/1032/

Luottomies-elokuva: All in (2024)
When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works.
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55
17
5.3
/1119/
50
/15/
53
/29/
3.2
/208/

Vares: The Girls of April (2011)
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
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62
16
6.3
/969/
60
/10/
60
/21/
3.3
/247/

Bad Family (2010)
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
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67
16
6.6
/743/
67
/7/
71
/16/
3.3
/326/

Forest Giant (2020)
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
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57
16
5.5
/1008/
54
/19/
55
/23/
3.2
/219/

The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
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14
5.4
/696/
60
/19/
47
/15/
3.0
/596/

Nimby: Not in My Backyard (2020)
Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town.
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62
13
6.3
/940/
59
/12/
58
/12/
3.4
/326/

Promise (2005)
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
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51
11
5.0
/835/
52
/16/
45
/14/
3.0
/330/

95 (2017)
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
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?
3.9
/32/

Viisasten kivi (1996)
A young woman has to attend a self-improvement camp
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5.1
/23/
35
/2/
60
/1/

Pidetty hiljainen mies (1995)
A short film about Kaista, his son Pasi, his ex-wife Elina, and Elina's brother Aleksi, whose spring is dragging on. Kain's words ended when his wife announced that she wanted to be alone for a while and then started dating a man who is fair but dances.
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?
5.6
/28/
80
/1/

It Is What It Is (2023)
A serious man heads into the woods as a moose.
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?
6.2
/92/
57
/3/

Kolme suudelmaa (2006)
A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world. What happens when a man's frozen heart begins to thaw?
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66
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6.7
/103/
60
/1/
73
/3/

Oh No, Lasse Falls! (2023)
The Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 metres final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It is not a big day only for Virén but for the whole nation. But one man cannot win alone. It takes a dedicated group of hardworking, reliable people. In a desolate bunker near the track, six Finnish men are preparing to help Lasse achieve the run of his life. A run that changes history. All for the small, relentless nation from the dark cold North.
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37
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5.4
/148/
20
/1/

Ken tulta pyytää (2001)
Firefighter Jesse heroically rescues ten children from a devastating fire. But it soon becomes clear that Jesse is not a hero after all, and a thrilling adventure begins, the outcome of which is difficult to predict.
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?
7.3
/19/
60
/1/

Thank You in Your Language (2022)
Actor Tiina Vainio has to make an audition tape in a hotel room as soon as possible for the role of her life.
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48
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6.5
/108/
20
/1/
60
/4/

White Marble (1998)
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.
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?
5.2
/98/
20
/1/
10
/2/

Seasick (1996)
Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
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?
6.2
/86/
20
/1/
47
/3/

Tomas (1996)
An adolescent boy’s life is slipping into a vicious cycle of crime and school.
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6.9
/70/
60
/1/

Laundry (2021)
Humorous fragment of starting over, struggles with life and neighbours. A story of the time when even washing the undies seems difficult.
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5.7
/27/
10
/1/
30
/2/

Vääpeli Sadon tapaus (1985)
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?
5.3
/30/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Siriuksen vieraat (1987)
Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.
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39
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5.6
/229/
10
/1/
53
/9/

Kaikki pelissä (1994)
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
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47
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4.7
/403/
45
/9/
50
/12/

Winning Ticket (2018)
Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?
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7.4
/70/
70
/3/

Play God (2011)
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.
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48
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6.7
/205/
30
/2/
47
/3/

Our Father… (1993)
Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.
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53
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7.1
/181/
20
/1/
70
/1/

Pieni pyhiinvaellus (2000)
In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.
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6.7
/52/
60
/1/

Carrier (2020)
Janika takes advantage of her pregnancy by smuggling amphetamine from Tallinn to Helsinki with her brother.
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53
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5.9
/602/
45
/10/
55
/12/

Lakeuden kutsu (2000)
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?


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