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by geraldlundeen | created - 11 Dec 2018 | updated - 12 Dec 2018 | PublicFilms I don’t have from 100 best Finnish films
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1. Käpy selän alla (1966)
89 min | Drama
Two student couples go camping in the Finnish countryside; partner swapping and interpersonal dynamics - with a touch of their philosophy - between them all arise.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Eero Melasniemi, Kristiina Halkola, Pekka Autiovuori, Kirsti Wallasvaara
Votes: 799
2. The Last Wedding (1995)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Pekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village.
Director: Markku Pölönen | Stars: Martti Suosalo, Henrika Andersson, Matti Varjo, Tanja Kortelainen
Votes: 987
3. Täältä tullaan, elämä! (1980)
118 min | Drama, Romance
In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home,... See full summary »
Director: Tapio Suominen | Stars: Esa Niemelä, Tony Holmström, Kati Outinen, Risto Piskunen
Votes: 811
4. Ihmiset suviyössä (1948)
66 min | Drama
A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. ... See full summary »
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Eila Pehkonen, Martti Katajisto, Emma Väänänen, Eero Roine
Votes: 203
5. Juurakon Hulda (1937)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never loses her common ... See full summary »
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Irma Seikkula, Tauno Palo, Topo Leistelä, Hugo Hytönen
Votes: 175
6. Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa EI (1975)
103 min | Comedy, Romance
A young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is ... See full summary »
Director: Risto Jarva | Stars: Antti Litja, Kirsti Wallasvaara, Matti Ruohola, Vivi-Ann Sjögren
Votes: 372
7. The Collector (1997)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
Director: Auli Mantila | Stars: Leea Klemola, Elina Hurme, Rea Mauranen, Henriikka Salo
Votes: 493
8. Pikku Pietarin piha (1961)
73 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In a small Finnish town in the 1920s, 12-year-old Pietari Jormalainen lives in a lively courtyard surrounded by wooden houses. While God sees everything and everyone - and takes care of his... See full summary »
Director: Jack Witikka | Stars: Leif Aaltonen, Aapeli, Kaarlo Halttunen, Pia Hattara
Votes: 106
9. Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi (1943)
110 min | Romance
Director: Ossi Elstelä | Stars: Regina Linnanheimo, Leif Wager, Elsa Rantalainen, Ester Toivonen
Votes: 167
10. Sleeping Beauty (1949)
99 min | Family, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Aarne Laine, Mirjam Novero, Annika Sipilä, Tuula Ignatius
Votes: 197
11. Simpauttaja (1975 TV Movie)
151 min | Comedy, Drama
Imppa has to leave home and finds a job at the farm. There he meets an enigmatic hired hand known as Simpauttaja.
Director: Veikko Kerttula | Stars: Ahti Kuoppala, Pekka Räty, Leni Katajakoski, Esko Hukkanen
Votes: 191
12. Kun taivas putoaa... (1972)
100 min | Drama
A physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Director: Risto Jarva | Stars: Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Erkki Pajala, Heikki Hämäläinen, Matti Kassila
Votes: 223
13. Rosso (1985)
76 min | Drama, Crime
Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana, Mirja Oksanen
Votes: 753
14. Valkoiset ruusut (1943)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The uncredited adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel (1922), made five years before Max Ophüls' more widely recognized "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948).
Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Helena Kara, Tauno Palo, Aku Korhonen, Aino Lohikoski
Votes: 151
15. Stolen Death (1938)
101 min | Romance, Thriller
A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist ... See full summary »
Director: Nyrki Tapiovaara | Stars: Tuulikki Paananen, Ilmari Mänty, Santeri Karilo, Annie Mörk
Votes: 298
16. Ajolähtö (1982)
107 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Heikki Paavilainen, Timo Torikka, Tero Niva, Sanna Majanlahti
Votes: 239
17. Klaani: Tarina Sammakoitten suvusta (1984)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The great merit of film is that it never starts to moralize or give forced explanations, as is customary in many films about crimes.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Halme, Minna Soisalo, Sakari Rouvinen, Juhani Niemelä
Votes: 459
18. Ryysyrannan Jooseppi (1955)
91 min | Drama
Director: Roland af Hällström | Stars: Heimo Lepistö, Hilkka Helinä, Leo Jokela, Armas Jokio
Votes: 111
19. Gabriel, tule takaisin (1951)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
A handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then take their money.
Director: Valentin Vaala | Stars: Tarmo Manni, Emma Väänänen, Salli Karuna, Ansa Ikonen
Votes: 131
20. Pähkähullu Suomi (1967)
84 min | Comedy
Losing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jukka Virtanen | Stars: Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen, Esko Salminen, Leo Jokela
Votes: 477
21. The Christmas Party (1996)
84 min | Comedy
Mike is getting out of prison after serving four years for a bank robbery. Bona is arranging the party of all parties for him: a Christmas party.
Director: Jari Halonen | Stars: Jorma Tommila, Antti Reini, Rauno Juvonen, Oiva Lohtander
Votes: 463
22. Yksityisalue (1962)
83 min | Drama
A young colleague of a successful architect tries to find a reason for the architect's unexpected suicide.
Director: Maunu Kurkvaara | Stars: Sointu Angervo, Nils Brandt, Kyllikki Forssell, Sasu Haapanen
Votes: 52
23. Tulennielijä (1998)
100 min | Drama
Twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother Sirkka leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old Communist, and runs ... See full summary »
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Stars: Elina Hurme, Tiina Weckström, Elena Leeve, Elsa Saisio
Votes: 367
24. Vieras mies tuli taloon (1938)
106 min | Crime, Drama
The landlady Astrid Jönsson of a forest farm, hires a job seeker posing as Aaltonen as a farm manager when her mentally ill husband Alfred is unable to work.
Director: Wilho Ilmari | Stars: Kaisu Leppänen, Eino Kaipainen, Aku Korhonen, Kaarlo Angerkoski
Votes: 57
25. Aliisa (1970 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Aliisa is a poor pensioner struggling to survive in the 1970s' Helsinki. This was the last role of the prolific finnish actor Siiri Angerkoski.
Director: Jukka Sipilä | Stars: Siiri Angerkoski, Selma Miettinen, Varma Lahtinen, Anja Pohjola
Votes: 114
26. Curses of the Witch (1927)
82 min | Drama, Horror
A newlywed couple suffer from the effects of a curse a witch put on the place they live in centuries earlier.
Director: Teuvo Puro | Stars: Einar Rinne, Heidi Blåfield, Irmeli Viherjuuri, Kaisa Leppänen
Votes: 160
27. The Snow Queen (1986)
Unrated | 90 min | Family, Fantasy
In this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's longest story, the beautiful Snow Queen has captured two children and now keeps them apart. She has inserted a sliver of her own special ice ... See full summary »
Director: Päivi Hartzell | Stars: Satu Silvo, Outi Vainionkulma, Sebastian Kaatrasalo, Tuula Nyman
Votes: 497
28. Olet mennyt minun vereeni (1956)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Innocent girl gets lead astray by Lothario, not only into adultery, because he's already married, but devilish drink, too. Lothario's good friend, the fine upstanding seaman takes a fancy ... See full summary »
Director: Teuvo Tulio | Stars: Kirsti Hurme, Lauri Korpela, Nestori Lampi, Matti Lehtelä
Votes: 131
29. Hirttämättömät (1971)
85 min | Western, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Spede Pasanen | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen, Pirjo Laitila
Votes: 766
30. Rakkaudella, Maire (1999)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers.... See full summary »
Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Eeva Litmanen, Minna Haapkylä, Matti Onnismaa, Esko Salminen
Votes: 350
31. Arvottomat (1982)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Matti Pellonpää, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Esko Nikkari
Votes: 1,275
32. Joulukuusivarkaat (2009 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama
After bank confiscates an old-timer's lands and threatens to take his house he is forced to question his morale.
Director: Heikki Kujanpää | Stars: Pekka Autiovuori, Aarno Sulkanen, Marjukka Halttunen, Taisto Oksanen
Votes: 221
33. Drakarna över Helsingfors (2001)
90 min | Drama
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Lindholm | Stars: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Kerosuo, Pekka Strang, Johanna af Schultén
Votes: 698
34. The Quiet Village (1997)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After his predecessor on a long-festering wilderness village murder case resigns for "reasons of health", a young police detective decides it's time for more forceful methods. But there's ... See full summary »
Director: Kari Väänänen | Stars: Taisto Reimaluoto, Sari Havas, Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko
Votes: 188
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