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- Jaakko returns to his home village after his parents have died. A villager, Matti, tells him a long and tragic tale about what really happened to Jaakko's parents. At the start of his story, Matti and Jaakko's future mother Anni are lovers until Anni is forced to marry another from the village.
- When Edgar (Helmuth Schneider) sees an aerial photograph of head-hunter villages he talks to the publisher (Walter Hardt) of a magazine. As a boy, Edgar accompanied his father (America Cabral) and the family of an American scientist on a jungle expedition in search of a golden statue of an Inca goddess Only Edgar escaped after the others were captured by a hostile native tribe. Now he wants to go back and see if his father is still alive. The publisher agrees to fund the expedition. He returns and finds a faithful guide when he saves the life of an Indian. THe latter takes him deep into the jungle wilderness where Edgar finds Eliza (Angelika Hauff), the only survivor and he manages to capture the golden statue of the Inca goddess. In the end, the statue when his Indian guide uses it to save Edgar's life. He and Eliiza return to civilization.
- Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mariano. One night, she hurts her feet while dancing and under the influence of a sedative falls asleep and starts dreaming. She is Sonja Ilyanova now, a young gypsy dancer who dreams of performing before Alexei, the son of the Czar...
- A comedic social critique about a man who revolts against his middle-class life.
- Story of a young Finnish worker who comes to Sweden, gets married, has a child, gets into a fight that costs another man his life, and returns to Finland.
- The story of the life of a young girl in a remote, happy, rural community.
- Adopted from an American model into a Finnish version of the candid camera programs. The same jokes/comedy are still in use, and foreign influences are so obvious that you don't even have to start searching for their source.
- A short documentary about reindeer herding in Lapland.
- Detective Charlie Chan investigates a pearl necklace, which has caused misery for all of its owners.
- In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
- A mysterious visitor arrives to a sleepy island and falls in love with a local girl who is practically engaged to a local boy.
- About a woman who out of greed and vanity sells herself to a rich squire.
- Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem, but the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. She realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.
- Luther Meek, a young, goofy citizen of a small town, foils the manager of a stranded theatrical troupe from robbing the local bank and escaping with the loot, and wins the hand of the troupe's fair leading-lady in the process.
- Työväenluokkaan kuuluva Kirsti työskentelee tohtori Varjon vastaanottoapulaisena ja seurustelee salaa tohtorin pojan, arkkitehdiksi opiskelevan Einon kanssa. Vaikka elokuva peilaa aikaista yhteiskunnallisia ongelmia ja luokkajakoja, ei arkisen elämän kuvauksesta puutu huumoria.
- An aging mother is concerned about the love lives of her grown up children.
- Musical comedy of two friends that try to advance in music business at any price.
- A psychological drama of a young student (Veijo Pasanen) who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.
- Maija lives as a lodger in the same cottage as the artist Lauri who, being poor, is shacking up with socialite Ansa. Maija's live radio appearance, a betting win and Lauri's success in an altarpiece competition change the course of events.
- A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.
- Two men try to marry a rich but impulsive woman.
- A young colleague of a successful architect tries to find a reason for the architect's unexpected suicide.
- When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...
- Mireille, a Frenchwoman, has married a westernized Turkish diplomat. Thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, she accepts to follow Vedad Bey, her husband, to his native country. An unfortunate choice indeed as Turkey is not the way she pictured it. Tradition rules the Turkish society and Mireille just cannot be a free woman any longer. There, she is supposed to obey her husband and that is all there is to it. Or is it?...
- Log driver brothers and crooks compete in trying to find loot of an old bank robbery in a supposedly haunted inn.
- Erkki has just been released from the army, but he refuses to receive the summer job that his father is offering to him and starts to think what he really wants to do with his life.
- Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of the foreign men who they meet there are crooks and liars.
- Sentimental events of a rich industrialist which turn to the criminal case.
- Young record store clerk and aspiring writer Esko has just finished his first novel and wants to marry a colonel's daughter. To get the father's permission, Esko has to join the military. There, Esko has problems with his vivid imagination, so he fantasizes about himself and his superiors and comrade experiencing adventures in the French Foreign Legion or in a navy submarine.
- Jacqueline Vignolle fills her father with despair: she has just broken up with her... fourteenth fiancé! In order to humor Daddy, the young lady decides to marry someone. The trouble is that Albert Letournel, the future husband, is in his fifties and, as can be guessed, the marriage will be of convenience, nothing else. Another difficulty lies in the fact that Albert has a son, Georges, who automatically becomes her stepson. Although the relationships between the two young persons are tense at the beginning, you can easily guess what happens in the end...!
- Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire.
- A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
- After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
- A locomotive driver falls in love with a beautiful woman without knowing that she is the wife of an older railroad worker.