Country: Finland
Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in Finland. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.
Titles found: 903
The Bohemian Life
1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Matti Pellonpää · Evelyne Didi · André Wilms · Kari Väänänen
Plot Three artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Drifting Clouds
1996 · Movie · 96 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Matti Onnismaa · Kari Väänänen · Elina Salo · Kati Outinen
Plot Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
The Match Factory Girl
1990 · Movie · 69 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Kati Outinen · Elina Salo · Esko Nikkari · Vesa Vierikko
Plot This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "proletarian trilogy" (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). Iris works on a factory assembly line and lives with her unloving...
7.4
4K votes
7.4
4K votes
The Man Without a Past
2002 · Movie · 97 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Markku Peltola · Kati Outinen · Juhani Niemelä · Kaija Pakarinen
Plot The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy. 'The Man Without a Past' delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in 'Drifting Clouds'....
7.4
7K votes
7.4
7K votes
Ariel
1988 · Movie · 70 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Turo Pajala · Susanna Haavisto · Matti Pellonpää · Eetu Hikamo
Plot In Kaurismäki's drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto must find a way to live in the big city after the mine closes and his father, also a...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Invisible Heroes (TV Miniseries)
2019 · Series · 282 min. · Finland
Direction Mika Kurvinen · Alicia Scherson
Cast Pelle Heikkilä · Sophia Heikkilä · Ilkka Villi · Aksa Korttila
Plot TV Mini-series (2019). 6 Episodes. Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
7.3
142 votes
7.3
142 votes
I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 · Movie · 79 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Margi Clarke · Charlesa Cork · Serge Reggiani
Plot After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life rather than allow himself to sink into further despair....
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
Shadows in Paradise
1986 · Movie · 76 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Matti Pellonpää · Kati Outinen · Sakari Kuosmanen · Esko Nikkari
Plot Aki Kaurismäki’s austere and oddly moving third feature – the first instalment in a “Proletarian Trilogy” that also includes Ariel and The Match Factory Girl — is a moody, melancholic,...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Punk Syndrome
2012 · Documentary · 85 min. · Finland
Direction Jukka Kärkkäinen · Jani-Petteri Passi
Plot The Punk Syndrome is a film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami, are mentally handicapped and they play...
7.2
145 votes
7.2
145 votes
Steam of Life
2010 · Documentary · 81 min. · Finland
Direction Joonas Berghäll · Mika Hotakainen
Plot Finnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart.
7.2
96 votes
7.2
96 votes
Force of Habit (TV Series)
2019 · Series · 15 min. · Finland
Direction Reetta Aalto · Alli Haapasalo · Anna Paavilainen · Kirsikka Saari
Cast Veikko Aalste · Teemu Aromaa · Suvi Blick · Tommi Eronen
Plot A film by seven directors shows us moments in women's lives that usually remain hidden. Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day.
7.1
97 votes
7.1
97 votes
Stormskerry Maja
2024 · Movie · 164 min. · Finland
Direction Tiina Lymi
Cast Amanda Jansson · Linus Troedsson · Desmond Eastwood · Tobias Zilliacus
Plot Everyday life is a relentless battle for survival, but Maja stands her ground. Despite all the setbacks, she stays in Stormskerry, where her roots are.
7.0
31 votes
7.0
31 votes
Thomas (TV)
2008 · Movie · 70 min. · Finland
Direction Miika Soini
Cast Lasse Pöysti · Pentti Siimes · Eila Halonen · Marja-Leena Kouki
Plot Thomas, in the autumn of his life, lives a simple and isolated life in his below-street-level apartment, accompanied by a radio, a chess board, and a photo of his wife....
7.0
64 votes
7.0
64 votes
Under your skin
1966 · Movie · 89 min. · Finland
Direction Mikko Niskanen
Cast Eero Melasniemi · Kristiina Halkola · Pekka Autiovuori · Kirsti Wallasvaara
Plot This depiction of four urban youths and their excursion to the countryside was among the most popular films of the 1960s in Finland. It tackles a theme that is reminiscent...
7.0
23 votes
7.0
23 votes
The Unknown Soldier
1955 · Movie · 181 min. · Finland
Direction Edvin Laine
Cast Kosti Klemelä · Heikki Savolainen · Reino Tolvanen · Veikko Sinisalo
Plot The story focusses on a group of Finnish soldiers as they defend their borders against Russia during WW2.
7.0
29 votes
7.0
29 votes
Letters to Father Jakob
2009 · Movie · 72 min. · Finland
Direction Klaus Härö
Cast Kaarina Hazard · Heikki Nousiainen · Jukka Keinonen · Esko Roine
Plot With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila...
7.0
533 votes
7.0
533 votes
Fallen Leaves
2023 · Movie · 81 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast Alma Pöysti · Jussi Vatanen · Janne Hyytiäinen · Nuppu Koivu
Plot Ansa is single and lives in Helsinki. She works on a zero-hours contract at a supermarket, stocking the shelves; she then sorts recyclable plastic. One night she accidentally meets the...
6.9
12K votes
6.9
12K votes
Le Havre
2011 · Movie · 93 min. · Finland
Direction Aki Kaurismäki
Cast André Wilms · Kati Outinen · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Blondin Miguel
Plot Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer...
6.9
10K votes
6.9
10K votes
Frozen Land
2005 · Movie · 130 min. · Finland
Direction Aku Louhimies
Cast Mikko Leppilampi · Jasper Pääkkönen · Pamela Tola · Mikko Kouki
Plot Tuomas is a young computer hacker who wishes to accomplish something significant and useful to the society. Tuomas's best friend Niko has more of a rock mentality than him, leading...
6.9
124 votes
6.9
124 votes
Mother of Mine
2005 · Movie · 111 min. · Finland
Direction Klaus Härö
Cast Topi Majaniemi · Marjaana Maijala · Esko Salminen · Aino-Maija Tikkanen
Plot Mother of Mine is a film about the fate of one little boy amidst the warring world. Finland goes to war and 9-year-old Eero's father is sent to the front....
6.9
819 votes
6.9
819 votes