Country: Finland

Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in Finland. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.


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