The Worthless

The Worthless 1982

6.20

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.

1982

The Interrogation

The Interrogation 2009

6.20

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

2009

Punahilkka

Punahilkka 1968

5.70

Tells the story of young Anja, a teenage girl living in an approved school (otherwise known as a reform school), and the problems she faces in the outside world after running away.

1968

Anna

Anna 1970

5.40

A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.

1970

Men Can't Be Raped

Men Can't Be Raped 1978

6.20

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

1978

Hangover

Hangover 1973

3.20

Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed.

1973

Mommilan veriteot 1917

Mommilan veriteot 1917 1973

6.10

On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.

1973

Two Forces

Two Forces 1979

5.70

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

1979

Sixtynine

Sixtynine 1969

5.60

Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.

1969

Dirty Story

Dirty Story 1984

3.30

The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.

1984

Portraits of Women

Portraits of Women 1970

5.10

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.

1970

Girl of Finland

Girl of Finland 1967

6.60

A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.

1967

Black on White

Black on White 1968

5.20

Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.

1968

Laukaus tehtaalla

Laukaus tehtaalla 1973

9.00

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

1973

Mannen utan ansikte

Mannen utan ansikte 1995

6.00

A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In addition to himself, the desperate robber threatens to blow up the hostages if the police who left to follow them try to prevent the escape.

1995

Maschenka

Maschenka 1987

1

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

1987

The Memory of Ingmar Bergman

The Memory of Ingmar Bergman 2018

1

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman the Finnish writer and director Jörn Donner shares his memories of his friend and collaborator. The movie is based on two as yet unpublished TV interviews with Bergman which Donner filmed in 1975 and 1987.

2018

Seven Songs from the Tundra

Seven Songs from the Tundra 2000

6.40

An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000

2000