Matti Pellonpää Movies

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's documentary, we meet Pellonpää in 1984...

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last...

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the m...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better e...

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining d...

In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the trag...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys commu...

Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residen...

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where b...

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mind...

It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world