A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

The second part of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Finland” trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his…

A farmer’s wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system,…

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in…

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively…