The Other Side of Hope / Toivon tuolla puolen (2017)
Comedy | Drama
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Starring: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Kati Outinen, Sherwan Haji, Mirja Oksanen, Ilkka Koivula
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
The Man Without a Past / Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
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 name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Starring: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemelä, Kaija Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Annikki Tähti
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Comedy | Music
The Leningrad Cowboys, a fictional Russian rock band, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää, Mato Valtonen, Sakari Kuosmanen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Varjoja paratiisissa / Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Esko Nikkari
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Rikos ja rangaistus / Crime and Punishment (1983)
Crime | Drama
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
Starring: Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari, Matti Pellonpää
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Juha (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Starring: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola, Elina Salo
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana / Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Comedy
Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of…
Starring: Kati Outinen, Matti Pellonpää, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, Mato Valtonen, Elina Salo
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö / The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Comedy | Drama
Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who…
Starring: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
La vie de bohème / The Bohemian Life (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Three penniless 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 noise.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilmss, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that…
Starring: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Kari Väänänen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Ariel (1988)
Drama
Taisto Kasurinen, a Finnish coal miner must find a way to live in the big city after the mine closes and his father, also a miner, commits suicide.
Starring: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Centro Histórico (2012)
Drama
A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal.
Starring: Judite Araujo, Ricardo Trêpa
Director: Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Víctor Erice, Aki Kaurismäki
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Kauas pilvet karkaavat / Drifting Clouds (1996)
Comedy | Drama
The first film in Kaurismäki's "Finland Trilogy" examining the effect of social problems on the lives of ordinary Finns. The film is centred on a middle aged couple who both lose their jobs in quick succession and their attempts to cope and get their lives back on track.
Starring: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Markku Peltola, Sakari Kuosmanen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Comedy | Drama
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret…
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Nicky Tesco, Joe Strummer, Serge Reggiani
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Le Havre (2011)
Comedy | Drama
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Starring: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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