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Saara and Robert are living a love that is free from traditional conventions and role models. They set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago where the tension between them escalates and becomes a fight for survival.

Marjaleena, Miss Finland's 2nd princess from decades ago, runs a bar on the Spanish sunny coast with her son Vili and her retired sidekick Mikko. Their carefree lives are cut short when the trio learns that Marjaleena's ex-husband Mato is about to be released from prison after a long sentence. Mato plans to retire to the sunshine coast to enjoy the spoils of robbery with his new lover and drive Marjaleena, Mikko and Vili out of their bar. But that's no good for the betrayed trio, who want their share of the millions.

A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way.

The Angry Hamster is a short story about Tomi, a socially excluded man who lives with his mother. The young man's dauntingly routine everyday life is interrupted when his mother takes Tomi to town to celebrate his 23rd birthday. Tomi, who makes laconically analytical observations in his mind, is forced by a new situation to face his own feelings and prejudices about the world. Is life just a total misery, or is it not, after all? Perhaps the twisted world straightens out if you look at it from an even more twisted angle.

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.

Un policía que se jubila, se ve atrapado entre dos hombres más jóvenes que intentan matarse entre sí. Un moderno Western occidental que tiene lugar a ambos lados de la frontera norte de Finlandia y Suecia.

Mirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and Siru's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

Armi Ratia es la mujer detrás de la empresa legendaria de diseño “Marimekko” y una celebridad en todo el mundo. Una compañía de teatro tiene la tarea de tratar de retratar la vida y obra de esta persona compleja. Armi es una empresaria de tomar riesgos, valiente y su pasión por su empresa toma en repetidas ocasiones su peaje en sus empleados, las finanzas y la familia. La empresa crece, mientras que la vida personal de Armi es sacudida por intentos de turbulencia y suicidio…

Cuando en España aún estábamos a vueltas con esa droga misteriosa llamada píldora anticonceptiva y el divorcio era cosa innombrable, los progresistas y enrollados suecos ya iban por la liberación de la mujer y la revolución sexual. La sociedad modelo de la Suecia de los 70, sin embargo, escondía una buena montaña de mugre bajo la alfombra. Call Girl cuenta una trama policíaca -basada en un caso real- en la que altos cargos políticos se ven envueltos en un escándalo de prostitución que seguimos a través de Iris, adolescente rebelde que termina enredada en el “negocio” mientras la policía hace la vista gorda.

18 year old Juri is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and pushes his girlfriend to the brink of leaving him. He decides to quit, but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki, who - when they meet for the first time - turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki has a web-address tattooed on his arm and when Juri types it into his computer, he gets drawn into a curious game that grants him the username RAT KING. As the game becomes increasingly dangerous, Niki vows to help Juri get through it. But the game triggers a series of life-threatening events and pretty soon Juri realizes that he is gaming for his life.

Francia /// Todo el mundo sabe que Ruben es un cartero mitad francés y mitad finlandés, judío y homosexual; además de un mal hijo, un hermano egoísta, una birria de amante, un turbio asesino y un ladrón con escasa iniciativa… Sin embargo, el propio Ruben es incapaz de saber quién es. En la encrucijada de su existencia, mientras se abren ante él las aguas del Mar Rojo, a Ruben le asalta una duda: ¿debe seguir a su pueblo o el dictado de su corazón?

A Finnish family adventure comedy.

A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.

One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.

El padre de una familia finlandesa lleva a su casa un cachorro de perro, llamado "Tormenta", del cual no poseen ningún dato sobre su vida. Poco a poco, el misterio se desenreda y descubren que los padres de Tormenta habían servido como perros de guardia en el Muro de Berlín. Por su parte, Pearl, la hija de 7 años de la familia, entablará una amistad inquebrantable con el cachorro, el cual crecerá hasta alcanzar el tamaño de un oso. Tormenta será el encargado de proteger a la pequeña Pearl de todos los peligros, amenazas y obstáculos que se le interpongan.

8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.

Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover

Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.

Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern immer beliebter. Eher zufällig kommt in Peter Lichtefelds „Playa Del Futuro“, seinem erst zweiten Projekt in Spielfilmlänge, der Protagonist mit diesem Lebensziel in Berührung, denn eigentlich ist er nur auf der Suche nach einem besseren Job und seiner großen Liebe.

A black comedy about the dysfunctional relationships, love, and hate; concerning a small town sausage factory manager whose careless love affairs affect the lives of the factory workers as well as the women in his life.

When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.

Cuatro hermanos finlandeses, apodados "Eura Daltons", recibieron notoriedad en todo el país por arrancar las bombas de gas cuando necesitaban dinero. La película más taquillera en Finlandia después de El Señor de los Anillos: el retorno del Rey en 2003. Recaudó casi 4 millones €, lo que la convierte en la película finlandesa más taquillera de la historia.

Un hombre que ha perdido completamente la memoria debe reiniciar su vida en una zona marginal, junto a seres humanos apartados de la sociedad.

A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.

Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic.

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

Ya se sabe que el amor no cae del cielo, sino que uno se lo encuentra en el regazo. Sobre todo cuando no se lo espera en absoluto. Y si antes alguien le hubiera dicho al repartidor de cerveza de Dormund, Hannes, que lo encontraría precisamente en la exótica soledad de Finlandia mientras un comisario de policía le pisaba los talones, lo más probable es que se hubiera limitado a sacudir la cabeza. Hannes, tímido experto en aprenderse horarios de trenes en sus ratos libres quiere ir a la nórdica localidad de Inari para participar en el Primer Concurso Internacional para expertos en guías ferroviarias. Para cumplir este sueño, ha pasado meses maquinando rutas de viaje y estudiándose horarios de memoria. Lo que Hannes no sabe cuando va al tren hacia el norte es que el Comisario Stefan y su ayudante Harry le creen el sospechoso número uno de un nuevo caso de asesinato...

Historia de un matrimonio (Ilona y Lauri) cuya relación y dignidad son puestas a prueba por los duros golpes de la vida. La pareja no suele correr riesgos y vive en un modesto apartamento de alquiler. Pero Ilona (Kati Outinen) pierde su empleo como camarera en el restaurante Dubrovnik, en Helsinki. Por si esto fuera poco, acaba enterándose de que Lauri (Kari Väänänen) ya hace un mes que ha sido despedido de su trabajo como conductor de tranvía.

The 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims. The main clue in the case is the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the subway vent scene in The Seven Year Itch. This clue directs Cockton to the highest levels of the super company LTD Prods. But though Cockton tries and tries, he cannot get there and ends up himself blown to smithereens.

Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.

Una joven solitaria hace un trabajo mecánico y rutinario en una fábrica de cerillas. Cuando llega a casa debe soportar a su perverso padrastro y la falta de cariño de su madre. Por las noches sale a bailar intentando divertirse y encontrar pareja, pero nunca tiene suerte.

Anni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.

Divorced Asta and her daughter Anni go on a summer holiday touring Finland with Asta's sister and her husband. On the trip they visit a submarine, a mine, a dinosaur land and search for Santa Claus in Lapland.

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.