Peter Franzén

Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.

Hard-boiled detective finds himself entagled with a strange cult and macabre rituals.

Frigga tries to balance her risky job as a security manager in the Kiirunavaara mine with her family life, her new love, and her ex, who doesn’t want to let go. But when the ground suddenly starts to shake under their feet, the puzzle of life doesn’t matter and the struggle to not be pulled into the abyss begins.

A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend, Minnie the mouse. In the village he is considered a bit odd and he is indeed special! When a lottery-winning family moves in next door, Hamsteri gets the hoarding opportunity of his dreams and in the process changes the course of the lives of Rurik, a bookkeeper who has lost his will to live, his wife Tellu and their children. Thus begins hoarding for what Hamsteri imagines will be "the cruellest winter ever".

Una mujer se despierta dentro de un lugar con extraños conductos y con un brazalete que le va marcando el tiempo de las sucesivas pruebas que tiene que superar para salvar su vida.

Tale of the Sleeping Giant is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a journey into the rich mythology of ancient Scandinavians and Lapps told in the form of a nature movie.

Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life.

En 1941, una joven aspirante a artista de 16 años y toda su familia son deportados a Siberia en medio del brutal desmantelamiento de Stalin de la región báltica. La pasión de la joven por el arte y su esperanza incorrompible tratarán de imponerse a la dramática situación.

Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair.

Un joven y ambicioso funcionario Jussi se encuentra a cargo de la licencia ambiental de una enorme mina de níquel y uranio en el norte de Finlandia. La mina Talvivaara introduce un nuevo método de recolección de minerales, a la vez implica la creación de puestos de trabajo en una de las zonas más pobres de la región. Jussi descubre poco a poco que está siendo llevado por mal camino y que el nuevo método tiene graves inconvenientes no previstos. La mina está causando peligros ambientales que están siendo silenciado.

An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.

It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.

La gran organización desconocida de la mafia ahora está mostrando su verdadera cara. La presión que GSI y John Falk y su familia han ejercido sobre la organización los hace luchar en todos los frentes. El libro de reglas se descarta. Pero perseguir a la familia de Johan Falk, tratar de matar a su esposa, podría ser el error más grande que la organización ha cometido. GSI se cierra alrededor de la familia de Johan, y comienza la batalla final.

Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.

GSI sigue un rastro de armas que lleva directamente al cuartel general de la mafia Kavkaz en la costa oeste. El miembro de GSI Niklas Saxlid es el del grupo especializado en operaciones encubiertas, y ha penetrado en las actividades de Kavkaz. Pero de repente algo sucede y Niklas desaparece.

Jim Terrier es una espía internacional que ha sido traicionado por la propia organización para la que trabajaba, razón por la que decide dejar atrás su pasado y empezar una nueva vida casándose con su novia. Pero sus planes se truncarán cuando se dé cuenta de que sus jefes y antiguos compañeros van tras él y no pararán hasta verlo muerto.

El líder de una banda de skinheads racistas encuentra que sus prejuicios y lealtades están enfrentados a su deseo de amor y conformar una familia, cuando se enamora de una camarera cuyo hijo es de ascendencia africana.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

La película cuenta la historia de Maarit (Leea Klemola), una mujer que acaba de pasar por una cirugía de reasignación de sexo. Ella quiere reconstruir su relación con su hija adolescente y también está en busca de un hombre para compartir su vida.

Puhdistus nos introduce en la historia de dos mujeres en dos épocas diferentes, unidas por situaciones de engaño, desesperación y miedo. Aliide ha experimentado los horrores de la era de Stalin y la deportación de los estonios a Siberia, pero tiene que hacer frente a su culpa de oportunismo e incluso homicidio. Una noche de 1992 se encuentra con una joven en el patio de su casa. Zara acaba de escapar de las garras de la mafia rusa que la mantuvo como esclava sexual. Aliide, más tarde, descubre que la chica está relacionada con ella y su pasado. Sobrevivientes ambas, Aliide y Zara se involucran en una aritmética compleja de sospecha y revelación. Poco a poco, va surgiendo un drama familiar trágico de rivalidad, lujuria y pérdidas que se desarrolló durante los peores años de la ocupación soviética a Estonia. (FILMAFFINITY)

Timo es un reputado concertista de piano que ha naufragado en su vida personal. Un día se encuentra a la puerta de su casa a un hombre mayor que él de aspecto un tanto desastrado. El hombre, que se llama Leo, resulta ser su padre, quien abandonó el país cuando Timo tenía tan sólo tres años y ha pasado los últimos 35 en paradero desconocido. Leo es un eterno embaucador de talante optimista que tuvo que abandonar su patria tras meterse en notables embrollos. Ahora ha vuelto para entregar a su hijo un misterioso legado y para responder preguntas acerca de su pasado. Padre e hijo se embarcan en un viaje por carretera rumbo al norte del país. Lo que empieza como un choque de caracteres que resulta gracioso y pintoresco termina siendo una auténtica revelación emocional mientras los dos protagonistas se ayudan a asimilar sus respectivos fracasos.

El cuerpo de una mujer joven, con el corazón arrancado del pecho, se encuentra junto a un antiguo cementerio en un pequeño pueblo en la costa oeste de Finlandia. El cuerpo es descubierto por un pastor llamado Hukkanen, que contrata a Jussi Vares para investigar el caso.

Julia, una abogada muy ocupada en la gran ciudad, viaja a un remoto pueblo junto al lago para ayudar a la gente a resistirse a la construcción de una planta central hidroeléctrica. La película combina la mitología antigua y los problemas ambientales de hoy en día aderezado por un aire de misterio.

Después de una sucesión de extrañas muertes en las estaciones de metro de Helsinki, la policía se encuentra desconcertada, nadie ha visto nada y las cintas del circuito cerrado de vigilancia no muestran nada. El sargento de policía Timo Harjunpaa de la unidad de crímenes violentos de Helsinki ha visto de cerca el lado más sórdido de la naturaleza humana a lo largo de su carrera, pero las fuerzas del mal no se había cruzado nunca antes en su camino de manera tan aplastante. Resulta que su adversario es un ser engañado pero peligroso que vive en un bunker subterráneo en medio de una ladera deshabitada de Helsinki. El Sargento Harjunpaa deberá afrontar ahora su caso más aterrador.

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.

This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.

1966, Tomppa y sus amigos Krisu y Kari ya se les está quedando pequeño su negocio de venta ilegal de alcohol en Punavuori, Helsinki. A base de puño y mal carácter expanden su territorio y aumentan sus ganancias. Pero también están al tanto de que su estilo de vida solo tiene tres destinos: seguir adelante, la cárcel o la muerte.

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone woman to the bar will facilitate revealing of the final secret.

The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront desires and frustrations that threaten to destroy the illusions of their lives.

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

Tom Cutler es un ex policía que ahora se dedica a limpiar escenas de crímenes una vez que ya han sido investigados. Concienzudo y metódico, no deja jamás rastro alguno que pueda indicar que haya ocurrido una tragedia en ese lugar. Cuando recibe el encargo de limpiar la escena de un brutal asesinato acaecido en un barrio de clase alta, lo encara como un trabajo más… hasta que se da cuenta de que nadie ha comunicado el crimen a la policía y que lo que ha hecho es eliminar toda evidencia del mismo.

Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her mother, who shares her mysterious connection with nature.

Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster.

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...

Un programador, que trabaja con el sistema informático secreto EWS en una base aérea militar, es amenazado junto a su familia por agentes extranjeros. Su única posibilidad de ser rescatado parece ser el veterano de guerra Haglund, el líder de un grupo especial.

En una noche de verano, un misterioso asesinato reúne a dos desconocidos. Un caso que al principio parece una investigación rutinaria del crimen resulta ser algo más: una historia de amor, alienación y nueva esperanza.

A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigation takes them in a dangerous direction that proves to have unforeseen consequences. The hunt for the robbers is intense and their methods become more refined and terrifying. Klara ends up in the line of fire, both literally and figuratively, and the investigation takes her in a direction that she could never have imagined.

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.

Basada en la novela de 1935 'Names in Marble', es un drama histórico sobre la Guerra de Liberación (1918-1920) que trajo a Estonia su primer periodo de independencia de Rusia. Narra el camino que siguieron, a lo largo de 14 meses, un grupo de compañeros de clase en medio de los acontecimientos decisivos de la historia de Estonia. Henn Ahas es uno de esos jóvenes, un estudiante de origen humilde enamorado de Marta, una joven perteneciente a una familia acaudalada.

Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.

A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.

Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.

Junio de 1941, Segunda Guerra Mundial. El teniente Perkola (Peter Franzén) y su prometida Karina (Irina Björklund), enfermera voluntaria en el frente, tienen un breve encuentro en un pueblo de la Carelia soviética. Perkola y sus hombres son enviados a territorio enemigo mientras que las enfermeras son repatriadas a Finlandia. A pesar de que la misión empieza bien, Perkola se entera de que los rusos han atacado a la columna de heridos y enfermeras. La guerra se convierte entonces para el joven en un asunto de carácter personal. (FILMAFFINTY)

As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations, and automotive sports.

Topi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). The movie tells the story about Tenho and his 10 years old son who both have to grow up in the same summer. Written by Mikko Saranen

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...

Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob.

Finnish movie.

In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.

A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.

An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.

Vatanen has had enough of his job, his wife, his whole urban lifestyle. One day, without warning, he leaves everything behind and heads out into the wilderness accompanied by a rabbit he found on the side of the road.

Story of Juhani Aataminpoika (1826-1854), first known serial killer in Finnish history.

Story of Juhani Aataminpoika (1826-1854), first known serial killer in Finnish history.