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".

Попавшая в аварию девушка просыпается в огромном лабиринте, населенном фантастическими тварями. Теперь она, вместе с другими незнакомцами, участвует в смертельно опасной игре. Каждые семь минут целые секции лабиринта схлопываются, и не успевшие найти решение остаются в нем навсегда. Единственный шанс спастись - никогда не останавливаться.

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.

В 1941 году советские войска оккупируют Литву, после чего объявляют жителей Литвы нарушителями коммунистического режима и врагами народа и отправляют в ссылку на каторжные работы. В ссылку отправляют и семью 16-летней Лины. Девушка фиксирует все ужасы и невзгоды их положения на бумаге.

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.

История финской горнодобывающей компании «Талвиваара». В марте 2012 компания получила лицензию на добычу урана, что могло бы сделать Финляндию энергетически независимой державой. Планировалось на никелевом руднике в Соткамо выделять уран из добываемой руды для дальнейшей продажи. «Талвиваара» уверенно шла к своей цели, пренебрегая мнением экологических организаций и десятка министров — противников ядерной энергетики. Но вскоре жители Соткамо стали жаловаться, что вода в соседних озерах стала солёной, в прессе начали появляться фотографии с местных водоемов, покрытых пеной. Эти и другие тревожные сигналы означали одно: начало конца рудного Гиганта.

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.

The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and trying to kill his wife could be the biggest mistake the organization has ever made. GSI closes up around Johan's family and the final battle begins ...

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 follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears.

Джим Террье — ганмен, международный наемник высочайшего класса. Но когда в Компании начинают подчищать хвосты, Джим сам становится мишенью. Чтобы выжить, Джим угрожает обнародовать имеющийся у него компромат и обращается к бывшему напарнику Феликсу. Однако у Феликса есть свои резоны желать, чтобы Джим Террье исчез из его жизни. Это Энни — женщина, которую они оба любят. За Джимом начинается смертельная охота по всей Европе, и у него не остается другого выбора, кроме как дать бой — один против всех.

Неонацист влюбляется в женщину, у которой есть чернокожий сын, что ставит под сомнение его жизненные принципы.

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.

At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define.

История двух женщин из разных эпох, чьи жизни одинаково полны обмана, отчаяния и страха. Алиида пережила кошмар сталинских лагерей и депортацию эстонцев в Сибирь. Одновременно ей приходится жить с чувством вины за свой оппортунизм и даже за гибель людей. Однажды ночью в 1992 году она находит во внутреннем дворике своего дома молодую женщину: Зара скрывается от бандитов русской мафии, которые держали ее как сексуальную рабыню. Впоследствии выясняется, что Алиида и Зара — родственницы. Постепенно их отношения и их истории сплетаются в сложную сеть…

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.

Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.

Детектив Тимо Харьюнпаа, из города Хельсинки, расследует серию тяжких преступлений. Честный и добросовестный полицейский, один из лучших в городе, теряет свою дочь, которая была зверски убита. Несмотря на поддержку своей коллеги Онервы Никканен, детектив не может оправиться от потери. Параллельно поискам способа разделаться над убийцей своей дочери, он работает над странными смертями на станциях метро, которые приводят его к серийному маньяку. Но в то время как ему кажется, что он все ближе к поимке маньяка, на самом деле все наоборот. Харьюнпаа должен найти способ поймать маньяка и побороть темноту внутри себя..

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.

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

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.

Том Карвер работает чистильщиком — возглавляет клининговую компанию, специализирующуюся на приведении в подобающий вид мест преступлений. Однажды, выполняя очередной заказ, Карвер уничтожает улики, касающиеся убийства свидетеля, проходящего по делу о взяточничестве в полиции. «Чистильщик» понимает, что вынужден самостоятельно найти ответы, прежде чем станет основным подозреваемым. Энн Норкат, вдова убитого свидетеля, и его старый друг Эдди Лоренцо, оставшийся, в отличие от Тома, на службе, пытаются помочь ему разобраться во всём.

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...

A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the war veteran Haglund who is a leader of a special taskforce.

On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.

Стильная и захватывающая шведская лента, которая рассказывает о группе профессиональных грабителей банков, которые терроризируют бизнес-центр Стокгольма и женщину-детектива Клару, которая вместе со своим начальником, офицером Кроной, вступает в настоящую войну с опытными и жестокими профессионалами…

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. The cast is an impressive one: the brothers are portrayed by Peter Franzen, Lauri Nurkse, Niko Saarela and Jasper Pääkkönen while their really evil father is played by Vesa-Matti Loiri, one of the grand old men of Finnish cinema.

В 1918-м году на защиту Эстонской Республики плечом к плечу с солдатами встали и эстонские гимназисты, прямо со школьной скамьи они добровольцами ушли на фронт...

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.

Жаркое лето 1941 года. В Советской Карелии финские части ведут ожесточенные бои с советскими войсками. Получив приказ освободить захваченные земли, взвод лейтенанта Ээро отправляется в тяжелый и опасный поход, исход которого невозможно предсказать. Пытаясь не попасть в засаду в дремучих лесах, теряя братьев по оружию, солдаты продвигаются вглубь вражеского тыла, но вскоре отважный лейтенант получает известие о том, что его невеста, медсестра Карина, погибла в бою с советскими партизанами. Теперь тайная вылазка отчаянных бойцов станет для юного офицера миссией отмщения за любимую.

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

Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.

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.