Heikki Kinnunen

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Edvin Laine

Aarno Sulkanen, Titta Karakorpi

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

Happier times, Grump

Tiina Lymi

Heikki Kinnunen, Satu Tuuli Karhu

The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.

Päämaja

Matti Kassila

Joel Rinne, Jussi Jurkka

Tulitikkuja lainaamassa

Leonid Gayday, Risto Orko

Evgeni Leonov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...

L'empereur

Luc Jacquet

Lambert Wilson, Morgan Freeman

A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.

Pikkupojat

Spede Pasanen, Ere Kokkonen

Hannele Lauri, Spede Pasanen

OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!

Lampaansyöjät

Seppo Huunonen

Heikki Kinnunen, Leo Lastumäki

Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.

Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin

Matti Kassila

Heikki Kinnunen, Juha Hyppönen

A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.

Lapualaismorsian

Mikko Niskanen

Kristiina Halkola, Kirsti Wallasvaara

A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.

Mielensäpahoittaja Eskorttia etsimässä

Mika Kaurismäki

Heikki Kinnunen, Kari Väänänen

Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be scrapped. A new, modern vehicle is no match for quality and the nearest Escort, a 1972 model, can be found in Germany. When the Grumps's sons refuse to help, he must travel to Germany alone.

Pelikaanimies

Liisa Helminen

Kari Ketonen, Roni Haarakangas

Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.

Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

Ere Kokkonen

Heikki Kinnunen, Tom Pöysti

Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.

Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä

Päivi Hartzell, Liisa Helminen

Aino Seppo, Kari Franck

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.

Lieksa!

Markku Pölönen

Peter Franzén, Sanna-Kaisa Palo

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.

Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin

Ere Kokkonen

Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.

Uuno Turhapuro - kaksoisagentti

Spede Pasanen

Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita

Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.