Aki Kaurismäki Movies

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract...

In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up,...

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and...

TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom.

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an inces...

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documen...

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company a...

Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably co...

An interview with Aki Kaurismäki, with film clips and comments from colleagues.

Piirainen's documentary on the last years of Peter von Bagh.

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurism...

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better e...

A documentary about the making of Le Havre

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the m...

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.