Aki Kaurismäki Movies

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

Rikos ja rangaistus is a movie starring Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, and Esko Nikkari. An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the...

Calamari Union is a movie starring Timo Eränkö, Kari Heiskanen, and Asmo Hurula. An exodus to a better life in Eira

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America is a movie starring Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, and Sakke Järvenpää. Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.

Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö is a movie starring Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, and Esko Nikkari. A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.

I Hired a Contract Killer is a movie starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, and Kenneth Colley. After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with...

Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana is a movie starring Kati Outinen, Matti Pellonpää, and Kirsi Tykkyläinen. Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living....

The recession hits a couple in Helsinki.

Juha is a movie starring Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, and André Wilms. A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Toivon tuolla puolen is a movie starring Ville Virtanen, Dome Karukoski, and Tommi Korpela. A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.