Paavo Piskonen Movies

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge...

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of...

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

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

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 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...

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys'...

A well-known Finnish man is found murdered in a popular Sicilian resort, and a Finnish police officer who happens to be there begins to investigate...

A young advertising executive decides to focus on success in his life. As he concentrates on building his career, both his family and his colleagues...

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show...

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his...

According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters.

Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father's eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange people cling to him like flies to sticky...

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.

In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend Anna for a break in his home village...