Jörn Donner Movies

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt...

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

Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between...

Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a...

Paavo Mäkinen's alcoholism is hard on the whole family. His wife Terttu falls into depression and is hospitalized. Their children Marja, Tapsa,...

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.

TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.

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

A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In...

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During...

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the...

Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with...

"Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman" is quite an interesting documentary which is basically a sequence of interviews with Ingmar Bergman where Bergman...

In „Fuck Off 2“, Donner waxes sarcastic about the scourges in Finnish society by interviewing regular people. The film takes a theme of...

Documentary about expeditions of Kai Donner to Siberia.

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.