Movies: Aki Kaurismäki

Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves....

In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes...

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

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"...

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, ...

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated to filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s longtime friend and collaborator, the film critic and festival programmer Peter von Bagh. In this new video essay, filmmaker Daniel Raim explores Kaurismäki’s oeuvre through the world ...

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää....

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

The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions....

17 men named Frank walk across Seattle hoping to find a better life. A remake of Calamari Union (1985)....

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TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom....

A documentary about the making of Le Havre...

Lonely Tuukka catches fish by the river and meets a mysterious old miller and former sailor, the Parrot Man, who teaches him the magic of the forest....

For the past 20 years, a cleaner Anna has been living an honest life. She takes charge of the life of her alcoholic lover, a retiree Harri. Chased by the loan sharks, Harri has one more heist to pull off. Like two old thieves....

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

A young woman recovering from a suicide attempt arrives in a war-torn city and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Jeanne befriends the author of an unpopular drunkard, but fate has other plans for their relationship ....

Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895)....