Aki Kaurismäki

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a ...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

The second part of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Finland” trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so ...

Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive ...

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager ...

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor ...

Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, ...

After fifteen years’ service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can’t go through with ...

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, ...

Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he ...

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone’s classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki ...

Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a ...

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to ...