Aki Kaurismäki Movies

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström...

Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he...

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual...

A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a...

A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu...

An interview with Aki Kaurismäki, with film clips and comments from colleagues.

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'...

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

Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers...

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

Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.

A documentary about the making of Le Havre

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki...

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an...

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