Finnish movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant finnish movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, touching, bleak and humorous films and TV shows about / with world war two, russo finnish war, soldier, family relations, military, eastern front, shot to death, female nudity, male nudity and war plots mostly in Drama, War and Comedy genres shot in Finland, Sweden, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as finnish: The Winter War (1989), Mother of Mine (2005), The Unknown Soldier (1985), Ambush (1999), The Man Without a Past (2002), Heavy Trip (2018), Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002), Frozen Land (2005), M/S Romantic (2019), Beyond the Front Line (2004).

List of finnish movies

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The Winter War (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style: realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: war, world war two, winter, wartime, military, world war, invasion, cold weather, battlefield, tank, politics, great war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place: finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union
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Mother of Mine (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: 1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She ...
Style: emotional, touching, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, secrets, children, boy, loneliness, wartime, life is a bitch, family relations, wartime life, adoption, human spirit ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland
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The Unknown Soldier (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
Style: realistic, exciting, captivating, serious, rough
Plot: world war two, war, female nudity, eastern front, russo finnish war, conservative, world war one, infantry, battles, heroes, military, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942, year 1941 ...
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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 6.7
 4K
Ambush (1999)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness ...
Style: realistic, suspense, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, military, ethnic conflict, courage, culture clash, justice, visceral, behind enemy lines, lone hero, battles, danger, military life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 90s
Place: russia, finland, eastern europe
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style: bleak, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: poverty, memory loss, amnesia, generosity, friendship, robbery, eccentricity, starting over, couple relations, haunted by the past, financial problem, family relations ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: estonia, europe, helsinki finland, north korea, finland
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 7.0
 11K
Heavy Trip (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from ...
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heavy metal, rock, rock band, rock music, viking, border, grave robbing, small town, friendship, black metal, road trip, punk ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: school, discrimination, escapades, missing person, siblings relations, solace, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, apprentice, mother daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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 7.4
 6K
Frozen Land (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to ...
Style: bleak, realistic, intense, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: depression, butterfly effect, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, drug addiction, character study, family relations, multiple storylines, estrangement, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, finland, europe
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 8.3
 2K
M/S Romantic (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 254 min.
TV show
Story: One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.
Style: light, humorous, touching, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: wedding ceremony, singer, cruise, cruise ship, child, ferry, bride and groom, wedding party, sexual abuse, party, anger, talent show ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland, stockholm sweden, helsinki finland, eastern europe
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Beyond the Front Line (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, wartime life, heroic mission, against humanity, chaos and mayhem, battles, politics, state affairs, war, russo finnish war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 2002, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, russia, europe, eastern europe
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 6.6
 990
The Border (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Finland, Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out ...
Style: touching, captivating, suspense, sad
Plot: border guard, military, military officer, fall in love, violence, teacher, army, independence, civil war, duty, prisoner of war camp, world war one ...
Time: year 1918
Place: finland, soviet union
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Tears of April (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland, Germany, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
Style: realistic, epic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot: adultery, politics, soldier, opposites attract, military, rebellion, tragic love, destiny, political unrest, wartime life, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: finland
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Under the North Star (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Perustuu Väinö Linnan samannimiseen romaanitrilogiaan, joka on yksi suomalaisen kirjallisuuden tärkeimmistä teoksista.
Style: family saga, epic, serious, captivating
Plot: revolution, class differences, rebel, trial, working class, class conflict, family history, socialism, war crime, socialist, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: finland
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Under the North Star II (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, family saga, epic
Plot: family relations, world war two, communism, soldier, village life, family history, village, communist, post war, working class, grudge, lower class ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
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 6.6
 464
Silence (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot: world war two, military, wartime life, life is a bitch, heroes, idealism, heroism, death of son, russo finnish war, eastern front, soldier, nervous breakdown ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: finland, europe
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 6.3
 27K
Chalet Girl (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated ...
Style: feel good, witty, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: snowboarding, love and romance, cinderella story, fall in love, skiing, resort, new job, ski resort, workplace, boss and employee, contests and competitions, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: alps, austria, europe, united kingdom, britain
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Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: alcohol abuse, friendship, fishing, disorder, culture clash, river, society, nothing goes right, escapades, male camaraderie, boat, drunkenness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: finland, russia, europe
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Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although ...
Style: epic
Plot: finnish civil war, rural setting, family relations, high society, prisoner of war camp, class society, labor union, priest, marriage, labor movement, inequality, execution ...
Time: 1890s, 1910s, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: finland
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 6.2
 7K
Evil Rising (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, redemption, medieval, guilt, village, folk horror, haunted by the past, danger, curses spells and rituals, blood, dark secret ...
Time: 16th century, year 2008, middle ages
Place: finland, europe, russia
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 7.7
 8K
The Cuckoo (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, political, offbeat, melancholic ...
Plot: culture clash, world war two, wartime, understanding, wartime life, wilderness, lapland, anti war, brutality, life is a bitch, hostility, military ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: russia, finland, ussr, siberia
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Jefferson Anderson (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Jefferson Anderson is a Finnish animated sitcom. The computer-animated series portrays a satirical view of daily events in Helsinki at a police precinct in the suburb of Pasila. The series is made by members of the same team that made the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: police, satire, irony, police officer, workplace, police station, investigation, teamwork, police investigation, police partner, partners against crime, workplace situations ...
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 968
The Boys (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on ...
Style: crying, black and white
Plot: world war two, boy, control, russo finnish war, wartime life, childhood, children in wartime, male female relationship, troubled youth, tunnel, coming of age, underage drinking ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1943, year 1942, year 1944
Place: finland
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 7.0
 353
The Partisans (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Style: black and white
Plot: world war two, russo finnish war, conservative, post traumatic stress disorder, male female relationship, female nudity, partisan, friendship, priest, drinking, male nudity, hallucination ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: finland, soviet union
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1944 The Final Defence (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, battles, against the odds, heroes, wartime life, war, rivalry, tank, battlefield, eastern front ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland, europe, russia, soviet union
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 883
Promise (2005)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, russo finnish war, gender, eastern front, veterinarian, letter, surveillance, bombing, loss of sister, loss of friend, air raid, wounded animal ...
Place: finland
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 7.8
 1K
Kimmo (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot: young adult, thirty something, adulthood, unemployment, satire, social issues, group of friends, social satire, friendship, lifestyle, friends
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 7.5
 659
Roba (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: A new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot: police, fighting crime, forensics, investigation, partners against crime, police investigation, police station, partner, police partner, police detective, secret revealed, workplace situations ...
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 6.0
 1K
The Midwife (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style: romantic, touching, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, ss officer, love, midwife, fall in love, genocide, war crime, torture, sex scene, violence, drug, nurse ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland
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Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
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Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. ...
Plot: cruise ship, stolen identity, suicide attempt, fake identity, psychologist, lie, neighbor, identity theft, identity crisis, christmas eve, atmosphere, swedish ...
Place: stockholm sweden, finland, eastern europe, helsinki finland
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