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The Dissidents (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, contemplative, feel good
Plot: thief, escape, friendship, bank robber, refugee, criminal, friend, heist, iron curtain, black market, socialism, pregnancy ...
Time: 80s, 2010s
Place: europe, estonia, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, helsinki finland ...
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 6.9
 1K
Dawn of War (2020)
Genre: History, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: world war two, spy, espionage, traitor, murder, secret agent, murder investigation, prospector, political conspiracy, crime solving, political unrest, love affair ...
Time: year 1939, year 1937, 1930s
Place: estonia, helsinki finland
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Watch Out for the Jönsson Gang (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to ...
Plot: heist, released from prison, criminality, poison gas, retirement home, fireball, theft, letter, heist gone wrong, security guard, warehouse, attic ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden, finland, helsinki finland
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 6.5
 748
Rosso (1985)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: 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.
Style: road movie
Plot: voice over narration, car journey, wound, italian abroad, italian woman, killer, lost love, foreigner, sicilian, pizzeria, armed robbery, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: helsinki finland, sicily, italy, finland
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 6.2
 82
Mink Coat (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Style: black and white
Plot: director, wound, jealous man, mistress, birthday present, wounded, misunderstanding, government official, university student, theft, nightclub, jealous boyfriend ...
Time: 60s
Place: helsinki finland
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This Summer at Five (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: This Finnish romance tells of a young couple who vacation by the ocean. While there, the unsatisfied man decides he wants to end their relationship. Upon their return home, he has an overnight fling with another woman while his recently dumped ...
Style: black and white
Plot: children, summer vacation, young love, camping trip, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, accident, lake, summer, advertising, youth, one night stand, young couple ...
Time: 60s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style: suspense, exciting, scenic, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
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 6.9
 265
Keisari Aarnio (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Jari Aarnio was younger, he was honored as ‘Police Officer of the Year’, and quickly became Chief of the Narcotics Squad. The Squad boasted quick results and flashy confiscations. Aarnio’s reputation as a hero cop grew when he used a pair ...
Plot: police corruption, drug cartel, true crime, narcotics, drug, underworld, investigative reporter, morals, police officer, prison, investigation, judge ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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The Worthless (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style: road movie
Plot: love letter, drifter, outsider, ex-lover, on the run, underground, nature, circus, on the road, runaway, helicopter, ex girlfriend ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: helsinki finland, paris france, finland
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Happy End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: misunderstanding, marriage, class differences, class society, high society, wife, hung over, restaurant, wedding, broken mirror, beach, idle rich ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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 5.5
 132
Onnenpeli (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Film by Risto Jarva.
Plot: urban planning, male female relationship, model, stewardess, bare breasts, female nudity, reporter, journalist, interview, photographer, jealousy, roommate ...
Time: 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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Army of Zombies (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sequel to Kuutamosonaatti (1988).
Style: horror comedy
Plot: zombie, living dead, sauna, undead, redneck, amusement park, swamp, bachelor, nightshift, dead body, car crash, voice over narration ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ms. Alli Pelkonen's terrier finds a body from Tähtitorninmäki, that's thought to be a wino at first. But Inspector Palmu knows a little better. And yes, it was a murder. Tähdet kertovat, Komisario Palmu (1962) is directed by Matti ...
Style: black and white
Plot: female nudity, manor, medical examiner, jail cell, attempted murder, ex military, murder mystery, voice over narration, breaking the fourth wall, wounded, cigarette smoking, coroner ...
Time: 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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 6.8
 806
Right On, Man! (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, broken family, troubled teen, social problems, human animal relationship, crush, father son relationship, absent father, youth culture, theft, suburbs, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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The Year of the Wolf (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides ...
Style: touching, captivating, romantic, sincere, serious
Plot: forbidden love, university, epilepsy, relationships, health, love triangle, love, parent child relationship, age difference, divorce, intimacy, poetry ...
Place: helsinki finland
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 5.9
 702
Cyclomania (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a ...
Plot: cycling, bike, bicycle, friendship, friends, accident, dating, love triangle, skinny dipping, young man, rain, physical therapy ...
Time: 2000s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
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Kites Over Helsinki (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son ...
Plot: nordic, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, wealth, business ethics, business, wealthy family, family business, businessman, rock, yuppie ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: helsinki finland, eastern europe
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Run Sister Run! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems, social relations, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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Born American (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When they are spotted by the Russian soldiers who are shooting to kill, it's not fun anymore. Captured and thrown in jail, they find it's not fun ...
Style: suspense, stylized, harsh, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, torture, violence, blood, kgb, stereotypes, politics, false accusation, state affairs, danger, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, finland, soviet union, helsinki finland
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Freaking Beautiful World (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, drug dealer, drug dealing, addiction, hip hop, drug use, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, going straight, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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 6.8
 380
Four Minutes (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an inspiring and respectably authentic TV movie about breaking the most famous barrier in the history of sports.
Plot: running, runner, track and field, cambridge university, male female relationship, twenty something, jazz, new year, boat, pianist, race, patient ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: helsinki finland, oxford university, mount everest
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Without Limits (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
Style: inspirational, sincere, factual, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: olympics, running, runner, track and field, competition, athlete's life, hopes, contests and competitions, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970 ...
Place: usa, finland, helsinki finland, munich germany, oregon
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 6.8
 617
The Liar (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, West Germany
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
Style: black and white, student film
Plot: aspiring writer, money, friend, cheating, drifter, bum, loan, money problems, student, friendship, lie, restaurant ...
Place: helsinki finland
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 7.5
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Saraband (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style: psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, guilty conscience, law enforcement, life is a bitch, down on your luck, guilt, police, friend, friendship, loneliness, morality, russian empire ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland, europe, helsinki finland
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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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History Is Made at Night (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Finland, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: spy, nude women, 007, satellite, secret agent, working undercover, kgb, farce, heroes, chases and races, undercover, government agency ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland, helsinki finland, new york
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: cia, double life, secret agent, hitman, double agent, intrigue, love and romance, artists and showbiz, biopic, espionage, profanity, government agency ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 2000s, y2k, 60s ...
Place: california, new york, mexico, latin america, usa ...
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Calamari Union (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 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 single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, visual, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: obsession, surrealism, human relationship, perfection, journey, helsinki, finland, blind ambition, hopes, obsessive quest, human nature, ambition, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: finland, europe, helsinki finland
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 6.7
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Hellsinki (2009)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Besides the journey of Tomppa and Krisu, the main characters of the film, Rööperi tells the story of Gypsy Kari, Arska, Bisquit, Uki and a bunch of other bad boys and criminals; it tells of their memorable and unscrupulous journey from crime and ...
Style: bleak, brutal, enigmatic, psychological, rough ...
Plot: gangster, prison, drug abuse, drug, fighting the system, runaway, brutality, drug addiction, culture clash, greed, criminal, justice ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2009, 70s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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