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Genre: Horror
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Four teenagers get dragged in to a deadly cat and mouse game when a masked psychopath decides to live out his sick Christmas fantasies.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, bleak, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
christmas, cannibalism, masked killer, characters killed one by one, murder, violence, serial killer, homicidal maniac, youth, society, teenage life, killing spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the final years of the World War II, Finnish sergeant Myllykoski and his fellow soldiers are forced to join the notorious Waffen-SS on a mission to find a mythical medieval chalice in the Soviet Union.
Style:
bleak, dark, psychological, suspense, art house ...
Plot:
world war two, moral ambiguity, eastern front, survival, ethics, treasure hunt, nationalism, desperation, danger, faith, death, vatican ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943
Place:
finland, soviet union
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Arthur Sydenham Sharp, a travelling spiritual medium, arrives in Finland for the final seance of his tour. Immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of an unwelcoming hotel, Arthur's sense of reality becomes increasingly distorted by eerie visions ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
spiritualism, seance, medium, haunted hotel, supernatural, paranoia, hallucination, mental illness, claustrophobia, paranormal, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young and promising Russian figure skater is found beaten and frostbitten in a lay-by of a motorway in Finland. In the hospital, the officials find a letter from her belongings and are able to reconnect her with her Finnish grandmother, whom she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
figure skating, female protagonist, skating, athlete's life, ice skater, determination, resilience, woman, problem, life is a bitch, troubled past, social problems ...
Place:
finland, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
childhood, friendship, family relations, coming of age, youth, boy, small town, escape artist, bittersweet, slice of life, family drama, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the international refugee crisis, depicting a world where greed, violence and exploitation compete with hopes and dreams amid a constant fight for survival.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, refugee, lawyer, migration, slave trade, lifestyle change, problem, criminal underworld, changing lives, kidnapping, female protagonist, runaway ...
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Headstrong textile student Irina tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä. As Irina begins to get a grip of herself, the harmless and offbeat hillbillies begin to reveal their ...
Style:
gothic, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
folk horror, village, female protagonist, forest, summer job, countryside, small village, dark secret, skinny dipping, hillbilly, periphery, isolation ...
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, scary, tense ...
Plot:
island prison, finnish civil war, humour, prisoner, firing squad, theater, joke, rehearsal, theatre group, escape attempt, disguise, pow ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
germany, finland
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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:
avant garde, black and white
Plot:
world war two, russo finnish war, conservative, post traumatic stress disorder, male female relationship, female nudity, partisan, drinking, male nudity, priest, friendship, hallucination ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 60s
Place:
finland, soviet union, ussr
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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, captivating, serious
Plot:
revolution, trial, rebel, class differences, working class, socialism, class conflict, war crime, family history, socialist, brother brother relationship, revenge ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
finland
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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, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
world war two, sex scene, ss officer, violence, fall in love, genocide, war crime, german soldier, concentration camp, midwife, drug, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own ...
Style:
emotional, reflective
Plot:
relationships, siblings, character study, family drama, twins, intimate, half sister, identity, identity crisis, reconciliation, realism, bittersweet ...
Place:
iceland, finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
tabloid journalism, scandal, privacy invasion, politician, female protagonist, betrayal, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, shame, ethical dilemma, societal hypocrisy, love triangle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, private investigator, nordic, who done it, forensics, crime investigation, homicide detective, murderer, murder investigation, murder mystery, intrigue ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland, Netherlands, China, Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern ...
Style:
serious, epic, stylized, exciting, romantic drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
legends and myths, martial arts, reincarnation, destiny, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, escapades, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural ability, danger, heroes ...
Place:
finland, europe, china, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
teenage girl, hitman, spy, strong female lead, assassin, cia, vengeance, female warrior, chase, female protagonist, woman with a gun, espionage ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
finland, berlin germany, africa, germany, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Finland
Duration: 504 min.
TV show
Story:
Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series.
The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at ...
Style:
detective, interesting
Plot:
death of daughter, dating, female nudity, revenge, professional killer, police interrogation, police detective, murder investigation, ex convict, exploding airplane, violence, working class ...
Time:
90s
Place:
helsinki finland, russia, finland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland, Chile
Duration: 285 min.
TV show
Story:
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious, social ...
Plot:
military coup, dictatorship, diplomat, cold war, army, military, human rights, politics, refugee, communism, embassy, diplomacy ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s
Place:
chile, south america, finland, east germany, bolivia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot ...
Style:
slasher
Plot:
stalker, peeping tom, fashion model, snow, model, woman in jeopardy, female nudity, isolated place, full moon, winter, white trash, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
80s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, contemplative, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, british intelligence, secret agent, spy, undercover, cold war era, politics, undercover agent, sexual assault, bare chested male, political intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, geneva switzerland, finland, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children’s camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.
Style:
touching, erotic, philosophical, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
dating, memories, illicit affair, loneliness, chance meeting, stranger, tourist, coincidence, self discovery, sick child, stranded, romancing partners ...
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. ...
Style:
captivating, tense, ironic, dark comedy, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
revenge, neo nazi, suffering, euthanasia, mechanic, violence, past, fear, escapades, dark humor, danger, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
male pubic hair, wedding ceremony, male nudity, lesbian sex, sex scene, waitress, sexual identity, young adult, sexual intercourse, bondage, sexuality, sexual fantasy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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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, feel good, contemplative, captivating, light
Plot:
friendship, friend, bank robber, refugee, criminal, iron curtain, dissident, socialism, black market, pregnancy, girlfriend, jail cell ...
Time:
80s, 2010s
Place:
estonia, europe, finland, scandinavia, stockholm sweden ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Style:
comedy drama, captivating, serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
refugee, syrian refugee, racism, war refugee, loss of family, illegal alien, poker, migration, unemployment, life is a bitch, restaurant, husband leaves wife ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
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, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style:
serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
working class, vengeance, visceral, loneliness, murder, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 1990, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman who has been raped by a work colleague plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
rape and revenge, librarian, 40 year old, society, ex husband ex wife relationship, heterosexuality, bowling, revenge, library, sex scene, intercourse, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Style:
sitcom, light hearted, slapstick, situational comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
double agent, farce, mistaken identity, satire, conspiracy, amateur detective, classical music, concert, gadget, dinner, minister, marriage for money ...
Time:
80s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Style:
clever, political, factual, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, cia, politics, womanizer, satire, spy, politician, propaganda, swimming pool, soviet afghanistan war, congressman, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 1988, 2000s, year 2007 ...
Place:
afghanistan, washington d.c., texas, pakistan, helsinki finland ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The Interrogator Erik Backstrom (Rolf Lassgård) is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, murder, law enforcement, hunting, weapons, police investigation, dishonesty, police officer, haunted by the past, manhunt, graphic violence, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, finland, eastern europe
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