Released Date:
2009-09-04
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland, Germany
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (477 Reviews)
Director:
Zaida BergrothGenres:
DramaAntti Raivio (play)
Jan Forsstrèm (screenplay)
Zaida Bergroth (screenplay)
Antti Raivio (screenplay)
In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
Released Date:
2010-01-29
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (635 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksi SalmenperèGenres:
DramaAfter a divorce a father raises his son on his own, while his ex-wife has custody over his daughter. When the mother dies, the brother end sister finally meet again.
Released Date:
2011-12-09
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (287 Reviews)
Director:
Sakari KirjavainenReleased Date:
2012-02-17
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
128 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (969 Reviews)
Director:
Jukka-Pekka SiiliGenres:
DramaOn the West Coast on Finland in nineteenth-century Ostrobothnia. Esko is the leader of a local gang of troublemakers and an uneven battle ensues over the estate, honor a father's last wishes.
Released Date:
2014-08-01
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (448 Reviews)
Director:
Inari NiemiGenres:
ComedyIiris, 25, who has worked odd jobs abroad for years, returns to her native Finland for the summer because her best friend Karoliina, 25, has found a summer job for them both in Hanko. The girls will work in a cafeteria in a holiday town on the south coast. The idea is to spend one more care-free summer with your soul mate, enjoying the beaches and bars of Hanko - without worries of the summer job opening up a career for you of looking good in your resume... And when the girls make friends with their slightly odd workmate Eeva, 25, the makings of a perfect summer seem to be in order. But Iiris has a crisis of growing up, Karoliina falls head over heels for a married man and Eeva is once again struggling to get into the University - these are just a few clouds over total freedom and ease. Iiris is depressed about her return to Spain - but if she would stay in Finland, she'd have to figure out what to do with her life. And meeting a way-too-perfect tennis instructor, Jussi, doesn't help in the approaching panic. To add icing on the cake, her big sister Hertta has gone and made a baby. Iiris feels that everyone else has a direction in life - except her. And Karoliina, approaching her second Master's degree, is tempted to do something that is morally suspicious, for the first time in her life. Eeva is struggling with her studies, with a growing suspicion of being a bit of a simpleton... As the summer goes on, all three girls have to accept hard facts about themselves and their lives.
Released Date:
2015-09-04
Languages:
Finnish, German
Countries:
Finland, Lithuania
Runtime:
119 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (92 Reviews)
Director:
Antti JokinenAntti Jokinen (screenplay)
Katja Kettu (screenplay)
Katja Kettu (novel)
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