Esko Nikkari Movies

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matti Pellonpää

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kati Outinen

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martti Suosalo

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Matti Pellonpää

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Markku Toikka

Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taneli Mäkelä

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pertti Koivula

Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kari Väänänen

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juhani Niemelä

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taisto Reimaluoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taisto Reimaluoto

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taneli Mäkelä

Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heikki Kinnunen

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kari Väänänen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kai Lehtinen

Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martti Suosalo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vesa-Matti Loiri

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Markku Peltola

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Esko Salminen

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kati Outinen

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vesa-Matti Loiri

Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Timo Koivusalo

A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Timo Koivusalo

Pekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Timo Koivusalo

Pekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and Katariina enjoy each other's company. Beauty salon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Timo Koivusalo

A child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from Tyräaho to Helsinki with Pekko. In the capital, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Timo Koivusalo

After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Turo Pajala

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eero Melasniemi

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakari Kuosmanen

Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kimmo Liukkonen

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esko Hukkanen

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satu Silvo

In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon...

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Cast: Saana Hyvärinen

A 1982 short film from Finland.

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Cast: Esko Nikkari

Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Markku Halme

A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esko Nikkari

Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Santeri Kinnunen

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mato Valtonen

Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aake Kalliala

TV play about the legend of Lalli.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Markku Blomqvist

Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hannu Lauri

The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heikki Kinnunen

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Eeva-Maija Haukinen

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mikkel Gaup

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Samuli Edelmann

Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ville Haapasalo