Toivo Mäkelä Movies

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

A western set in the "Wild North".

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

The story of the first elections in Finland

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He...

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a...

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.