Aki Kaurismäki Movies

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager...

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

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing...

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

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki...

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...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

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

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers...

Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

17 men named Frank walk across Seattle hoping to find a better life. A remake of Calamari Union (1985).

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...

Young Alex Sammakko 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...

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.