1 h 39 min
Release Date: 7.10.2022
1 h 27 min
Release Date: 13.8.2021
1 h 20 min
Release Date: 9.7.2021
RE-RELEASE of a Finnish Christmas film for the entire family that tells the touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
1 h 22 min
Release Date: 11.12.2020
1 h 22 min
Release Date: 11.12.2020
1 h 5 min
Release Date: 7.6.2019
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland a commitment-phobic party animal, Aurora, meets Iranian Darian. Darian suddenly asks her to marry him. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she is busy working as a nail technician and plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, Aurora agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close.
1 h 46 min
Release Date: 25.1.2019
1 h 46 min
Release Date: 25.1.2019
Middle-aged Pekka Malmikunnas (Hannu-Pekka Björkman) is a failed IT businessman in Helsinki. He is unemployed, homeless and isolated from society. His parents live in the country and his two estranged sisters Helena and Maija live in Helsinki. Pekka hides his failures from his family. He has found a way to survive his jobless existence. He is a skillful liar, a real chameleon when needed. His specialty is crashing different functions and parties pretending to be someone else. He is a man who knows how to survive outside the social norms.
1 h 47 min
Release Date: 21.12.2018
1 h 47 min
Release Date: 21.12.2018
Land of Hope tells the story of the times after WWII - from 1945 to 1952, when Finland had to settle over 440000 evacuees and war invalids from Karelia. Over 100000 new homes were established.
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 26.10.2018
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 26.10.2018
Olavi Virta is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland. A man whose dreams were interrupted by war, a man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist that was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who performed both on stage and in films and who finally lost everything but his unique voice. It is a film about a man who loved beautiful women and who was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause, and alcohol.
2 h 5 min
Release Date: 5.10.2018
2 h 5 min
Release Date: 5.10.2018
1 h 37 min
Release Date: 28.9.2018
Language: Spanish, Finnish / Subtitles: Finnish
1 h 30 min
Release Date: 13.10.2017
1 h 30 min
Release Date: 13.10.2017
In 1929, the Great Depression leaves millions of Americans without work. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, invites the workers of the world to come and build the first socialist state. The largest migration that has ever taken place from the USA starts, and soon over 10,000 Americans have left the country to start up a new life in the Soviet Union. Language: Finnish, English, Russian / Subtitles: Swedish/Some showings have no subtitles; Finnish (in scenes where other languages are spoken)
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 15.9.2017
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 15.9.2017
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
1 h 25 min
Release Date: 11.9.2015
1 h 25 min
Release Date: 11.9.2015
The Armi Alive! screening on September 9th (in Maxim) is part of the Helsinki Design Week programme. After the film there will be a Q&A with the director of the film Jörn Donner. In addition, the author Tuija Sorjanen of a non-fiction book about Marimekko published on the same day will be there to talk about the book. The film is spoken in Finnish and subtitled in English. The largest design festival in the Nordic countries will be held on 3.–13.9.2015. Armi Ratia (1912–1979) is one of the best known Finnish entrepreneurs and corporate executives.
1 h 24 min
Release Date: 20.3.2015
1 h 24 min
Release Date: 20.3.2015
A film about the shadows and lights of modern architecture and the plans of a dream house by one architect (Hannu-Pekka Björkman) and his hope to find the beauty and the authenticity after 50 years of separation from his childhood’s love.
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 6.2.2015
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 6.2.2015
1 h 16 min
Release Date: 7.11.2014
A genuinely original piece of Finnish filmmaking with a stellar cast, the pitch black comedy The Swedish Moment starts off with the everyman's favourite adult pop singer Kari (Tommi Korpela) and his woman (Minna Haapkylä) dumping a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don't quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari's old drummer friend (Hannu-Pekka Björkman) for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.
1 h 15 min
Release Date: 29.10.2014
1 h 15 min
Release Date: 29.10.2014
It's been five years since Hiccup and Toothless successfully united dragons and vikings on the island of Berk. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 4.7.2014
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 4.7.2014
It's been five years since Hiccup and Toothless successfully united dragons and vikings on the island of Berk. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 4.7.2014
1 h 43 min
Release Date: 4.7.2014
Toivo has a rare blood type: his hemoglobin levels are high and his Type O Negative blood is compatible with everyone. Toivo, as a result, becomes the secret weapon for the Finnish national ski team's biggest hope for success, Aino, who is regularly fueled with Toivo's blood before championship-level races. Toivo enters an ethical Jacob-Wrestling-with-the-Angel situation on the ethics of doping, while becoming increasingly involved with the hypocritical success culture sustained by the skiing community and society at large.
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 4.12.2013
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 4.12.2013
Lucifer - the greatest demon of the world - finds himself unemployed after mankind has created its own devils to help human life vanish from this planet. Lucifer decides to become a human being and to learn a new feeling - the gift of love.
1 h 57 min
Release Date: 8.11.2013
1 h 57 min
Release Date: 8.11.2013
A shy man falls in love. The woman is beautiful, but the timing is awful: her jealous ex-con ex-husband has come to town, and she is in debt for her brother-in-law loving her in secret. What follows is a genuine mess of all the things we do for love.
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 1.2.2013
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 1.2.2013
The year is 1978. Aaro Lamminparras is a down-on-his-luck businessman, always patriotic and full of good intentions – but often cheated by his partners. One drunken evening in Oulu he argues with his wife on the telephone and ends up spending the night with his friend, sergeant Lönnroth, an avid hunter and a gun collector. The next day Lamminparras decides to fly to Helsinki. In the plane he is surprised to find a handgun in his briefcase – and on a whim, he hijacks the plane, while visiting the cockpit. This starts a hilarious chain of events – both inside the plane and outside.
1 h 33 min
Release Date: 18.1.2013
1 h 33 min
Release Date: 18.1.2013
A half-Jewish Nordic photographer arrives at Venice, Italy, in wintertime to seek the beauty of "Other Leningrad" that Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel -prized Russian poet, found there. The photographer takes silent images in Venice and opens his sinful reality to Brodsky, his only mental brother. The photographer carries the weight of his father who worked as an informer of Jewish people to Nazis during II World War in their home country.
1 h 37 min
Release Date: 19.10.2012
1 h 37 min
Release Date: 19.10.2012
1 h 52 min
Release Date: 9.3.2012
HELLA W is a biopic about Hella Wuolijoki, Finland's most complex and widely talented woman of influence. The drama-thriller recounts the true story of the internationally acclaimed businesswoman, playwright and politician, who is determined to leave her mark on the European psyche – in more than one place.
1 h 22 min
Release Date: 28.1.2011
1 h 22 min
Release Date: 28.1.2011
Cast: Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen, Risto Tuorila, Ritva Jalonen, Sampo Sarkola, Reino Nordin, Arttu Kurttila, Anna Lipponen, Lauri Kukkonen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jonna Järnefelt, Ville Virtanen
2 h 18 min
Release Date: 24.9.2010
2 h 18 min
Release Date: 24.9.2010
From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How to Train Your Dragon.” Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 26.3.2010
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 26.3.2010
From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How to Train Your Dragon.” Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 26.3.2010
1 h 39 min
Release Date: 26.3.2010
Directed by: Kari Väänänen Cast: Kai Lehtinen, Tommi Korpela, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Konsta Pöyliö
1 h 50 min
Release Date: 15.1.2010
1 h 50 min
Release Date: 15.1.2010
Cast: Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen, Risto Tuorila, Ritva Jalonen, Heikki Nousiainen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jonna Järnefelt, Sulevi Peltola, Miia Selin, Esko Roine, Sara Paavolainen, Tomi Salmela, Eija Vilpas, Jukka Leisti
3 h 13 min
Release Date: 4.12.2009
3 h 13 min
Release Date: 4.12.2009
Directed by: Jörn Donner Cast: Minna Haapkylä, Marcus Groth, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Lauri Nurkse
1 h 49 min
Release Date: 25.9.2009
1 h 49 min
Release Date: 25.9.2009
Cast: Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Antti Reini, Tommi Eronen, Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Irina Björklund, Anna Easteden, Antti Virmavirta, Mari Perankoski, Kari Heiskanen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Villi, Aino Seppo, Timo Torikka
1 h 47 min
Release Date: 21.8.2009
1 h 47 min
Release Date: 21.8.2009
After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back.
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 1.7.2009
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 1.7.2009
After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back.
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 1.7.2009
1 h 36 min
Release Date: 1.7.2009
Cast: Petteri Summanen, Jenni Banerjee, Irina Björklund, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Mikko Leppilampi, Ismo Kallio, Risto Kaskilahti, Eppu Salminen, Mari Perankoski, Lena Meriläinen
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 25.12.2008
1 h 48 min
Release Date: 25.12.2008
A reindeer boy named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite suffering from severe vertigo, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a rare member of a Finnish family of flying squirrels. SPOKEN IN FINNISH! Directed by: Kari Juusonen, Michael Hegner Cast (voices): Olli Jantunen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Vuokko Hovatta, Vesa Vierikko, Jussi Lampi, Risto Kaskilahti, Minttu Mustakallio, Juha Veijonen, Puntti Valtonen, Elina Knihtilä, Juulia Rönkkö, Tommi Korpela, Aarre Karén, Kari Hietalahti, Risto Kaskilahti , Veikko Honkanen
1 h 23 min
Release Date: 10.10.2008
1 h 23 min
Release Date: 10.10.2008
Cast: Minna Haapkylä, Martin Bahne, Tommi Korpela, Lauri Nurkse, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Tommi Taurula, Sari Puumalainen, Marjaana Maijala, Risto Kaskilahti, Tuomas Reunanen, Ville Keskilä, Risto Törhönen, Roman Schatz
1 h 57 min
Release Date: 30.11.2007
1 h 57 min
Release Date: 30.11.2007
Cast: Juha Veijonen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Kari Väänänen, Lotta Lindroos, Johanna Kokko, Jasper Pääkkönen, Jussi Lampi, Kari Hietalahti, Pekka Huotari, Seppo Pääkkönen, Elina Knihtilä, Matti Onnismaa, Markku Peltola, Vesa Vierikko, Hannu Kivioja, Rinna Paatso, Teemu Lehtilä
1 h 37 min
Release Date: 12.1.2007
1 h 37 min
Release Date: 12.1.2007