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Ristikon varjossa · 1945

Ristikon varjossa

★ 8.01945

MovieDrama

Lauri and Anna are released from prison. They run into trouble when they cannot find work because of their past. Lauri obtains false identity papers, which enable him to get a job at a factory. A dangerous criminal named Asseri begins blackmailing Lauri, who is using the alias "Pentti Tahvana." Lauri's true identity is revealed in connection with the murder of Kaalep, the factory's night watchman.

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Niskavuoren Heta · 1952

Niskavuoren Heta

★ 6.11952

MovieDrama

Heta, the strong-willed daughter of the Niskavuori family, who is pregnant, marries Akusti, a farmhand, and remains bitter toward Santeria, who broke her heart. Heta and Akusti begin their life together on the modest Muumäki farm, where they are assisted by their loyal maid Siipirikko.

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Kultamitalivaimo · 1947

Kultamitalivaimo

★ 6.01947

MovieComedy

Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.

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Here, Beneath the North Star · 1968

Here, Beneath the North Star

★ 6.81968

MovieHistoryDrama

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

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Miriam · 1957

Miriam

★ 4.91957

MovieDrama

After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.

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Akseli and Elina · 1970

Akseli and Elina

★ 6.61970

MovieDrama

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.

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Veteraanin voitto · 1955

Veteraanin voitto

★ 7.01955

MovieDrama

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.

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Tapahtui kaukana · 1950

Tapahtui kaukana

★ 5.31950

MovieComedyRomance

Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.

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Särkelä itte · 1947

Särkelä itte

★ 8.01947

MovieComedy

The self-assured manager Julius Särkelä maintains strict discipline in his office and at home, which is experienced by his daughter Saara and her suitor Martti, as well as the landlord Heroja, who is chasing his debts, and even the cat belonging to the patron Fallsten. Dr. Kosonen softens the stern leader by giving a speech at a party, which ultimately revolutionizes Särkelä's worldview.

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Pitkäjärveläiset · 1951

Pitkäjärveläiset

★ 8.01951

MovieComedyRomance

1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman. Regina's two sisters and Sikala's maid Maria have fallen in love with Martti again.

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Niskavuori taistelee · 1957

Niskavuori taistelee

★ 5.91957

MovieDrama

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

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Rakas lurjus · 1955

Rakas lurjus

★ 2.81955

MovieComedy

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.

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Pohjantähti · 1973

Pohjantähti

★ 7.51973

MovieDramaHistory

Jussi Koskela clears a plot of land for his family in the village of Pentinkulma in southern Häme. His son Akseli joins the Red Guard and takes part in the Civil War of 1918, at the end of which he is imprisoned. After his release, Akseli returns to Pentinkulma and tries to raise his family with his wife Elina, as well as acquire more land for his croft in a politically hostile environment. The Winter War and Continuation War take a heavy toll on the Koskela family, but despite this, life goes on.

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Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias · 1948

Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias

★ 5.31948

MovieDrama

Irmeli worships the memory of her deceased composer father, but falls in love with her mother Ruuti's new fiancé, Dr. Hallamaa. Unhappy love depresses Irmeli, and she tries to run away to Sweden. Antti, an engineering student who lives as a tenant in the family's home, sets off after Irmeli to bring her back home.

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Pastori Jussilainen · 1955

Pastori Jussilainen

★ 5.71955

MovieComedy

The year is 1895 in a small village in Savo, where new ideas such as women's rights and folk high schools are vehemently opposed by Pastor Jussilainen, both in his home and in the parish. His wife Eveliina, the maids, and the conservative parishioners all experience his vehemence. However, the pastor meets his match when his mother-in-law arrives for a visit.

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Pontevat pommaripojat · 1948

Pontevat pommaripojat

★ 5.51948

MovieComedyCrime

Poke and Pena, two private investigators in debt, see an advertisement in the newspaper about Dr. Peltonen's disappearance and the promised reward for finding him. The boys retreat to investigate the case in a house they have rented in the countryside, which happens to be next door to the criminal gang that kidnapped the doctor. The gang's boss, 'Synkkä' (Gloomy), and his sister, 'Kaunotar' (Beauty), try to distract the boys by hiring them to guard their villa.

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Katupeilin takana · 1949

Katupeilin takana

★ 5.01949

MovieComedyRomance

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.

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Nokea ja kultaa · 1945

Nokea ja kultaa

★ 6.51945

MovieDrama

Jalmari, who does odd jobs at the harbor, rescues little Risto from being beaten up by older boys. The child is afraid of his violent foster parents and runs away to kind-hearted Jalmari. His foster mother Miina reports the escape to the Salvation Army, whose lieutenant Sirkka finds the boy in Jalmari's shabby cottage. Risto runs away again when they try to return him to his foster parents.

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Pinsiön parooni · 1962

Pinsiön parooni

★ 8.01962

MovieDramaComedy

The municipal council of Pinsiö tries to get Taavetti, the 'baron of Pinsiö', to move into a retirement home. However, the baron refuses and flees to Tampere to stay with his nephew Heikki and his wife Liisa. Heikki and his family dream of building their own house, but obtaining a mortgage loan is difficult. Their financial worries deepen when Heikki, as a union representative, has to deal with a strike at his workplace and illegal work practices.

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Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin · 1950

Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin

★ 4.01950

MovieComedy

In the heart of Savo, police officer Kontkanen is searching for Heikki, a man suspected of selling alcohol. At the same time, he tries to catch the ram that has escaped from Piiroinen's farm and win the heart of Annastiina, the farmer's daughter, who is also sought after by other suitors.

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Silmät hämärässä · 1952

Silmät hämärässä

★ 7.81952

MovieThrillerCrime

A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.

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Tyttö kuunsillalta · 1953

Tyttö kuunsillalta

★ 6.31953

MovieDramaRomance

A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.

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Sven Tuuva the Hero · 1958

Sven Tuuva the Hero

★ 5.71958

MovieWarDrama

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

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Nainen on valttia · 1944

Nainen on valttia

★ 7.01944

MovieComedyMusic

A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.

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