Heartbeats

Heartbeats

2010 · 86 min · ★ 5.1 · Drama

Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.

Directed by Saara Cantell · Written by Saara Cantell

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Apple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesBlockbusterSF AnytimeTelia PlayViaplay

Cast

Make it a double feature

2h 49m together

Heartbeats

Unna and Nuuk

Both from Saara Cantell.

More from Saara CantellSee all →

Christmas in the DistanceChristmas in the Distance · 1994
Christmas in the Distance
7.51994
MovieDocumentary
The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.
Stars AboveStars Above · 2012
Stars Above
6.32012
MovieDramaRomance
Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla – each lives in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30 and 40. This deep and beautiful, yet humorous film pictures the encounters between people and the possibilities for choice. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our ability to hold on to our dreams? What are those things which we pass on from one generation to the next? What changes, what remains the same? And to what extent do mothers´ choices, let alone their unspoken secrets, affect their daughters´ lives?
Unna and NuukUnna and Nuuk · 2006
Unna and Nuuk
6.22006
MovieFantasyFamily
11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.
Jill and JoyJill and Joy · 2014
Jill and Joy
6.12014
MovieFamily
When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It’s a real dream house: measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Based on a beloved children’s book, Jill and Joy is a story of a dream summer without parents or boundaries. Anything can and will happen as reality and fantasy magically intertwine.
Jill, Joy and the Mysterious StrangerJill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger · 2017
Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger
6.02017
MovieFamily
A new orphanage opens near Jill and Joy's house, and a boy named Pekki runs away from there. Pekki ends up living in Jill and Joy's cabin and tells the girls how bleak life is in the orphanage under the strict command of the headmistress Minna Pinna.
Devil's BrideDevil's Bride · 2016
Devil's Bride
5.92016
MovieDramaHistory
Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s.
Jill and Joy's WinterJill and Joy's Winter · 2015
Jill and Joy's Winter
5.62015
MovieFamily
Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be a little happier than most little girls, as they get to live in their own house specifically designed for the two. One December evening a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front their house, and a teensy-weensy family gets out; it's the McTiny family. The family has become homeless after a road roller smashed their home. Planning to live with the girls temporarily, the family moves in with Jill and Joy but soon finds out that not all big people have good intentions towards them. Jill and Joy's Winter is based on a beloved book by the same name, written by a Finnish writer named Marjatta Kurenniemi.
Jill, Joy and the Sleeping ClockJill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock · 2018
Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock
5.22018
MovieFamily
Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the girls to look after their absentminded inventor brother Gadgetus. Jill and Joy get to know the wonders of Gadgetus’s farm, but everything is at risk of being destroyed when Samuel Shortcut arrives on his bulldozer, ready to destroy everything so that a new highway can be built in the area. Jill and Joy save the farm with the help of a device invented by Gadgetus, but before that they have to get to know the world of dreams and find help from there. Armstrong, a miniature pig, also takes part in the adventure and helps Jill and Joy, along with the other people living in Rose Alley.
The Two and OnlyThe Two and Only · 2013
The Two and Only
4.72013
MovieComedyRomance
Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
SiblingsSiblings · 2023
Siblings
3.02023
MovieDrama
Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own lives, surging between one father, two homelands and three adult siblings, from reunification to separation and back again. Over the years, the siblings encounter themselves and each other, their similarities and differences.
The Northern StarThe Northern Star · 2024
The Northern Star
2024
MovieDocumentary
Documentary film about a woman for whom the sex symbol stamp was a life-long curse - and a gift. A film in which the life story of one woman shows the social atmosphere as the decades change - values and prejudices at their most exposed. A film about Anneli Sauli, Finland's last film star.
Poikani JoelPoikani Joel · 2022
Poikani Joel
2022
Series
Roosa and her teen kids have just moved in with Roosa's new husband and his kids, when a schoolgirl is found nearby, stabbed to death. To her horror, Roosa starts suspecting her 16-year-old son Joel.

More Like This

BanditsBandits · 1997
Bandits
6.01997
MovieDramaMusic
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.
Vanity FairVanity Fair · 2004
Vanity Fair
5.82004
MovieDramaRomance
In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.
Little Man TateLittle Man Tate · 1991
Little Man Tate
6.61991
MovieDramaFamily
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
ElegyElegy · 2008
Elegy
6.32008
MovieDramaRomance
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Gemma BoveryGemma Bovery · 2014
Gemma Bovery
6.22014
MovieRomanceDrama
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Red RoadRed Road · 2006
Red Road
6.52006
MovieDramaThriller
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter