Aki Kaurismäki Movies

Aki Kaurismäki, the celebrated Finnish filmmaker behind The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2002) and landmark...

In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with...

A young woman recovering from a suicide attempt arrives in a war-torn city and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Jeanne befriends the author...

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects...

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the...

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

A documentary about the making of Le Havre

A portrait of film actor Kari Väänänen. Väänänen talks openly about his work and himself. Väänänen's...

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

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki...

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta,...

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

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 typically idiosyncratic mini-mystery about a middle-aged man who gets out of prison, sells his shares in a company and announces that he’s...

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895).

Jonathan Ross interviews the inscrutable Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki at The Midnight Sun Film Festival during the release of 'The Match...

About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace.

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his...