Kati Outinen
Biography: Anna Katriina Outinen (born August 17, 1961), is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school of acting methodology. Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä by Tapio Suominen. In 1984, she appeared in Aikalainen. Besides a strong domestic reputation gained through a widely varied list of roles in theater and television drama, film director Aki Kaurismäki's films have brought Outinen international attention and even adulation, particularly in Germany and France. At the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Outinen won the award for Best Actress for the Kaurismäki film The Man Without a Past.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 17, 1961
Deathday: N/A
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Shadows in Paradise
1986-10-17
Shadows in Paradise
Overview: Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Popular Music
2004-10-01
Popular Music
Overview: Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Lights in the Dusk
2006-02-03
Lights in the Dusk
Overview: Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-02-03
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Family Stories Untold
2023-02-02
Family Stories Untold
Overview: Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents’ nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lisbeth, who has been forced into a retirement home by her children. It’s a story about a life in which we don’t have the courage to voice our opinions, desires and expectations.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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The Home of Dark Butterflies
2008-01-11
The Home of Dark Butterflies
Overview: Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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The Man Without a Past
2002-03-01
The Man Without a Past
Overview: Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Cheating Is Good for You
2021-10-11
Cheating Is Good for You
Overview: A wife who has cheated on her husband for 40 years reflects on her behaviour and the benefits she has reaped.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-10-11
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The Match Factory Girl
1990-01-12
The Match Factory Girl
Overview: Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Drifting Clouds
1996-01-26
Drifting Clouds
Overview: The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Hamlet Goes Business
1987-08-21
Hamlet Goes Business
Overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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The Hullabaloos!
2022-12-28
The Hullabaloos!
Overview: The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, sea and air.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-12-28
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All the best from Saara
1991-06-14
All the best from Saara
Overview: Saara falls in love with their employer's wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta
Prinsessa joka nukkui 100 vuotta
Overview: Poetic short film
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Original Language: fi
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Hermit Crab
Hermit Crab
Overview: A human-sized story about an old-fashioned man.
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Original Language: fi
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Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
2024-01-19
Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
Overview: Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Eros and Psyche
1998-12-04
Eros and Psyche
Overview: This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-12-04
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Sauna
2008-10-17
Sauna
Overview: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Le Havre
2011-09-08
Le Havre
Overview: In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
1994-01-14
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Overview: Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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The Annunciation
2011-11-06
The Annunciation
Overview: This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played by Aki Kaurismäki’s signature actress Kati Outinen), in the process discovering the parallel worlds of humans and animals, and the proximity of the ordinary to the miraculous.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-11-06
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Where Is Where?
2009-09-20
Where Is Where?
Overview: Where is Where? is an experimental film that quarters the screen in order to have four different scenes play simultaneously. It's a meditation on the Algerian war that culminates in a brutal killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-09-20
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Aikalainen
1984-03-16
Aikalainen
Overview: A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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Dirty Hands
1989-10-05
Dirty Hands
Overview: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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August Fools
2013-10-04
August Fools
Overview: An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Täältä tullaan, elämä!
1980-02-29
Täältä tullaan, elämä!
Overview: In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002-05-18
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Overview: Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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Päivää, herra Kivi
1984-10-12
Päivää, herra Kivi
Overview: Eccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-10-12
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Clownwise
2013-11-28
Clownwise
Overview: Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years. Max is battling colon cancer, Viktor's wife is losing a battle to Alzheimer's, and Oskar, who's never been the best dad, is trying to rescue his daughter from an abusive relationship. The good old days are gone indeed. Despite their situations, each one still tries to maintain a sense of humor. They look fondly on the days when they were slapstick superstars. However, when it comes to the issues that led to their career demise, they just can't seem to let their anger go. As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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Playa del Futuro
2005-06-09
Playa del Futuro
Overview: Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern immer beliebter. Eher zufällig kommt in Peter Lichtefelds „Playa Del Futuro“, seinem erst zweiten Projekt in Spielfilmlänge, der Protagonist mit diesem Lebensziel in Berührung, denn eigentlich ist er nur auf der Suche nach einem besseren Job und seiner großen Liebe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-06-09
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Kaikki pelissä
1994-04-15
Kaikki pelissä
Overview: A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Kyllä isä osaa
2024-03-28
Kyllä isä osaa
Overview: The years have passed and the children have flown from the nest to the world... except they haven't. On the contrary. Jonna and Junnu have been lured back home, with the addition of Jonna's child, by a house that will soon be empty. The parents, who are of retirement age, are about to move to Spain - as soon as the father can tell his employer that he is quitting his job as a taxi driver. But the father's plans are changed when his boss buys his taxi company a new vehicle, a luxury Mercedes with all the bells and whistles. His pension, Spain, wife and common sense all vanish as he is left with one obsessive goal: to get behind the wheel of his coveted Mercedes one single time. Eventually his dream comes true, but at a cost. The father discovers he has put the whole family in such dire straits that the only way out is to steal the dead man's briefcase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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Train Birds
1998-01-01
Train Birds
Overview: Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Spy Games
1999-09-10
Spy Games
Overview: A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
1986-09-19
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Overview: 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 last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Dark Crimes
2016-10-12
Dark Crimes
Overview: Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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Freakin' Beautiful World
1997-04-11
Freakin' Beautiful World
Overview: The Helsinki-based teenagers Ippe, Papu and Mia have become entangled in drug circles. Their problems get even worse when violent dealer Kalle starts blackmailing the indebted Ippe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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Juha
1999-02-26
Juha
Overview: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Avida
2006-09-13
Avida
Overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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The House of Branching Love
2009-08-21
The House of Branching Love
Overview: A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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The Other Side of Hope
2017-02-03
The Other Side of Hope
Overview: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-02-03
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The Hole in the Ground
2019-03-01
The Hole in the Ground
Overview: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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A Man and a Woman
2016-02-25
A Man and a Woman
Overview: Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children's camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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Everything Outside
2018-10-05
Everything Outside
Overview: When circumstances conspire to leave Louise, an established Quebec painter, and Ahmed, an aspiring Lebanese-Canadian actor, sharing a remote lake house, the tension rarely abates. Understandably, Louise resents her solitude being trespassed on, particularly by someone whose backstory is hardly airtight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Naked Harbour
2012-02-03
Naked Harbour
Overview: Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Play Rape
2019-09-25
Play Rape
Overview: A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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Backwood Philosopher
2009-12-25
Backwood Philosopher
Overview: Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-12-25
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Force of Habit
2019-09-27
Force of Habit
Overview: Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Aki Kaurismäki
2001-04-22
Aki Kaurismäki
Overview: Renowned filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, creator of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, 2002 Cannes Film Festival) and acclaimed films such as Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Drifting Clouds, is the subject of AKI KAURISMÄKI, the latest release from the Cinema, of Our Time series. The younger member of Finland's most prolific and irreverent filmmaking team, Kaurismäki, together with older brother Mika, virtually invented "The New Finnish Cinema." Since 1981, Kaurismäki has made twenty-two films, many of which are excerpted in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-22
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Guarded Secrets
2004-01-01
Guarded Secrets
Overview: Irma arrives at her 18th birthday in a reform school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Wrestler
1985-09-26
The Wrestler
Overview: An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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A Respectable Tragedy
1998-09-18
A Respectable Tragedy
Overview: In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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In Custody
2025-02-28
In Custody
Overview: After losing her father, Vilma can't find her place in the life of her foster family. As a result of her struggles, Vilma ends up in a juvenile home, where she refuses to be subdued by the arbitrary and abusive staff who run it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2025-02-28
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