Toivo Mäkelä Movies

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Liana Kaarina

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge...

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Cast: Harri Tirkkonen

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunvor Sandkvist

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mirja Mane

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jussi Jurkka

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

The story of the first elections in Finland

Genre: Drama

Cast: Holger Salin

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaarlo Halttunen

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leni Katajakoski

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toivo Mäkelä

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marja Korhonen

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Risto Mäkelä

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tauno Palo

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aino Mantsas

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jussi Jurkka

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matti Oravisto

Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toivo Lehkonen

Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arto Mäkelä

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

Genre: Western

Cast: Tapio Rautavaara

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veijo Pasanen

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leif Wager

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oke Tuuri

A western set in the "Wild North".

Genre: Western

Cast: Tamara Lund

1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Rantalainen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rauha Rentola

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eila Peitsalo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Jokela

While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ritva Vepsä

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matti Oravisto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maija Karhi