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Plot Summary:
Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Citizen Nikanorova Waits for You (1978)
Plot Summary:
Katya Nikanorova leaves her village in order to find her loved one.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Not Bad for a Human (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 132 min
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Potatishandlaren (1996)
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In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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Happy End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady (1977)
Plot Summary:
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Konopielka (1982)
Plot Summary:
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Linnan juhlat (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Plainlands (1988)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Land of Happiness (1993)
Plot Summary:
Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he scores the hottest girl in the village. A hot romance flares up between Tenho and the sensuous milkmaid Virva, accompanied by popular Finnish tango tunes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min
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Railroad Man (1999)
Plot Summary:
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house
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The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway (1986)
Plot Summary:
The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Night or Day (1962)
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Lampaansyöjät (1972)
Plot Summary:
Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious, humorous, black comedy
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The Howling Miller (1982)
Plot Summary:
The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Summertime (2014)
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25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, bleak, humorous
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Juha (1999)
Plot Summary:
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: silent, black and white, contemplative, sentimental, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, modern day adaptation, silent film
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Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
Plot Summary:
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not his dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid. He also feels physically and emotionally isolated. There, he bonds primarily with two townsfolk. Harris Montgomery sees Max as an obvious choice to espouse the politics of socialism. And Alice Field sees in Max a person like herself: being a British war bride, she is an alien in a harsh environment. Alice is in an unsatisfying marriage and turns to Max for emotional support. As Max goes through his first year in Willowgreen, he learns to understand life in a rural prairie town, both from the viewpoint of his students and for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, thinking
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The House of Branching Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy
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The Wedding Waltz (1988)
Plot Summary:
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, humorous, melancholic, ironic, sad, suspenseful
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Backwood Philosopher (2009)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: thinking
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Trench Road (2004)
Plot Summary:
Simply put, this is a movie about the identity crisis of a modern man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, brutal, neurotic, psychotronic
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The Year of the Hare (1977)
Plot Summary:
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Plot Summary:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä tapahtumaa, ja yhteen kesäiseen vuorokauteen tuntuu tiivistyvän koko ihmiselon katkeransuloinen kirjo iloineen ja suruineen. Maaseudun kuvaus on nostalgista ja herkkää, ja tarinan dialogi osuvaa. Markku Pölönen on käsikirjoittanut ja ohjannut tämän Heikki Turusen kirjaan perustuvan elokuvan joutsenlauluksi elämänmuodolle joka loppui 70-luvun maaltamuuton myötä.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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July Tales (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two languorous summer days, two thorny tales of romantic misunderstanding: in part one, two girlfriends (Milena Csergo and Lucie Grunstein) head to the Cergy leisure park for a day of swimming and equally vigorous flirtation; in the second, a Norwegian exchange student (Hanne Mathisen Haga) finds herself the target of unwanted attention from two would-be suitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Gloriously Wasted (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Emil in Lonneberga (1971)
Plot Summary:
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Plot Summary:
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, semi autobiographical, suspense
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Milka - A Film About Taboos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Girl from Paris (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Eighth Day (1996)
Plot Summary:
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, road movie, spiritual, touching, psychological, inspirational, philosophical, uplifting, feel good, serious