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- One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
- Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.
- The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- When her husband dies, Martta has to look after her three outlandish sons single-handedly, whilst she tries to journey with them in their family-home caravan to the Finnish city of Lieksa. The return of Laszlo to the family threatens to usurp Martta's authority.
- A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
- The farm girl Hilja falls meet Yrjö, a student visiting the country side. They fall madly in love, which leads to consequences.
- Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
- Schoolboy Klaus Toivola is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
- 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.
- Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again. So he says no. O.K., he didn't, but don't expect "Lassie Goes to the Moon." In fact, while Wolf is off in outer space, Holmes goes into flashback mode recalling how he found, lost and found the dog again, and this memory jaunt serves to cover the time that Wolf is gone and it is now time for Wolf to return from outer space. But the capsule's recovery area is out in the artic terrain, so Holmes dons his parka, snowshoes, hitches up the raindeer and mushes out to rescue Wolf once again. One can only hope that the edited-out 11 minutes in the American-release showed Wolf gathering up rock samples on the moon.
- A love triangle of two sisters, both passionately desiring the same man.
- Foretelling machine tells Pekka and Pätkä that they will have a shining future as Negroes.
- Two opposing racing teams arrange a race to settle their disagreements.
- Based on Aleksis Kivi's 1870 book, with the same title. It follows the lives of the seven Jukola brothers over several years.
- The uncredited adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel (1922), made five years before Max Ophüls' more widely recognized "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948).
- The boat of two friends sinks and they find themselves naked on the island.
- A boy goes to the city on the run, who gets to know an artist who has become a knife sharpener. The mother is found on this journey when a crying girl who has escaped her foster mother comes to the rescue.
- Private detectives Matti Kaarna and Esko Honka are invited on free trips to Malaga and Mallorca by their pilot friends. A criminal gang that produces counterfeit money and their attractive decoys puts the men in trouble during their travels and back home. Help eventually comes from an unexpected source.
- Robbers try to escape using a train from Helsinki to Kuopio.
- The everyday life of a small village gets mixed up when a fire breaks out the night after the party, but due to the confusion, putting out the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
- Sven Tuuva, the simple son of an elderly sergeant, takes part in the battles of the Finnish war with General Sandels.
- A musical comedy about the steamer Princess Armada and her lively crew, who sail along the sunny Lake Saimaa. Life under the Russian Empire takes them all the way to Saint Petersburg.
- Anna-Liisa, the daughter of the wealthy Kortesuo house, loves Johannes. Cottage wife Husso threatens to reveal the young bride's past and ruin their wedding.
- Two farmers go to town and cause trouble all around. The rumors of their death make it even worse.
- In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
- Hunted by the authorities after shooting a Russian prince in a duel in St. Petersburg, a Finnish baron flees to his homeland and disguises as a drifter to avoid getting caught.
- An ex-POW gets romantically involved with his friend's wife, but a get-together in the countryside results in tragedy that sends their illicit affair into a downward spiral.