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- A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.
- The eerie and charming animated adventures of a creature called Moomin and his friends and family.
- TV Mini Series"Kabul" is a pan-european drama series by New8 and European Alliance
- Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.
- The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
- This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). The film tells the story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war. Many of the characters are based on author Linna's brothers in arms.
- Mean girls bully Anna-Maija after she is seen kissing a boy. Her parents notice that the girl's affairs are not in order, but they did not know the reason for their melancholy. Mother buys eight mirrors, one for each member of the family.
- 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.
- The easy-going village policeman Artturi Sakari Reinikainen from the series "Tankki Täyteen" has been transferred from the village of Hämeenperä to Tampere city. His stint as a Tampere beat cop starts on the wrong foot as he ends up being thrown in the drunk bin on his first night in Tampere ("Yea yea, another one who thinks he's a cop"). Reinikainen is not discouraged by the experience and soon he is found upholding the law in his usual talkative, laid-back but honest fashion. The other cops in the precinct are in a category all by themselves, including a would-be ladies man, a cop who tends to have to search for the mot juste and a veteran copper who is always testing his workmates on their knowledge of trivia.
- 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 and drives the men of the village crazy. Everybody is certain that this really is the witch killed in days of yore. At the end the wild happenings during those few days appeared to be a dream of the professor leading the excavations.
- A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- A group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
- Allu wants to travel to Stockholm after finishing school, but his mother arranges for him to spend the summer in the heart of the Finnish countryside.
- A summer romance remembered.
- Two unemployed losers start their own business. They buy an old carpet cleaning machine from Stockholm, instruction manual not included, and begin creating havoc anywhere they turn up, from private residences and airline hangars to the headquarters of the Finnish Security Police.
- After his release from prison, a petty criminal assembles a ragtag group to rob banks.
- Parents leave their young daughter and son home alone when they leave on their boat. When engine trouble strands them on an island, the children are left to fend for themselves. The days go by with no rescue in sight.
- Heavily-built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny, quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each other, despite their physical differences.
- A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
- Aliisa is a poor pensioner struggling to survive in the 1970s' Helsinki. This was the last role of the prolific finnish actor Siiri Angerkoski.
- Thirty-eight-year-old Anna Kivi, a Finnish anesthesiologist at Turku University Hospital and divorcee recently awarded a doctorate after her thesis, retreats to a summer studio on an island for the summer holiday.
- Foretelling machine tells Pekka and Pätkä that they will have a shining future as Negroes.
- Somebody tries to kill Roi. Why or who is a mystery to the kids.
- A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland.
- Ana and Vilippus Rummukainen decide to take their peculiar younger brother Elmeri to a mental hospital. This will be quite a journey, since some are just blessed with madness.
- Domestic battles on the Finnish home front.
- Taina is a normal teenager with friends, parties and a first romance. She also has normal insecurities of growing up. A few thoughtless comments triggers an eating disorder.
- A mentally challenged young man escapes from a mental hospital with a nurse he had fallen in love with.
- Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
- Ismo Alanko plays his commission work for Helsinki Festival in 1990.
- A lonely and sad Toffle leaves his home to look for friends. He finds a message in a bottle from another lonely girl, Miffle. A theatre adaptation of Tove Jansson's "Who Will Comfort Toffle?" by the Finnish "Teatteri 2000".