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- The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
- Mikko, an exchange student from Finland, arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the centre of the big city but the plans have already changed. He has a new host family, who live on a farm far outside the city. The life in the countryside becomes much more exciting when he gets to know the sheriff's daughter and falls in love. Too bad that the father doesn't allow it. When the harmless trip to the out-of-town bar goes terribly wrong, Mikko has to face a very serious reality. The concealed hatred between certain characters doesn't make the situation any easier.
- Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide. The trip takes them from Finland via Norway to the Central Europe. And finally on the verge - is life worth dying for?
- Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.
- Vertti Laine is a popular talk-show host. He has a perfect wife, beautiful kids, a big house and - a mistress. Women just fall for him and Vertti does nothing to stop them, in fact quite the opposite. But the most important relationship Vertti has with the publicity. He thinks it is his duty to appear in public, to get his face on every magazine cover. What is not printed, doesn't exist. Too late he realises what damage this kind of life can do - or does he?
- A group of Swedish scientists led by Anna Rosenberg have developed an environmentally friendly car engine. Just before they sign the deal with the big European motor company the test results leak into the wrong hands after a violent intrusion. There seems to be a mole in the team - but who and to whom is he/she really working for? While the research team faces the threat of bankruptcy, Anna Rosenberg has also her private life to sort out.
- Two national family-owned companies are planning the fusion to better compete in the wider market. The families also become tied with the bonds of marriage and everything is looking good. But then an unexpected death occurs and it also seems that the new managing director is not completely loyal to the firm. Suspicion and distrust set in and a lot has to change before everything is settled.
- Mika's (Ilkka Koivula) mother marries a man who is getting out of the jail. At the beginning everything seems to be all right. Mika leaves Oulu, an industrial city up in Northern Finland, to study in the capital, Helsinki. He does very well with his studies and also begins a relationship with the girl he knew already back in Oulu. Meanwhile the new husband reveals his true self - and all of a sudden things get very serious.
- The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara (Tapio Liinoja) and Repe Helismaa (Martti Suosalo), who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965 (Helismaa's death). Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
- Big national bank in on the verge of the fusion. Behind the scenes the game is getting rough and everyone plays by the rules most fit to themselves. Money and power make the people involved do desperate things and thus cause much harm to many innocent onlookers. This game has a connection to the daring attempt to smuggle a load of lethal plutonium from Russia to South Africa. When the carefully crafted plans start to fail the danger is more clear and present than anyone expected.
- 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.
- Two marriages are broken when playboy-like businessman Kalevi and economist Sirpa begin a passionate relationship. Then two bodies are found - two lovers shot in each others arms. Is it a double suicide and if not, who is the killer? And why has the investigating police detective forgotten what he did just a few days ago?
- This epic story follows the life and loves of three men who left France and travelled to Indo-China in the early years of the twentieth century. One has a love for land, another for government and the third for God - a farmer, a bureaucrat and a priest. Over the years the general tension builds up between the natives and the colonial powers. The political turmoil affects everyone's life, undermines old friendships, causes violence and death. But some people are strong enough to fight for common good and love helps to endure the hardships.
- A young surgeon (Sandrine Bonnaire) returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.
- Antti (Jouni Takamäki) has a wife, five beautiful children and an idyllic farmhouse. The life and sex are great. But one morning Antti simply leaves and meets the middle-aged woman (Laila Räikkä) and begins a strange journey with her. Is this woman a witch? Antti comes across passion, death and odd people like the murder convict Jukka and impatient taxi-driver Veksi. Some kind of a spell or fate seems to lead these people to their predestined future.
- A young boy is spending the summer on his uncle's horse farm. He takes care of the sheep and plays cowboy but is suddenly drawn into the world of adults when his uncle meets the woman of his dream. The boy follows how his uncle tries to seduce this beautiful lady - with both happy and tragedic consequences.