Kari Väänänen Movies

Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an...

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level...

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before...

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself,...

A Finnish taxi driver in Berlin gets in over his head when he accepts a fare from two men with briefcases full of money stolen from ruthless...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house.

Arne comes into the family of an old friend of his father as a foster child. He hopes to find closeness and security with Harald, his wife Elsa and...

Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland)....

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to...

11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.

A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose.

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in...