Aki Kaurismäki Movies

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects...

In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with...

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to...

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the...

Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895).

A documentary about the making of Le Havre

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta,...

A young woman recovering from a suicide attempt arrives in a war-torn city and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Jeanne befriends the author...

A typically idiosyncratic mini-mystery about a middle-aged man who gets out of prison, sells his shares in a company and announces that he’s...

TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom.

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki...

Jonathan Ross interviews the inscrutable Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki at The Midnight Sun Film Festival during the release of 'The Match...

Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki...