Movies: Jaakko Talaskivi
- 1992
La Vie de Bohème (1992)
La Vie de Bohème7.51992HD
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise....
- 1993
The Last Border (1993)
The Last Border4.21993HD
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world...
- 1988
Ariel (1988)
Ariel7.11988HD
After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and imprisoned for various crimes....
- 1990
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
The Match Factory Girl7.31990HD
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to...
- 1991
Night on Earth (1991)
Night on Earth7.51991HD
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
- 1990
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
I Hired a Contract Killer6.91990HD
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love....
- 1986
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Shadows in Paradise7.31986HD
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop betwe...
- 1994
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (1994)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana6.71994HD
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor....
- 1996
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Drifting Clouds7.51996HD
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, gu...
- 1989
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America6.91989HD
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band....
- 1986
Rocky VI (1986)
Rocky VI5.71986HD
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taki...
- 1985
Calamari Union (1985)
Calamari Union6.71985HD
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdl...
- 1999
Juha (1999)
Juha6.71999HD
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel....
- 1969
Sixtynine (1969)
Sixtynine5.61969HD
Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In r...
- 1987
Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Hamlet Goes Business6.61987HD
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of ru...
- 1987
Macbeth (1987)
Macbeth4.51987HD
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the ...
- 1971
Hirttämättömät (1971)
Hirttämättömät6.11971HD
Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without...
- 1973
Hangover (1973)
Hangover3.21973HD
Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed....
- 1970
Pilvilinna (1970)
Pilvilinna3.71970HD
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, co...
- 1991
Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Zombie and the Ghost Train7.11991HD
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpe...