Kaija Pakarinen Movies

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The...

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...

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern...

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...

Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction.

For the longest time, Anja Huovinen has been putting up with her husband’s (Juuso Hirvikangas) drinking and slackness. But she has reached the...

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

In 1980s Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For...

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it.

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

The film shows how Midsummer was celebrated in North Karelia in 1973.

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with...

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind.

In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the...

Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of...

11-year-old Kiti does something forbidden: she secretly opens her Christmas present ahead of time. The package has clearly been switched, and Kiti...