Kari Väänänen Movies

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

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

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the...

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

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...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature...

Based on Lauri Viita's fairy tale. In Kukunor, two trolls, Kukunor and Kalahari, read books and travel the world in their dreams.

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...

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the...

The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guitar and loving parents.

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

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...

Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives.

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.

Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to...

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