Movies: Kari Väänänen
- 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....
- 2007
Christmas Story (2007)
Christmas Story7.22007HD
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decid...
- 1999
The Tough Ones (1999)
The Tough Ones6.61999HD
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convi...
- 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....
- 1993
Ripa Hits the Skids (1993)
Ripa Hits the Skids5.81993HD
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 were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, R...
- 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...
- 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....
- 2005
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning6.62005HD
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew. Originally from the distant future, Pirk and his crew traveled back in time to save the Earth from hostile ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1999
Spy Games (1999)
Spy Games4.61999HD
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki...
- 2019
Master Cheng (2019)
Master Cheng7.12019HD
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to s...
- 2022
The Grump: In Search of an Escort (2022)
The Grump: In Search of an Escort6.32022HD
Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be scrapped. A new, modern vehicle is no match for quality and the nearest Escort, ...
- 2024
The Missile (2024)
The Missile6.22024HD
Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina, a single mother, is fired from her job in a bakery and drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border....
- 1999
Ambush (1999)
Ambush5.81999HD
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness arou...
- 2003
Land of Love (2003)
Land of Love4.72003HD
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love....
- 1994
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses5.81994HD
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home....
- 2017
Lapland Odyssey 3 (2017)
Lapland Odyssey 35.42017HD
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 are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Mea...
- 1997
Underwater Iceland (1997)
Underwater Iceland5.51997HD
Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwater world. We explore the geysers of boiling waters and the crystal clear lakes off the coast of Iceland. We dive under the icebergs, into the tears bet...
- 1985
The Unknown Soldier (1985)
The Unknown Soldier6.91985HD
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944)....