Yle Movies

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male...

Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South Africa...

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someo...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s iconic Eurovision victory, a milestone that calls for a celebratory cinematic tribute fitting for the u...

In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads th...

Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture wit...

The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84),Olympic swimmer, water polo player and the only true Tarzan,...

In one of the world's largest and oldest refugee camps, Dadaab, the inhabitans survive by watching films and dreaming. The refugees cannot leave the c...

Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are...

Two boys in middle school are forced to confront their biggest fear: the school’s locker room.

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the e...

Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets.

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the insight...

Tracing the past of her deceased grandfather who worked as a young doctor in the Red Cross hospital of HirSwiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the gr...

Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with...

Sixteen-year-old Tomi trusts no one and does his best to protect his little sister Aino from the dangers of the world. But Aino is changing, fast. Bec...

A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The j...

Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired im...