Yle Movies

Three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession i...

Portrait documentary of the Finnish-Swedish actor Sune Mangs.

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, C...

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular d...

August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Ed...

The preservation of the Karelian culture. About how the evacuated Finnish Karels have acclimatized themselves to the indigenous people and how the Kar...

In a remote area of Siberia, the world’s largest sect lives under the teachings of Vissarion, a man who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus. Sveta...

Finnish singer songwriter J. Karjalainen creates a new artist character called Lännen-Jukka. As Lännen-Jukka he goes to the USA to find the origin of...

To avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds refuge across the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria at a military academy where, while learning...

How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program large enough to challenge the USA? The a...

A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays to warm the sauna. On her way she sees a clear-wate...

A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.

This documentary by the Finnish Broadcasting Company covers the Finnish national ice hockey team preparing for the spring 1974 World Championships. Th...

The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct the...