01 A young female fighter is captured during the Finnish Civil War and interrogated by a conflicted officer.
12 Best Finnish Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 1, 2026
Finland Arthouse slow and atmosphericfeel good
Finnish cinema’s international reputation rests almost entirely on Aki Kaurismäki’s deadpan, melancholy-comic style, dry to the point of near-total stillness, and it’s still just as distinctive decades into his career.
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02 A Finnish-set noir following a lonely factory worker's obsession with a local murder case.
03 A young Sámi bride's dark folk ritual turns her into a vampiric reindeer spirit.
04 A Finnish mining excavation accidentally awakens the real, terrifying Santa Claus.
05 A fencing coach hiding from Soviet authorities builds a youth team in a small Estonian town.
06 Two lonely Helsinki workers' tentative romance keeps getting derailed by rotten luck.
07 A shoe-shiner in a French port town shelters an undocumented migrant boy from the police.
08 An amnesiac beaten unconscious in Helsinki rebuilds a life from nothing among the city's homeless.
09 A laid-off miner drifts toward Helsinki and an unlikely romance after his father's suicide.
10 A quietly abused factory worker's revenge unfolds with total, unnerving calm.
11 A wartime survivor's decades-buried trauma resurfaces when a young Russian woman arrives at her rural doorstep.
12 A teenage boy wanders through one dreamlike, dangerous Helsinki night with his troubled older brother.
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