Aki Kaurismäki Movies

List of the best Aki Kaurismäki movies: Shadows in Paradise(1986), Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana(1994), The Other Side of Hope(2017), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet(2002), I Hired a Contract Killer(1990), Le Havre(2011), Leningrad Cowboys Go America(1989), Crime and Punishment(1983), Juha(1999), Hamlet Goes Business(1987), Lights in the Dusk(2006), Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses(1994) ... ...

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Shadows in Paradise

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana

Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of ... See full summary »

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The Other Side of Hope

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

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I Hired a Contract Killer

After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to ... See full summary »

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Le Havre

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Siberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.

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Crime and Punishment

An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

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Juha

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

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Hamlet Goes Business

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that ... See full summary »

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Lights in the Dusk

In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.

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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

The Cowboys are lured from Mexico to Coney Island by their former manager who disappeared at the end of Leningrad Cowboys Go America. He believes he is the reincarnation of Moses, sent to lead them back to the promised land - Siberia.

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The Match Factory Girl

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Aaltra

In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems ... See full summary »

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Iron Horsemen

While fleeing througout northern California from a 60s biker gang, Bad Trip - an outcast cyclist - has a variety of encounters.

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