Movies: Esko Nikkari

  • 1988
    Ariel

    Ariel (1988)

    Ariel

    7.11988HD

    After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and imprisoned for various crimes....

    Ariel
  • 1990
    The Match Factory Girl

    The Match Factory Girl (1990)

    The Match Factory Girl

    7.31990HD

    Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to...

    The Match Factory Girl
  • 1986
    Shadows in Paradise

    Shadows in Paradise (1986)

    Shadows in Paradise

    7.31986HD

    Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop betwe...

    Shadows in Paradise
  • 1989
    The Winter War

    The Winter War (1989)

    The Winter War

    71989HD

    Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer...

    The Winter War
  • 1996
    Drifting Clouds

    Drifting Clouds (1996)

    Drifting Clouds

    7.61996HD

    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...

    Drifting Clouds
  • 2002
    The Man Without a Past

    The Man Without a Past (2002)

    The Man Without a Past

    7.42002HD

    Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and be...

    The Man Without a Past
  • 1983
    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment (1983)

    Crime and Punishment

    6.81983HD

    In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police thr...

    Crime and Punishment
  • 1987
    Hamlet Goes Business

    Hamlet Goes Business (1987)

    Hamlet Goes Business

    6.61987HD

    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...

    Hamlet Goes Business
  • 1999
    Juha

    Juha (1999)

    Juha

    6.81999HD

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

    Juha
  • 1982
    The Worthless

    The Worthless (1982)

    The Worthless

    6.21982HD

    Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes ...

    The Worthless
  • 1998
    A Summer by the River

    A Summer by the River (1998)

    A Summer by the River

    6.51998HD

    Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho....

    A Summer by the River
  • 1994
    Kaikki pelissä

    Kaikki pelissä (1994)

    Kaikki pelissä

    5.81994HD

    A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and th...

    Kaikki pelissä
  • 1988
    Plainlands

    Plainlands (1988)

    Plainlands

    5.81988HD

    Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with...

    Plainlands
  • 2000
    Lakeuden kutsu

    Lakeuden kutsu (2000)

    Lakeuden kutsu

    5.42000HD

    Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in ...

    Lakeuden kutsu
  • 2000
    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha (2000)

    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

    42000HD

    Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in...

    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
  • 2001
    The Rose of the Rascal

    The Rose of the Rascal (2001)

    The Rose of the Rascal

    62001HD

    The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer....

    The Rose of the Rascal
  • 1981
    Syöksykierre

    Syöksykierre (1981)

    Syöksykierre

    41981HD

    Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and are disappointed by what they find....

    Syöksykierre
  • 1989
    Dirty Hands

    Dirty Hands (1989)

    Dirty Hands

    5.31989HD

    A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's T...

    Dirty Hands
  • 1984
    Niskavuori

    Niskavuori (1984)

    Niskavuori

    6.21984HD

    Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, w...

    Niskavuori
  • 1987
    Macbeth

    Macbeth (1987)

    Macbeth

    4.51987HD

    A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the ...

    Macbeth