Aki Kaurismäki is an Finnish Director. He has won an Berlin International Film Festival. He's known for To Each His Cinema (2007), The Man Without a Past (2002), Cinéma and de notre temps (TV Series) (1988).
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honour...
To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leadin...
"Lights in the Dusk" concludes the trilogy began by "Drifting Clouds" and "The Man Without a Past." Where the trilogy's first film was about unemployment and the second about homelessness, this final installment is about lonelines...
The idea is simple: Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal vision of current or futur...
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy. 'The Man Without a Past' delivers a new edge to the story that stirred viewers all around the world in 'Drifting Clouds'. Without side-stepping bitter issues, one c...
Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare system, they strive to find new jobs. But they are complete...
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 garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana -...
This comedy is a sequel to Aki Kaurismaki's successful Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The Lenigrad Cowboys are billed as the "worst rock'n'roll band in the world." In the last film they went to the U.S. In this film they ...
Paris, 1994, night: as the Leningrad Cowboys sing "Those were the days," a solitary man leading a donkey is turned away at a restaurant door. He and the beast walk down to La Maison du Vin where, despite a "no donke...
Three artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. Rodolfo falls in...
This is the third film in Kaurismäki's "proletarian trilogy" (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl). Iris works on a factory assembly line and lives with her unloving mother and stepfather in a tiny ap...
In Kaurismäki's drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto must find a way to live in the big city after the mine closes and his father, also a miner, commits suicide. This is the second film in Kaurismäki's "...
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 decides to move into the rubber duck marke...
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russ...
15 men who are all named Frank, plus one called Pekka. Life in the cramped Helsinki district of Kallio has become intolerable. Tradition has it, however, that there is a district of trees and green parks somewhere far away, on the...
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man apparently without motives, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
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