Sambolico (Short) (1996)

1996

A Finnish music conductor, resting in a Rio de Janeiro hotel after a performance, meets a beautiful girl with her boyfriend. At the beach she suddenly appears and picks him up; the boyfriend is her pimp, and he isn’t pleased. They race through the night streets of Rio, and in an out of night clubs, alternately enjoying each other, and dodging the boyfriend.

The Wait (2021) aka Odotus

2021

A preacher’s wife tries to bang her husband’s friend a few times but they get interrupted every time. So she takes him by boat to a remote island and bangs him there with no interruption. Later, she bangs him while her husband is just in the other room, even notifying her husband earlier that that is what she intended to do.

Restless

Levottomat (2000) aka Restless

2000

An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens – he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, […]

Levottomat 3 (2004) aka Addiction – When Nothing Is Enough

2004

30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction

Pieniä valheita (1994)

1994

The relationship between a priest’s wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.

2 Nights Till Morning (2015)

2015

Caroline, a French architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, on business, has to spend an extra night in the city due to a delayed work meeting. At the bar of her hotel she meets Jaakko, a Finnish DJ who is in Vilnius for a gig. Caroline lets him understand that she doesn’t speak English, and Jaakko doesn’t speak French. Although they lack a common language, they find themselves enjoying each other’s company…

Black Ice

Black Ice (2007) aka Musta jää

2007

Upon discovering that her husband is having an affair, a Helsinki gynecologist attempts to gather more knowledge about her rival and, in the process, becomes hopelessly entangled in the other woman’s life – partially on purpose but primarily out of happenstance. Saara is pretty, elegant, liberal, and friendly to a fault. Yet while surface appearances would suggest that Saara is something of an open book, the truth is that lately no one has looked deeper […]