Paavo Jännes Movies

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irma Seikkula

A romantic story about a rich girl, who is not used to household work, charms many men while working in the "Haukka" manor. The reason for this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Kara

Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Heikki Heino

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anni Aitto

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Uuno Laakso

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Kara

Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heidi Krohn

The tarragon regiment moving to the small town charms the women of the locality. Only trade counsellor Ottilia Mähönen considers them...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Kara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irma Seikkula

The film tells the story of the women of Larsvik Manor, especially the young lady of the house Barbi during World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilkka Helinä

Dentist Lauri Liesi is performing as a magician in the Hotel Metropol. Meanwhile, during his performance top-secret letters of engineer Arpila are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rauli Tuomi

Rainer Sarmo and Mikko Vehmer stumble upon a Russian counterfeit league. They help Leila Varta, who tries to save her brother Raimo from the evil...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aino Mantsas

Perky student Inkeri 'Iiri' Paappanen and businessman Taavi Takkulainen fall in love during a boat trip, but a misunderstanding at a hotel in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Kara

Pharmacy student Aina Zinckand doctor Yrjö Kallio are a young couple who are drawn into patterns of jealousy in their small Finnish town.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsa Rantalainen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tuire Orri

Sarmo explores the mystery associated with the murder of a landowner and the tangle of crimes, threats, and conspiracies created by a letter he left...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen (Pöysti), who starts his military...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Liisa Tuomi

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

A couple who have moved from the city manage a collapsing farm. The man Alfred is an alcoholic, therefore the responsible to solve the situation is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rauni Ikäheimo

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person –...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsa Turakainen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olavi Virta

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eine Laine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

A story of a stunning ladies man engineer Rainer Leimu, whose life is weighed down by a broken family background. Rainer marries his employer's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

Inspector Puosu investigates the murder of smuggler Nelly with journalist Harn. Doubts are directed at wholesaler Antti Rajapalo, whose innocence is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugo Hytönen

In 17th century Finland young Arvid is forced to marry Brita but their ways soon part when their respective fathers move to different places. Years...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olavi Reimas

Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Mikko Niskanen

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Kara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reino Valkama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Arto Tuominen

Love triangle near roaring rapids. Two sisters fight for the attention of a handsome forester.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regina Linnanheimo

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arvo Lehesmaa

A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rauli Tuomi

The first Finnish full-length feature film and the first film adaptation of Minna Canth’s play of the same name. Orphaned Sylvi is married to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teuvo Puro

Once a naïve, love-struck girl now forsaken by her lover, Maija leaves her island home to work as a housemaid in the city, only to be seduced by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie-Louise Fock

Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Regina Linnanheimo

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Väänänen

The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen. After the studies, Vappu and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Kara

Kirsti works as a reception assistant to Dr. Varjo and is secretly clinging to the doctor's son, Eino, who is studying to become an architect. Even...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henny Valjus

Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Kara

A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ansa Ikonen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kullervo Kalske

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hilkka Helinä

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Birgit Kronström

A smart set girl wants more excitement in her life and ends being mixed up in criminal activities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lea Joutseno

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lea Joutseno

A story about Meeri who is going through a divorce. She is hiding the relationship with a boxer. After seeing an advertisement in a magazine, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lea Joutseno

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eila Peitsalo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mimmi Lähteenoja

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raino Hämäläinen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Uuno Laakso

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Salli Karuna

Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heidi Krohn

Two guys love the some girl who just plays with their feelings. Situation damages the friendship of these men and they are tormented as the girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eija Karipää

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pentti Tarkiainen

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heimo Lepistö

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martti Kuningas

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oiva Luhtala