Leo Jokela Movies

Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leena Häkinen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toivo Lehkonen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tuija Halonen

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toivo Mäkelä

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aino Mantsas

The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rolf Labbart

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

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

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Lastumäki

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leni Katajakoski

The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tauno Palo

A western set in the "Wild North".

Genre: Western

Cast: Tamara Lund

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oke Tuuri

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

Genre: Music

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elna Hellman

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakari Halonen

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tauno Palo

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Theel

Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Theel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leena Häkinen

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jussi Jurkka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riitta Hämäläinen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eemeli

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommi Rinne

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mauno Kuusisto

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eila Peitsalo

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaarlo Halttunen

While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunvor Sandkvist

A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tauno Palo

A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvi Saarnio

"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

A story about vagabond named Paul and his journeys in the countryside. He is a real charmer and many women will fall in his lap.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakari Jurkka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elina Salo

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mirja Mane

Genre: Romance

Cast: Esko Salminen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esko Salminen

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ari Laine

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Jokela

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Jokela

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juhani Kumpulainen

Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jussi Jurkka

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel Rinne

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veijo Pasanen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leif Wager

Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vesa-Matti Loiri

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martti Järvinen

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tea Ista

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tauno Palo

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elina Pohjanpää

Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aku Korhonen

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tauno Palo

The story of the first elections in Finland

Genre: Drama

Cast: Holger Salin

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

Genre: War

Cast: Veikko Sinisalo

Genre: Music

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannes Häyrinen

A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lasse Pöysti

Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heikki Savolainen

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ritva Vepsä

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

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eila Peitsalo

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

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anneli Sauli

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

Genre: Western

Cast: Tapio Rautavaara

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

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heikki Savolainen