Esko Salminen Movies

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heikki Salomaa

The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Liisa Nevalainen

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aino Mantsas

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Esko Salminen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kari Väänänen

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Liana Kaarina

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kari Väänänen

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satu Silvo

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taneli Mäkelä

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esa Pakarinen

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

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kari-Pekka Toivonen

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

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Cast: Martti Syrjä

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaarlo Halttunen

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kati Outinen

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kari Heiskanen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sari Siikander

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannu Kivioja

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jussi Parviainen

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esa Nikkilä

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Esko Salminen

1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Topi Majaniemi

A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maija-Liisa Marton

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spede Pasanen

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heikki Kinnunen

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pekka Strang

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Esko Salminen

Set in the year 1742 a fisherman's film about a boy who ends leprosy on the island.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Niklas Åkerfelt

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book

Genre: Music

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Genre: Romance

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

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kari Heiskanen

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taisto Reimaluoto

In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.

Genre: Action

Cast: Märt Pius

Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ella Jäppinen

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Long

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

Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esko Salminen

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esko Salminen

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esko Salminen

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kari-Pekka Toivonen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martti Järvinen

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esko Salminen

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Pihla Viitala

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Cast: Kai Lehtinen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esko Salminen

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Aino Seppo

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eeva Litmanen

Genre: Music

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pirkko Mannola

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tarja Nurmi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esko Salminen

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Turo Pajala

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jolyon Baker

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 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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taneli Mäkelä

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tenzin Gyatso

Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joonas Saartamo

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asko Sarkola

11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rosa Salomaa

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lauri Tilkanen

Aarne Tarkas was a wunderkind of Finnish cinema, a director and screenwriter, a genius who possessed not only an infinite supply of ideas but also a...

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Cast: Tomppa Kekäläinen

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vesa-Matti Loiri