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- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenRobert DaviRae Dawn ChongWidowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKai WiesingerMarie ZielckeJochen NickelThe mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsSamuel FullerJim JarmuschIn 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsJames RussoCynda WilliamsPaul CalderonPrison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsVesa-Matti LoiriArmi ToivanenPeter FranzénTiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsSanna FransmanMatti PellonpääKari VäänänenClassic lifestyle swaps to get the inheritance, via (kick) alcoholism with classic Finnish angst lifestyle take. Note: Very (very) marginal dance reference.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari HeiskanenPertti SveholmTimo TorikkaThe story about three brothers who are reunited to celebrate their father's 70th birthday.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenRoberta ManfrediJean-Pierre CastaldiFinlander Alex works as a taxi-driver in Berlin and is married to an Italian. One night, two men get into his taxi with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. They get killed in a shoot-out and Alex must get rid of their bodies.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsPirkko HämäläinenKari VäänänenHannu LauriAnna Kelanen is an ex-model who has just been released from prison. She thinks back on her life as a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.