Toivo Mäkelä Movies

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...

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

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

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...

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...

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...

1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman....

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...

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a...

A triangular drama set in the world of theater.

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

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.

The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with...

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

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.

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...