Age rating: K-16

Published: November 23, 2023

The Unknown Soldier

Finnish garrison gets an order and their machine gun company is transported to the eastern border – soon, war becomes a reality again.

Directed by Aku Louhimies, The Unknown Soldier is the third film adaptation based on Väinö Linna’s classic novel. It describes the journey of a Finnish infantry unit in the Continuation War, that lasted three years. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their comrades – how fellowship, humor, and the will to survive unite men on their journey there and back. The war revolutionized the lives of both individual soldiers and those left behind on the home front, leaving its mark on the entire nation.

The film received significant recognition, winning four Jussi Gala trophies: Best Sound Design, Best Leading Actor, Best Editing, and Best Makeup Design.

Published: November 15, 2023

The Night Before

Three best friends decide to find their way to the Nutcracka Ball – the Holy Grail of Christmas parties – to spend an outrageous and completely uninhibited evening!

Note: Available on Blu-ray only from disc copies.

Published: June 1, 2023

The Woman King

The Woman King is about a disciplined army unit of agojie warriors that operated in the 19th century in the African kingdom of Dahomey. Agojie was made up entirely of women and they were not allowed to fall in love or have children.

General Nanisca (Oscar winner Viola Davis) is a battle-hardened and emotionally locked-down leader of the Agoji who does her best to train a new generation to defend the King of Dahomey as their kingdom faces an unprecedented and dangerous threat.

Published: May 19, 2023

The Batman

Batman (Robert Pattinson) begins to investigate a case where a sadistic serial killer is in control of Gotham. To solve the case, Batman must investigate the city’s hidden corruption more deeply, and to his surprise, also his own family’s connection to the murderer’s motives.

Published: April 5, 2023

The Shape of Water

The events take place in 1962 and in North America, where Elisa and Zelda are cleaners and friends in a research laboratory. Speechless Elisa discovers a top-secret object in the laboratory, which is a human-like, aquatic creature worshiped by the citizens of the Amazon rainforest. Agent Strickland of the laboratory performs torturous experiments on the creature, as a result of which the creature almost perishes. An unexpected love story develops between Elisa and the utopian water creature and Elisa decides to release the creature.

The film was significantly awarded four Oscars: best direction, cinematography, music, and set design. Movie was also awarded at the Bafta Gala.

Published: March 28, 2023

Härmä

Härmä is about 19th-century “knife junkies” (Orig. puukkojunkkarit) in Ostrobothnia, Finland. One family’s farm is about to be inherited by Esko, the eldest of the brothers, but the father decides against strong traditions to bequeath the farm to the firstborn and give it to Matti. This causes a quarrel between the brothers. Matti is secretly engaged to the woman next door, Aino, and Esko starts chasing her too as his own.

Published: July 26, 2021

No Country For Old Man

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Published: July 26, 2021

Pride and Glory (Dolor y gloria)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.