The best Esko Nikkari’s movies
Today we present the best Esko Nikkari’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Esko Nikkari’s movies.
Shadows in Paradise
7.5/10
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Ariel
7.5/10
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
The Match Factory Girl
7.5/10
Iris has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother and stepfather. One weekend, wearing her new red dress at a local dance, she ends up going home with Aarne, whom she mistakenly believes is her new boyfriend. When she discovers that she's pregnant, years of pent-up rage explode in a shocking outburst.
The Winter War
7.6/10
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 province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
Drifting Clouds
7.6/10
Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and clumsy, one disaster is followed by the next. Finally, their courage, confidence, and their unbreakable love triumph over the fate.
The Man Without a Past
7.6/10
A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Hamlet Goes Business
6.9/10
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Juha
6.8/10
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Crime and Punishment
7/10
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
The Worthless
7.3/10
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
A Summer by the River
6.4/10
Topi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). The movie tells the story about Tenho and his 10 years old son who both have to grow up in the same summer. Written by Mikko Saranen
The Last Wedding
6.6/10
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day. Written and directed by Markku Pölönen, based on Heikki Turunen's book, as a swan song for a lifestyle that ended with the emigration of the 1970s.
Aapo
6/10
Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
The Rose of the Rascal
6.5/10
The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
Pieni pyhiinvaellus
In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.
Vaiennut kylä
5.6/10
Hei kliffaa hei!
4.9/10
Kahdeksan peiliä
5.6/10
A 1982 short film from Finland.
The Wrestler
6.8/10
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Pekko ja Unissakävelijä
3.7/10
