The best Lasse Pöysti’s drama movies

Lasse Pöysti

Lasse Pöysti

24/01/1927- 05/04/2019
Today we present the best Lasse Pöysti’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 Lasse Pöysti’s movies.
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The School of Wives

The School of Wives
5.8/10
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?

Rosenbaum - Bländverk

Rosenbaum - Bländverk
At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.

The Blessed Ones

The Blessed Ones
6.3/10
Sune, a dropped out theology student who also is the son of a priest, meets Viveka in a church. The two connect via a theological discussion and eventually get married. As the years pass, Viveka grows more and more emotionally unstable due to jealousy and religious anxiety. Sune accepts Viveka's mental problems and, instead of seeking help for his wife, obeys her increasingly bizarre commands. Eventually Viveka loses her mind completely, locks herself in the couple's apartment while Sune is away, and tries to make neighbours and the police believe that Sune is trying to murder her with a knife. When Sune arrives home Viveka is taken away to a hospital. Sune tries to convince the doctors that Viveka is not insane and should be allowed leave. In the end, Sune turns on a gas tap and lies down next to Viveka so they will die together.

The Champion

The Champion
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/03/1992
  • Character: Kalevi Suomalainen

Dirty Story

Dirty Story
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1984
  • Character: The detective
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.

Pieniä valheita

Pieniä valheita
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/05/1994
  • Character: Aaro
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.

The Flight of the Eagle

The Flight of the Eagle
7.2/10
The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

The Log Drivers

The Log Drivers
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/09/1951
  • Character: Pölhö-Kustaa
A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.

Swedish Wedding Night

Swedish Wedding Night
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/08/1964
A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Rosenbaum - Målbrott

Rosenbaum - Målbrott
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.

The Holy Family

The Holy Family
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1976
  • Character: Paavo Mäkinen

Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus

Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
6/10

The Tears of Saint Peter

The Tears of Saint Peter
4.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/08/1995
  • Character: The Cripple
Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.

Näkemiin Helena

Näkemiin Helena
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1955
  • Character: Lennu Jaatikainen

The City

The City
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1962
A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration has only increased. And now he gives it all up. Awaits the bailiff. His personal bankruptcy is signed.

White Lies

White Lies
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1995
  • Character: Lindqvist

Macklean

Macklean
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/04/1993
  • Character: Carl August Ehrensvärd
Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.

Olli pulls a Surprise

Olli pulls a Surprise
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 26/08/1945
  • Character: Olli Suominen
Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations with his family is in turmoil. He also finds the sweet life in restaurants more exhilarating than being in the school and reading books for the forthcoming student exams.

Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet

Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
4.9/10
At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything indicates that the chairman of the board is guilty.

Hunting for Miss Europe

Hunting for Miss Europe
4/10
Miss Europe Hunting (1955) is a romantic comedy directed by Erik Blomberg and co-written with Lars-Eric Malmlund, which utilizes material recorded during the Miss Europe competitions held in Finland. The story follows the career and relationship development of bird photographer Antero Lintunen (Lasse Pöysti) and American journalist Evelyn McNutty (Lippe Hokkanen). In the path signified by coincidences and misunderstandings, they also find each other.

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