The best Vesa Mäkelä’s movies

Vesa Mäkelä

Vesa Mäkelä

28/03/1947- 04/08/2003
Today we present the best Vesa Mäkelä’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 Vesa Mäkelä’s movies.
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Hamlet Goes Business

Hamlet Goes Business
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/08/1987
  • Character: Doctor
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

Drifting Clouds

Drifting Clouds
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/01/1996
  • Character: Tax Official
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

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.

The Winter War

The Winter War
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/11/1989
  • Character: Yrjö Haavisto
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.

Bad Boys

Bad Boys
6.2/10
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. The cast is an impressive one: the brothers are portrayed by Peter Franzen, Lauri Nurkse, Niko Saarela and Jasper Pääkkönen while their really evil father is played by Vesa-Matti Loiri, one of the grand old men of Finnish cinema.

The Tough Ones

The Tough Ones
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/01/1999
  • Character: Rahikainen
Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.

Romanovin kivet

Romanovin kivet
4.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 26/11/1993
  • Character: Virta
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.

A Charming Mass Suicide

A Charming Mass Suicide
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/03/2000
  • Character: Hannes Jokinen
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.

A Summer by the River

A Summer by the River
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1998
  • Character: Hilteeni
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 South

The South
4.8/10
A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.

The Manila Rope

The Manila Rope
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/09/1976
  • Character: Fiksu
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

Onnellinen mies

Onnellinen mies
6.5/10
  • Release: 14/05/1979
  • Character: Pyörähtälä

Hiekkakuningas

Hiekkakuningas
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1972
  • Character: Hammari

Uuno Turhapuron veli

Uuno Turhapuron veli
2.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/08/1994
  • Character: Poliisi

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