Toivo Mäkelä Movies

The story of the first elections in Finland

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

After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until...

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

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.

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

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

A western set in the "Wild North".

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...

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...

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

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

Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent...

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...