Discover the best of Finnish cinema, film, and television

Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Finland. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

The cinema of Finland

To step into the world of Finnish cinema is to embrace a unique and wonderful state of mind, a place of wry humour, deep melancholy, and profound humanism. At its heart for decades has been the legendary Aki Kaurismäki. A master of the deadpan comedy and a global art-house icon, Kaurismäki crafts beautiful, minimalist films about lonely souls finding connection, often set to a vintage rock and roll soundtrack. His dialogue is famously sparse, but his stories are filled with immense feeling. But just when you think you have it figured out, Finnish cinema unleashes its wonderfully wild side. In recent years, a new generation of filmmakers has exploded onto the scene with gleefully inventive genre movies. Director Jalmari Helander has earned a global cult following, first with the dark Christmas fairytale Rare Exports and more recently with the brutally fun action epic Sisu. This creative energy also drives a strong domestic television scene, contributing its own distinct, often stark, flavour to the world-conquering 'Nordic Noir' genre. What makes Finnish cinema so brilliant is this incredible personality. It is defined by a famous laconic wit and a deeply felt humanism that can be found in both its quietest dramas and its loudest action films. It’s a cinema where very few words can speak volumes, and where melancholy and hope are the best of friends.

Best Finnish series

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    Deadwind 2018

    When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

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  • Poster for Bordertown (FI)

    Bordertown (FI) 2016

    The story of DI Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta, his family, and his investigations into a variety of harrowing homicides around the border area.

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  • Poster for Arctic Circle

    Arctic Circle 2018

    During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within the endless white expanse of the arctic circle, Nina and Thomas must rely on each other to have any hope of saving the ones they love. But what takes precedence? A deadly virus or an active serial killer?

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  • Poster for Icebreaker

    Icebreaker 2025

    An icebreaker is stranded in a winter storm during the longest, darkest Solstice night. Coast Guard Sanna Tanner leads the rescue team, haunted by disturbing events. Sanna races to solve the mystery before she becomes the next target.

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  • Poster for Conflict

    Conflict 2024

    A small, Finnish seaside town is preparing to celebrate midsummer's eve. An unknown enemy arrives and takes the entire area hostage.

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  • Poster for Angry Birds Toons

    Angry Birds Toons 2013

    Angry Birds Toons tells how life is not always easy on Piggy Island. Red and his angry feathered companions, Chuck, Matilda, Bomb, the Blues and Terence must come together to protect their eggs - and future - of the cunning plots of Bad Piggies. Having only guides for their intelligence and determination, they absolutely must thwart the pigs' advanced technology. Nevertheless, they have a huge advantage... the incredible stupidity of the Bad Piggies! Angry Birds Toons gives life to the characters and adventures of one of the most popular games in history and presents the amusing world, and cunning of the Angry Birds and their sworn enemies, the Bad Piggies.

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Best Finnish movies

  • Poster for Sisu

    Sisu 2022

    When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

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  • Poster for Iron Sky

    Iron Sky 2012

    In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

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  • Poster for Big Game

    Big Game 2015

    Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.

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  • Poster for Iron Sky: The Coming Race

    Iron Sky: The Coming Race 2019

    29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs.

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  • Poster for Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

    Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale 2010

    Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…

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  • Poster for Jeepers Creepers: Reborn

    Jeepers Creepers: Reborn 2022

    Forced to travel to a horror festival with her boyfriend, a young woman begins experiencing premonitions associated with the urban myth of The Creeper. She believes that something supernatural has been summoned — and that she is at the center of it all.

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