Toivo Mäkelä Movies

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

A western set in the "Wild North".

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...

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

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

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...

Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the...

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

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor...

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

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...

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

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...