Toivo Mäkelä Movies

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her...

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears...

While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he...

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...

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 western set in the "Wild North".

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge...