Toivo Mäkelä Movies

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

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A western set in the "Wild North".

The story of the first elections in Finland

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

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...

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.

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...

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...

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...

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.