Pentti Irjala Movies

Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person –...

Lissie is a pickpocket who escapes from the police by pretending to be the wife of the absent-minded Leopold. Leopold falls in love with the young...

University student Jaakko and master's degree holder Aarne arrive in a rural village, where they become involved in organizing a charity event and...

Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him...

The three girls catch the eye of the handsome lumberjack when the city kids happen to camp near the lumberjack's cabin during their bike trip. Liisa...

Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are already making big plans when it turns out that the...

Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.

Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler,...

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book. Young lovers Pirkko and Pekka break off their engagement at the end of an evening spent at a...

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a...

Concertmaster Orasto and his pianist wife Elna hire Maija, who has been treated harshly by life, as their domestic helper. Erkki, the composer son of...

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his...

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.

Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In...

Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two...

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

Due to the post-war housing shortage, Pirkko, who has nowhere to sleep, is given accommodation at the full-service guesthouse run by landlady...

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest...