Matti Ijäs Movies

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to...

Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old...

An unemployed actor falls in love with a theater director, who gives him work. Both of them are in relationships, and their little lies gradually...

Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso...

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular...

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely...

A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world. What happens when a man's frozen heart begins...

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

An arctic comedy about the childlike, sincere Kauko and his desire to grow up. It is a story about two brothers who accidentally end up in each...

Manical portrait of a small businessman.

The story of Ailu's summer, which he spends on an island with his trumpet and hedgehog for company while his father is at work. His ingenuity is put...