Jouko Lumme Movies

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his...

Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects...

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the...

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns...

The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the...

Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895).

This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very...

When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...