Matti Pellonpää – MRQE

Valehtelija

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.

Cha Cha Cha

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of ‘living properly’ and possessing a ‘respectable occupation and a family he can support’. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!

Iron Horsemen

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.

Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This droll tale of longing and awkward romance follows two misfits – a coffee addict and a vodka-soaked mechanic – as they hit the road in their Soviet-built Volga. Along the way they manage to pick up two women, the Estonian Tatjana and the buxom Russian Klavdia, despite sharing no common language and being completely clueless as to what to do with them next.

The Last border – viimeisellä rajalla

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

One man’s quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Zombie ja Kummitusjuna

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Antti “Zombie” Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months’ sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he’s called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers’ soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents’ house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band “Harry and the Mulefukkers” then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

Ariel

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don’t go as planned…

Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

Varjoja paratiisissa

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.