Merja Larivaara Movies

A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor...

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

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 we...

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blind...

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced b...

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situatio...

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicion...

When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone....

Divorced Asta and her daughter Anni go on a summer holiday touring Finland with Asta's sister and her husband. On the trip they visit a submarine, a m...