Leo Jokela Movies

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears...

Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.

The invisible UFO men Giljotin and Orvaskesi land on Earth and take on the appearance of the first people they encounter, Mr. Tossavais and...

Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.

Comedic musical film in which Iskelmä OY's manager has to deal with rising stars and old seniors.

While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...

Eerikki Lind, a young university student working as a sailor, falls in love with the beautiful Kirsti on the canal. The budding Midsummer romance...

Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with...

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous...

Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.

Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three...

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...

Pave, Hese, Timppa, and Viiksi have ended up in Hell, where the heat makes them feel as comfortable as in a sauna. The bosses there don't like this,...

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

The greedy lord of the manor, von Wurstburg, lives lavishly on his estate, heavily taxing the local peasants, when the official heir to the estate,...