Mika Kaurismäki Movies

Grump’s life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be…

Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots. Miriam Makeba was forced into…

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex’s money stolen…

An “aspiring Hollywood actress” (Vinessa Shaw), on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for…

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but…

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.

An enigmatic young woman in conflict – torn between reason and passion; between her woman’s body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between…

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing…

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son’s life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.

The script of this film was very loose and most of the dialog was improvised by the cast

A sort of “Divorce Finnish Style,” Mika Kaurismäki’s rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple – Juhani, a family therapist, and…

A musical documentary and tribute about “choro”, an older style of playing that forms the foundation of all Brazilian composition, including samba and bossa nova.