Browse Toivo Mäkelä Movies

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and bec...

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge const...

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking ar...

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 a...

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

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

The story of the first elections in Finland

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu...

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

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagr...

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...

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bys...

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.

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 study...

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childmin...

A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.