Risto Jarva Movies

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the...

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A...

Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and...

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that their marriage seems to be all about long business...

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter...

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight...

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both...

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter...

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

An experimental short film by Risto Jarva.

A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising.

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl...

The film is the first commission for the budding production company Filminor Oy, commissioned by the City of Tampere. Emphasising closeness to...