Movies: Pirkko Saisio

  • 1998
    Fire-Eater

    Fire-Eater (1998)

    Fire-Eater

    5.41998HD

    The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protec...

    Fire-Eater
  • 2020
    Helene

    Helene (2020)

    Helene

    6.32020HD

    Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen ...

    Helene
  • 2013
    Concrete Night

    Concrete Night (2013)

    Concrete Night

    5.82013HD

    A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother....

    Concrete Night
  • 2004
    The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

    The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)

    The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

    7.42004HD

    A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp....

    The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
  • 2002
    Lovers & Leavers

    Lovers & Leavers (2002)

    Lovers & Leavers

    4.72002HD

    This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?...

    Lovers & Leavers
  • 2025
    Orenda

    Orenda (2025)

    Orenda

    02025HD

    Two strong-willed women meet in a magical island landscape. Both are strangled by the guilt of a deceased man whose memory binds them together....

    Orenda
  • 1985
    Da Capo

    Da Capo (1985)

    Da Capo

    21985HD

    Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was ha...

    Da Capo
  • 1969
    Nightborn

    Nightborn (1969)

    Nightborn

    01969HD

    A couple’s dream of a perfect child spirals into a nightmare as soon as the baby is born. The mother Saga thinks there’s something seriously wrong with the child, who drains her of all energy and sucks blood from her breasts. While their marriage str...

    Nightborn
  • 2009
    Prime Minister

    Prime Minister (2009)

    Prime Minister

    72009HD

    A Finnish drama about the short term of Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki....

    Prime Minister
  • 1979
    Juhannushäät

    Juhannushäät (1979)

    Juhannushäät

    01979HD

    The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night, both have to confront their past....

    Juhannushäät