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- Helinä is tired of her monotonous life revolving around her young children, while her husband is away on business. At the hair salon she meets other frustrated housewives. Together the find an attractive solution to the problem.
- Guard of a prison-camp Celebici during Bosnian war, Esad Landzo, convicted for war crimes, is looking for redemption.
- Losing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The result becomes a comedic cavalcade of Finnish promotional clichés - Lapland, sauna, moose hunting, beautiful blond women etc. - as presented by a slick entourage following on the heels of William Nurmi, a Finnish-American hair tonic millionaire on a visit to his ancestors' homeland. Add some half-baked criminal hanky-panky, and towards the end even one of the main characters has to confess to the camera that he's lost track of this movie's plot about fifteen minutes ago.
- The thriller Vaarallista vapautta (Dangerous Freedom) (1962), is based on Tuuli Reijonen's novel. Nurse Sinikka (Pirkko Peltonen) wants to help a prisoner (Toivo Lehkonen) who defected across the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiance (Ville-Veikko Salminen) plan an escape trip for him from Finland with the help of her mother (Irma Seikkula). Sinika's brother's (Antti Litja) girlfriend Ruth (Maija Karhi) happens to witness the escape, which puts her accomplices in danger.
- Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
- The past, present and future are all intertwined, the beautiful moments in life are made to last forever.
- What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? A fifty year old middle aged woman occupies a top position in a large company in Espoo, Finland. Disappointed in life, leaving work she embarks on a journey into the end of the night. When the flirtation with another woman fails, she flees hiding inside a war bunker.
- Nyqvist seeks assistance from Bodin, which proves to be a regrettable idea; Bergenskjöld obtains damning evidence regarding Nyqvist's true history; Härkönen's responsibilities become even more intricate.