Surprise Party

(1983)

An annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise.

Follows José Sánchez, a man with unthinking ambition and the gift of the gab, who is transformed by chance into El Serpiente, a ruthless political strategist.

The successful head chef, Michael, must suddenly defend his position with the arrival of a new sous-chef, Naja. She serves up new initiatives aiming to modernize the work environment, hierarchy and gender equality in the restaurant, Værk.

A man recruits his cousin to find out who is behind his dog's suspicious death.

Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

A priest who left his cheating wife (Mikko Nousiainen) moves with his school-aged son to a small town in Kainuu, where he plans to start a new life. The beginning, however, is not very rosy when the reception in the small community turns out to be cold, to say the least.

An exodus to a better life in Eira.

A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his widowed mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his unhappily married brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.