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Acclaimed Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki helms this deadpan, oddball road movie. Jack Bogart (Kai Wiesinger) is a dodgy car mechanic living in the backwaters of Germany. His motto is “Live for the moment; that’s all that counts,” and, indeed, for a moment he hooked up with an older Korean woman (Francisca Tu), until a couple of thugs he had previously swindled, Bruno (Hannes Hellmann) and doltish Popo, pay him a visit. Jack promptly hits the road along with bitchy Verena (Michaela Rosen) and her saucy spoiled daughter Elisabeth (Marie Zielcke). The latter falls for Jack, much to his consternation, and soon she is tagging along all the way to Finland.

1.15GB | 1h 29m | 640×368 | mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/7063EAFE9401D5E/higway_society.rar
https://nitro.download/view/513EC6F632D44EE/interview.avi
https://nitro.download/view/FDB149DE9D5CFEC/interview.idx
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Language:German,English,Finnish
Subtitles:English,Finnish,Swedish,Danish,Norsk

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One man’s quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

1.49GB | 1h 40m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/14965B4E11AABDC/the.last.border.1993.web.h264-cbfm.mkv
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https://fikper.com/dWch8E9Gsq/the.last.border.1993.web.h264-cbfm.mkv.html

Language:English,Russian,Swedish
Subtitles:Finnish,Swedish

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Another good movie from the first period of Mika, with some funny moments and great cameos like Nino Manfredi, Samuel Fuller, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Eddie Constantine.

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Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches. With two dead men and a suitcase filled with hundred dollar bills, he has difficulty disposing of the bodies. He is chased by the top crime boss (Samuel Fuller) and his crony (Eddie Constantine). Alex’s wife is allergic to the money, so the cabbie endures more than he can handle trying to rid himself of the cash and the corpses.

1.32GB | 1h 32m | 710×412 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/93584E3B7988C1C/Helsinki.Napoli.All.Night.Long.1987.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English,German
Subtitles:English,Danish,Finnish,Swedish,Norwegian

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Arvottomat (1982)

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.

Interview with Mika Kaurismaki

1.46GB | 1h 52m | 1040×536 | mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/6A2799DD4B5133C/Interview_with_Mika_Kaurismaki.srt

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English

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plot outline: After a chance meeting in a Bradford cemetery with Barbara, a young American actress, aspiring writer Richard Tennant breaks off his engagement, quits the undertaking business and heads off to LA to find true love with Barbara. But once there, Richard finds he has a rival in Patterson, a rising film director, who promises to take Barbara away from her job waitressing and make a star of her.

Moving into an apartment in a seedy part of town, Richard starts work with his oddball musician neighbour Moss cleaning swimming pools. In his spare time he concentrates on winning Barbara. Moss, meantime, falls for Barbara’s best friend Julie and the foursome drive off together for a weekend in Vegas where Richard and Barbara wed. Back in LA Richard finds himself a hot-shot agent, Takowsky, who enthuses over Richard’s script for a film called Oozy Suicide. Barbara auditions for a choice film role. But Barbara discovers the film’s director is Patterson and soon she starts dating him again. Desperate to win back his wife, Richard tries to talk to Barbara at a party, but things go from bad to worse and Richard is arrested for harassment. Takowsky comes to the rescue, bails Richard out and sends him back to England.

Richard is back conducting funerals in Bradford when Barbara appears with a contract for the film rights to Oozy Suicide. She has finally seen through Patterson and has come back to England to make a new start with Richard.

L.A.Without.a.Map.1999.404p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-RANDOM.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 46mn
Size:	1.49 GiB
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Codec:	h264
Resolution:	720x404
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	1 771 kb/s
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English 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/779DCE1560E6390/L.A.Without.a.Map.1999.404p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-RANDOM.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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from cinematik
Saimaa-ilmiö is probably the first properly made rock film made in Finland. Such basics as including the songs in their entirety, shooting with multiple cameras, reducing interviews to a minimum and using them to express the atmosphere, not as compulsory fillers-in, were unheard of in Finland at the time. Concentrating on the music, not everything around it, Saimaa-ilmiö captures much of the leisurely feel of the lake tour.

Wisely, the brothers did not select to insert a superficial plot in the film; they let the music speak for itself. The viewer is also saved from unnecessary camera and editing gimmickry, another typical rock documentary pitfall. Time has taken its toll on the music, but the film works well.

Music includes Hassisen Kone, Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen Slam.

792MB | 2:00:19 | 608×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/D74DE307AA1EFB1/saimaa_ilmio.avi
https://nitroflare.com/view/4E2D7251DDDAC7A/Saimaa-ilmiö_(1981)_english.srt
https://nitroflare.com/view/D56E6661B8FDD73/Saimaa-ilmiö_(1981)_swedish.srt

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English,Swedish

The post Aki Kaurismäki & Mika Kaurismäki – Saimaa-ilmiö AKA The Saimaa Gesture (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys’ sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.

586MB | 33 min 43 s | 1023×540 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/640B34C8012D66F/Jackpot_2.1982.mkv

Language(s):Finnish
Subtitles:English

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