Comedy, Drama
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Rossini
Everyone Says I Love You
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
Netto
The Wedding Banquet
Jingle All the Way
Martha
Strictly Ballroom
Emil and the Detectives
Small Time Crooks
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Red Rock West
When a Man Loves a Woman
Factotum
You Are My Adventure
I'm Still Here
Home Fries
Tampopo
The Van
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2005
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.Rossini
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 1997
Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.Everyone Says I Love You
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1996
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1990
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.Netto
IMDB 6.8 | May , 2005
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.The Wedding Banquet
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1993
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.Jingle All the Way
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 1996
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.Martha
IMDB 7 | May , 1974
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.Strictly Ballroom
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1992
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?Emil and the Detectives
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 2001
The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.Small Time Crooks
IMDB 6.4 | May , 2000
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2004
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.Red Rock West
IMDB 6.7 | May , 1993
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.When a Man Loves a Woman
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 1994
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.Factotum
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2005
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.You Are My Adventure
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1958
Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.I'm Still Here
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2024
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.Home Fries
IMDB 5.1 | Nov , 1998
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.Tampopo
IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1985
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.The Van
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 1996
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.