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Aki Kaurismäki

Director · 48 credits · 29 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Man Without a Past (2002)

Frequent collaborators: Matti Pellonpää, Peter von Bagh, Wim Wenders, Kari Väänänen, Pirkko Hämäläinen

Best Aki Kaurismäki movies by genre

Directed movies (31 total, ranked by score)

  1. The Man Without a Past

    2002 · ★ 7.4 (449 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    1

  2. Drifting Clouds

    1996 · ★ 7.6 (210 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    2

  3. The Match Factory Girl

    1990 · ★ 7.4 (302 votes)

    Drama

    3

  4. Le Havre

    2011 · ★ 7.0 (490 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    4

  5. La Vie de Bohème

    1992 · ★ 7.5 (153 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    5

  6. Ariel

    1988 · ★ 7.1 (380 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    6

  7. Shadows in Paradise

    1986 · ★ 7.3 (443 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    7

  8. The Other Side of Hope

    2017 · ★ 7.0 (367 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    8

  9. Fallen Leaves

    2023 · ★ 7.1 (746 votes)

    Romance, Comedy, Drama

    9

  10. Crime and Punishment

    1983 · ★ 6.9 (86 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    10

  11. Calamari Union

    1985 · ★ 7.0 (85 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    11

  12. I Hired a Contract Killer

    1990 · ★ 6.9 (231 votes)

    Comedy, Crime, Drama

    12

  13. Lights in the Dusk

    2006 · ★ 6.8 (165 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    13

  14. Leningrad Cowboys Go America

    1989 · ★ 7.0 (205 votes)

    Comedy, Music

    14

  15. The Saimaa Gesture

    1981 · ★ 7.0 (10 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    15

  16. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    2002 · ★ 6.9 (47 votes)

    Drama, Documentary

    16

  17. To Each His Own Cinema

    2007 · ★ 6.5 (155 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    17

  18. Tavern Man

    2012 · ★ 7.0 (41 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    18

  19. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

    1994 · ★ 6.7 (91 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    19

  20. Juha

    1999 · ★ 6.7 (72 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    20

  21. Dirty Hands

    2015 · ★ 5.1 (9 votes)

    TV Movie, Drama

    21

  22. Rocky VI

    1986 · ★ 5.8 (81 votes)

    Comedy, Music

    22

  23. Bico

    2004 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. Hamlet Goes Business

    1987 · ★ 6.7 (47 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    24

  25. Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

    1994 · ★ 5.9 (57 votes)

    Comedy, Adventure, Music

    25

  26. Historic Centre

    2012 · ★ 6.1 (15 votes)

    Drama, Documentary

    26

  27. Total Balalaika Show

    1994 · ★ 6.2 (27 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    27

  28. Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla

    2013 · ★ 4.8 (6 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    28

  29. The Foundry

    2007 · ★ 7.2 (6 votes)

    Comedy

    29

  30. Visions of Europe

    2004 · ★ 5.0 (20 votes)

    Documentary, Comedy, Drama

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.