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Aki Kaurismäki

Highest Rated: 100% Drifting Clouds (1996)

Lowest Rated: 40% Juha (1999)

Birthday: Apr 4, 1957

Birthplace: Orimattila, Finland

Young, inventive director who began receiving international recognition in the late 1980s. Kaurismaki's output has ranged from wacky, comic-book style adventures ("Calamari Union" 1985, "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" 1989) to revisionist adaptations of literary classics ("Crime and Punishment" 1983, "Hamlet Goes Business" 1987"), and he has proved himself adept at combining gritty, noir-ish realism with sly, sardonic humor ("Ariel" 1988). Kaurismaki's minimalist style, prolific output and taste for wry melodrama have invited comparisons with filmmakers such as R.W. Fassbinder and Jim Jarmusch.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 90% Drifting Clouds
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100% 86% The Match Factory Girl
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100% 85% Leningrad Cowboys Go America
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99% 75% Le Havre
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98% 90% The Man Without a Past
Watchlist 97% 60% Fallen Leaves Watchlist 92% 75% The Other Side of Hope Watchlist
86% 77% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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68% 72% Lights in the Dusk
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40% 62% Juha
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Aki Kaurismäki LIGHTS IN THE DUSK, (aka LAITAKAUPUNGIN VALOT), director Aki Kaurismaki (foreground), on set, 2006. ©Strand Releasing MAN WITHOUT A PAST, Kati Outinen, Aki Kaurismaki, Markku Peltola, 2002, (c) Sony Pictures Classics View more photos

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Fallen Leaves 97% 60% 2023 Director, Writer, Producer, Screenwriter The Other Side of Hope 92% 75% 2017 Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Production Design Midsummer Night's Tango 2013 Actor Historic Centre 50% 2012 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Le Havre 99% 75% 2011 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Barzakh 2011 Producer Bohemian Eyes 2011 Actor Bad Family 2010 Producer The Foundry 2007 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editor Lights in the Dusk 68% 72% 2006 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing Aaltra 82% 2004 Le patron Aaltra Actor The Man Without a Past 98% 90% 2002 Director, Writer, Producer Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 86% 77% 2002 Director Juha 40% 62% 1999 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing Kovat miehet 1999 Producer Drifting Clouds 100% 90% 1996 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing Iron Horsemen 1994 Cadillac Man Actor, Producer Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana 77% 1994 Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing Total Balalaika Show 76% 1994 Director Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses 52% 1994 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing Pater Noster 1993 Producer Bohemian Life 86% 1992 Director, Writer, Producer The Match Factory Girl 100% 86% 1990 Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing I Hired a Contract Killer 87% 1990 Director, Writer, Film Editing Leningrad Cowboys Go America 100% 85% 1989 Director
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