Documentary
Several films have been made about the lives of train hobos, but Aleksi Pohjavirta's A Good Day to Die is probably the first Finnish documentary on the subject. The film follows Billy, who travels in a pump on freight trains. In the way of life, the feeling of freedom and letting yourself be carried away by chance are attractive and they make the train bomb strive for a windy ride again and again.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Long Shift
Two Forces
A Train Arrives at the Station
Earth Evocation
Linha Final
Regina – Queen of the Ring
Forever Yours
World's Greatest Logging Site
Trains of Thoughts
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Wir fahren mit der Bahn
JVG-elokuva: Vuodet ollu tuulisii
TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records
Wandering in the White
Karalahti
Under Construction
Trains
Freeload
The Great Train Robbery
Zugkraft mit Strom – Die Hightech-E-Lok
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Long Shift
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2014
A small town ice hockey team fights through their first season in an upper division. The players' dreams might have changed from childhood but their love for the sport does not fade.Two Forces
IMDB 5.7 | Jun , 1979
Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.A Train Arrives at the Station
IMDB 5 | Jan , 2016
“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was one shot we had to cut whose loss I particularly regretted. It was a shot of a train pulling into Tokyo Station from Ozu’s The Only Son (1936). So I decided to make a film around this shot, an anthology of train arrivals. It comprises 26 scenes or shots from movies, 1904-2015. It has a simple serial structure: each black & white sequence in the first half rhymes with a color sequence in the second half. Thus the first shot and the final shot show trains arriving at stations in Japan from a low camera height. In the first shot (The Only Son), the train moves toward the right; in the last shot, it moves toward the left. A bullet train has replaced a steam locomotive. So after all these years, I’ve made another structural film, although that was not my original intention.”Earth Evocation
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2009
The history of Finland through traces of the past.Linha Final
IMDB 8 | Dec , 2023
Regina – Queen of the Ring
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
Regina is a young feminist wrestler who fights men to become an international star. However, the true battle in wrestling takes place outside the ring – in the story team meetings.Forever Yours
IMDB 5 | Nov , 2011
Forever Yours is a film about children who have been taken into custody. Through the children, their biological parents and foster parents, the film depicts love in everyday life. The film explores the invisible bond between a child and a biological parent. Even when a child is taken into custody, the yearning for closeness to the biological parents and need for their approval never seems to disappear. This longing is a form of loneliness that the foster parents struggle to overcome. The film describes the entire foster care process: a child being brought into a shelter home, a teenager’s everyday life in a foster family, and siblings preparing to return to their biological mother, after five years in a foster family.World's Greatest Logging Site
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 1938
A documentary short on logging during winter season.Trains of Thoughts
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2012
An audio-visual essay, which reflects upon & compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes - of survival, control & silence.Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1927
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.Wir fahren mit der Bahn
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1976
Two boys aged 9 and 10, Jan and Christoph, want to visit their grandma, who lives in another town. They travel by train, on their own. They buy their tickets, find the right platform and get on the right train. And they know how to behave on the train. So, as expected, the train trip to Grandma's is a safe affair and great fun for the boys.JVG-elokuva: Vuodet ollu tuulisii
IMDB 5.2 | Mar , 2022
Documentary about Finnish rap-duo JVG. In addition to the unprecedented video footage recorded over a ten-year period, the film features JVG and the background influencers, family members, and friends who built its story.TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2021
Wandering in the White
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2019
When two former top orienteers end up in a snowstorm in Lapland wilderness, they face an impossible orienteering task: how to reach your destination when you can't tell earth from sky?Karalahti
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2021
Documentary movie about a Finnish professional ice hockey player, Jere Karalahti. More than 50 people have been interviewed for the documentary film, such as Jere's family, coaches, journalists, fellow players and childhood friends. A profound documentary consists of archive material and dramatized scenes in addition to interviews.Under Construction
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2023
Markku built a house for his family with his own bare hands like a strong man is supposed to do. He worked hard from dawn to dusk, so that his seven children would have a roof above their heads. Unfortunately, the task ended up being too hard and Markku burnt out. One day, he left his family and disappeared abroad. The filmmaker travels to his childhood home to face his father, who he never got to know properly. Together they build a steel gate in front of the unfinished house, and try to create a relationship between each other.Trains
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1976
After shooting more short films and documentaries, Deschanel wrote, directed and shot Trains, a short film that won the Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin Film Festival. Trains is an exquisitely filmed short format documentary on passenger trains throughout the course of one day.Freeload
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2014
Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too are today's train riders. FREELOAD is a dive into a beggar's existence. It is a ride through America's backyard. It is a musical endeavor that feels like a drama. It is a sociological examination of the ignored.The Great Train Robbery
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2012
It was one of the greatest heists in British history. £3 million – worth over £40 million today – stolen from a moving train by a gang of thieves who almost got away with it.Zugkraft mit Strom – Die Hightech-E-Lok
IMDB 3 | Jul , 2022