Backwood Philosopher
Dec 25, 2009 | IMDB 5.8
110 min Watch NowDrama, Comedy
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Virginity
Human Blood Is Thicker than Water
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
My Name Is Shadow
Storm over Tjurö
Beatriz
The Devil's Elixirs
When the Legends Die
Sleep Sweet, My Darling
The Silent Ocean
Milka: A Film About Taboos
Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet…
The Tower of Lies
Tell Me No Secrets
The Bricklayers
The Boy and the Convict
Father Sergius
Tomka and His Friends
Jarrapellejos
The Good Companions
SIMILAR MOVIES
Virginity
IMDB 5.3 | Nov , 1937
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)Human Blood Is Thicker than Water
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1960
The main character Danilo was one of Petlyura’s military commanders. But 1920 began, the struggle against the Soviet power ended, it was the time for the former irreconcilable fighters to return to their peaceful occupations. The only thing is that a former Petlyura’s fighter is not sure, that he is awaited in his own home or at least they understand for what he shed his blood.Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
IMDB 3.5 | Apr , 1941
At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.My Name Is Shadow
IMDB 5 | Apr , 1996
Doctor Beiral, torn apart by the internal struggle between his social persona and the dark instincts that torment him, manages to use his investigations to give life to the monster that he has long held within him.Storm over Tjurö
IMDB 4.5 | Jul , 1954
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.Beatriz
IMDB 3.7 | Dec , 1976
A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.The Devil's Elixirs
IMDB 5 | Mar , 1973
Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie, whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie.When the Legends Die
IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 1972
An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.Sleep Sweet, My Darling
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2005
A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.The Silent Ocean
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 1983
A doctor, who commits malpractice in a major urban hospital, retreats to a remote house in the countryside. Although he is acquitted, his conscience is not so easily appeased. When a murder occurs and the southern Styria village searches for the culprit, he has to take a stand.Milka: A Film About Taboos
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1980
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet…
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1960
Germany at the time of the economic miracle: the boorish and equally rude Jupp Grapsch has made a small fortune through his bustling activities. His wife Lisbeth, on the other hand, does not feel comfortable with this, but silently accepts the circumstances. Even when Jupp gets involved with the somewhat disreputable Nina Sonntag, an extravagant young woman, she accepts this at first. At some point, however, the situation escalates and Lisbeth slips a slap in the face, which Jupp cleverly wants to use to finally get rid of his wife by divorcing her. But Lisbeth refuses and so Jupp hires an unscrupulous man to create a reason for the separation in exchange for money...The Tower of Lies
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1925
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.Tell Me No Secrets
IMDB 4.5 | Jan , 1997
Jess Koster is a young attorney in Los Angeles, who is being stalked by the serial killer she is prosecuting.The Bricklayers
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1976
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.The Boy and the Convict
IMDB 5 | May , 1909
A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.Father Sergius
IMDB 2.5 | Sep , 1978
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.Tomka and His Friends
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 1977
Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers.Jarrapellejos
IMDB 4.7 | Sep , 1988
Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence.The Good Companions
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1957
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.