Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Heart of a Lion is a finlandais film of genre Drama directed by Thomas "Dome" Karukoski with Peter Franzén

Heart of a Lion (2013)

Heart of a Lion
If you like this film, let us know!
Length 1h44
OriginFinlande
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating69% 3.496013.496013.496013.496013.49601

Heart of a Lion (Finnish: Leijonasydän) is a 2013 Finnish drama film directed by Dome Karukoski. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film tells the story about a Neo-Nazi named Teppo, who falls in love with a woman named Sari. He later finds out that Sari's son from the previous marriage is black. This leads Teppo to trouble with his fellow Neo-Nazis, especially his half-brother Harri.

Synopsis

« Un néo-nazi tombe en amour avec une femme qui a un enfant métis, ce qui chamboule ses valeurs. »

Actors

Trailer of Heart of a Lion

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Heart of a Lion

There are 33 films with the same actors, 7 films with the same director, 66868 with the same cinematographic genres (including 13135 with exactly the same 2 genres than Heart of a Lion), 580 films with the same themes (including 8 films with the same 2 themes than Heart of a Lion), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Heart of a Lion, you will probably like those similar films :
Lapland Odyssey, 1h32
Directed by Thomas "Dome" Karukoski
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen, Pamela Tola, Miia Nuutila, Moa Gammel, Anna-Leena Härkönen
Rating67% 3.396853.396853.396853.396853.39685
After a man called Janne living in Lapland in Northern Finland fails to acquire a digital television adapter for his wife from the local utility store due to not reaching it before closure time, he sets out with his two friends in the middle of the night to get one by any means necessary. He sets up a late rendezvous with his father-in-law who owns an electronics store in Rovaniemi, several hundred kilometers away. Nothing is naturally ever simple and along the way, the trio end up having several comedic misadventures.
Beauty and the Bastard, 1h42
Directed by Thomas "Dome" Karukoski
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo, Elena Leeve, Mikko Kouki, Mikko Leppilampi, Thomas "Dome" Karukoski
Rating64% 3.2481753.2481753.2481753.2481753.248175
The Finnish musical drama "Beauty and the Bastard," is about opposites attracting between a naive well-off young female singer Nelli, (Pamela Tola) and Sune (Samuli Vauramo), a promising but uncompromising rap DJ in the offices of a major record company.
Tolkien
Tolkien (2019)
, 1h52
Directed by Thomas "Dome" Karukoski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Children's films
Actors Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Harry Gilby, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mimi Keene
Rating68% 3.402243.402243.402243.402243.40224
Né en Afrique du Sud, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien perd tôt son père et sa mère et grandit en Angleterre. Il est envoyé par son tuteur vivre avec son frère dans une pension de famille où habite également une orpheline du nom d'Edith Bratt dont Tolkien tombe amoureux. Il entre à l'école King Edward's où il impressionne ses camarades de classe en récitant Les Contes de Canterbury par cœur et sans erreur de prononciation ; il forme avec trois camarades un groupe littéraire dont les membres sont liés par une profonde amitié.
Band of Angels, 2h5
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist II, Patric Knowles, Rex Reason
Rating64% 3.2462853.2462853.2462853.2462853.246285
Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is raised as the privileged white daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing.
Hairspray
Hairspray (1988)
, 1h32
Directed by John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Obésité, Films about racism, Films about television, Musical films, Films about disabilities
Actors Ricki Lake, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Divine, Jerry Stiller, Leslie Ann Powers
Rating69% 3.497993.497993.497993.497993.49799
Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) and her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers), audition for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black (there is a 'Negro Day' on the show on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). However, despite being overweight, Tracy is a strong enough dancer to become a regular on the show, infuriating the show's reigning queen, Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), a mean, privileged, beautiful high school classmate whose pushy stage parents, Velma (Debbie Harry) and Franklin Von Tussle (Sonny Bono), own Tilted Acres amusement park (based on Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, where racial problems occurred). Tracy steals Amber's boyfriend, Link Larkin (Michael St. Gerard), and competes against her for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963, fueling Amber's hatred of her.
One Potato, Two Potato, 1h32
Directed by Larry Peerce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Robert Earl Jones, Harry Bellaver, Anthony Spinelli
Rating71% 3.588913.588913.588913.588913.58891
Julie Cullen is a young parent, single for the past four years, since her husband abandoned her and their daughter, Ellen, only a year old at the time. At work, Julie, who is white, meets Frank Richards, who is black, and the two strike up a friendship that blossoms into a romance. Their relationship is strained by the racial prejudices of many around them, including Frank's parents, William and Martha, who oppose the pairing. But ultimately Frank and Julie decide to persevere through such difficulties. They marry, and Julie and Ellen move in with Frank and his parents. Ellen's arrival immediately softens Martha's heart, but William remains cool toward Julie, steadfast in his belief that Frank and Julie's marriage is a foolish endeavor. His attitude only changes when Frank and Julie have a son together. When William first holds his new grandson, he loses any remaining animosity and the household becomes a happy one for all.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1h33
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, Films about racism, Films about sexuality
Actors Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walter Sedlmayr
Rating79% 3.996983.996983.996983.996983.99698
Ali (Salem), is a Moroccan Gastarbeiter (guest worker) in his late thirties, and Emmi (Mira), is a 60-year-old widowed cleaning woman. They meet when Emmi ducks inside a bar, driven by the rain and drawn by the exotic Arabic music (Al Asfouryeh by Sabah) she says she has heard so often on her walk home from work. A woman in the bar (Katharina Herberg) who is part of Ali's Arabic-speaking cohort tauntingly suggests Ali ask Emmi ("the old woman") to dance, and Emmi accepts. A strange and unlikely friendship develops, then a romance and soon they are living together in Emmi's flat. Out of a professed sense of responsibility but also hopefulness, Emmi first confides in her newfound love when she goes to visit her daughter Krista (Irm Hermann) and her tyrannical son-in-law Eugen (Fassbinder himself) and announces that she is in love with Ali; Eugen thinks she is screwy and Krista as well can only think that her mother - who has been a widow for years - is fantasizing.
Sayonara
Sayonara (1957)
, 2h27
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Films about racism, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki
Rating69% 3.495793.495793.495793.495793.49579
Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando), the son of a U.S. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), who is a performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Joe Kelly (Red Buttons).
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1h48
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards
Rating77% 3.8978053.8978053.8978053.8978053.897805
Joanna Drayton's unannounced early return from a Hawaii holiday causes a stir when she brings to her childhood upper-class home her new fiancé, John: a widowed, black physician. Joanna's parents - newspaper publisher Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and his wife, art gallery owner Christina Drayton (Katharine Hepburn) – are liberals who have instilled in her the idea of racial equality. But to her surprise, Joanna's parents are deeply upset that she is planning to marry a black man. The Draytons' black maid, Tille (Isabel Sanford), is just as horrified, suspecting that John is trying to "get above himself" by marrying a white woman. What was intended to be a sit-down steak dinner for two turns into a meet-the-in-laws dinner party, and during the pre-dinner period, John, Joanna and her parents have to work through their differences.
Within Our Gates, 1h19
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Evelyn Preer, Leigh Whipper
Rating63% 3.1944153.1944153.1944153.1944153.194415
The film opens with Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer), a young African-American woman, visiting her cousin Alma in the North. Landry is waiting for the return of Conrad from World War I as they plan to marry. Alma also loves Conrad, and would like Sylvia to marry her brother-in-law Larry, a gambler and criminal. Alma arranges for Sylvia to be caught in a compromising situation by Conrad when he returns. He leaves for Brazil, and Larry kills a man during a game of poker. Sylvia returns to the South.