Vares: Tango of Darkness

Vares: Tango of Darkness

Directed by Lauri Törhönen

Produced by Solar Films

201292 min5.2 / 10

A noir-inflected crime thriller centered on a private detective unraveling a cold case murder, marked by moral ambiguity and urban decay.

The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…

Questions people ask

  • Is Vares: Tango of Darkness scary? Yes. More frightening than 87% of films.

  • Is Vares: Tango of Darkness easy watching? Barely. Less comforting than 86% of films.

  • Is Vares: Tango of Darkness sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Does Vares: Tango of Darkness end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 80% of films.

  • Is Vares: Tango of Darkness violent? Somewhat. More violent than 72% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

9/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity18

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise6

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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