Lights in the Dusk (2006)

The odd one out, and worth it. Aki Kaurismäki's deadpan noir follows Koistinen, a lonely night security guard at a luxury Helsinki shopping mall, who falls for an icy blonde without realizing she is setting him up for her criminal boyfriend. There is no investigation and very little dialogue; the crime is simply the machine that crushes a decent man. Janne Hyytiäinen's stone face, the bare rooms and the saturated colors make it a strange, sad cousin to the rest of the list, and it is Finland's entry here. Choose it when you want mood over mystery in its most concentrated form.