Birthday:
07-04-1964
(60 years)
Birthplace:
Haukipudas, Finland
Biography
Merja Larivaara is a Finnish stage and screen actress.
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Game Over
Act like Kimi's advocate
event2005 star_border 3.7
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A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men
Act like Elisabeth Raappana
event2012 star_border 6
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The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
The Hijack That Went South
Act like Lentoemäntä Kananen
event2013 star_border 5.4
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Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Hayflower and Quiltshoe
Act like Helga Alibullen
event2002 star_border 6.9
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The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
Aapo
Act like maanviljelysneuvoksetar
event1994 star_border 5
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Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
Ripa Hits the Skids
Act like Pirjo
event1993 star_border 5.8
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A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Village People
Act like Alli
event2013 star_border 5.1
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Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!
Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
event2004 star_border 4.2
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Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
The Well
Act like Anna-Maija Laakso
event1992 star_border 4.3
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This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.
Bad Family
Act like Consul
event2010 star_border 6.1
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The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
Marja
Act like Terttu
event1994 star_border 1
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When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone. Marja ends up with an illegal abortion when there are only bad options ahead.
Rengasmatka
Act like Mirja Penttilä
event1988
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Divorced Asta and her daughter Anni go on a summer holiday touring Finland with Asta's sister and her husband. On the trip they visit a submarine, a mine, a dinosaur land and search for Santa Claus in Lapland.
Tanssii tähtien kanssa
(1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 2
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Tanssii tähtien kanssa is a Finnish version of the British BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing. The show has run on MTV3 since March 3, 2006, on Sunday evenings. The sixteenth season will be aired in the fall of 2023.
The show was originally hosted by Marco Bjurström and Ella Kanninen. Ella Kanninen left the show after the second season and was replaced by model and Season 2 contestant Vanessa Kurri. In 2009, Kurri was replaced by Vappu Pimiä after only one season. Marco Bjurstöm left the series after Season 4 and Mikko Leppilampi took over as host. Ella Kanninen returned to host the seventh season due to Pimiä's maternity leave; Pimiä will return to host the eight season with Leppilampi. From 2022 Pimiä was joined by Ernest Lawson.
The series' title is a pun on the title of the film Dances with Wolves, Tanssii susien kanssa.
Kiimaiset poliisit
Act like Marita (5 ep.)
event1993 star_border 2
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The protagonists of the series are three cops - married couple Marita and Goofy and Marita's old love, Oiva. After years, Marita and Oiva meet and escape into the woods during a police operation. In the soft heat of August, the cops are trying to find a place of fulfillment and save the world from evil. In the whirlwind of a triangle drama, they encounter missions, murderers, priests and betrayers - rage, crime, tears.
Team Ahma
Act like Kanniston emäntä (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 9
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Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.
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