Birthday:
07-31-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Kerava, Finland
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Raid
Act like Raid
event2003 star_border 6
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Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.
The Missile
Act like Pekka
event2024 star_border 6.6
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Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.
White Snow
Act like Markku
event2010 star_border 6
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Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Backwood Philosopher
Act like Konsta Pylkkönen
event2009 star_border 5.9
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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.
The Storage 2
Act like Alpo
event2018 star_border 5
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Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.
Poliisin poika
Act like Trampas
event1998 star_border 5.9
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The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.
Body of Water
Act like Leo
event2011 star_border 5.7
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Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.
Headfirst
Act like Sakke
event2014 star_border 5.1
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Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
Läpi harmaan kiven
event1989
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"Through the gray stone, the bedrock." Follows the making of Jouko Turka's version of Aleksis Kivi's novel "Seven Brothers". The Finnish national poem. A very close look at the lives and drama education of the students at the Theater Academy in Helsinki. Trying, challenging and partly offensive exercises, mental pressure and Turkka's theatre ideology and method.
Rolli and the Secret of All Time
Act like Seppä
event2016 star_border 5.5
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Rolli and little elf girl Juniper along with the rest of the rollis and other strange creatures lead peaceful and rollishly fun lives in their flourishing Rolli Village. One day the inquisitive friends Rolli and Juniper hear incredible news from Malcolm the Maggot: somewhere far away, beyond mountains, forests and the sea, lies a place called The Beginning of All Time. That’s where the storks always take off on their trips to deliver babies in small bundles to their new homes. Rolli and Juniper cannot help but become curious. Both of them have fallen into Rolli Village in a bundle from the sky, and especially Juniper has always wondered where she came from. The two friends decide to throw themselves into a joint adventure. They embark on a trip toward The Beginning of All Time in order to find the answer to life’s greatest secret.
Aapo
Act like Volanen
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.
Heavy Trip
Act like Kujanpää
event2018 star_border 6.9
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Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.
Linnan juhlat
Act like Jalmari "Jallu" Rykimäjärvi
event2017 star_border 7.5
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In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
Starring: Jouko Turkka
event1984
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The controversial Jouko Turkka, actor, writer, teacher and stage director. With his mostly devoted students at the Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Where he was appointed professor of stage production 1981-1984.
Red Ribbon
Act like Turunen
event2012 star_border 5.3
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Romantic comedy about a guy who wants to get laid before he is retired.
Nyrölä 3
event2004 star_border 6
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Summer night, fraying country idyll, motorcycle gang and a murder.
Mosku: The Last of His Kind
Act like Aleksi 'Mosku' Hihnavaara
event2003 star_border 5.8
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A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard.
Legend of the Lake Bodom
Act like Hans Asman
event2006 star_border 4.1
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The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.
Shadow of the Eagle
Act like Officer
event2005 star_border 3.2
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The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
Pekko ja unissakävelijä
Act like Kalevi, "Keimo", tutkija
event1997 star_border 3.5
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Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
Puhallus
Act like Arto Savolainen
event1992 star_border 5.5
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The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.
Wolf Carver
Act like Sulo
event2011 star_border 2
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Sulo, a lonely artist, lives in the countryside. One day as he is going to see his ex-girlfriend, he meets a girl with a trailer full of cardboard boxes and helps her move her things into her new flat.
Anita
Act like Rami
event1994 star_border 4
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Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
Promise
Act like Seppä Ollinen
event2005 star_border 5.6
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The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
My Brother's Keeper
Act like Heimo
event2018 star_border 4.4
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The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
Land of Love
Act like Poliisien pesisjoukkueen lukkari
event2003 star_border 4.6
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A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
The Swan and the Wanderer
Act like Lj. Liimatainen
event1999 star_border 7
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The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
Aatamin poika
Act like Väinö
event1996
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Young journalist student Mari gets a summer job in the countryside. While trying to socialise with the local people, she meets a shy young man who has the habit of going naked around the village.
Marja
Act like Mäkinen
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.
Towards the Day of Doom
Act like Ögil Balthasar
event2014 star_border 5.7
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Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.
Little Sister
Act like Arvo Koskinen
event1999 star_border 5
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Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Postia marsalkalle
Act like Veli Suhonen
event1991
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Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943.
Raportti hurjasta joukosta
event1989
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Summary of VHS tapes filmed by Raimo Mikkola from the production of Jouko Turkka's TV series Seitsemän veljestä.
Raid
Act like Raid (12 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6.6
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Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series.
The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries".
Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end.
The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction.
Kiimaiset poliisit
Act like Hessu Sutinen (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.
The Happy Hour of the Wolf
Act like Kauko (8 ep.)
event2019
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After Janne suddenly disappears while taking out the trash, the police tell Heta there’s nothing they can do - a person has every right to go missing if there is no sign of a crime. Troubled, she begins searching for and finds only one clue: it seems Janne had undergone Koistinen’s radical divorce therapy for men.
Team Ahma
Act like Kuulustelija (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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