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10-24-1965
(59 years)
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Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia
Act like Röllimetsän asukas
event1991 star_border 6.5
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Trollforest is in grave danger, so Rölli the Troll must unite with a Forest Fairy to save their home.
Hamsters
Act like Jaatinen
event2023 star_border 2.5
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A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend, Minnie the mouse. In the village he is considered a bit odd and he is indeed special! When a lottery-winning family moves in next door, Hamsteri gets the hoarding opportunity of his dreams and in the process changes the course of the lives of Rurik, a bookkeeper who has lost his will to live, his wife Tellu and their children. Thus begins hoarding for what Hamsteri imagines will be "the cruellest winter ever".
Heavysaurs: The Movie
Act like Roikonen, teollisuusvartija
event2015 star_border 6.3
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Heavysaurs is a partly-animated, live-action family adventure about two kids who find five funny dinosaur creatures that love to eat and play rock music. When the creatures are taken into captivity, their rescue takes the kids on an exciting adventure full of challenges and surprises.
Man and a Baby
Act like Peippo
event2017 star_border 5.5
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Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.
Man and a Junior
Act like Peippo
event2019 star_border 6.5
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Antti Pasanen juggles between taking care of Paavo, his work and personal life, until Enni has an accident and he has two kids to take care of.
The Handcuff King
Act like Lentäjä
event2002 star_border 5.9
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It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
The Subtenant
Editor (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 4.7
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A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
Towards the Day of Doom
Editor (1 ep.)
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.
Heavy Trip
Editor (1 ep.)
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.
Me and Morrison
Editor (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 4.4
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A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen
The River
Editor (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.3
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Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
Purge
Editor (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.8
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Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Editor (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 5.5
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Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
Love Records
Editor (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 4.3
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The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
Reunion 3: Singles Cruise
Editor (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 4.8
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The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise.
Rakastin epätoivoista naista
Editor (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 4
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A romantic comedy about 30-year-old Leo and a 40-year-old, pregnant single mother of three, Maarit.
Producing Adults
Editor (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 5.2
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Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Vares: Private Eye
Editor (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.2
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On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
Flowers of Evil
Editor (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 5.1
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Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.
Overseas and Under Your Skin
Editor (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 4.4
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Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
East of Sweden
Editor (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.1
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Three men meet on a night train on the border of Finland and Sweden. All three are concealing something, and a sudden confrontation amongst them leads to disastrous consequences, with two of them being forced to make a joint decision.
Kummeli esittää: Kontio & Parmas
Editor (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 3.7
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Senior officer Otso Kontio has finally hung up his gun and badge and is spending his peaceful retiment days at his cabin. The peace is broken when his old partner Auni Parmas brings news about the destruction threatening the municipality of Valkeakoski.
On Thin Ice
Editor (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 5.4
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Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, paranoia and self-loathing over old wrongs eventually lead to a traffic accident. Jarna can no longer escape, his pace slows and he is on the verge of giving up. The moment has come when a near-lifetime of running must come to an end.
Seasick
Editor (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 1
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Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
The South
Editor (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 4.3
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A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.
8 Days to Premiere
Editor (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 4.5
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A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
Home Sweet Home
Editor (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 6.4
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A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
Hellsinki
Editor (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.4
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In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
The Hijack That Went South
Editor (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 5.4
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Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Freakin' Beautiful World
Editor (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.4
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The Helsinki-based teenagers Ippe, Papu and Mia have become entangled in drug circles. Their problems get even worse when violent dealer Kalle starts blackmailing the indebted Ippe.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Editor (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 6.2
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Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
1944
Editor (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.9
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The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
Above Dark Waters
Editor (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.1
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A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
Geography of Fear
Editor (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 4.7
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When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
Sexy as Hell
Director (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 2
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When an accounting company moves, it’s CEO gets an opportunity to display her awesome management skills.
Law of the Land
Editor (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
Heavier Trip
Editor (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.4
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The world's hardest - and weirdest - heavy metal band Impaled Rektum is serving their sentence in Norway's nicest prison. They receive word that guitarist Lotvonen's parents' reindeer herding farm is about to come under the hammer. It will take a big gig and big money to save the farm. A breakout ensues and a trip to the world's biggest heavy festival, Wacken in northern Germany begins. The higher the target, the bigger the obstacles. This is what the boys will experience on their epic journey to the main stage of Wacken - every metalhead's heaven.
A Long Hot Summer
Editor (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 6.6
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The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.
Rumble
Editor (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 5.5
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Finnish Road Movie
The Prodigal Son
Editor (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 5.4
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Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Drifting Clouds
Sound (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 7.6
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The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
Kill Anneli
Editor (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 4.5
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Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life.
Bad Boys: A True Story
Editor (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 5.7
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The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
Pearls and Pigs
Editor (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6.2
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When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
King of Hearts
Editor (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.1
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The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.
Land of Hope
Editor (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7
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Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.
Hyvää joulua
Editor (1 ep.)
event2015
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Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki
Mr. Hayhill and the Lion Wind Vane
Editor (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5.5
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During the Finnish war, highway robber Jeppe Antinpoika robs the Swedish king's treasure and the bag of precious stones remains hidden for 200 years. City girl Arska arrives on vacation at Herra Heinämäki's farm. Heinämäki's neighbor, the baker Kakelberg, has a haunted house and one evening Arska runs into a mysterious creep. Arska starts solving the riddle of the baker's house with Heinämäki.
Goodbye, Trainmen
Production Assistant (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 5.9
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Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both find themselves searching for their place in the world.
The Last Border
Second Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 4.2
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One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
Off the Meter
Director (1 ep.)
event2005
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A taxi driver picks up an artist who wants to get to the shore.
Häjyt 2
Editor (1 ep.)
event2025
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Konsta has just been released from prison and has returned to his people in the countryside. Past grudges drive him back into the drug business, despite the efforts of those around him to keep him on the right track. In the end, Konsta is forced to confront his past in a surprising way and makes a decision that will determine the rest of his life.
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