Toivo Mäkelä

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Vaarallista vapautta
7

Vaarallista vapautta

Nov 16, 1962
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
Drama
Tulipunainen kyyhkynen
5.9
Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
Drama
Villi Pohjola
6.667

Villi Pohjola

Sep 30, 1955
A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.
Western
Viettelysten tie
4

Viettelysten tie

Nov 18, 1955
Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.
Drama
Kovanaama
5.333

Kovanaama

Jan 29, 1954
Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Comedy
Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
7.5
A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.
Drama
Kuu on vaarallinen
4.2

Kuu on vaarallinen

Dec 01, 1961
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Drama
Autotytöt
1

Autotytöt

Oct 07, 1960
Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
Drama
Onnellinen mies
6

Onnellinen mies

May 14, 1979
Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.
Verta käsissämme
3

Verta käsissämme

Nov 21, 1958
After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
Drama
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
2
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Comedy
Pitkäjärveläiset
1

Pitkäjärveläiset

Nov 02, 1951
1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman. Regina's two sisters and Sikala's maid Maria have fallen in love with Martti again.
Comedy
Olin nahjuksen vaimo
1

Olin nahjuksen vaimo

Apr 28, 1961
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
Comedy
Sininen viikko
5.917

Sininen viikko

Feb 28, 1954
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
Drama
Syntipukki
4

Syntipukki

Aug 30, 1957
"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he knows.
Comedy
La Résurrection de la sorcière
6.313
Dans la campagne finlandaise, un archéologue découvre dans un marais une tombe contenant un corps féminin bien conservé. D'après les autochtones, il s'agit du cadavre d'une sorcière enterrée là depuis trois siècles et qui avait été tuée d'un pieu dans le coeur. La nuit suivante, une belle jeune fille nue surgit, clamant qu'elle est la sorcière revenue à la vie. Les paysans, notamment les femmes, parlent de la remettre dans son tombeau marécageux, alors que tous les hommes du manoir commencent à la désirer follement...
Horror
Lasisydän
6

Lasisydän

Oct 16, 1959
A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
Comedy
Pähkähullu Suomi
5.5

Pähkähullu Suomi

Aug 25, 1967
A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.
Comedy
Minkkiturkki
3.5

Minkkiturkki

Feb 03, 1961
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Comedy
Opettajatar seikkailee
4.8
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
Comedy
Kaasua, komisario Palmu!
7.56
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
Comedy
Le temps des moissons
6.65

Le temps des moissons

Oct 05, 1956
The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
Drama
Hän varasti elämän
5.7

Hän varasti elämän

Aug 03, 1962
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
Drama
Komisario Palmun erehdys
7.152
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Comedy
Kuriton sukupolvi
6.5

Kuriton sukupolvi

Mar 29, 1957
Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
Comedy
Pää pystyyn Helena
1

Pää pystyyn Helena

Feb 08, 1957
Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childminder makes the grieving man smile again, and Artu's little sister Päivi in turn delights the entire Junkkeri family with her achievements.
Drama